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Veteran British actress CHARLOTTE RAMPLING is to be honoured with an Excellence Award at the Locarno Film Festival in Switzerland next month (Aug12). Past recipients have included Susan Sarandon, John Malkovich and William Dafoe.

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"Finally had a bad meal in Italy, our whole dinner party got food poisoning #ohwell at least I'm still in Italy." GEORGE CLOONEY's girlfriend STACY KEIBLER reveals the couple have been ill after some bad food during their stay at the hunk's home in Lake Como, Italy.

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Oscar winner NATALIE PORTMAN has reenacted Anita Ekberg's iconic scene in La Dolce Vita for a new perfume ad. The actress dons a black dress to frolick in the fountain at Paris' Jardins du Palais Royal for the new Miss Dior fragrance campaign.

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Singer MARIAH CAREY and her husband NICK CANNON are set to be feted at RUSSELL SIMMONS' annual gala to recognise stars' achievements and charity work. They will be the guests of honour at the music mogul's Art For Life benefit at his East Hampton estate in New York for his Rush Philanthropic Arts Foundation on 28 July (12).

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"I was an all-Ireland champion when I was a child. If I had kept it up maybe I would have been able to swim at London 2012, but I fell in love with music." Singer UNA HEALY could have been a competitive Olympic swimmer, but she ended up performing in girl group THE SATURDAYS instead.

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Country star TAYLOR SWIFT spent her Independence Day (04Jul12) partying with members of the famous KENNEDY family on a beach in Massachusetts. The singer was also spotted with Patrick Schwarzenegger - the son of ARNOLD SCHWARZENEGGER and MARIA SHRIVER, who is the niece of former U.S. President JOHN F. KENNEDY - on the patriotic day.

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RIHANNA has been named Italian Vogue's Woman of the Year.

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USHER has become only the 19th artist in 20 years to boast a 10-million seller U.S. album. The R&B star's 2004-released Confessions has just topped the milestone, according to Nielsen SoundScan officials. Eminem's The Eminem Show was the last album to make it to 10 million sales. The bestselling album in the SoundScan era is Metallica's Metallica, with 15.8 million. Shania Twain's Come On Over is in second place with 15.5 million.

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"In 1982, somebody in the crew's mother died, so we got him completely f**king drunk, dragged him out in the courtyard and we all took a p**s on him. We were like, 'There you go, cheer up!' He was laughing his f**king head off." MOTORHEAD star LEMMY on the most outrageous thing he has done offstage.

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The Off Broadway revival of smash hit musical RENT is set to close this autumn (12). The show, which follows the lives of downtown New York artists at the height of the AIDS epidemic, will take its final bow at the New World Stages theatre on 9 September (12).

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"After smashing my rental car and missing 8 grand in airplane tickets im back from iceland!! Cowabunga!" TV prankster BAM MARGERA is glad to be back in his native U.S. after an eventful week.

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"We take phones and purses at my house, and people have to sign s**t. I'm not living in the Pentagon, but I've been burned enough to have to take precautions." Actor CHARLIE SHEEN on the efforts he takes to keep his private life private.

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JERRY SEINFELD has recruited former SEINFELD sidekicks LARRY DAVID and MICHAEL RICHARDS for a new Internet comedy show, titled COMEDIANS IN CARS GETTING COFFEE. The new web show, which debuts on Crackle.com on 19 July (12), also features hilarious back-seat encounters between Seinfeld and stars like Ricky Gervais and Alec Baldwin.

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"Happy 4th of July 'MY FELLOW AMERICANS' Yes I can say that for the first time and I am so filled with happiness and pride! Let's celebrate !" Actor GILLES MARINI marks his first Independence Day after obtaining American citizenship last month (Jun12).

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"I've got a plastic golf club from a fan that was like signed by their whole family... That's kind of strange. And a cereal box, with cereal in it: 'Here you go, I got you this cereal. Hope you like it.' Weird." JUSTIN BIEBER gets some bizarre gifts from his fans.