I’m single: Preetika Rao
Actress Preetika Rao is flummoxed by reports suggesting she is in a relationship with the director of her successful serial “Beintehaa”. She has clarified that she is single and that she has no time to ‘mingle’. “I don’t know where these tall tales come from. There are two directors for ‘Beintehaa’ – Ankur Bhatia and Pushkar Pandit. Both are equally fond of me. If Pushkar calls me Aloo, a pet-name based on my character’s name Aliya, it is out of his fondness for the character I play. Seen in that way, Ankur calls me Mallika-e-Beintehaa,” said Preetika.(ians)
Pharrell makes me happy: T Swift
Country star Taylor Swift has heaped praises on Pharrell Williams and called the Grammy-winning singer as a “sorcerer of happiness”. The ‘Shake It Off’ hitmaker, who is a key adviser to the contestants on the new series of ‘The Voice’ US, is planning to work together in the near future, reported Contactmusic. “The first person that I worked with was Blake Shelton, who I’ve known for years because we both have been in the country music scene for years and years and years. His favourite this to do is to make me uncomfortable! “And after you talk to Pharrell, you feel really good for about two weeks straight… He’s like a sorcerer, of happiness,” she said. The 24-year-old beauty cannot wait to work with the singer. “Pharrell and I were talking, in the breaks yesterday, and we just kept saying, ‘We have to do something together!’ He’s like, ‘You just call me. Call me when you figure it out’. I’m like, ‘You call me if you figure it out first!’,” she said. (PTI)
Jennifer Garner blames
Ben Affleck for weight gain Jennifer Garner claims she always puts on weight when her actor-director husband Ben Affleck is on a strict diet. The 42-year-old actress said she gained a few pounds while he was bulking up to portray Batman in ‘Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice’, it was reported. “There’s something about it… Whenever one of us has to be really good, the other one pudges up. I don’t know why it is, but I blame my pudginess on his strict and disciplined place in life. The brunette beauty — who has daughters Violet, nine, and Seraphina, five, as well as son Samuel, two, with the ‘Gone Girl’ actor — said he refused to eat anything she cooked while preparing for the upcoming blockbuster. “He worked out twice a day and ate only what was put in front of him by some very mean, mean person… Everything was cut out… If I made dinner and it was a healthy dinner, he wouldn’t even look at it, in case something hadn’t been steamed.” (PTI)
Jessie J supports Justin Bieber
Singer Jessie J says she sent a message of support to Justin Bieber during the pop star’s turbulent period earlier this year.As Bieber’s legal and personal problems began to mount, Jessie initially penned a handwritten letter to him telling the “Baby” hitmaker he is “amazing”, it was reported.Speaking in The Sun newspaper, she said: “I just felt like it was my duty. I was just like, ‘I’m here, you’re amazing’. “He’s young and he’s got so much pressure on him. It’s easy for people to comment when he’s having a photo taken of him, but you don’t see what we see. she added. Jessie eventually made the decision not to post the letter as she felt it might be inappropriate to send it to someone who she doesn’t know.(ians)
‘Christopher Nolan is miffed with me’
Hollywood star AL Pacino has revealed director Christopher Nolan is upset with him because he turned down one of his films. The 74-year-old actor said that he has not being offered a role in a Nolan-directed film since he declined the chance to appear in one earlier, reported Contactmusic. “He hasn’t offered me a film in a while, you know why? He asked me to be in this movie and I didn’t do it. I think that might have miffed him a little bit, but I’m being presumptuous myself,” Pacino said. He starred in Nolan’s 2002 thriller ‘Insomnia’, but refused to reveal which film he turned down. (PTI)