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Brazilian Raica Oliveira new Ultimo model replacing Kelly Brook

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Not many women could follow in Kelly Brook's footsteps... but Brazilian Raica Oliveira has no trouble as she unveiled as new Ultimo model

By Sarah Bull
Last updated at 5:52 PM on 27th November 2010
When English rose Kelly Brook was revealed as an underwear model for Ultimo, the question on everyone's lips was - who is going to be brave enough to replace her when she leaves?
But now Ultimo have unveiled their next face of the brand, the stunning Brazilian model Racia Oliveira.
If anyone could follow in Brook's footsteps, it would have to be the 26-year-old, who poses in a series of seductive outfits in a new promotional campaign for the underwear line.

Red hot: New Ultimo model Raica Oliveira poses in a sexy new campaign for the underwear brand

Little devil: Raica, 26, accessorises her black and red underwear set with a pair of devil horns in the shots

And having previously modelled for companies including Dior, Dolce & Gabanna and Yves Saint Laurent, Raica isn't a stranger to the industry.
In addition to that, Raica more than a little familiar with the celebrity world, having dated footballer Cristiano Ronaldo in 2006.
However, while Raica is happy to pose in her underwear for the new campaign, she has drawn the line at ever posing nude.
She said recently: 'I could not pose nude. Nothing against those who do, but I never felt right about it. It's not something that would make me proud.'

Blue steel: The Brazilian model shows off her curves in a sexy royal blue satin number

Going incognito: Raica wears a sexy black mask to go with her black ribbon underwear in some of the shots

It was announced earlier this year that Brook would be leaving UItimo just months after agreeing a six-figure deal with the brand.

After being signed up by the label, Miss Brook said: 'Most people are losing their lingerie campaigns at 30, not getting new ones.'
She also praised the quality of the products she was modelling, saying: 'A good bra is so important for ensuring you get the right support. it's unbelievable how few women get measured on a regular basis. Also if you're a bigger cup like me, you need the correct support.'

New face: Raica poses with Ultimo mogul Michelle Mone, who recently posed in her underwear herself after losing a huge amount of weight

Who wore it better? Raica is following in the footsteps of previous Ultimo model Kelly Brook

A source close to Brook said at the time: 'Ultimo are not happy that Kelly has left because they knew that she was the perfect signing. She is girl next door, pretty with a figure to die for and she looks great in their lingerie.'
A spokesman for Brook then confirmed that she is no longer working with the lingerie company, adding: 'The decision to leave was by mutual agreement.'
As well as following in Brook's footsteps, Raica is also facing competition from previous Ultimo models including former Spice Girl Mel Brown, supermodel Helena Christensen, Rod Stewart's ex Rachel hunter and his current wife, Penny Lancaster.

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Alexis Jordan Showcase performance

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Alexis Jordan London Diary- Radio Trip!

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'I'm the happiest person on earth': X Factor winner Alexandra Burke on her chart-storming success

By Judith Woods
Last updated at 1:45 AM on 21st November 2010

 

Life after The X Factor has been nonstop for 2008 winner Alexandra Burke.
Caught up in a whirlwind of chart hits, TV and touring, she tells Judith Woods she is determined to live up to her claim to be the happiest person
on earth – ever

'Simon is a sweet softie - he listens to my opinions and will admit when he's wrong,' says Alexandra

When Alexandra Burke sweeps into the building, kissing everyone – and I mean everyone, padding from room to room and picking them off, one by one, like some sort of loved-up predator – her PR man whispers that he’s kept the 2008 X Factor winner well away from caffeine and E-numbers all morning, but he’s still not entirely sure that’s enough to calm her down.
It isn’t. From her opening gambit that she is ‘the Happiest Person On Earth, Ever’, to her closing remarks that she’s just got her first mortgage – ‘How amazingly fabulous is that?’ – Alexandra, a sexy, sassy beauty with flicky hair and a mesmerising pout, is the kind of relentlessly upbeat character who annoys the hell out of grouchy journalists, who nit-pick that she’s so suspiciously happy she’s obviously a complete fake.
Not being a grouchy journalist, however, I am instantly at one with her life-affirming positivity. It is apparent that Alexandra’s giddy elation is as genuine as her Chanel handbag. And, frankly, the way things are shaping up for the 22-year-old, why shouldn’t it be? The handbag came courtesy of Simon Cowell, as indeed did the £1 million deal with his record company Syco, and her Christmas number one ‘Hallelujah’, which two years ago catapulted her into pop history as the first British female solo artist to sell a million copies of a single.
Her second release, ‘Bad Boys’, also made it to number one, ditto her highly polished first album Overcome, a fizzy pop mix with a stellar cast of international producers who also work with the likes of Lady Gaga and Shakira. Her most recent number one, ‘Start Without You’, has proved so infectious that sufferers observe even now, many months later, that once the reggae-dancehall confection enters your brain for the day, it has to be surgically removed at bedtime.
‘This morning when I told my friend what I was doing she said: “Aren’t you bored of photo shoots?” Excuse me? Bored? Why would I be bored, wearing lots of gorgeous cool clothes and talking about my music?’ cries Alexandra, each sentence more declamatory than the last. Apparently her nickname at Syco is Tigger. ‘I don’t take any of this for granted. I live every day as if it were my last, which sounds a bit dramatic, but having visited Haiti for Save the Children and raised money for breast cancer walking the Inca Trail in Peru, I’ve learnt not to sweat the small stuff.
‘I mean, I used to get into a right kerfuffle over mislaying my house keys but in the grand scale of things it’s not that serious. I think it’s impossible to go somewhere like Haiti and see the heartbreaking devastation and not be changed in some way by it. It was a huge reality check. If my presence there raises awareness and keeps the disaster in the news then that’s a great use of my fame. Hopefully I’ll go back again soon to report on the progress of opening a school and people will keep donating.’

Alexandra completed the gruelling Inca trek with fellow celebrities Fearne Cotton, Denise Van Outen and Gabriella Cilmi, together with five women who have survived breast cancer. She admits it
was tough going, as they walked for up to nine hours a day. ‘Seeing these ladies being so strong and determined motivated us all, despite the spiders and creepy crawlies in our tents and the amount of energy required to keep going. It was the best thing I’ve ever done in my life.’
What, better even than winning The X Factor? She squirms, uncomfortable at the glitzy comparison. ‘The X Factor was…different.’ We move swiftly on, Alexandra dragging me with her, conversationally speaking; frankly, once this girl starts talking, it’s hard to get her to stop. Paradoxically, she is at once larger and smaller than life. How shall I put this delicately? I don’t think I can, so here it is: her personality is much, much bigger than you might expect; her derrière is much, much smaller. Dressed as an American baseball pro in her ‘Broken Heels’ video she looked every inch as bootylicious as Beyoncé. Today, in leggings, fierce Louboutin flats and a diamanté Mickey Mouse T-shirt, her figure is an almost disappointingly modest size 8-10.
‘I don’t have boobs so I use padding,’ she reveals. ‘It’s all padding in here! And that’s fine! I am happy with what God has given me, and now that I’m a role model for young girls, I want them to know that you don’t need cosmetic surgery to look good. You just need padding!’
Alexandra openly agrees that Louis Walsh was quite right to have recognised her vulnerability in 2005, when she made it through to the ‘judges’ homes’ stage of The X Factor only to be sent home, Walsh deeming her too young for potential stardom.
‘I couldn’t have coped then with the pressures heaped on me now, because I wasn’t nearly mature or responsible enough to deal with the punishing work regime or the media interest.’
Ah yes, the media interest; there have been kiss-and-tell exes in the tabloids, family trauma when her younger brother attempted suicide, family illness as her diabetic mother Melissa Bell, former lead singer with Grammy Award-winners Soul II Soul, awaits a kidney donor and a concerted campaign of intimidation from local youths that drove Alexandra from her inner-city home.
‘Maybe I was naive, but I never thought my family would come under such intense scrutiny. My brother Aaron couldn’t handle the attention he got because I was famous and last year when I was away in Austria, I got a phone call to say that he’d tried to kill himself, so I got on the first plane home. He’s doing really well now, working part time and going to college, but I can’t say any more because I haven’t talked to him about why he did it and it just wouldn’t be right for him to read about it in a magazine before I’d spoken to him.’
‘I take my music seriously, but don’t take myself too seriously’
Alexandra grew up in Islington, North London – the rough bit where gangs stalk the streets as opposed to the posh bit where Tony Blair lived. Curiously – and poignantly – there was resentment rather than pride among locals when Alexandra hit the big time. Far from celebrating her determination and success, they responded by repeatedly smashing her windscreen and her house windows. Rocks were hurled at her and she was subjected to verbal abuse. She moved out to the leafy edges of North London and now lives alone in a two-bedroom apartment. When she talks about her flat it sounds more like a quiet retreat than a home: peaceful, anonymous, far, not just from the madding crowd, but from those she loves the most – Aaron, her brother David, 23, and her big sister and best friend Sheniece, 25, a nursery worker whom she talks to from anonymous hotel rooms on Skype every night when she’s abroad.
‘I miss my family and I hope to buy a place near them at some point in the future when the fuss dies down. I spend so much time flying to Los Angeles or Paris or Tokyo or Sweden that when I get back to London, I curl up with my pink teddy, called Family – because they gave him to me when I was auditioning for The X Factor – and my yorkshire terrier and watch my box set of Friends.’

Alexandra Burke

Her record company begged Alexandra not to get a dog, as they felt it would tie her down. She ignored them, just as she ignored them when they begged her not to get another tattoo. In fact, she got two new tattoos and now has stars on her foot, a treble clef behind one ear and a sprawling peace and love affair on the nape of her neck. Having taken possession of her dog, moreover, she named him Alfie. Alexandra had forgotten it was the name of Cowell’s dog, too. Her boss was not best pleased – yet she laughed off his protests and Alfie remained Alfie.
‘Simon is a sweet softie,’ she says. ‘He listens to my opinions and took on board the direction I wanted to go in, which is pop rather than R&B. He will admit when he’s wrong, too, although that doesn’t happen very often as he has got the most amazing instinct for what will work.’
Simon isn’t the only one with amazing instinct. Alexandra had a tough childhood – her father left the family when she was six, and later died of cancer in 2004, but through everything Alexandra claims her one certainty was that she would be a singer. By her teens she was performing on the wedding circuit and though her failure to make The X Factor finals in 2005 left her reeling, she kept the faith and returned three years later to claim victory. Mentored by
Cheryl Cole, with whom she continues to have a firm friendship, the trajectory of Alexandra’s success is being compared to that of previous winner Leona Lewis, now a global star. ‘Cheryl is always there for me when I pick up the phone. Once you leave the show it’s down to Simon to support you as an artist. Cheryl supports me as a person – if I come off stage and I feel things didn’t go right, she’ll give me advice. She’s a beautiful woman and a really good, honest person, a warrior who has battled through some difficult stuff – and we just clicked.’
On the other side of the Atlantic, the fact that Beyoncé has taken a keen interest in her career has opened doors. Alexandra has a £3 million recording deal in the US, due in part to Beyoncé’s insistence that US executives watch the Londoner perform during The X Factor tour. ‘I can’t thank Beyoncé enough, she’s been so good to me,’ says Alexandra. ‘I sang a duet with her on The X Factor which was incredible, and now when I’m in the States I see her whenever I can.’
While things are hectic career-wise – a planned tour of Asia, recording extra tracks for a re-release of the album, a huge push into the US next year – there have been lean pickings on the romantic front, so much so that in the past year Alexandra has been improbably linked to both Danny Cipriani and Peter Andre. It’s fair to say she has never dated either. Some proper sizzling love interest might give them something to work with, I suggest. ‘Oh yes! I haven’t got time for a boyfriend, but love interest sounds exciting. Someone who can make me smile and understand my schedule. And shop for food in Marks & Spencer with me and take me to see a movie.’ 

This, I suggest, sounds more cosy boyfriend than high-octane love interest. What about Olly Murs? The pair are currently appearing in a Nintendo advert together. He is definitely supermarket-cinema material. Surprisingly, she goes a bit coy. ‘I don’t know Olly well, but he’s a nice guy and I could see us being…friends.’
Another lucrative ad deal is Alexandra’s contract with Sure deodorant; isn’t the sweat-prevention industry rather the antithesis of glossy glamour? ‘All I can say is, they made my armpits look and feel amazing,’ she says blithely. ‘I take my music seriously, but don’t take myself too seriously – once you do that it’s time to give up the day job.’ And with that she laughs so raucously that it ricochets off the walls.

The deluxe edition of Alexandra’s album Overcome with new tracks and a DVD will be released on 6 December

‘Bored? Why would I be bored?’

Happy ever X Factor – two years in the incredible life of Alexandra Burke

From left: December 2008 after duetting with US superstar Beyoncé on The X Factor grand final; performing at London’s Wembley Arena on the final night of The X Factor tour, March 2009

From left: Visiting survivors of the Haiti earthquake, February 2010; a photocall at Selfridges with London Wasps rugby star Danny Cipriani, March 2010

From left: On stage, July 2010; trekking the Inca Trail in Peru with Fearne Cotton and Denise Van Outen to raise money for Breast Cancer Care, September 2010

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Nicole Scherzinger - Poison Video

NScherzingerVEVO | 01 November 2010 | 3,655 likes, 231 dislikes

Music video by Nicole Scherzinger performing Poison. (C) 2010 Interscope Records



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23 November 2010

Ingrid Pitt (1937 - 2010)

Ingrid Pitt as Carmilla in The Vampire Lovers

Marcus Hearn pays tribute to the star of The Vampire Lovers and Countess Dracula, who died today.

Underrated as both an actress and a writer, Ingrid Pitt was a warm but stubbornly enigmatic figure. She was one of the most renowned stars of British horror cinema, although she only appeared in a handful of genre productions. And Hammer fans the world over regarded her as a friend, although few could agree on her real name, let alone the contradictory details of her personal history.

Born in Poland in 1937, Ingrid survived a Nazi concentration camp and later risked her life to cross the Iron Curtain. She initially settled in Colorado, where she lived on a reservation with Native Americans, before moving to Spain in 1964. She had a handful of roles in low-budget films before being cast in the wartime blockbuster Where Eagles Dare (1968). She was never more beautiful on screen, and joked that her co-stars Clint Eastwood and Richard Burton placed bets on who would win her affections.

James Carreras was similarly dazzled, and cast her as Carmilla in The Vampire Lovers. This was Hammer’s first production of the 1970s and the film that took the company into new, erotically-charged territory. Ingrid was already 32, older than most of the competition for the role, but her looks and spontaneity made her irresistible. And she didn’t baulk at the film’s controversial lesbian scenes.

There was further nudity in 1971’s Countess Dracula, but Ingrid could do little to lift the relatively tepid plot. Her relationship with director Peter Sasdy was fractious, and she suffered the indignity of having her voice dubbed in post-production. She fared better with a memorable cameo in Amicus’ The House That Dripped Blood (1971), but her typically uninhibited contribution to The Wicker Man (1973) was largely cut from the finished film.

In 1974 Ingrid met Formula One team manager Tony Rudlin, and she remained devoted to him for the rest of her life. Her genre career seemingly over, she tackled a wide variety of roles, with notable appearances in television series Doctor Who (1972 and 1984), Smiley’s People (1982) and the film Who Dares Wins (1982).

When acting parts became scarce Ingrid fell back on her other major talent, as a writer. A witty and opinionated columnist, she also wrote children’s stories, novels, reference books and an autobiography, Life’s a Scream, that laid bare the real-life horror of her childhood years.

By the time I got to know Ingrid in the mid-1990s I suspect her flamboyant screen persona had already begun to subsume her true personality. She would playfully refer to her own breasts as ‘Tom and Jerry’, and in restaurants order rare steak and Bloody Marys; all, I suspect, for the pleasure of seeing my shocked reaction. After one such meeting in a bar off Fleet Street, she asked me for directions to her next meeting in town. I told her it was simple, and that there was a tube station just down the road. This was my turn to surprise her. “Darling,” she said, alarmed at the prospect of travelling by public transport, “that would be absurd!”

In her last decade Ingrid’s health declined rapidly and our meetings became less frequent. Tony was always there for her, and escorted her to numerous film fairs, conventions and fan club reunions at the Polish Club in Hammersmith.

When Hammer returned to production in 2007, Ingrid was the first member of the old guard they called upon for a cameo appearance in Beyond The Rave. Two years later, I considered her a central part of my book Hammer Glamour. By this time I had known her for around 15 years, but this was the first time I had formally interviewed her. She was frail, but typically feisty in her defence of The Vampire Lovers. “It might have been shocking, but it wasn’t dirty,” she insisted. “I loved it when I had nothing on.”

Sentiments that will be echoed by us all when we remember Hammer’s most iconic leading lady.

Ingrid Pitt
21 November 1937 – 23 November 2010

Beyonce at 2BHappy Jewellery Collection Launch 22.11.2010 + Small video about pregnancy rumours

Stepping out for a swanky evening, Beyonce Knowles was spotted at Lorraine Schwartz’s 2BHappy jewelry collection launch in New York City last night (November 22).


The “Bootylicious” songstress looked lovely in a sexy white dress as she arrived at Lavo and mingled with the likes of Mary J. Blige and Kim Kardashian.

As for the recurring pregnancy rumors over the past year, Beyonce told press she hopes that people are as excited for her when she actually gets knocked up.
"I just hope that one day, when I decide to be pregnant that people are happy for me, 'cause I'm like gosh, like, everyone's like, 'Oh god, please! She's been pregnant 100 times.' One day, hopefully, I will be. So whatever; it's a part of being a celebrity, I guess."

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