Oprah Winfrey, one of the most powerful women in the world, declared she would not be stripping off her lingerie to get “buck naked” on screen.

The billionaire TV tsarina and occasional actress was speaking about her role in director Lee Daniels’ movie The Butler, in which she plays Gloria, wife of a White House butler played by Forest Whitaker.

Gloria becomes bored with her middle-class life while her husband’s off looking after “that other family in the White House”.

Oprah said that after a while Gloria starts to drink, and fools around with a neighbour, played by Terrence Howard.

She said Daniels would have preferred her to go much further during her scenes with Howard. “You know, he would have had me buck naked on that sofa if I had let him!”

She added that she and Daniels argued ferociously about how Gloria would behave. “He did more screaming than I did – I’m not a screamer,” she said.

She insisted it would make no sense for Gloria to go to bed with Howard. “If she’s going to roll around in bed in the middle of the afternoon,” she explained, then it would be “a lie, a fake thing”.

— Daily Mail

He’s still got it!

He demonstrated his incredible flexibility and prowess at martial arts in many of his early movies including Kickboxer and Double Impact.

But now at the age of 53, Jean-Claude Van Damme is showing he is still as supple as ever.

The Belgian action star performs the splits in between two moving vehicles in a new advertisement for Volvo trucks.

Folding his arms, the star balances perfectly with his legs in horizontal position between the trucks, which are reversing along what appears to be a runway.

The commercial starts with a close-up of the actor talking directly to the camera while standing in a more upright position between the moving vehicles.

“I’ve had my ups and downs,” he says. “My fair share of bumpy roads and heavy winds. That’s what made me what I am today.

“Now I stand here before you. What you see is a body crafted to perfection. A pair of legs engineered to defy the laws of physics and a mindset to master the most epic of splits.”

Van Damme then perfectly holds his pose as the camera then pans out to show the stunning feat.

— Daily Mail

‘I sound like a self-absorbed diva!’

She’s got a reputation as a diva but Mariah Carey isn’t shying away from it.

The 43-year-old singer blasted a new employee for uploading the wrong version of her new song, The Art of Letting Go, to Facebook last Monday, in a lengthy rant on her page. However, Mariah did admit that her complaints made her sound like “a self-absorbed diva on a ‘woe-is-me’ tangent.”

She wrote: “Hey Lambs, I have to tell you this, I can’t do what I always do and say nothing at all. It is 3:30am (11.14), and I’m sitting on my bathroom floor, very upset by some news I just got from a close friend and employee. Lucky her, she was “nominated” to deliver this message to me after the long awaited 11.11 moment and the Jimmy Fallon show, knowing how upset I would be.

“Not because the world has come to an end or something, but because this 11.11 listening party was so important to me on a core level as a musician, who cares so much about how my fans hear my music for the first time that I didn’t even allow a snippet to be released until 11 on the dot.

“To cut to the chase, a mistake was made by a brand new sound engineer whose only task was to press the space bar and upload the song to Facebook, while my team, and an incredible group of people from Facebook, partied while listening to the properly mixed & mastered version of The Art of Letting Go on repeat from my iPod on my home speakers.

Clearly, I was focused on answering your questions during the Q&A. There was no reason for me to wonder if the final mix we were listening to in that room together was different than what you were listening to!!!!! (sic)”

Despite her outrage over the offending track, Mariah has decided not to remove it from her page, but instead leave it there so fans can decide for themselves if there is a huge difference.

She wrote: “Even if the differences may seem slight to you, I had put time, effort and emotions into The Art of Letting Go, and the real mix is how I intended for you to hear the song.”

— Daily Mail