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- Pippa Middleton, Kardashians among "most fascinating" of 2011
- Kim Kardashian's ex files for annulment
- Hot to trot
| Pippa Middleton, Kardashians among "most fascinating" of 2011 Posted: 30 Nov 2011 06:57 PM PST WHAT do Britain's Pippa Middleton and the U.S. Kardashian family have in common? They are all among the 10 most fascinating people of 2011, according to veteran U.S. journalist Barbara Walters. Middleton, 28, younger sister of Prince William's new wife Kate, was named on Wednesday along with British reality TV guru Simon Cowell, singer Katy Perry and businessman Donald Trump as making the list in Walter's annual ABC TV special. Walters will announce the number one most fascinating person of 2011 when the 90-minute show "Barbara Walters Presents the 10 Most Fascinating People of 2011" airs on December 14. Other celebrities making up the top 10 most prominent names in entertainment, sport and pop culture include baseball star Derek Jeter, and "Modern Family" actors Eric Stonestreet and Jesse Tyler Ferguson who play a gay couple on the Emmy-winning TV comedy. Middleton found unexpected fame during the British royal wedding in April when she wore a figure-hugging white dress as maid of honor to her sister Kate. She has been a constant fixture in U.S. and British celebrity media ever since. Socialite sisters Kim, Khloe and Kourtney Kardashian and their mother Kris -- the biggest reality TV stars in the United States -- found new fame in 2011 when Kim held a lavish summer TV wedding after a whirlwind romance that ended in her filing for divorce just 72 days later. Full content generated by Get Full RSS. |
| Kim Kardashian's ex files for annulment Posted: 30 Nov 2011 06:49 PM PST LOS ANGELES: Was Kim Kardashian's 72-day marriage to NBA player Kris Humphries a big sham? Opinions are divided on this raging topic of national debate, but Humphries himself appears to think so. TMZ reports that, although Kardashian has already filed for divorce from Humphries, the basketball jock has filed for an annulment, claiming that the ''Keeping Up With the Kardashians'' star defrauded him into marrying her. Individuals connected to the athlete tell the site that Humphries was unaware that he was allegedly being played for a pawn and hoped that their union would be a lasting relationship of eternal love, but Kardashian wasn't interested. In the annulment filing, Humphries asks that Kardashian be ordered to pay his attorney's fees. The suit also mentions ''community and quasi-community assets.'' Makes sense - what's a quasi-marriage without a quasi-community? For what it's worth, friends of Kardashian tell TMZ that she wanted the marriage to last - but hey, 72 days is a long time. People change. Kardashian also reportedly wanted to file for an annulment rather than divorce initially, but was advised that the couple had no legal grounds for annulment - which, under California law, include impotency, incest, bigamy, unsound mind, force or fraud. Since Kardashian filed for divorce in late October, many have speculated that the wedding was merely a ploy for money and/or publicity. Kardashian has gone on the offensive over such claims on occasion - earlier this month, the reality queen filed suit against her one-time employee, Jonathan Jaxson, for claiming on a local Los Angeles news show that the marriage was staged. Meanwhile, we still have nine months to speculate as to whether Kardashian's sister Kourtney will actually give birth to a child, or merely produce a Cabbage Patch Doll marinated in Fake Bake in order to score a few magazine covers. Full content generated by Get Full RSS. |
| Posted: 01 Dec 2011 02:21 AM PST The all-new Capital FM is tailored exclusively for the modern urban woman. PICTURE the perfect dress, that sexy little number you've been dying to try on. The one designed to specially accentuate all the right curves and make you look a million bucks. You put it on and grin. It's the perfect fit. The gleeful satisfaction a woman derives from finding the right dress is precisely what Capital FM seeks to deliver, metaphorically speaking of course! The latest radio station to hit our airwaves, Capital FM features programmes tailored exclusively for the modern, confident, urban woman. "It's going to be something we haven't heard on Malaysian radio for a really long time, in that, we are going to be – I daresay, the first women-centric English station," says consultant Aanont Wathanasin (Non for short). "All our shows are going to be geared towards women's issues and things that affect women from an urban perspective. Women make up about 50 percent of the population and it's a big chunk of the marketplace that hasn't had a voice. It's a great opportunity for us to give the modern woman a voice," he explained. What about the other 50 percent? "I think they have enough access points for broadcasting," Non says with a laugh. "There are lots of avenues for men as it is and I think the smarter guys will probably figure out they can get a unique insight to their better halves by tuning in to our station." A radio channel just for women, he adds, seems like the most obvious thing in this politically-correct day and age. "Our research has shown that women would like to be represented more in terms of radio content. I certainly think that women are under-represented. "There are TV Channels for women, so why shouldn't there be a radio station for women as well? Now's the right time to do it." Non said the station's goal is to connect with women by addressing their emotional and intellectual needs. "Did you know, that the average woman still earns 75 sen to every RM1 a man will earn for the same job? It's things like this, among other aspects of society and living, that we will point out on our shows. Our station is really an avenue to give women a bigger voice." In line with its tagline, "Women, the new capital", the station features an almost all-female stable of announcers. "We've got an amazing line-up of announcers that people would instantly recognise. They are celebrities in their own right." He's not kidding. A recent trip to the the station's headquarters at the Tropicana City Office Tower, Petaling Jaya, proved to be a star-studded affair when we found ourselves in the glitzy company of local celebrities Joanne Kam, Asha Gill, Patricia K and Xandria Ooi. The smiley, but more subdued Sheela Haran, and the affably low-key April Kuan join the ensemble crew. The girls (or most of them) are a rambunctious bunch from start to finish, and are able to speak unabashedly on a gamut of subjects ranging from dogs to men. Sporadic shrieks of laughter punctuated this interview. Kam, the fast-mouthed (and sometimes controversial) comedienne, immediately stood out. Famed for her flamboyant, larger-than-life persona and R-rated humour, the 38-year-old Penangite made her name in the early 90s as a stand-up performer at the "Studio 54" of KL – the Boom Boom Room. In her early morning slot on Capital FM, The Talk of the Town, Kam will mix female ferocity with unrestrained candour. Like a shot of espresso in the morning, Kam is set to incite your senses, along with hunky television veejay Joey G. "We will talk about anything from how to fix a flat tyre in 15 minutes – so you don't have to call the next foreign worker at a nearby petrol station – to the latest dance fads and dieting. I've been on a diet all my life, so I would know what I'm talking about," she reveals. For one who has spent most of her career in the male-dominated arena of stand-up comedy, Kam seems to blend in with her station sisters surprisingly well. "It's so fun," she exclaims. "It feels like a sisterhood." Kam, whose big reputation was matched only by her waistline during her Boom Boom Room days in the early 90s, shared her insecurities growing up. She says (in an expletive-laden rant): "I was fat, I had pimples and I am the only Chinese (bleep) in town with a (bleep) afro. I'm serious. I have black woman's hair! I want straight hair like Xandria and for that, I have to go to the salon to iron it; only to have it go curly again in three hours." Proving that the adage "what doesn't kill you will only make you stronger" is something to live by, Kam says she wants to motivate young women by relating her experiences as a child. "I was never the prom queen, never the one people wanted to hang out with, but I got past that. So many girls get demotivated, especially in this age of MTV when everyone is so beautiful. Young girls everwhere are going 'Oh my god, I'm not pretty. I'm never going to be that VJ.' My message is, you don't have to be pretty, you don't have to be that VJ. Some people grow differently. You understand your strengths, understand what you can do best and work on it." Her segment is followed by one hosted by English-Punjabi television personality/newspaper columnist, Asha Gill. Asha, 39, gained fame as a veejay on Channel V International in 1999. Four years later, she began hosting the TV show, Lonely Planet's Six Degrees, a people-centric travel programme. Today, she is mum to a four-year-old boy and she writes a fortnightly column for The Star. Asha will share her insights on modern living, with an inclination towards single-parenthood and child-development in Eat, Love, Play. "I talk about juggling life and kids. I don't juggle life very well, which is why I want to talk about it so I can actually learn to juggle better. It's about bringing to light the things that people have to handle on a daily basis," she elaborates at breakneck speed. "When I became a mum, I realised I was not allowed to be selfish anymore and that was very difficult. I had to be the driver, cook, clown, carer, nurse – you have all these new jobs and you don't know exactly what to do because it's your first child," Asha recalls. "But you have to figure out just how to fit all that in and find the right balance between work and family life. Chinese-Danish host Patricia Sue-Lin Knudsen, 24, lends an exotic flavour to the station. She goes by the moniker Patricia K and is also currently a host on ESPN's Castrol Football Crazy. A television host as well as a popular fixture in the deejay circuits, Patricia will take listeners on a journey through the concrete jungle as she navigates the domain as an independent young woman in My City. Patricia, who was born in Hong Kong, spent her early childhood in Japan before moving back to Hong Kong and later to Denmark, where she spent her teenage years. "I think I bring a light-heartedness to the station, especially when I come in right after Asha," says the wide-eyed host. "I'll probably talk about topics like what's in a woman's handbag or the latest trends." Meanwhile, emcee Xandria Ooi will rev up gloomy evenings with music composer and writer Liang on The Jam Break. Ooi, 27, jumpstarted her career as a television host with Astro's Hitz.TV after winning a VJ Search contest in 2005. She later moved on to Ntv7's Life! Session. Ooi also regularly emcees in English and Mandarin. "We're literally on while you're stuck in a jam," Ooi reveals, about her slot on Capital FM. "We're stuck in a jam every single day and we get upset, you know? So on my show, we will talk about fun topics like what kind of cars women should drive or how difficult it is for women to meet men. Or is it easier for older men to date than older women? Why?" says the exuberant celebrity who is married to music-producer Yuri Wong. For Ooi, honesty is key. "Women like to feel connected and we're not people who go around saying things like "Hey our life is so cool"; there are no facades here. We want people to know we are real and we want to talk about it." Taking things down a notch, 43-year-old deejay Sheela Haran will provide the sexy grooves with her nightly R&B session, Groovedown. Sheela, who has been in the radio business since 1995, invites women to share their views on her segment. "I play the role of the listener," she elaborates. "I'm not a professional counsellor but I find that when you talk about your problems, you sometimes get the answers." Think of her segment as being on the couch in your own apartment with your best friend, she suggests. "It's a safe place for listeners to tell us about their day. Absolutely no guy-callers are allowed on the show, though. It is a safe place for women only." Chilling out on weekends is writer-turned-deejay April Kuan, who will be presenting Saturday's Global Passport and Sunday's Jazzscapes. There is a Zen-like quality about Kuan that comes through when she speaks. Kuan, 36, first got her foot in the radio business in 1994 when she secured a stint in DJ-ing and producing English programmes for a radio station in Johor Baru. She moved on to Public Relations and marketing in the music and entertainment industries before venturing into publishing. She currently does voiceovers for commercials and has been known to voice "smooth and sexy" characters. A placid contrast to the boisterous cast, mild-mannered Kuan will bring her musical knowledge (which spans from country to jazz) to her sessions. Kuan says she treats all musical genres with equal respect. "Even if you dislike a certain genre of music, say techno, which some people find irritating, you don't have to diss it. You have to respect that other people like it. "I don't get to talk as much as the others as I'm only on-air on weekends, but I do hope I'll be able to share my insights of life and hopefully inspire people," Kuan says. Expect an eclectic range of urban adult contemporary music on the station. Kuan's segment, in particular, aims to introduce French pop and everything jazzy, including funk, acid and hip hop music, as well as popular K-pop and J-pop. Some of the more popular acts who will be on steady rotation include evergreen crowd-favourites such as Simply Red, Bruno Mars, Maroon 5, all the way to the 1980s English pop-rock Duran Duran and indie pop singer-songwriter Feist. It is a huge universe of music, after all. > Capital FM Sdn Bhd, a subsidiary of Star Publications (M) Bhd, went on air at 6am today; set your dials to 88.9FM in the Klang Valley. Girl Talk! From Mondays to Fridays: Talk of the Town with Joanne Kam and Joey G (from 6am – 10am) Eat, Love, Play with Asha Gill (from 10am – 1pm) My City with Patricia K (from 1pm – 4pm) The Jam Break with Xandria Ooi and Liang (from 4pm – 8pm) Groovedown with Sheela Haran (from 8pm – 12am) On weekends: Global Passport with April Kuan from (10am – 2pm on Saturdays) Jazzscapes with April Kuan from (2pm – 6pm on Sundays). Full content generated by Get Full RSS. |
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