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Pete caused chaos at the Cotswold Wildlife Park, in Oxfordshire, when he threw what looked like a cannabis joint to the penguins.
The rocker - who has been treated for drug addiction - was showing off in front of Kate when he hurled the alleged joint into the pen.
One of the Humboldt penguins promptly swallowed it.
A source told The Sun: "Everyone knew he was smoking
grass. He was joking about getting the penguins stoned. He threw them his joint and it looked like one penguin gulped it down. It seemed very wobbly."
Last night (27.02.07), London Zoo's chief veterinary officer blasted Pete's antics.
Andrew Routh fumed: "Feeding a penguin cannabis could be fatal. It contains toxins that attack the nervous system and liver."
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"The Secret" promises "a new era for humankind" through "the secret laws and principles of the universe." According to its Web site, this information popped into the head of blond Australian TV producer Rhonda Byrne in the spring of 2004.
At a pre-Oscars dinner for eventual Best Supporting Actress winner Jennifer Hudson, thrown by Stuart and Jane Weitzman at the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel Friday, Secret "teacher" Lisa Nichols explained the philosophy to Emmy Rossum, Rebecca Gayheart and Eric Dane.
"They were abuzz about it and wanted to talk to the guru," another guest tells me. Andre Leon Talley, Rachel Roy and Damon Dash were also in the room.
An uncharacteristically credulous Oprah Winfrey has even had Nichols on her show to discuss the philosophy. Nichols writes for the "Chicken Soup for the Soul" series, whose creator, Jack Canfield, is also a Secret teacher.
But this is "Junk Food for the Brain." The crackpot thesis behind the Secret is that you can alter reality - from finding a parking space to curing cancer to getting a BMW - through positive thinking. And there's a very "Da Vinci Code" back story, about a 5,000-year-old conspiracy to keep the public from learning it. But don't worry, because your boys Beethoven, Lincoln and Einstein were in on it and passed the knowledge along.
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While many celebs go out of their way to antagonize the press, Mark Ruffalo had them eating out of his hand the other night. When bad weather kept his guests from attending Gotham magazine's screening of his new thriller, "Zodiac," Ruffalo invited reporters lingering outside in the cold to see the flick. He also passed out gift bags to the paparazzi. "When one photographer was late and missed the arrivals, Mark came back out so he could get his shot," our spy said. "Then, after the movie, he extended an invite for them to join him at the after-party at Cellar Bar in the Bryant Park Hotel. He was by far one of the nicest guys."
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The health department's warning has strongly urged anyone who attended the SI party, or any of the 13 other events catered by Puck between Feb. 1- 20, to get an immune globulin shot by tomorrow to prevent illness.
When contacted, a rep from Puck's catering company would not tell TMZ which other events Puck catered, nor would they reveal how many other people may have been exposed to the illness. They did say, however, that no one who attended Sunday's Governor's Ball at the Academy Awards is at risk.
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Lower East Side bar regular Josh Hartnett proved himself to be a stand-up citizen the other night. Hartnett and his pals closed down Essex Street watering hole Whiskey Ward, and as they were leaving at 4 a.m., "he stopped a guy from harassing a woman," said our source. "He was just helping her out." No punches were thrown - there were just some raised voices on the corner. A rep for Hartnett - who went to war in "Black Hawk Down" and solved a damsel's murder in "Black Dahlia" - had no comment.
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No, not that kind of wardrobe malfunction. But these ladies – and their outfits – barely made it out of the red carpet alive! Below, the injured parties on the red carpet:
• Maggie Gyllenhaal's dress looked great on the red carpet – literally. Her feather-trimmed Proenza Schouler dress shedded wherever she walked.
• Only halfway down the red carpet, and Eddie Murphy's girlfriend Tracey Edmonds's long gown already had a hole in it.
• Gwyneth Paltrow made it out of the red carpet unscathed, but just a few steps into the Kodak Theatre, a woman stepped on the train of her Zac Posen gown. Thankfully, there were no visible rips – but Paltrow picked up the train. (She should have taken a cue from Kate Winslet, who employed a professional train-holder for part of the night.)
• Isla Fisher's jeweled bracelet broke on the red carpet, leaving her and fiancé Sacha Baron Cohen to fiddle with the troubled clasp as they continued to make their way down the carpet.
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"We used ecstasy at night to party and cocaine during the day to stay awake," Alexander said. "Then we would take downers like Valium or Vicodin to come down and rest.
"She definitely had a problem with drugs when we were together and that was three years ago."
He claims Spears almost had a fatal overdose on "MDMA," or pure ecstasy, while they partied in a Las Vegas club. He said he sneaked her up to their hotel suite and she was sweating and having problems breathing.
"I took her into the bathroom and threw her in the shower," Alexander said. "She was unconscious. She tripped and fell. I was trying to hold her up and speak to her. She wasn't moving.
"I remember looking down at her all crumpled in the tub with the water coming down. She looked so white and lifeless. I thought she was dead. I thought, 'This bitch is going to f--king die right here in front of me.'"
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The actor was left stunned when CIELKE SIJBEN, a journalist working for Dutch TV network 101 TV, leaped forward as he walked the red carpet at the Amsterdam Pathe and clamped a metal handcuff on his wrist, attaching herself to him. The confused star had to stand for 10 minutes while police detained Sijben and fire fighters were summoned to free him from his captor. After the cuffs were cut off, the calm 46-year-old returned to his red-carpet duties, promoting the film.
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What a nasty trick somebody played on Anna Nicole Smith's former personal assistant, Kimberly Walther. A mean-spirited blogger created a Web site in Walther's name and had her spewing out all sorts of venomous garbage about Howard K. Stern, which you read about here yesterday. A mortified Walther tells "Entertainment Tonight" she had absolutely nothing to do with it and called Stern to tell him that. ["It] wasn't how I felt about him at all," she said, adding, "He's a mess, I have never seen Howard cry and now he cries every time we talk. He cannot grieve properly because he's fighting for what Anna wanted."
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Less jovial, more jumpy, was Lauren Conrad, when I asked her about that infamous interview Brody Jenner gave to Details. “I found it a little bit hurtful, because I know that I don’t use people to get places,” she said. “If being famous is really that important to you, then go for it...But it’s kinda sad that you have to step on other people.”
I asked if she felt like he used her to get his mug on MTV. “I think that’s pretty apparent now, yeah,” she said dryly.
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Anna Nicole's former assistant speaks exclusively with ET about life with Anna, the fake Web site and more!
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In the tragic ANNA NICOLE SMITH saga, one significant player in her personal life has been missing from the spotlight -- until now.
Now, KIM WALTHER speaks out and sets the record straight with ET's JANN CARL about life with Anna, her desire for more children, the will, the fake Web site and more!
"I hope I'm given [the opportunity to tell baby DANNIELYNN about her mother one day]," says Kim, wiping back tears. "I just want her to know that her mom really was an amazing person, and loved her, and I would like to tell her the good things, you know?"
Best known as "Kimmie" on reality TV's "The Anna Nicole Show," Kim was the late TRIMSPA spokesperson's personal assistant and admirer, whose purple hair and shoulder tattoo of Anna Nicole made her a memorable character.
Kim -- who says she spoke with Anna Nicole just two weeks before she died -- met the former Playboy model about seven years ago at a desert resort, where she was working the front desk. She explains that once she got Anna Nicole's computer working, "We kinda just hit it off and became friends ... she was like a mom to me at times, and a sister and a best friend."
Kim says Anna constantly talked about having more kids: "She wanted five more kids," she says, "and she had whole chests full of girl clothes that she had been saving over the years."
But once Anna got pregnant, Kim claims that Anna revealed she wasn't sure who fathered the child.
"She told me she didn't know who the father was," she explains. "She told me, let's see -- I guess around Christmastime or shortly after New Year's -- that HOWARD [K. STERN] was the baby's father."
Kim was with Anna as a witness when the star signed her last will and testament: "I haven't recently read the will, so I can't really say what's in there," she offers. "I do know that at the time she signed it, she was sound, mind and body, and that's what she had intended."
As for Howard's relationship with Anna and her late son, DANIEL, Kim says, "I would never think that he would do anything to harm either Daniel or Anna. Anna was his entire world. I can't even imagine what he's going through. I know what I'm going through is hard, but Howard, he's been with her for these last couple of years that I haven't been there, and I really wish people would leave him alone."
Kim wants to go on record saying that there's a Web site on the Internet that's purported to be hers, but in fact it's not -- it's the work of an impersonator. The site expresses negative views about Howard, and Kim wants to make it clear that she is not involved with it in any way.
"I called to let [Howard] know about this website that somebody has put up using my name and claiming to be me," she says. "[The site is] basically slandering Howard and accusing him of things like being responsible for the death of Anna Nicole and Daniel. I told him that it's not from me and that I had nothing to do with it and those aren't my feelings or sentiments at all."
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Mega-Blonde Jessica Simpson shocked everyone when she danced into LA club Hyde as a brand-new bottle redhead - then reappeared re-dyed at Hyde just four days later...this time as a brunette! But as Jessica stood giggling with galpals about getting back to her roots, a feisty female suddenly came out of nowhere, went in her face and snarled: "A leopard can't change her spots - you're a dumb blonde and you ALWAYS will be!" Jessica burst into boo-hoo's, ran into the ladies' john - then exited the joint moments later.
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A source in Vietnam tells US Weekly the couple have filed papers with the US Citizenship and Immigration services to adopt a boy from the Tam Binh orphanage in Ho Chi Minh City, which they visited in November.
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Sources tell TMZ Federline is concerned for Spears' welfare and wants her to get the help she is now seeking. We're also told this will be Spears' last chance -- if she leaves rehab before getting full treatment, Federline will immediately go to court seeking orders allowing him unquestioned full custody of the children.
We're told Spears showed up at Federline's house to see the children last night and he wouldn't let her in.
Sources say the kids are now in the custody of Federline, and have been since last week.
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Speaking of the kids, who's taking care of them while their mom rehab-hops and checks into the Hotel Bel-Air? It's none other than Kevin Federline and Britney's mom, Us reports. K-Fed made a call to his own mom, Julie Bleak, on Valentine's Day to ask for help with the kids, and then Lynne Spears, Brit's mom, pitched in to provide round-the-clock care of Sean and Jayden. Bleak, for her part, flew to L.A. on the same day that Spears made her one-day jaunt to Antigua to go to Crossroads Centre. K-Fed is due in court today for an emergency hearing on child custody – who would've believed that he'd end up being the responsible parent?
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Terrified she'd lose custody of her sons, an out-of-control Britney Spears tried to kill herself TWICE in the hours after shaving her head, The ENQUIRER has learned exclusively from sources.
Hours after creating a media frenzy by shaving her head, sources say the troubled star tried to take her own life by walking into traffic, only to be rescued at the last second by her staff.
But that wasn't the end of Britney's self-destructive impulses. A short time later she was rushed to a doctor after saying she was going to kill herself and then taking too many Xanax, say the sources.
Britney's emotional collapse was triggered by a "reconciliation" with estranged husband Kevin Federline — that was actually meant to be an intervention, sources tell The ENQUIRER.
And when Kevin warned her that she'd fail a drug test and he'd get custody of their sons, a hysterical Britney went over the edge and ended up shaving herself bald while a crowd of spectators and photographers watched outside Esther's Haircutting Studio in Tarzana, California.
"After she shaved off her hair, Britney had a complete breakdown and tried to kill herself," an insider told The ENQUIRER.
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Actor George Clooney is embracing the ageing process and feels under no pressure to keep his looks youthful. The 45-year-old bachelor feels free now he no longer has to worry about his appearance. Clooney says, "I'm 45 now, and my hair is grey. And I'm actually kind of happy with the idea that I no longer have to think about someone else's opinion of how I should look. "I'm looking forward to being 50 - I already have the liver of a 75-year-old, so it all works out just fine!"
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After having the chop she arrived alone at Hollywood's Mondrian hotel on Sunset Boulevard wearing a blond wig.
An onlooker said: "She tried to book a room but she didn't have any money or a credit card, just a piece of paper carrying a partial credit card number."
And another guest says: "She kept saying: 'Nobody wants me anymore'."
Eventually a pair of tourists took her to their room. But she was later seen trying to hire a rental car and was again turned away.
A witness said: "The staff were stunned and didn't know what to do with her."
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A source told Britain's OK! magazine: "This year is crux time. They have to reach a decision on what they expect from each other - and fast. Angelina has to realise Brad needs stability and Brad has to come to terms with her driving ambition as a world ambassador.
"Brad's family are blown away marriage didn't happen a long time ago. But Angelina doesn't want to put down roots and turn into a 'homemaker'.
"Her late mother had a lot to do with Angelina's decision to have counselling. Marcheline made her realise it wouldn't be such a bad idea to give marriage a go."
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It looks like Jennifer Aniston's unlucky love streak may be rubbing off on Courteney Cox and husband David Arquette, who seem to be going through a tough time, according to Star magazine. Recently, Courteney and David have been spotted solo; Courtney at Malibu’s Nobu on Feb 17 with single gal pals Sheryl Crow and Jennifer Aniston, while the night before David was seen at an NBA Celebrity Tournament in Las Vegas.
Things seem more suspicious when Cox was spotted with Dirt co-star, Josh Stewart, shooting pool at W. Hollywood’s Barney’s Beanery. Courteney’s new show seems to be her main focus which she and David “had words about.”
A source adds, “When Courteney isn’t on the phone with someone connected to the show, she’s going off to meetings or hanging out with cast members socially.” David and Courteney were once referred to as the oddest couple in Hollywood, and while opposites may attract, the differences of these two may pull them apart. “Sometimes when you get to know someone so well, what was once endearing just becomes irritating.”
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The first of 15 planned centers will be built in Bengal and is set to open later this month. It is hoped the scheme will help teach English to underprivileged children through computer training and audio aids.
French writer Dominique Lapierre, who established City of Joy Aid, was originally given the dress by designer Hubert De Givenchy before selling it to raise money for the charity, which provides clinics, schools, and hospital boats in poor areas of India.
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"I have broad shoulders and can handle what is written about me personally but when I am misquoted or mischaracterized as exhibiting a disrespectful attitude towards someone I care about, I feel I need to clarify the situation," says Jenner. "I genuinely love Nicole... I would never say or do anything hurtful to those I love and respect. I'm sorry it was represented that way."
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"It's bizarre behavior," said L.A. attorney Nathan Goldberg. "It might raise concerns about where the behavior is coming from. ... What problems is she having, and how might those problems affect her ability as a parent?"
"Shaving your head is bizarre, but it's not illegal," said Loyola Law School Prof. Laurie Levenson, who thinks the shave won't hurt Spears in court "unless you can show that she was out of her mind or on drugs when she did it."
Both Spears and Federline will likely undergo psychiatric examination. Even their households will be studied to see if they provide a good environment for kids.
"The custody evaluator will want to observe each of them interacting with the children to see how they behave with the children and how the children relate to them," said Goldberg.
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Qantas stewardess tells how she fell for Hollywood star in Seat 2K...and how after a mad, passionate fling he abandoned her to face the sack...
The attraction had been immediate and overwhelming from the moment they first made eye contact.
But as Qantas stewardess Lisa Robertson leaned over towards Hollywood star Ralph Fiennes to offer him a drink, she could not have imagined how the evening would unfold - or that she would end up in a passionate tryst with him in the aircraft lavatory.
When rumours first emerged that Ralph Fiennes joined the Five Mile High Club in the business-class lavatory on flight QF123 from Darwin to Bombay, Qantas issued a statement from Lisa vigorously denying the allegation.
But The Mail on Sunday can now reveal the truth about what happened that night - how the English actor had unsafe sex with the 38-year-old Australian stewardess on the flight and went on to seduce her in an evening of almost non-stop love-making at his lavish hotel in India.
Speaking for the first time, exclusively to The Mail on Sunday, Lisa, a former high-flying police officer, said: 'It's true. We did make love on the plane that night. At first I denied it because I was so desperate to keep my job and I didn't want to hurt Ralph.
'I know some people will think it's disgusting. And I'm not proud of what I did - it was inappropriate behaviour. But I don't regret it. Ralph is gorgeous and the chemistry between us was amazing. What woman wouldn't want to make love with him? This sort of attraction happens to people all the time. It's just not usually with a Hollywood star at 35,000 feet.
Although Lisa makes no bones about having been an enthusiastic participant in the unedifying episode and is clearly still thrilled to have attracted the attention of an international film star, it is hard not to see her also as his victim.
Despite her tall, trim figure, there is sadness in her eyes, highlighted by the medication she takes for depression since she left a tough front-line job as a detective with an elite New South Wales police drugs squad.
One can't help asking whether Ralph Fiennes didn't spot a vulnerable woman, use her, and then abandon her to face the sack from her job with Qantas.
Lisa recognised the 44-year-old star of films including The English Patient from the minute she went to his window seat 2K to offer him a selection of champagne, orange juice and water.
And she admits she was star-struck. He was dressed casually in beige chinos and a long-sleeved shirt, and as he quietly asked for a glass of water she gushed: 'Oh my God, it's you. I am such a fan of your films. I love your work. I've seen The English Patient 20 times.' She recaptured her composure and added: 'I'm so sorry. This is so unprofessional of me.'
Fiennes, however, looked relaxed and amused.
'He leaned forward, gazed deep into my eyes and stroked my arm as if to reassure me,' said Lisa. 'He whispered, 'It's OK. Anyway, I think you're gorgeous.'
She admits: 'I felt overwhelmed. I felt like you do when you're a teenager. My heart was pumping with excitement. We kept looking at each other and giggling. He was just so gorgeous. I noticed he had lovely soft skin, beautiful hands and wonderful eyes.
'I expected him to be aloof. But he was just so nice. He had a strange kind of vulnerability about him. For the rest of the evening, although I was working on the other side of the cabin, we kept looking at each other. He was watching me serve drinks, staring intensely. He didn't have a meal and drank only a couple of glasses of Shiraz.
'But every time I looked up I saw that he was watching me. We were seriously flirting across the cabin, which is not like me. I've served a lot of famous people, including Shane Warne and Ian Thorpe, and I'm not usually like that at work.'
Lisa, who is divorced, continued with her duties, serving the evening meal before the cabin lights dimmed. There were only 12 passengers in business class that night.
Then, as she was preparing to go on her break, Fiennes made an unexpected suggestion. Lisa said: 'We had chatted a bit about India - where I've been five times - and his movies.
'When I told him I was going for a break, he said, "I might come and visit you for a chat, if that's OK." I was a bit surprised, but also thrilled. I said, "Sure."'
Lisa admits she was smitten by the star, but says she did not make the first move and had no thought of what might happen next.
It was 11pm and most of the other passengers were asleep. Lisa retired behind the curtained crew area, next to the cockpit, took off her shoes and put her feet up. But moments later she was interrupted by Fiennes.
'I'm sorry, were you sleeping?, he said. 'No,' she replied. 'Come in and take a seat.'
Lisa is not proud of what happened next, but she found Fiennes 'irresistible'. 'At first we just chatted,' she said. 'He sat really close to me. He told me he was learning lines for a new movie with Colin Farrell, playing the part of a gangster. He said he was practising his cockney accent.
'I asked him to give me an example. He did and it was really good. I told him again that The English Patient was just the best movie, but he said, 'That was over ten years ago. Why don't people value my later work?'
'I apologised and said I didn't mean to offend him. I guess we talked for about an hour about lots of different things. He thought it was funny that I lived alone with my dog, a Lhasa Apso-poodle cross called Finn.'
Fiennes told Lisa he was touring Indian villages for Unicef to talk about AIDS awareness. He asked what she would be doing in Bombay, where she was staying, and said, 'Do you want to meet up?'
Stunned and deeply flattered, Lisa said: 'Yeah. That would be cool.'
By this point they were sitting so close their faces were just inches apart. Lisa said: 'He held my hands. Then he started kissing me. The kissing was very passionate and his hands were all over me. I just melted.
'He was caressing my neck, holding my head and he started undoing the buttons on my dress. The way he was going, he would have made love to me right there.
'I was very turned on and so was he. I had butterflies in my stomach. I was touching his face and his hair. He had beautiful skin. I was undoing his shirt as well. It was a bit surreal, like a scene from one of his movies.
'But I was afraid my supervisor might pull back the curtain and catch us. Eventually, I couldn't bear it any longer. I just grabbed his hand and said, "Come in here a minute."
'By this time, we had half our clothes off and I didn't care about anything. I led him into the cabin lavatory next to where we had been sitting and locked the door.
'Ralph was a great lover. And I thought if I was going to get the sack, it would be worth it. I knew it was against the rules and wrong but I didn't care.
'I was a bit shocked that he didn't wear a condom. Looking back, I think of it as dangerous behaviour and hypocritical given that he was going to India to talk about AIDS.
'He asked me, "Have you ever done this before?". I said, "No, never." I asked him the same question and he said, "No."
'The only strange thing was that he kept his eyes open the whole time, staring at me intensely, although we were kissing madly.
'I realised that people would miss me and wonder where I was as my break was almost over. I told him we had to get out of there quickly.
'I helped him get dressed and he told me that when he got out of the toilet he would press his call button to distract the other flight attendants so that I could leave.
'But a male member of staff saw Ralph come out of the toilet and he saw me lock the door after Ralph. When I came out, the member of staff was still there. I prepared to get back to work but the cabin manager wanted a word with me. She asked, "Did you go into the toilet with a male passenger?"
'I said, "No." But she said three people saw me do it. She told me I had crossed the line and that she was going to report me when we got back to Sydney.
'Ralph called me over and asked, "Is everything all right?" I told him, "No,"and sat down next to him. He was very concerned, but I downplayed it and said I would sort it out.
'I knew I was in big trouble. I was ordered to spend the rest of the flight working in economy and I was the talk of the other cabin crew. I was able to talk to Ralph again to reassure him that everything was fine. I wanted to see him again in Bombay. I didn't want him to freak out and not call me.'
Even now, almost a month after the incident on January 24, Lisa still seems to find the events surreal. She claims her behaviour was out of character but says: 'I just had no control over myself. I wanted him so much. I couldn't resist him.'
She has had only one other liaison with a man she met while working on a flight - an American with whom she had dinner and later spent a weekend in New York.
'But that was very much out of office hours,' she said. 'Men travelling business class are always coming on to me. They invite me to go for weekends away to lavish locations and nice hotels and give me their cards. But I usually just throw them away.'
Lisa had a sheltered upbringing with her two brothers in the town of Wagga Wagga near Sydney. Her father Graham, a butcher, and her mother Sandra were so protective that she did not have her first sexual relationship until the age of 20 when she went to the New South Wales police academy.
Lisa recalled: 'My mother had cancer when I was 11. She survived but it was traumatic. I never really had time for boys. I was the only girl in the middle of two brothers and I had a lot of responsibility.'
She also had low self-esteem. 'My brothers teased me about being flat-chested, so I've had breast implants. They said I was skinny and gawky. And I hated being 5ft 9in tall. I never felt attractive.'
She married a fellow police officer, John Duncan, and had a high-flying career in undercover drug work and hostage negotiation.
After 14 years her police service ended due to her suffering post-traumatic stress disorder and depression. And her marriage did not survive.
Indeed, she seems wary of men, saying she has been repeatedly exploited by them. 'So many treat you badly,' she said. 'They're just after sex. They're losers.' Ironically, she thought Fiennes was 'so sensitive, so different'.
Only now has Lisa begun to wonder. She has seen last week's reports claiming that he has been dumped by his girlfriend of five months, interior designer Sirin Lewenden, because of his wandering eye, mood swings and constant demands for sex. Their romance began after he split from his long-term partner, actress Francesca Annis.
On flight QF123, however, Fiennes seemed to Lisa an impossibly exotic lover, very different from the men she usually encounters. And while she says she never expected a romance, she didn't hesitate in saying yes when he asked her if he could meet her at his Bombay hotel.
Brimming with anticipation, Lisa stood next to Fiennes before he left the plane so they could talk. 'He was wearing a funny old white hat and a Kathmandu backpack, which made him look very eccentric,' she said.
'I gave him my mobile number and he repeatedly said he would call me. I was sad to see him go. I just wanted to go with him.'
Lisa had been at her hotel - the Grand Hyatt - for only about half an hour when Fiennes called her. He was on his way to his hotel, the Intercontinental, and wanted her to come over.
Lisa said: 'I had a shower, put on a little floral sun dress and my flip-flops. I put on minimum make-up and had a glass of Sauvignon blanc because I was a bit nervous.'
At the Intercontinental she found Fiennes was checked in, under his own name, to room 663, a lavish corner suite on the sixth floor. After calling the room, she was escorted up by security guards.
She said: 'Ralph opened the door with just a white towel around his waist. He said, 'Hi, how are you darling? Come in, I'm just having a bath. Make yourself a drink.'
'He dropped the towel and was wandering around naked. I was laughing, I thought it was hilarious. But I wander around naked a lot at home, so it didn't bother me. He had quite a nice body. It's obvious he's not a gym work-out kind of guy. For a man he's got quite a slender body, but I was attracted to him. It was a luxurious room - better than where I was staying. There was a bottle of red wine with a note on it saying, Welcome Mr Fiennes. I was like a kid in a sweet shop.
'He changed into a casual blue shirt and chinos and asked if I would like to have dinner with him. He'd heard there was a lovely restaurant on the roof. I said that would be great. I'd thought he would just keep me in the room, make love to me and throw me out.
'But it surprised me that he was a gentleman and he was treating this meeting like a real date.
'I wasn't particularly hungry and he doesn't eat much, so we just had snacks and ordered drinks. He had a Martini. There was a pool and the people around it recognised Ralph. He held my hand and had his arm around me, as if I was his girlfriend.
'He had been in Sydney performing a Beckett play and started to recite bits to me. He asked if I'd seen it. I told him it wasn't my kind of thing. I found that part of the date a bit boring.
'He didn't mention he had a girlfriend. I said I knew he went out with a famous actress, Francesca Annis, and that they'd broken up. He said, 'Yeah, it's been a bad year.'
'From his look of sadness and vulnerability, I guessed he was still in love with her. It was obvious that he was single and struggling with it.
'We had a couple more drinks. I spoke to him about The English Patient and asked him to say that line, 'It's a really plum plum' when the nurse is feeding his character the fruit. He did and I was thrilled. We went back to his room and I suggested we crack open the bottle of red. I poured us a glass each. He put on a DVD - Lock, Stock And Two Smoking Barrels - which he said he was watching for research.
'I sat on the end of the bed. He came over, put his wine by the bed, threw off the top sheet and took off his clothes. I undressed at the same time. There was no conversation and in no time we were kissing and right into it.'
According to Lisa, they made love twice more through the evening - once in the middle of the night. But he told her, before they went back to sleep: 'I'm sorry, but I'm going to have to kick you out in the morning. I've got a lot of calls to make and things to do.'
Lisa said: -I felt fine about that. I understood but I was disappointed.
'I wasn't under any illusions that this would be the start of a romance. He is an upper-class Englishman and I knew it would be just about sex. But I thought we could keep a friendship and that we might make love when he visited Sydney.'
Lisa was woken at 7am by the sound of a mobile phone ringing, followed by Ralph talking. She said: 'He was sitting at the end of the bed. When the call ended he turned around and started kissing and cuddling me. We made love for about 20 minutes. It was excellent, really nice.
'But then he said, 'I'm going to have to kick you out now.' Just before I got out of bed, he said in a sincere, gentle voice, 'Lisa, I really like you.'
'I didn't even have a shower. I just went into the bathroom, tied my hair back and put on my flip-flops. He said, 'See you on the next Qantas flight,' to which I said, 'You will never fly Qantas again.' And he said, 'Oh yes I will.'
'He walked me to the door and kissed me and said, 'Goodbye, darling.' The casual way he said it was like he would see me next week.
'I had mixed feelings as the door closed behind me. I hoped he would call me again. I understood he had Unicef commitments but I was going to be in Bombay for two days, so I hoped he would find time to squeeze me in for another quick love-making session - or even a phone call. When he didn't call I realised I had to get over it. He was never going to.'
Lisa met her flight crew for drinks and confided in one friend, a pilot, what had happened. But she was horrified to learn that everyone seemed to have heard her making love with Fiennes in the lavatory. She says some of the girls were envious and giggled, saying: 'I wish it had been me.'
But Lisa knew her supervisor had reported her. 'I knew I was in big trouble,' she said. On January 26 she flew back to Sydney, where she was told by her management company, airline services contractor Morris Alexander Management, that she had been suspended without pay pending a disciplinary hearing.
On the advice of a lawyer she tried to make contact with Fiennes, leaving an urgent message at the Gate Theatre in Dublin, which had been behind his Beckett performances in Sydney. Within a few hours he called.
Lisa said: 'I told him I was in a lot of trouble and that I had been suspended from work. There was silence at the other end. I told him people had seen us leaving the toilet, but all he said was, 'Nothing happened.' He kept saying, 'We weren't in the toilet.' I told him I couldn't deny it. I said I had to answer the allegation.
Fiennes' reply, when it came, shocked Lisa to the core. She said: 'It was clear he was turning his back on me. He said, 'We don't know each other very well. I'm very sorry, I can't get involved. I can't help you.'
'I was desperate and suggested we said I was doing something like helping him with a contact lens. But he wouldn't agree.
'Then he told me, I've been scarred by an incident about a year ago when my life was dragged through the tabloids. My whole relationship was destroyed. It's ruined my life. You're just a hostess and you don,t even like your job. You're not happy in your job. You can get another job.'
'I felt humiliated. It was like talking to a different person. He made me feel like a low-life, like I was asking him for money or something. Then he said, 'Let's have no further phone contact. I'll call you in a month's time, just to show you I'm a human being.' I was stunned.
'I told him, 'You're right. In the big scheme of things, it's not that important. It's just a job. If I do lose my job, it was worth it.'
'I ended the conversation on good terms, but I was angry and disappointed at his attitude and uncaring lack of support and sympathy.
I expected him to take some responsibility for our problem which suddenly became my problem.
'I thought about resigning to protect him. I felt sorry for him because of the speech he made about what he'd been through with the British papers. But I was frightened, I was depressed, I felt completely alone and I had no support.'
The betrayal evoked bitter memories of Lisa's troubled past. On leaving the police, she sued the force for lack of care over her mental health problems, but lost the case and was driven into bankruptcy.
She briefly studied law at James Cook University in Cairns, Australia. Then she met a stewardess and thought the job sounded fun. But the hard work and long hours did nothing to ease her depression, for which she still takes medication.
Now, after her fling with Fiennes, she is alone and faces losing her job. Her family have been critical of her and over the past week, since the story first emerged, their communication has been punctuated by fierce rows.
Now Lisa is even more wary of men. 'I've never been lucky in love,' she said. 'I just choose the wrong people. My last relationship, with an Italian flight steward, ended in June.'
Yet bizarrely she insists that, given the chance, she would make love to Fiennes in the lavatory again. 'It must sound crazy,' she said, 'but I wouldn't miss that experience for anything.'
She has convinced herself that Fiennes did care for her, however briefly, and that 'the experience was a lot more than just about sex'.
Does she feel used? 'No,' she insisted. 'We were both fantastically attracted to each other. I am sure he cared about me.
But she pauses, twisting a ring on her finger, as if for the first time considering the more brutal alternatives. 'Then again,' she said, 'he is a very good actor.'
And she concedes that she was stung by his failure to support her story about the contact lens. It was a lie that might have helped her keep her job. 'I am upset by his betrayal,' she said. 'He is a millionaire movie star and I'm a struggling air hostess on £12,000 a year. I have financial problems and nothing to fall back on.
'He could have written a letter giving a version of events which the airline would have been forced to accept.
'What will I do now? Who knows? But I will bounce back. I always do. Maybe I'll finally take some time out to find out what I want and who I am. I should have done that years ago.'
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Bahamas Immigration Minister Shane Gibson has resigned amid fallout over his involvement with Anna Nicole Smith, the former Playboy Playmate and billionaire's widow who died earlier this month.
Gibson announced his resignation late on Sunday on state television and radio but denied any wrongdoing or romantic link to Smith, saying he had made the decision for the well-being of his family.
"My entire family have suffered enough. For far too long they have had to listen to one lie after another. It can only get worse," he said.
Gibson came under pressure to step down after the publication last week of photographs of him and Smith embracing on a bed and reports that he had fast-tracked her application for residency in the Caribbean nation.
Critics said he granted her residency status on the basis of their close friendship when, in fact, she met none of the criteria for such a permit.
The pictures of Gibson and Smith caused such a furor that Gibson's own Progressive Liberal Party colleagues feared the fallout would affect their chances in the upcoming general election.
Gibson, a former trade-union official, said his continued presence on the front line of politics would make it more difficult for the government to deliver its message.
He for anything he had "said, done or was perceived to have said or done" that may have caused offense.
Prime Minister Perry Christie said he accepted the resignation "with profound sadness and deepest regret" and added that he had lost one of his ablest ministers.
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Her first love, Beau Dozier, has told the News of the World that Joss — who unveiled a sexy new look at the BRITs this week — saved all her passion for her music when they were an item.
"Our relationship was hardly sexual at all," he revealed. "Sex was never a big deal for Joss — it was like it wasn't on her radar.
"We were a proper couple who didn't have sex. We'd go to bed and just talk and hold hands."
In an exclusive interview Beau also painted a grim picture of 19-year-old Joss's life at the top, revealing how the Devon-born singer is:
*TORMENTED by loneliness when she's on tour, often crying herself to sleep.
*HAUNTED by regrets about her fame and longs to be just an ‘ordinary girl' from Devon again.
*OBSESSED with her career.
Beau, 27, dated Joss for two years before their split in November.
They met when he was working on her second album Mind, Body And Soul, with his father, Lamont Dozier — part of the Holland-Dozier-Holland Motown songwriting team who composed some of the Sixties' biggest hits.
Record producer Beau was dating another girl when Joss swept him off his feet. He said: "The girl I was seeing was the exact opposite of Joss.
"Joss was such a great girl, I was like ‘woo'. I forgot girls could be so cool.
"We started off as friends then fell into the dating thing later when she started touring. I soon ended it with my previous girl."
Loneliness played a big part in getting Beau and Joss together. He said: "We were both lonely. I was working so hard in LA and she was on the road.
"Neither of us really saw our friends, so when we had time off we'd be straight on the phone to each other. We'd keep each other company. We were something consistent for each other and she needed that.
"She's a girl and she needs to be held. She needs someone."
But what she didn't particularly need was sex.
Beau was amazed to hear Joss's new single Tell Me 'Bout It, in which she sings about being "addicted to her man" and begging him to "do it to her".
"Our romance just wasn't sexy," he said. "That must have come AFTER my relationship with her. We had a spiritual connection, but we were always surrounded by backing singers, or on a tour bus, so there was barely ever any time for sex."
But Beau's not bitter. He said: "I'd pick Joss ahead of any other girlfriend I've had, even though they were more sexual because the kind of love we shared was something that not many people experience.
"What we had was something deeper than ‘let's get freaky'. Just to hold her hand and listen to music with her was special."
Beau blames Joss's constant touring for tearing them apart.
He revealed: "Most of our romance ended up being on the phone. It was really hard on me. When you care for someone so much and they spend a lot of time away it hurts. It hurts a lot at first, then you kind of get used to it... but that's when things start going south."
Beau revealed Joss is paying a high price for her fame. At just 14 she was whisked off to Miami to record her first album and she has been working non-stop ever since.
She flits between her homes in Devon and New York and has very little time to hang out with friends.
"She doesn't have a life. Her whole life is her music," said Beau. "She has sacrificed so much and it's difficult for her.
"Life on tour is a lonely road and she suffers from loneliness a lot. She'll often be on her own in hotels crying herself to sleep. Success is everything to her."
She hates fame and the pressure it puts her under.
"She doesn't give a f*** about fame," said Beau. "I don't think she wants to be famous at all. She'd rather share her music with the world with nobody knowing who she was."
But Joss — who wowed crowds at the BRITs in a multi-coloured mini and wild new hairstyle — will never stop making music.
"She is so driven. She NEVER thinks her music is good enough," said Beau.
"She didn't feel her first two albums were good, even though they were amazing.
"She's a perfectionist. I don't think she'll ever be satisfied."
Beau described Joss as the ‘perfect' girlfriend and has fond memories of their time together."She'd stay at my place in LA, I'd hang out at her place in New York," he said.
"We'd sit at my place and listen to her iPod together. We loved going for movies and eating pizza. We loved being able to relax and laugh.
"And when she was away we would talk on the phone."
Loved-up Beau refuses to believe they are over for good.
He said: "She's an amazing person, totally selfless. She puts everybody before herself, and she's a great spirit.
"She made the sunshine come into my world and she brought the best out of me as a person.
"She's great to be around, so I say never say never on us getting back together." Until then, Beau will always be there for her.
"We still chat on the phone all the time. I'd jump on the next plane if she needed me."
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Amid conflicting reports of a 24-hour stint in rehab earlier in the week, Britney Spears returned to L.A. Friday on an American Airlines flight from Miami, surprising fellow passengers by sitting in the last row of coach class.
And within hours after landing, the peripatetic mother-of-two managed once again to shock onlookers. This time by shaving her head and getting two tattoos at a seedy parlor in L.A.'s San Fernando Valley.
Yes, friends: Shaved. Her. Head.
Usmagazine.com was there as Britney left her Malibu home Friday evening and paid a visit to a Tarzana salon for her brief stint in, uh, hair-hab.
A source at the salon says, "Britney came in and said she wanted them to shave her head." According to the source, when the hairdresser refused, "Britney grabbed the hair clipper and started doing it herself."
But Britney's night of self-defiling had only just begun.
We were there again when at about 8:30 p.m. Britney arrived at Body & Soul Tattoo in Sherman Oaks.
Store employee Emily Wynne-Hughes tells Usmagazine.com that Britney arrived at the parlor agitated and, when asked why she shaved her head, replied, "I don't want anyone touching me. I'm tired of everybody touching me."
Hughes adds, "She wasn't making sense at all and you could tell she's not in a good place at all, and that she is totally freaking out."
Hughes tells us Britney then got a black-white-and-pink cross tattooed on her lower hip and red-and-pink lips on her wrist. The price: $80.
Britney was not an ideal subject, however. "She was a nightmare to deal with," says Hughes. "She was screaming and flipping out from the pain and wiggling her body all around."
At one point during Britney's one-hour visit, Hughes asked Britney why there was a pink stain on her fluffy white handbag and Britney said she had "spilled Nyquil all over it."
Hughes, who was somewhere between appalled and concerned by what she saw, adds, "After she left the shop we all just looked around and said to each other, 'We just saw a huge celebrity on the verge of a nervous breakdown.'"
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According to the police Report, Brown threw hair glue at a beauty shop employee and later swatted an officer. Foxy was in the bathroom applying product to her hair when an employee told her the business was closed. She refused to leave the establishment. Brown then spat on the employee as he called 911, staining his shirt.
When a police officer approached, he tried to get the rapper to return to the store for questioning, but Foxy swatted his hand away and started swinging her arms in a struggle with the officer, who had to "use a takedown maneuver to gain control" of Brown, according to the report. Per the Broward County Sheriff's Office, Foxy was held on $1,500 bail on two offenses.
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