For months Kate Winslet maintained the appearance that her marriage to director Sam Mendes was still going strong after seven years — even wearing her wedding ring to the Oscars earlier this month.

But now that the pair have formally come clean and admitted they have been separated for months, the actress has appeared in public for the first time without her ring.

The star of Titanic and The Reader stepped out of a taxi in New York without the band she had worn throughout her marriage.

Winslet, 34, has had a chequered history with jewellery. When she tied the knot with Mendes in an impromptu ceremony on the Caribbean island of Anguilla in 2003, the day was so unplanned that finding rings proved a problem.

She received a ring Mendes had bought her the previous Valentine’s Day, but she had nothing to give him – so the director ended up buying his own band.

Kate also raised eyebrows when she took to wearing a gold band given to her by Titanic co-star Leonardo DiCaprio next to her wedding ring.

He gave it to her on completion of the film Revolutionary Road, in which they were both directed by Mendes. She told reporters at the time: ‘It is engraved on the inside – but I’m not going to tell you what it says.’

The married couple were said to have quarrelled on the set of the 2008 box office flop which, coincidentally, was about a woman whose seven-year marriage was ending.

At the time, Mendes said he was interested in depicting the point in a marriage ‘when you have to throw in your towel and say, “This is actually my life. What happens when you think you’ve done it wrong?”‘

When they announced their separation, the couple said it was ‘entirely amicable and by mutual agreement’.

The couple arestill sharing their main family home in New York, a converted six-floor warehouse on West 22nd Street.

The couple have a son, Joe, who was born seven months after their 2003 wedding while Kate also has a daughter, Mia, nine, from her first marriage to the film director Jim Threapleton.

— Daily Mail

I kissed a boy…and I liked it: Katy Perry smooches Justin Bieber

He’s the new teen pop sensation who has sent the hearts of millions of young girls across the world all aflutter.

But 16-year-old Justin Bieber has also landed himself an admirer in the shape of one Miss Katy Perry, who made a beeline for the star this weekend.

But before concerns arise over the 25-year-old I Kissed A Girl singer’s intentions towards this young man, it turns out that all she wanted was a kiss on the cheek.

And a kiss she got, as she tracked him down backstage at the Nickelodeon Kids’ Choice Awards last night.

The singer, who was gunged with green slime as she presented an award, announced on her Twitter page that she was to be sharing a green room with the young pop star, who performed at the event.

She wrote: ‘Heard Justin Bieber’s gonna b here 2night, can’t wait to tap that.’

–Daily Mail

Kim Kardashian fuels split rumours by posting sexy pictures on Twitter

Kim Kardashian has fuelled rumours she has split from boyfriend Reggie Bush by posting saucy pictures of herself on Twitter.

The 29-year-old reality TV queen was said to have ended her relationship with American football star Bush after stories emerged alleging he cheated on her with a blonde waitress.

While Kim has so far refused to comment on split reports, the curvy star posted a photograph of herself blowing a kiss at the camera, posing in a low cut bikini top and reclining in a white bikini on the social networking site, suggesting she is now a single woman.

The socialite, who, along with sisters Khloe and Kourtney, stars in US reality show Keeping Up With The Kardashians, looked happy and relaxed in the personal shots.

Kim and Bush were said to have split after a story emerged suggesting the sportsman had an affair with waitress January Gessert while in a relationship with Kim.

But Bush quickly took to his Twitter page to deny the rumours, insisting: ‘January is a long time friend of mine & has been dating my best friend for 6 months. Sorry! Lol!’

— Daily Mail