Kylie Minogue Plays Tour Guide For Demi Moore

New BFFs
Thursday, June 25th, 2009

Here is a cute picture of apparent new BFFs Kylie Minogue and Demi Moore as they were snapped hangin’ out together in Paris, France last night. Apparently, Kylie has been showing Demi around town and the ladies have seemingly become fast friends. Whether the new BFFs bonded over a true friendship or just their levels of celebrity is not known but they do make a very cute couple, I think:


In France to launch her advertising campaign as the face of the new Helena Rubenstein fragrance Wanted, [Demi Moore] enlisted Kylie Minogue’s help for some local advice on the city’s restaurants. The two women were spotted in black and gold outfits and killer heels as they dined at the new Coste restaurant in the St Germain district of Paris. They were also joined by Demi’s youngest daughters Scout, 17, and Tallulah Belle, 15. It isn’t known how long they have been friendly, but they appear to have plenty to talk about after dining together twice in three days. On Monday night, Kylie joined Demi, 46, and her daughters at celebrity favourite Le Stresa. The following day, Demi was seen enjoying a private visit to the Louvre gallery. Accompanied by her bodyguards, the actress couldn’t resist the urge to take a photograph of Leonardo Da Vinci’s masterpiece Mona Lisa – even though photos are forbidden. She then posted the unauthorised holiday snap on her Twitter micro-blogging page. She wrote: ‘Ah… the Mona Lisa.’ Addressing husband Ashton Kutcher, who is currently at home in the U.S., she added: ‘This one is for you baby! Direct from the Louvre. Eros waking his love Psyche.’ On her Twitter page, Demi also admitted she wanted to release her own fragrance, adding: ‘Hopefully soon.’ Since splitting from Olivier in February 2007, Kylie has often returned to the capital to spend time with his dog Sheba, who she has described as ‘the love of her life’. She is now happily dating a Spaniard, Andres Velencoso. Demi’s trip to Paris is her second visit to France this year. She accompanied Ashton to the French Riviera in March during the filming of his new move Five Killers.

In case you are interested, you can click HERE to see Demi’s unauthorized mobile phone photo of the famed Mona Lisa painting. I can’t say that I blame Demi for wanting to befriend Kylie … she’s an absolute doll and I imagine she is as sweet in person as she seems in persona. While I doubt that these ladies will be joined at the hip from here on out it’s always nice to see new friends in the making. I know I’m hoping to become friends with Kylie when she comes to the US on her first North American tour this Fall … hey, it could happen.

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Ashton Kutcher Beats CNN To 1 Million Twitter Followers

@aplusk becomes the first Twitter user to have 1,000,000 followers
Friday, April 17th, 2009

For the past few days, Ashton Kutcher (@aplusk) has been in a “Twitter War” with CNN (@cnnbrk) to see which user of the micro-blogging service could reach the hallowed level of 1 million followers first … and last night, a winner was determined and Ashton Kutcher came out on top. From what I understand, Ashton managed to break the million follower mark ahead of CNN by just 12,000 to win the competition … and in celebration, Ashton is making a donation of 10,000 mosquito nets to the charity Malaria No More (tho, I gotta say, a donation of 1,000,000 nets would’ve been more apropos, don’t you think?). Here are some photos of Ashton and his wife Demi Moore (@mrskutcher) celebrating the win last night and some deets about the Twitter War:


Take that CNN. Ashton Kutcher, 31, has become the first Twitter user (@aplusk) to reach more than one million “followers.” For the past few days, he’d been locked in a race with CNN’s breaking news feed — (@cnnbrk), but just before midnight Thursday he became the first “Twitter millionaire.” Around 1:30 he tweeted, “Victory is ours!!!!!!!!” and posted a twitpic of the win. Kutcher says he’s donating 10,000 mosquito nets to the medical charity Malaria No More to celebrate, and the video-game publisher Electronic Arts says the millionth follower will become a character in “The Sims.” Plus, there’s the promised ding-dong-ditch of Ted Turner’s Atlanta home to look forward to! Stay tuned for his appearance on Oprah Friday, where he plans to teach Winfrey how to Twitter.

If anything, this really goes to show how quickly Twitter has crossed over from being a fun new online social networking site to THE most talked about new fad on the Internets. I only hope that all of this Twitter saturation doesn’t kill all the fun that goes along with the service. I had a great time posting tweets on my Twitter profile (@trentvanegas) last night from the Britney Spears concert at the Staples Center. It’s really fun sharing thoughts, observations and photos in real time with anyone interested anywhere in the world … especially among friends. Now Ashton Kutcher has 1,000,000 people following him to read/see whatever he has to put out there … here’s hoping he uses this new power for good rather than evil. Congrats Ashton, I’m not sure what this accomplishment wins you but I suppose the bragging rights of being the first Twitter user to have 1 million followers should be enough to keep you pretty happy for a while … at least until the next Internet fad comes along.

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‘Don’t Vote’

Why would you vote?
Saturday, October 4th, 2008

A whole slew of celebs have gotten together to appear in a PSA produced by Leonardo DiCaprio, will.i.am, Tobey Maguire and Forest Whitaker in an effort to encourage the American youth to register to vote by telling them not to vote. The vid is a lengthy 4 minutes long but is deffo worth watching in full:


An effective strategy? Or, a plea destined to fall on deaf ears? You decide.

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