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| Sienna Miller admits ‘brief encounter’ with Bond star Craig Posted: 31 Jan 2014 06:27 PM PST Giving evidence from the United States by video-link, Miller told London's Old Bailey court that she and Craig had been close, but she attacked "titillating" press reports that they had a full-blown affair while she was dating actor Jude Law in 2005. "It was a very brief encounter," she said, speaking from a book-lined room and flanked by an FBI agent. Miller was giving evidence at the trial of several former executives at Rupert Murdoch's News of the World tabloid accused of conspiring to intercept voicemail messages. Murdoch was forced to shut the paper down in 2011 over revelations that it had hacked the messages of a murdered schoolgirl as well as hundreds of celebrities. The seven people on trial in London deny charges linked to the scandal. Former News of the World reporter Dan Evans, who has pleaded guilty to phone-hacking, told the trial this week that he intercepted a message left by Miller to Craig and used this as the basis for a story in October 2005 reporting that the pair were having an affair. Evans told the court the message said: "Hi, it's me. Can't speak. I'm at the Groucho (club) with Jude. I love you." Miller told the jury yesterday it was "likely" she had left the message. "Yes, I had always ended my phone calls to Daniel 'I love you' – it was a declaration of friendship," she said. "Whether or not I was in a relationship with Daniel Craig at the time, it was a very brief encounter. He was my best friend. My saying 'I love you' was nothing new. "It has been turned into a titillating piece of information. I really regret it was turned into something to be analysed." - AFP, February 1, 2014. |
| In teen star transition, Bieber may want to emulate Miley Posted: 31 Jan 2014 04:32 PM PST Bieber, who racked up charges in two cities in the span of a week, would be wise to use Cyrus as his guide to navigate the transition from teen pop stardom to a serious adult career, branding and celebrity crisis experts said. Should the 19-year-old Canadian fail to chart a new music-focused course soon, he could go the way of actress Lindsay Lohan and countless other young stars who rose to fame only to have promising careers come unhinged by their personal lives. "The hardest, hardest transition to make is from teen idol to working performer with an ongoing career," said Howard Bragman, vice chairman of online personal branding website Reputation.com. "The streets of Hollywood are lined with teen idols who couldn't make the transition," he added. "What's ironic is that the only way to have long-term success is to really focus on your career and not focus on the rest." In the past week, Bieber has been arrested twice. He faces charges in Miami Beach, Florida, stemming from an alleged street drag race where preliminary tests showed he had marijuana and anti-anxiety medication in his system. Another charge in Toronto accuses Bieber of assaulting a limousine driver. The first step Bieber could take in his turnaround would be to unplug from social media and his nearly 50 million Twitter followers, said Mark Pasetsky, the head of public relations firm Mark Allen & Co and former editor of OK! magazine. "He's got to take a step back from the spotlight," he said. "Everything he's doing right now makes him appear to be completely unstable. You're already seeing the impact of his behaviour and what it's doing to his brand. He's eroding his core fan base with this type of behaviour." A long-term course to get back into good graces with the public – and the parents of his army of teenage fans known as "Beliebers" – is an "evolution" into adulthood, Bragman said, much like Cyrus's transition from Disney idol "Hannah Montana" into an edgy 21-year-old pop star. Cyrus shed her innocent teen act for a sex-forward persona orchestrated around music videos with her wearing little or no clothes. She also grabbed headlines last year when she "twerked" on singer Robin Thicke during a performance at MTV's Music Video Awards, giving the sexually explicit dance widespread cultural currency. "The question is how you're going to be doing as a 25-year-old?" Bragman said. "Are you going to be playing the Missouri State Fair or are you going to be having a respectable recording career?" Bieber's representatives declined to say what professional plans the singer has in coming weeks. His arrests have added an exclamation mark to a rocky year for the star, who has scuffled with paparazzi in London and been the target of a felony investigation into whether he pelted a neighbor's house with eggs. Now, the charges from the past week put the baby-faced "Boyfriend" singer at risk of serving jail time. "The last 500 times we've heard about Justin, it had nothing to do with his music," Bragman said. "Everything we hear about Miley has to do with her music. You may disagree with her execution, but it's hard to argue the strategic wisdom behind it." That advice was echoed by Pasetsky, who said Bieber's challenge is to get people talking again about his music and his famously fanatic teen fans. "Cyrus is coming out with breakthrough videos and performances and that's what he needs to be doing," he said. Cyrus herself had some advice for Bieber during an appearance on NBC's "Tonight Show" on Thursday. "I would just say, you've got a lot of money, pay people to make sure you don't get in trouble and party at your house," she told host Jay Leno. - Reuters, February 1, 2014. |
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