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Life advice from celebrities

A round-up of life advice from celebrities, including the power of eyebrows and monkeys. Helen Mirren on things she’d tell her hypothetical daughter: “[The] first words I would have taught her would have been “f*** off” because we weren’t brought up ever to say that to anyone, were we And it’s quite valuable to have the courage and the confidence to say, “No, f*** off, leave me alone, thank you very much.” Robert Downey Jr on the power of perception: “I’m thinking of buying a monkey.

Bad girls bring the bling at Cannes

Now that Baz Luhrman’s The Great Gatsby has shimmied over the foggy horizon, the Cannes Film Festival has plunged into the serious business of proving it is still the most important – not “one of the most important”, as some pundit mistakenly said this week – film festival in the world. First up, a day of bad girls

In defence of Gwenyth Paltrow

OPINION: Gwyneth Paltrow was recently named the most irritating celebrity in Hollywood by a team of people who are probs very insightful, educated and unbiased. She beat out other “annoying” (otherwise known as successful and not Jennifer Lawrence) women, including Kristen Stewart, Jennifer Lopez and Angelina Jolie for the top spot, so congrats I guess It’s not unusual for people (read: Jezebel staffers and Buzzfeed contributors) to take the anti-Paltrow position; she’s thin, white, wealthy, privileged and friends with Jay-Z and Beyonc