James Blunt dedicates song to Prince Harry
English singer James Blunt has dedicated his song “You’re beautiful” to Prince Harry at the Invictus Games closing ceremony here. Blunt paid tribute to the British royal for organising the sporting event Sunday, reports a website. While introducing his 2004 number one single at the ceremony at the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park, he told the crowd: “This is a song for someone very special who organised this event. Prince Harry, I dedicate this song to you.” He then started playing the song, which is written about one of the star’s ex-girlfriends. (IANS)
I’m quite relaxed as I don’t
Google myself: Kiera Knightley Actress Kiera Knightley says she has become a calmer person now as she does not check others’ opinons about her online. The 29-year-old ‘Imitation Game’ star said she used to read a lot about herself online till a few years back and the criticism over her looks used to affect her mentally, reported the Daily Mirror. “Everything up to 25 I was pretty neurotic and taking everything far too seriously. I found it difficult to step back from it and I was taking it very personally. “Partly because as an actor you don’t want necessarily that thicker skin, and I couldn’t figure how to be open emotionally and yet get a thick enough skin so that things didn’t hurt,” she said. Knightley added she has become confident about her personality and has accepted she cannot change people’s perception about her. “I don’t know if it was a chemical thing, a certain kind of realisation that it really didn’t matter, and a sudden realisation of what you have control of and you don’t. “I don’t Google myself, that was the problem before 25. Not that I did it all the time, but I certainly saw enough to say, ‘Oh, you shouldn’t look’. I mean, you don’t need to look, it is not helpful,” she said. (PTI)
Madge to release new album in 2015
Queen of Pop Madonna will release her new album through Interscope Records in 2015. Representatives for the 56-year-old ‘Material Girl’ singer said that she is currently at work in the studio and will release her anticipated 13th album next year, reported Billboard magazine. “She’s currently in the studio with Diplo and having a lot of fun,” Madonna’s manager Guy Oseary added. Diplo previously said that the pair have created at least three “amazing smashes”, and that one of the tracks is “super weird”. The star recently teased a collaboration with Alicia Keys, the latest addition in a string of collaborators Madonna has drip revealed through Instagram. The singer has also suggested that her forthcoming record will include contributions from Toby Gad and Avicii. (IANS)
I believe in fairytales: Sonam Kapoor
Actress Sonam Kapoor, who will be seen in the role of a clumsy girl, who falls in love with a Prince in her upcoming film ‘Khoobsurat’, says she is a believer of fairytales in real life. The 29-year-old actress said she did the Disney movie because she believes in happy endings and even though the concept of a fairytale does not find many takers today, people should hold onto it. “The reason I did Khoobsurat was because I just believe in a happily ever after… I am a strong believer of fairytales and think at the end everything will be good. We should not let that feeling go from our lives,” Sonam told reporters here. Khoobsurat, also starring Pakistani actor Fawad Khan, is the remake of Hrishikesh Mukherjee’s 1980 film of the same name. Sonam reprises the character played by Rekha in the original. The film releases this Friday. (PTI)