domingo, 22 de março de 2009

Natasha Bedingfield Is Married





Natasha Bedingfield is a married woman! The "Unwritten" singer wed California businessman Matthew Robinson in an outdoor ceremony at the Church Estates Vineyards in Malibu on Saturday, PEOPLE has confirmed. Shortly after 5:30 p.m. local time, about 150 guests watched Bedingfield walk down a grassy lawn on an aisle decorated with rose petals in a white strapless gown with a veil. She had four bridesmaids and one flower girl, and walked back down the aisle to Mendelssohn's "Wedding March." The 30-minute outdoor ceremony took place by the vineyard's chateau overlooking the ocean. According to reports, her gown was by Vera Wang.

Harrison Ford Proposes to Calista Flockhart






Harrison Ford and girlfriend Calista Flockhart are engaged to be married, sources close to the couple confirm exclusively to PEOPLE. Ford, 66, surprised Flockhart, 44, with an engagement ring on Valentine's Day weekend while the two were away on a family vacation with son Liam. Reps for the couple did not return calls. The couple has been together for seven and a half years. No wedding date has been set yet.

Jade Goody Dies In Her Sleep


Jade Goody, the British reality TV star whose battle against cancer had been followed around the world, has died. She passed away in her sleep early Sunday – Mother's Day in the U.K. Max Clifford, her publicist and friend, confirmed the news to PEOPLE. "She had been pretty much asleep for the last 24 hours," he says, adding she died "just before 4 o'clock this morning." Her husband Jack Tweed – who she married in a ceremony filmed by a British TV channel in February – and mother Jackiey Budden were at her bedside, Clifford adds. Clifford says Budden told him, "My beautiful daughter has gone to sleep, has gone," when they spoke soon afterwards. He adds, "Jackiey is obviously as you would expect a mom to be at the loss of her daughter. We've all known it was coming but she's devastated." Goody, 27, rose to fame on the British version of the reality show Big Brother in 2002, and was rarely out of the British newspapers and gossip magazines in the years that followed. But her story went global when she discovered she was suffering from cervical cancer – while appearing on the India version of the reality show in August. Then, in February, she learned that the disease had spread and she only had a short time to live. Since then, her achievement has been to raise awareness of her cancer and how prevention could help others, Clifford said. He adds, "Her legacy will be that a lot of women owe their lives to Jade Goody because of her public announcement and battle against cervical cancer," which has led to increased knowledge of it and the screening necessary to catch it. "She has captured the hearts and minds of people all over the world, from Australia to America and everywhere else." Goody lived so much of her life in the public eye – no more so than in the last few months when her wedding was televised and photos sold to a magazine. That was followed by her recent baptism in the hospital with her sons Bobby, 5, and Freddy, 4. Shortly after the ceremony, Goody headed home to Upshire, Essex, where her battle ended early Sunday. In a few months, a book about her last months is set to be published.

Natasha Richardson- With her tragic death, take a look back at the actress's world as a devoted wife, mother and activist




LOVING LEGACY
To all who knew her, Richardson will be remembered above all as a talented actress who put her family first. Said Nick Moore, who directed her in last year's Wild Child: "Whenever she was needed, she'd go straight home to Liam and the kids." As Richardson put it, "It takes a lot of hard work," she told PEOPLE in 1998, "and a lot of love."







ALL THAT MATTERED
Life was all about family and friends for Richardson and Neeson (on vacation in Saint-Tropez in 2005), who split their time between an apartment in New York City and a country house in upstate New York. "I love to cook," the actress, who recently appeared as a judge on Top Chef, once told PEOPLE. "That's my passion."












FIGHT FOR CHANGE
A passionate advocate for AIDS research, Richardson (at an amfAR gala in New York City in February) became involved with the cause after her father died from the disease in 1991. "We had a wonderful relationship," she told Britain's Sunday Express about her dad, whose bisexuality was only publicly discussed after his death. "I accepted him for who he was. There never had to be any explanation."














'THEATER ROYALTY'
"She regarded her mother as theater royalty, but not herself that way," said director Scott Ellis of Richardson (in 2000 with mom Redgrave and sister Joely). At 23, the actress won the London Drama Critics' Circle award as most promising newcomer when she appeared opposite her mother in Chekov's The Seagull. The two worked together most recently in the 2007 film Evening and onstage in January in A Little Night Music. "Having the chance to work with your mother, who is an extraordinary actress, is a dream come true," Richardson said




DOUBLE THE FUN
Richardson was introduced to a new generation when she starred as mom to twin Lindsay Lohans in the 1998 remake of the classic Disney movie The Parent Trap. "She was a wonderful woman and actress and treated me like I was her own," Lohan said in a statement to Access Hollywood after hearing about Richardson's death. "My heart goes out to her family. This is a tragic loss.



GOLDEN MOMENT
In 1998, Richardson scored a Tony Award for best actress in a musical for her portrayal of brassy English singer Sally Bowles in Broadway's Cabaret. On her big night, she told PEOPLE: "I'm excited, I'm nervous, and I'm glad to be here." And in a tribute to her work on the Great White Way, Broadway prepared to dim the lights in her honor the day after her death.




IN HER GENES
Born into a famous family, Richardson was the daughter of Oscar winner Vanessa Redgrave and British director Tony Richardson, and the granddaughter of legendary British stage actor Sir Michael Redgrave. She was also close to her younger sister, Nip/Tuck star Joely Richardson (pictured with her big sis and mom in 1968). Growing up, the two siblings "looked after each other," Joely told PEOPLE in 2005


INSTANT CHEMISTRY
After costarring in the 1993 Broadway revival of Eugene O'Neill's Anna Christie, Richardson fell "madly, passionately" in love with Neeson. The Irish actor – who'd been linked with Julia Roberts and Barbra Streisand – had considered himself a confirmed bachelor. But on July 3, 1994, he tied the knot with the divorced actress (who'd been married to British producer Richard Fox) at their home in rural Millbrook, N.Y. "I can't believe I was lucky enough to meet my soul mate," Richardson later said.



FAMILY FIRST
"I want my sons to be my priority," Richardson once said of Micheal, 13, and Daniel, 12. The actress made sure she was never away from her boys for long, and alternated her schedule with Neeson's so that one parent was always home. "She was fierce as a mother and really took that role seriously," said director Scott Ellis, who had worked with Richardson and her own mother, Vanessa Redgrave, in a charity performance of Stephen Sondheim's A Little Night Music in January.



SUDDEN END
When Liam Neeson learned that wife Natasha Richardson (pictured in October) had suffered a severe brain injury after a ski accident at Quebec's Mont Tremblant resort on March 16, he immediately flew to her side from a Toronto film set. Sadly, Neeson was faced with the unimaginable reality that the 45-year-old actress would never recover;
her death was announced just two days later