Pregnant Alicia Keys dazzles at Keep A Child Alive benefit
With only one month to go, pregnant Alicia Keys could be forgiven for wanting to stay home and put her feet up, but the passionate star was dressed to the nines on Thursday night to host the annual Black Ball for her charity Keep A Child Alive in New York. The 29-year-old platinum-selling singer radiated happiness as she posed on the red carpet with rapper husband Swizz Beatz, whom she married in August in France.
A-listers such as Beyoncé and Jay-Z, Uma Thurman and Arpad Busson, Whitney Houston, Jennifer Hudson, actress Jane Krakowski and Sade — who rarely attends public events — braved the 50 mph winds to raise funds for HIV/AIDS in Africa and India. Sade also performed at the ball along with Keys, who took to the stage for a duet with Jay-Z. Keys announced ahead of this year’s event that she aimed to raise $1 million. She founded the organisation in 2003 with agent and activist Leigh Blake, and acts as Global Ambassador. The pair have raised $20 million toward funding anti-retroviral drugs and other treatments, clinics and orphan care in South Africa, Kenya, Rwanda, Uganda and most recently, in India. The artiste revealed that the charity’s next campaign, ‘Buy Life’ will recruit stars such as Lady GaGa, Katie Holmes, Justin Timberlake and Kanye West for an advertising campaign that will feature in magazines, bus stops and the Internet. The celebrities will model T-shirts with an imprinted barcode that smart-phone users can scan from the ads and automatically donate to the charity. “The whole idea is to completely redefine the ultimate symbol of consumerism. We want to fashion it as the must-have purchase of the season, the one item that no one can be without. If you’re spending $100 on a pair of shoes or everything else we don’t really need, why not use the money to save a life instead?” Keys said.
— Daily Mail
Could Harry Potter return? JK Rowling says maybe…
Could Harry Potter return to work more magic? JK Rowling is leaving the possibility open. She told Oprah Winfrey in a taped interview on Friday that she may someday write another novel in the popular series. The author said the characters are still in her head and she “could definitely” write several new books about them.
“I’m not going to say I won’t,” she said. For now, she feels she’s moved on to a new phase of her writing. More than 400 million copies of the books about the boy wizard have been sold. Forbes magazine ranks the Harry Potter author as one of Britain’s richest women.
— AP
Speidi’s divorce dismissed
Court records s how divorce proceedings between Heidi Montag and Spencer Pratt have been dismissed . Montag requested the action on Wednesday with out prejudice, meanings he can refile it later if necessary.
She had filed for divorce in July, but the couple recently spent time together in Costa Rica, and have since seemed very happy. The reality TV show couple appeared on The Hills, which filmed their relationship and wedding. The dismissal was first reported on Thursday by celebrity website TMZ.
— AP
