The usually graceful Michelle Williams left the Met Gala after-party in quite a state and in the arms of a mystery man, early Tuesday morning.
The 32-year-old and her unknown companion held hands as they quickly made their way to a car. Michelle then hid under a jacket.
The actress, who looked a little worse for wear as she left the party, kept her head down and her right hand over her mouth as they left.
This is the first time that Michelle, who earlier walked the red carpet in a black, strapless Yves Saint Laurent gown, has been seen with a new man since her split from Jason Segel in February this year.
Michelle on the red carpet and leaving with a mystery man.
Michelle and the man held hands as they raced to a waiting car.
Michelle kept her head down as she left the after-party.
Once she reached the car, Michelle covered her head with a jacket.
The pair tried to hide in the car before leaving the venue.
Queen Elizabeth and Prince Charles in September 2012.
Queen Elizabeth will hand over some of her most important duties to her son Prince Charles because of her advancing age.
The 87-year-old monarch yesterday announced she will not attend the Commonwealth Heads of Government (CHOGM) meeting in Sir Lanka in November, the first time she has missed the biennial event since 1973.
Charles, 64, will attend in his mother’s place.
“I can confirm that the Queen will be represented by the Prince of Wales,” a Buckingham Palace spokesman said.
“The reason is that we are reviewing the amount of long-haul travel that is taken by the Queen. As a result of that she won’t be travelling to the CHOGM later this year.”
It is the first significant duty the Queen has passed on to her son, leading many to speculate this is the beginning of Charles’ ascent to the throne.
He will also attend the State Opening of Parliament tomorrow, for the first time since 1996.
The Queen is believed to have made the decision to effectively “job-share” with Charles in light of her recent hospitalisation for gastroenteritis.
Although the Queen is very healthy for her age, her staff is gradually reducing her workload to ensure it doesn’t become an unmanageable burden in years to come.
The decision to reduce the number of long-haul flights she takes puts any future trips to Australia in doubt.
The last time Her Majesty travelled Down Under was in 2011 for the last CHOGM.
Coca-Cola understands that it’s very hard to meet potential dates these days, but never fear, the Chinese arm of the giant has finally found a way for women to exploit their most endearing feature — perceived inherent weakness — to break the ice and meet a man.
The ad campaign, which has arguably achieved its task by doing the rounds online causing outrage on websites like jezebel, sets up a vending machine in the middle of the notoriously hard to crack dating scene of Shanghai, filled with “the same Coca-Cola you know but with one small difference.”
That difference is the cap is tighter, and a hidden camera monitors the machine’s customers.
Cue inherently weak ladies trying to pry open bottles with their dainty little hands and limp feminine wrists.
Luckily, some burly men, strong of wrist and chivalrous in persuasion, pass by the machine positioned in “the most romantic park in Shanghai”.
Completely realistic and unstaged scenes play out where the Coke-consumers-in-distress desperately approach handsome strangers willing to lend them a manly hand, and consequentially, in one case, their phone number.
Coke positions their difficult-to-open bottles as the perfect ice-breaker, and the message we’re taking away is that the perfect ice-breaker comes in the form of a cry for help.
“They may never know we did this and most of them will probably never speak again, however, the few couples we connect will talk forever about how they met,” the ad’s text reads.
Maybe not forever, but it does make for a cute story. Or a sexist one.
What do you think? Is this Coke campaign sexist, or just plain romantic and cute?
Awards season may be over but when it comes to red carpet glamour New York’s annual Met Gala didn’t disappoint.
The theme was PUNK: Chaos to Couture, and while some played it safe, many contributed to the rowdy style that rocked the Metropolitan Museum’s red carpet.
Those committed to the daring theme included Anne Hathaway whose hair style was quite the departure from her usually clean-cut image, and Madonna, who is always one to watch at the annual celeb-studded ball.
What’s your favourite look?
Katie Holmes, Anne Hathaway, Kylie Minogue and Clare Danes rock punk looks at the Met Gala.
There are still two months to go until the Baby of Cambridge comes into the world but the gifts have already started coming in.
Welsh composer Paul Mealor has announced he has written a lullaby for the new little prince or princess.
The tune, entitled Sleep On, has been recorded by New Zealand soprano Hayley Westenra, and is included on her upcoming album Hushabye which is dedicated to the royal baby.
It’s not the first time Mealor has composed a song for royalty. His version of Ubi Caritas et Amor was performed at William and Kate’s wedding two years ago and he feels the lullaby is a natural progression to celebrate the couple’s next step in married life.
Mealor’s other work includes the chart-topping hit ‘Where You Are’, which he wrote for Gareth Malone’s Military Wives Choir.
It was after this success he was commissioned for the royal wedding and went on to be considered one of the musical highlights of the event.
She’s only been in the online dating game for six days, but Martha Stewart has already become one of the internet’s most eligible bachelorettes at the age of 71.
The media mogul created her Match.com profile just last week, and has already garnered more than 20,000 page views and 1000 messages under her alias ‘thegoodlonglife’.
But despite the overwhelming response, the TV host and famed homemaker is still being picky.
She told the US Today show that she had narrowed her choice down to five potential dates, and was still choosing who to meet with.
“There are two that I could have coffee with,” she said, adding that she wasn’t worried about those respondents who weren’t genuine, or had money on their minds “because I don’t have to answer them”.
The grandmother-of-two is seeking a younger man, aged between 55 and 70, who is a non-smoker.
Height is important, an extra inch on top of the divorcee’s 5’9″ is among her list of demands, and lucky suitors must earn at least $150,000.
Despite the use of an alias, which she has borrowed from her new book, it’s not difficult to identify the veteran TV celebrity.
“You may recognise me from my pictures. Yes, it’s really me,” her profile reads.
“I’ve been curious about online dating for a long time, but, like lots of people, have been reluctant to take the leap. I’m just now getting around to it for a couple of reasons. After recently writing and publishing my new book, Living the Good Long Life, I was reminded how central good relationships are to happiness and longevity. Also, I’ve always been a big believer that technology, if used well, can enhance one’s life. So here I am, looking to enhance my dating life.”
The grandmother of two, who has been divorced, said she had joined Match.com in an effort to find her ‘next Mr Right’.
“There’s a lot of men who are very nice who have never been married,” she told the Today Show.
Though she hasn’t considered marrying again, Ms Stewart, who has been single for the past couple of years, said she loves dating and is ready to meet somebody new.
“I’m always looking, are you kidding, all women are always looking,” Ms Stewart said.
“I had a longtime boyfriend. That ended a couple of years ago and I haven’t found the next Mr Right.
“I’d like to have breakfast with somebody. I’d like to go to bed with somebody. Sleep with somebody.”
Online dating is more popular than many think among older users, but Match.com executive Tom Yagan said the reaction to Ms Stewart’s arrival on the website was “definitely atypical”.
“There’s no question that Martha is one of the most popular members ever to join Match,” he said.
He wished Stewart all the best in her quest for a younger man, but warned she shouldn’t expect to find a soulmate.
“I think finding a soulmate for you might be a little bit difficult, but I think first dates are easily doable,” he said.
Spokesperson for Australia’s largest online dating service RSVP, Jane Andrews, says online dating is more popular among older users than most people think.
“The assumption is that it’s the younger generation getting online to find a partner, but the over-50s make up about 20 per cent of our membership base,” she said.
“We’re finding when people have come out of relationships — they might have been married before — they really know what they want and what they’re looking for the second or third time around.
“It allows them to be very choosy and selective, and very specific about what they want.”
RSVP has launched a group for mature online daters called Over 50 and Fabulous, which has about 30,000 members.
Would you serve a pregnant woman alcohol? If not, you’d be acting illegally and could be sued, as Triana O’Keefe discovered recently.
Working in a bar I am often confronted with situations of which I’m going to describe as less than ideal.
To be honest the job description should have read ‘Local bar seeks tender with no self-respect and who welcomes insults. Applicants must take abuse, both verbal and physical, on a regular basis and be willing to work in a hostile environment’.
Suffice to say I am no stranger to the weird and wonderful behavior of human beings. Having said that, a few weeks ago I encountered a situation I never thought I would find myself in.
It was a quiet Monday afternoon, around 3:30pm, when I was confronted by an obviously pregnant woman.
She had walked unassumingly towards the bar and engaged me in a conversation about her shopping list.
So innocent and casual was this expectant mother-to-be that I didn’t think twice when she ordered a bottle of wine.
I was halfway through icing a bucket when I stopped myself and turned to face her.
It felt like one of those moments in an old western film where the hero and villain finally dual in a Mexican standoff.
I waited for her to validate her order with a comment along the lines of “oh don’t worry it’s not for me” or “I’m meeting a friend”. No such luck.
We stood like this for an uncomfortably long minute or two; myself, waiting for the never-to-come validation while the woman waited for me to either deny her request or continue to serve her.
The unnerving thing about this incident was the way she stared me down in those moments. It was clear she had a rehearsed defensive argument ready to be launched in my direction should I choose the former option.
I was stumped. Was I legally bound to serve her or did I have to refuse? Would it make me a hypocrite, as a preacher of women’s rights, to refuse her service? They don’t teach this at the Responsible Service of Alcohol courses.
After referring the woman to my manager, perhaps the coward’s way out of an impossible decision, I hit Lord Google.
I was determined to find out what the legal boundaries were. Somewhat shockingly I discovered that in fact bartenders are unable to refuse service to any particular group unless showing signs of intoxication.
Furthermore, a pregnant woman would even be able to pursue legal action against any bartender who refused her request.
So what happens when a particular bartender takes a moral stance against this issue? According to the law we are bound to serve them however, we have every right to inform them of the dangers to themselves and their unborn child.
I wish I could say that this new information eased my mind, but I have to confess, even armed with legalities I still don’t know how I would respond in this situation a second time.
Your say: Would you serve an obviously pregnant woman alcohol? Should the law be changed to make it illegal?
A breakthrough by scientists could mean women may never have to worry about going grey, gracefully or otherwise.
Heralding the end of messy hair dye and concerns over concealing silver roots, a study published FASEB, the journal for biological research, found people who are going grey develop “massive oxidative stress”, which causes hair to bleach itself from the inside out due to an accumulation of hydrogen peroxide in the hair follicle.
Finding the cause for grey hair means a cure could also be just around the corner.
“For generations, numerous remedies have been concocted to hide grey hair but now, for the first time, an actual treatment that gets to the root of the problem has been developed,” FASEB Journal editor-in-chief Gerald Weissman said.
The treatment may also be helpful to patients suffering skin condition vitiligo, the condition made famous by Michael Jackson, which causes a loss of pigmentation in the skin.
“This condition, while technically cosmetic, can have serious socio-emotional effects of people,” Mr Weissman said.
“Developing an effective treatment for this condition has the potential to radically improve many people’s lives.”
A treatment is expected to be made commercially available in the near future, in the form of a lotion.
The study’s author, Professor Karin Schallreuter from Bradford University said helping vitiligo sufferers and those going grey to regain pigment would have remarkable effects on their quality of life.
“To date, it is beyond any doubt that the sudden loss of the inherited skin and localised hair colour can affect those individuals in many fundamental ways,” she said.
“The improvement of quality of life after total and even partial successful re-pigmentation has been documented.”
Professor Schallreuter and her team made the discovery after studying an international group of more than 2,400 patients.
A Spanish charity has unveiled an innovative new anti-child abuse poster that only kids can see.
The Anar Foundation image uses a special printing technique more commonly seen on novelty postcards to ensure its important message is only visible to children.
A child looking at the poster would see a bruised kid with the message “If someone hurts you, phone us and we’ll help you” alongside the foundation’s abuse helpline number, while adults only see a picture of a scared child.
The foundation said the poster was designed to pass information to children who might be accompanied by their abuser.
“It is a message exclusively for them, hidden from adult’s eyes,” advertising agency Grey Spain said.
The Anar Foundation poster as seen by children.
The Anar Foundation poster as seen by adults.
The image displays differently depending on how tall the viewer is. Those from a lower vantage point, for example children, would see the helpline number, while adult-sized individuals would just see a warning against abuse.
“It uses a lenticular to combine two images, and we have calculated an area visible only by children under 10 — and a warning for adults,” the agency said.
As her two-year wedding anniversary approaches, Charlene says kids are on her radar for the first time.
“I think I needed a bit of time to settle in and adjust,” she told South African newspaper Sunday World. “I don’t put any pressure on myself. It’ll happen. If it happens, it happens.
“I wanted to get my foundation launched. I wanted to get the next couple of months sorted out and I can really take a rest.
“We had a big wedding. It was a big adjustment after that. Now I’m settled and I think kids will come.”
Charlene has been in her native South Africa this week, overseeing renovations on a swimming pool near Durban funded by her Princess Charlene of Monaco Foundation.
The princess also attended her best friend’s wedding, acting as matron-of-honour.
Charlene’s marriage to Albert has been dogged by rumours the couple is unhappy. She was accused of trying to flee Monaco in the days prior to her wedding, and made headlines by crying throughout the ceremony.
In the years since, the couple have repeatedly reported to be on the rocks, although both insist they are very happy.
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