We all saw that Jennifer Lawrence brought her boyfriend, Nicholas Hoult, to the Oscars this week, but he wasn’t her only date. Jennifer’s best friend, Laura Simpson, was along for the big night as well, and she shared an honest – and hilarious – account of what it was like to attend Hollywood’s biggest event as a non-celebrity.
Category Archives: Food
Simon Cowell drinks to help creativity
Simon Cowell imagines sobriety would be “boring”.
‘It’s going to go away’
Animal wrangler Jim Brockett stands a few yards away from Arrow, like a director studying his actor. The African augur hawk latches his yellow talons onto what looks like a severed finger – actually a piece of foam – and swoops into the air before landing on the gauntlet of a falconer (who promptly rewards him with a thawed chick stashed in a leather pouch)
‘The best job in showbusiness’
Best known for playing Harry Solomon for six years on Third Rock From the Sun, US comedian French Stewart is back in prime time playing a nasty chef on new sitcom Mom. He tells James Croot why he think he has the best job in showbusiness
Love of food unites TV chefs
A love of food brought Sara Barnes and Danny Walker together and continues to unite them. In fact, when the Wellington couple marry this year – they’re having weddings both here and in the United Kingdom – they’re turning more attention to their menus than what they’ll wear.
Billy Ocean: Caribbean king
Trinidad-born Billy Ocean is best known for a string of hit singles in the 70s and 80s.
Beautiful NZ landscapes brought to life
Stunning day-in-the-life visuals of 10 epic New Zealand locations are captured in an exhibition in Auckland.
Clooney uses his star power
Fun fact about George Clooney: He’s a hugger. Meeting someone for the first time, he brushes right past an extended hand and instead delivers a warm embrace, a gesture that somehow suggests both the proprietary confidence of celebrity as well as its utter dismantling
The unsung heroes of reality television
It’s a rarely-discussed fact of reality television: Before every Kardashian, Honey Boo Boo or Robertson, there was a casting director who thought they might be the perfect wacky character for TV. At the RealScreen Summit reality TV conference in Washington this week, a panel of casting experts, producers and network executives discussed what goes on behind-the-scenes of the casting world, a topic that doesn’t usually get much attention
M-chef recap: Duelling duos
Not content with punching above our weight in rugby, women’s voting rights and sheep per capita, New Zealand is also, officially, the first country to have a Masterchef duo competition.