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by BeatBoxBetty
For those of you who feel guilty when you pull up to the golden arches for a quick fix, just take refuge in the fact that some of Hollywood's biggest names are also fast-food junkies.
Remember when I reported that teeny tiny Renee Zellweger was downing dozens of doughnuts a day to go from a slender size 6 to a frumpy size 14 to reprise her role in the "Bridget Jones's Diary" sequel, "The Edge of Reason"? Well, since the high-calorie doughnut diet has taken its toll on Renee, she's now found an alternative to put on the pounds, and it happens to be Doritos chips. Claiming that the sweet route just wasn't her bag, the actress now claims, "I'm not really a sweets girl. I've gone on to a bag of Doritos and a Starbucks coffee instead."
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Another A-list celebrity, Drew Barrymore, was spotted out at a late night fast-food joint recently with her rocker boyfriend, Fabrizio Moretti. According to the Sun, food spies found our favorite "Charlie's Angels" star enjoying a greasy midnight feast of french fries. "Looking bleary-eyed and greasy-fingered," the paper reports, "Drew devoured a whole carton of fries while Fabrizio had a burger and a drink." The horror!
Now, in an odd case of trying to lose 20 pounds for her fit-as-a-fiddle role in "Kill Bill," lovely Uma Thurman actually ate her way to thin. "Yeah, I know it sounds a little crazy but I ate desserts," the star tells Handbag.com. "I had ice cream, chocolate mousse, the whole lot but I didn't have anything else. So I got to eat stuff I really liked but lost weight because I wasn't having other meals. Instead of being torture, it was a pleasure." Some gals have all the luck.
Say what you will about junk food, it actually worked. By the looks of the film's trailer, Uma is one lean fighting machine. She even got the honor of wearing Bruce Lee's famous yellow tracksuit from his last movie, "Game of Death." "That was really inspiring," Uma adds. "Putting that on made me feel as if I could take on a whole bunch of guys single-handed. Not bad for someone who believes that opening a bag of cookies uses up too much energy."
Meg's Racy Role
When you think of steamy on-screen
sex scenes you might think of Halle Berry and Billy Bob Thornton in "Monster's Ball" or Gina Gershon and Jennifer Tilly in "Bound" -- but Meg Ryan? Yup, the girl next door got to get down with some
explicit sex scenes in her new edgy film "In The Cut," and she's damn proud of it.
The part may have originally been slated for fellow thespian Nicole Kidman, but after she bowed out, Meg took on the gig. And while she admits she wasn't exactly comfortable with the idea of filming such intense scenes with co-star Mark Ruffalo, she did have complete faith in her director Jane Campion ("The Piano"). WENN.com reports that while the sexy scenes were shot with just a few people in the room, director Campion did everything she could to make the stars feel at ease, even threatening to take her own clothes off!
Ryan recently told journalists at the Toronto Film Festival, "I think the scenes are really good though, I think they're very honest. Jane didn't want them to be coy, so I don't think they are at all. And I love how much dialogue is in those scenes. That's what makes them really intimate."
Her leading man also had some apprehensions. "I was scared," Rufallo told reporters. "I was really scared. And she was with Russell Crowe. All I could think of is, 'What am I going to be like compared to Russell Crowe?'"
Mr. and Mrs.?
In other gossip news, it's being
rumored that French hottie Olivier Martinez (Diane Lane's hunky co-star in "Unfaithful") has been down on one knee
to ask Aussie pop girl Kylie Minogue to marry him.
Sounds sweet, huh? Yeah, but don't run out and get 'em a toaster just yet. Conflicting reports are confusing fans of the twosome worldwide. While New Idea magazine says that Martinez had a long conversation with his mother before deciding to propose, Australia's Woman's Day magazine claims that Kylie turned him down following rumors he had something happening with Angelina Jolie while filming in Canada.
Let's just hope that if she is intending on becoming Mrs. Martinez, Kylie gets a pre-nup together quick!
BeatBoxBetty has had her heels firmly planted in Hollywood for over 12 years. In addition to delivering celebrity gossip and news, Betty's interviewed such notables as Angelina Jolie, Halle Berry, John Travolta, Mel Gibson and Meg Ryan.
