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‘HOUSEWIFE’ BLASTS CO-STARS Top ranking . . . Lopez
J-Lo beats Gaga to top celeb power list
HOLLYWOOD hottie Jennifer Lopez has beaten Lady Gaga to be named the world’s most powerful celeb, a new poll claims. The Forbes magazine rankings are based on a combination of earnings, press coverage and internet presence. The Jenny from the Block singer, 42, headed the 100-strong list, up from 50th last year. Lady Gaga dropped to fifth, toppled from her top perch last year. Television presenter Oprah Winfrey was second, followed by teen sensation Justin Bieber in third and singer Rihanna at fourth. Forbes estimated J-Lo’s earnings in the past 12 months to be ’41million. Her top ranking is a result of her gig as judge on American Idol, a new clothing line, a top-selling fragrance and millions of Twitter and Facebook followers. She also recently announced an upcoming world tour alongside Enrique Iglesias.
By FIONA WYNNE
DUBLIN Housewives babe Danielle Meagher has admitted she’s not pally with her co-stars — branding them TWITS.
The outspoken doc will share the screen with socialites Lisa Murphy, Virginia Macari, Jo Jordan and Roz Flanagan in the TV3 reality show from Monday week.
But Danielle, 31 — known as Dr Botox by the celeb clients of her anti-ageing clinic — is adamant she’s nothing like the other ladies. And the Trinity graduate yesterday took a swipe at their obsession with good hair days. She blasted: “We are just different. Some of the girls, not all of them, are more Ghd than PhD, and I just find it ‘ooooooooohhhhhhhh’. “I have three degrees, I have a Masters, I’m real academic, I believe women should get to where they get to through hard slog, head in the books. “Growing up Roald Dahl was my favourite author and The Twits was my favourite book and I do feel there were times when the
Eat for 2 ‘birth risk’
THE old wives’ tale that pregnant women should “eat for two” increases the risk of serious complications, experts claim. A study of more than 7,000 mums-to-be found healthy eating cut the chances of pregnancyrelated diabetes by 70 per cent, high blood pressure by 60 per cent and potentially fatal preeclampsia by 33 per cent. It also reduces the risk of miscarriages and premature births. Dr Shakila Thangaratinam, from Queen Mary University of London Medical School, said: “Obesity is a growing threat.” She added that instead of scoffing more, fat women should consider cutting calories.
Show of reality . . . united front hides tensions among glam girls antics (on the show) were so bad he would have been turning in his grave that he missed the chance to do a rewrite.” The five Celtic Tigresses allowed the cameras into their lives to show what the world of glitz and glam is really like. But Danielle is determined to show the public that she’s anything but a kept woman. She told the Ray D’Arcy show on T o d a y
FM: “I don’t want to be anyone’s housewife. I’m financially independent. “I’m the last person who is a socialite, I can’t stand that, it’s quite apparent on the show. “I don’t have time for this scene — the Prosecco and Champagne Casanovas — it d o e s nothing for me,” s h e added. fion a.wyn ne@th e-sun.ie
Up-front admission . . . Danielle won’t swap the other socialites’ lives for her career as a beauty doc, far right
Sun
A THREE-year-old boy was rescued from the outside of a third floor window when the little lad climbed out onto the sill after being left alone in Shilin, China.
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PARADISE ROLE
IRISH actress Elaine Cassidy is among the cast of The Paradise, a new BBC adaptation of the classic Emile Zola novel The Ladies’ Paradise. It tells the tale of a love affair against the backdrop of the opening of the first department store. Disco Pigs star Cassidy plays Katherine, a banker’s daughter who has designs on the store’s owner, John Moray, played by Emun Elliott. Filming on the eightpart series begins in England next month.
Sun
THE plane that will fly the Olympic flame from Athens to the UK has been unveiled as a striking gold and yellow aircraft after an appeal for suggestions from school kids.
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LIAM’S WILDE
SCREEN stars Liam Neeson and Olivia Wilde have been confirmed for upcoming film Third Person. Liam, 59, and Olivia, 28, will play a couple in Paul Haggis’ movie which follows three interconnected stories in New York, Rome and Paris. The film documents a writer and his lover in Paris, a mother fighting for custody in New York and a businessman who falls for a woman when helping to rescue her kidnapped daughter in Rome.