Ellen DeGeneres would be best holiday party guest: poll - Celebrities

NEW YORK (Reuters Life!) - Americans would invite comedian Ellen DeGeneres to a holiday party, take a vacation with actor George Clooney and ask first lady Michelle Obama to decorate their Christmas tree, a survey released on Thursday suggests.
The first lady got 38 percent of the vote among Americans asked who should decorate their home for the holidays, followed by former vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin with 22 percent, according to the study conducted for HomeGoods stores.
Given a list of celebrities to select from, 39 percent of Americans picked DeGeneres as their No. 1 cocktail party guest, followed by comedian Whoopi Goldberg with 29 percent and talk show hosts Kelly Ripa with 21 percent and Kathie Lee Gifford with 11 percent.
As for a holiday getaway, 43 percent said they would like to spend a day at Clooney's Lake Como villa in Italy, 27 percent chose Oprah Winfrey's Santa Barbara estate, 20 percent picked the French chateau of actors Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie and 11 percent liked rapper Jay-Z and singer Beyonce's New York City home, it said.
Following the first lady and Palin on the decorating wish list, Playboy founder Hugh Hefner got 16 percent, comedian Joan Rivers 13 percent and entertainer Lady Gaga 11 percent.
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Sina launches developer fund for China's Twitter - Celebrities

SHANGHAI (Reuters) - Sina Corp, China's largest Internet portal website, launched on Tuesday a two billion yuan ($301 million) fund for developers to create applications for its highly popular Twitter-like microblog, Weibo.
Weibo, which was launched about a year ago and has around 50 million users including celebrities and politicians, is growing at a rapid clip in China, the world's biggest Internet market by users.
Sina shares spiked this quarter on hopes that the firm will be able to monetize the service, which some analysts have described as a game changer for the firm.
The developers will use an open platform interface to create applications for the microblog, the firm said in a statement.
"An open platform has also been an important way for them to monetize," said Wallace Cheung an analyst with Credit Suisse.
"They are trying to get a pool of developers so it takes some time to accumulate (that)," Cheung said.
The fund is also supported by venture capital firms such as Sequoia Capital and IDG Capital and will encourage the development of applications for finance, entertainment and games.
China banned Twitter and Facebook last year after unrest in its politically sensitive regions of Tibet and Xinjiang.
Weibo, on the other hand, is carefully monitored and serves as the alternative to Twitter in the country.
($1=6.637 Yuan)
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Orlando Bloom, Beth Ditto win German Bambi awards - Celebrities

BERLIN (Reuters) - National and international celebrities including actor Orlando Bloom, soccer player Mesut Ozil and singer Beth Ditto took home Germany's most coveted media prizes, known as the "Bambi Awards."
A UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador since 2009, "Lord of the Rings" star Bloom won the Bambi Charity Award on Thursday night for his humanitarian work with children in some of the world's poorest regions.
"He always makes time to travel to distant countries so he can draw attention to the destitution faced by children and the work done by charities," the jury said, explaining its decision.
The Bambi Awards are Germany's most important media prizes and have been awarded every year since 1948 to "people with vision and creativity, whose outstanding successes and achievements have been reported in the media."
But it was Germany's soccer heroes who stole the show hosted by "Sex and the City" star Sarah Jessica Parker near Berlin on Thursday evening.
Turkish-born Real Madrid footballer Ozil was hailed as a prime example of successful integration into German society and won the prize in the "Integration" category.
"This is a great honor for me and I'm very happy," he said. "Integration creates something new and makes for a more colorful Germany."
Singer Shakira presented the German national soccer team coach Joachim Loew and his team with the jury's "Special Prize" for their performance at the World Cup in South Africa earlier this year, where Germany claimed third place.
Explaining its decision the jury said: "German football has never been so young -- and it has seldom been as passionate and innovative as it was during the World Cup in South Africa."
National trainer Andreas Koepke said the award was a "lucky charm" for the German national side's next big challenge -- winning the European soccer Championship.
Other members of the star-studded audience to be awarded a prize included U.S. singer Beth Ditto, who bagged the prize for "Pop International," and British environmental activist Jane Goodall, who picked up the "Our Earth" award for her ongoing campaigns to protect the environment and endangered species.
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Argentina enters new political era as Kirchner dies - Celebrities

BUENOS AIRES (Reuters) - Tens of thousands of Argentines paid tribute on Thursday to former President Nestor Kirchner, whose death rallied markets but robbed his wife and successor President Cristina Fernandez of her closest adviser.
Kirchner, 60, was Argentina's most powerful politician and a leading contender for next year's presidential election. His sudden death ended the Kirchners' apparent plan to continue alternating in power, but she could run again.
Argentine stock and bond prices rose a day after Kirchner died of a heart attack at the couple's weekend retreat in Patagonia, boosted by confidence among investors who disliked his unorthodox economic policies.
Fernandez, dressed in black, was joined by South American presidents, her two children and local celebrities, including former soccer star Diego Maradona, at a wake in the presidential palace.
Wearing dark sunglasses, her face etched with grief, the president patted her heart with her right hand as she smiled sadly and nodded toward friends and political allies who filed past her husband's coffin.
"Strength, Cristina, strength," some called out.
Outside in the square facing the famous pink palace, crowds waved the national flag and carried banners bearing messages of support. They stood about a dozen deep around the presidential palace, the ground beneath them strewn with flowers.
"He was the best president we've ever had. He got on well with the man in the street," said housewife Dalia Mendoza, 45. Others compared him to former strongman General Juan Peron, whose figure still looms large in Argentine politics as the namesake of the Peronist party that Kirchner led.

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Turkish soccer star eyes Olympic ice-skating glory - Celebrities

BERLIN Oct 28 (Reuters Life!) - A soccer player who shot to
fame playing for Turkey's national team in the 2002 World Cup,
has ditched his football boots for ice skates and is now hoping
to cover himself in glory at the 2014 Winter Olympics.
Ilhan Mansiz showed great promise as a striker in 2002, when
he scored three goals, helping his side to a best-ever third
place finish in the World Cup. But injury forced him to retire
in 2006 and he became a television presenter.
In 2008, at age 32, German-born Mansiz took to the ice for
the first time in his life -- as part of a Turkish television
show in which celebrities are paired up with professional
ice-skaters for a competition lasting several weeks.
Partnered with Olga Bestandigova, a Slovak figure skater who
competed in the 2002 Winter Olympics, Mansiz won the show.
Mansiz said Bestandigova -- now his girlfriend -- dreamt of
taking part in another Olympic Games but did not have a partner.
"We had so much fun and trained for between six and eight
hours a day," he told Reuters. "We came on in leaps and bounds
so we decided to train for the Olympics."
The 35-year-old said starting to skate so late was not a
problem -- what mattered were motivation and belief.
"I started playing football very late too," he said. "I
didn't start playing for a club until I was 14. If you're really
determined to achieve something and you believe you can do it or
you work hard at it, it's possible no matter how old you are."
Mansiz has said in several interviews that his dream is to
qualify and compete for Turkey at the 2014 Winter Olympics in
Russia. It was unclear on how his Slovak partner would qualify
for the Turkish Olympic team.
The pair are currently training in the southern German town
of Oberstdorf, near where Mansiz was born.
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Facebook celebrity game borrows from fantasy sports - Celebrities

LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - Your ability to predict whether a celebrity's star power will rise or fall is about to come in handy.
Launching on Sunday is FanSwarm, a Hollywood version of fantasy sports for Facebook users. But in this case your team consists of a group of celebrities who score points based on what's being said about them in tweets and on blogs.
Whether an actor scores a major role or freaks out in a hotel, it doesn't much matter, because players are scoring points whenever news is generated.
"We use an algorithm that reads the heat of the social graph to figure out if a celebrity is hot or not," said Doug Levin, president and CEO of nascent developer Ayeah Games. "You can gain points by betting on Charlie Sheen's and Lindsay Lohan's crazy careers."
It's not limited to actors, either. At launch, FanSwarm's data base will have about 2,000 names from which to choose including Sarah Palin, Bill O'Reilly and President Barack Obama.
FanSwarm users will compete to become king or queen of the entire userbase: the "Swarm." Additionally, they can build teams or leagues and compete on a smaller scale.
Players also earn points by playing mini games like TV trivia and by nominating new celebrities that are accepted into the data base.
FanSwarm will aggregate news content around the celebrities and encourage commentary.
Players choose a group of celebrities and put them into 20 different "scenes," the selection of which also increases or decreases points. Putting Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt in the "beach" scene is a wise move, for example, but not if Jennifer Aniston also is there.
Levin said he got the idea for FanSwarm when he was disappointed that George Clooney didn't win an Oscar this year for "Up in the Air," but he had nowhere to go online and vent. And he knew he was on to something when he observed women reacting to Sandra Bullock's marital problems with Jesse James.
"The environment is a highly structured way for people to express themselves, and we encourage user-generated content," Levin said. "Leave a comment, get points, play with friends, map out your predictions about celebrities. Our research says people are interested in these ideas."
Levin has raised one round of angel funding for the company and next month begins raising venture capital. The business model includes micropayments for virtual goodies, and he intends on selling data to PR executives, talent management and anyone else interested in the blogosphere's opinion of a celebrity.
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UK Lib Dem leader calls for patience on coalition - Celebrities

LIVERPOOL, England (Reuters) - Liberal Democrat leader Nick Clegg urged party members on Sunday not to panic about a slide in poll ratings after he led them into Britain's first coalition government since World War Two.
Clegg's Lib Dems have seen their support slump since they became junior partners in a Conservative-led administration following the general election in May.
The government will next month announce spending cuts of up to 25 percent in many departments as it seeks to erase a budget deficit running at 11 percent of national output.
Those measures are likely to prove deeply unpopular and some critics say the fresh-faced Clegg, 43, who is deputy prime minister, risks leading the Lib Dems into oblivion.
"This is a marathon, not a sprint. We are condemned to take as a government some very, very difficult decisions on sorting out the public finances," Clegg told BBC television in an interview at the start of his party's annual conference in Liverpool, northwest England.
"You have to hold your nerve and play it long and see the benefits of what we're doing over a period of time," he added.
No one expects the Liberal Democrats to quit the coalition immediately, but the partnership could be jeopardised if they fail to secure cherished electoral reform in a referendum next year or perform poorly in local elections.

TRIDENT TENSIONS
The left-leaning Lib Dems and the centre-right Conservatives were not regarded as natural partners before the general election in May which ended 13 years of Labour rule.
However, they reached a coalition agreement within five days after the Lib Dems signed up to swift spending cuts because of the financial crisis in the neighbouring euro zone.
Tension remains. The Lib Dems argued for alternatives to a planned multi-billion-pound renewal of the Trident nuclear deterrent, and are also uneasy with planned school reforms and the construction of new nuclear power plants.
Clegg said the government had to examine Trident in the same way as it assessed other expensive government schemes.
"The two coalition parties don't see entirely eye-to-eye on this," he said. "I don't think people would understand why we would exempt Trident from the same financial pressures when people are having some of their benefits qualified."
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UPDATE 3-SuperGroup super hot as sales soar - Celebrities

* Q1 total sales up 59.8 pct to 32.8 million pounds
* Q1 retail sales up 62.7 pct, wholesale sales up 53.9 pct
* CEO says does not expect growth to slow
* SuperGroup shares down 4.2 pct at 1,101 p, index flat
(Adds CEO, analyst comment, updates shares)
By James Davey
LONDON, Sept 14 (Reuters) - SuperGroup (SGP.L), the British
company behind the Superdry fashion brand worn by celebrities
such as David Beckham, reported soaring sales, underscoring its
status as one of the hottest fashion labels around.
But shares in the retailer and wholesaler, which listed at
500 pence in March, fell 4.2 percent to 1,101 pence by 1204 GMT,
valuing the business at about 823 million pounds ($1.27
billion), having risen 7 percent on Monday. The FTSE All Share
index was 0.2 percent lower.
"It's had a very strong run, so it's just a bit of profit
taking," said Nick Bubb, analyst at Arden Partners.
SuperGroup, which had Britain's most successful IPO so far
this year, said on Tuesday total sales jumped 59.8 percent to
32.8 million pounds in the three months to Aug. 1, its fiscal
first quarter.
Founder and Chief Executive Julian Dunkerton, who along with
SuperGroup's other management shared 105 million pounds of the
120 million pound IPO proceeds, forecast a successful year
outcome and said he would not expect growth in sales of the
company's trademark T-shirts, hoodies, check shirts and jogging
bottoms to slow, despite tough macro headwinds.
"I see no reason to believe that we will not continue
growing in the nature that we have been growing. Young people
have to look good," he told Reuters.
Dunkerton said SuperGroup, unlike fashion brands such as
French Connection (FCCN.L), would sustain its growth because it
was hitting a gap in the market for quality, value for money,
branded clothing that is not reliant on one product or one logo.
SuperGroup, whose clothes are a favourite of film stars
Leonardo DiCaprio and Zac Efron, trades from 49 stand-alone
Superdry and Cult stores in Britain and 64 concessions and has a
wholesale business in 34 countries.
The company has a 20 stores a year opening programme and
sees scope for 150 Superdry and Cult stores in UK/Ireland.
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I'm Still Here an entertaining hoax - Celebrities

VENICE (Hollywood Reporter) - Give up acting? Casey Affleck's energetic directorial debut, "I'm Still Here," basically scotches the idea that Joaquin Phoenix has retired as an actor to become a hip-hop artist, revealing it all to be an elaborate media hoax, albeit one that has seriously altered the actor's real-life image over the last year and a half.
This sporadically engrossing mockumentary, which gets better as it rolls along, must have been planned way back before Phoenix bombed on "Late Show with David Letterman." Or is part of it for real?
At the film's Venice press conference on Monday, which Phoenix failed to attend, Affleck continued to suggest that he had shot a straight documentary, against much evidence in the film itself.
The fact that an audience can watch the film to the end and not be completely sure where reality ends and playtime begins is a tribute to Affleck's skills at mimicking documentary tropes: the handheld camera, badly framed images, the mishmash of news reports and YouTube clips. It is also a backhand compliment to Phoenix's thespian abilities and courage. But it may leave viewers with too much head-scratching uncertainty when it opens in English-speaking territories next week. Audiences who drink their documentaries straight beware: this is one potent mixed cocktail.
Daring to look nasty, vindictive, self-centered and ridiculous, Phoenix surrenders all privacy to his brother-in-law Affleck's invasive cameras. They follow him into hotel rooms and into bed, voyeuristically watching while he uses recreational drugs, entertains two New York hookers and falls apart at the seams.
Deciding to turn rapper out of the blue, Phoenix begins pursuing Sean "Diddy" Combs cross-country in the hope of doing a record together. But when he finally gets into Combs' recording studio with a homemade CD of his songs, the rapper quickly realizes what the audience already knows: that Phoenix's artistic talents lie elsewhere. "Why do you want to do hip-hop?" Combs asks in wonderment.
Shattered by Combs' reaction, Phoenix goes on "Letterman" in a catatonic state. Belittled and mocked by his host, he inspires tenderness for the first time; but the show sends his popularity plummeting.
Like a wounded animal, he takes out his frustrations on his assistant Anton (played by actor Antony Langdon) and his manager Larry. Then he remembers the wisdom lecture imparted by his friend Edward James Olmos, who compares his career to a drop of water that runs from the top of the mountain to the valley, disappears into the ocean, then evaporates and returns to the top once again. Joaquin takes it as the truth about his life.
Though the first half of the film keeps the viewer guessing about what's actually going on, it is paradoxically when the tricks and mirrors are forgotten that the film becomes funny and enjoyable as an engrossing character study. It finally becomes possible to gaze beyond Phoenix's four-letter words and manic ranting and at the man himself.
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Lindsay Lohan's E-Trade lawsuit enters odd phase - Celebrities

LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - In a great year for entertaining lawsuits, perhaps the most intriguing is still Lindsay Lohan's case against E-Trade for airing a commercial that featured a "milkaholic" baby named Lindsay.
In defending the merits of the suit, Lohan's lawyer Stephanie Ovadia asserted that the actress deserved single-name status like Oprah or Madonna. Does she? The fate of Lohan's lawsuit may depend on the answer.
Lohan's lawyer has filed new papers in New York Supreme Court in an effort to survive E-Trade's motion to dismiss.
E-Trade argues that there are some 250,000 women in United States named "Lindsay," including celebrities like Olympic skier Lindsey Vonn, tennis player Lindsay Davenport and actresses Lindsay Wagner and Lindsay Price. E-Trade also says that unlike Oprah, Madonna, Cher and Beyonce, Lohan doesn't have a federally registered trademark on her first name.
In an amusing 27-page court brief, Lohan's lawyer now attempts to justify why Lohan should get special treatment compared to the 250,000 other Lindsays.
"As they say, 'What's in the name?' It is in the totality of circumstances that a particular name or person acquires popularity or notoriety. It is in totality of circumstances that a name or person becomes a distinguished name. Some names such as Bill, Hillary, Bush, Tiger, Paris, Johnny, Allen, are very common names. There may be millions, if not billions, of people with these names in the world. Some words may not necessarily be just the names for human beings but may convey other meanings also. For example, 'Tiger' is an animal and is associated with a jungle or zoo in a particular context. However, when used in the context of (the) Golf game world, it conveys totally different message."
But that doesn't explain why Lindsay is to celebrity milkaholism as Tiger is to golf.
Alas, Lohan's brief tries to put it all together.
"The issue, in case at bar, is not how many people in the USA are with the name 'Lindsay' or 'Lindsey'. The issue is how many celebrities are with this name 'Lindsay' in the USA, and then in the context, manner, characterization, persona ... If Defendants take this name, 'Lindsay' in context of a celebrity name then by Defendants' own admission, there are only a few limited celebrities with this name around, and this number may not be more than four or five."
The brief then goes into a "process of elimination" among Lindsay Lohan, Lindsey Vonn, Lindsay Davenport and the two other Lindsay actresses: "The type of a particular role and persona, the role of an alcoholic bimbus woman, that Defendants were looking for in their said commercial, none of the other celebrity "Lindsay" as referred by Defendants ... fits into."
Essentially, she says that none of the other famous Lindsays are considered alcoholic bimbuses (bimbi?) like her client is. As proof, the brief cites tabloid headlines like RadarOnline's "Whoops! Kate Hudson Almost Does A 'Lindsay'"
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Cameron Diaz tops malware bait list - Celebrities

Cameron Diaz is the most dangerous celebrity on the Web, antivirus company McAfee said Thursday.
Search strings using Diaz's name have a one-in-ten chance of coming up with a site infected with or spreading malware, said Dave Marcus, McAfee's director of security research and communication. Search for "Cameron Diaz and screensavers," and the risk doubles, Marcus added.
As it has for the last three years, McAfee compiled search phrases that contained names of prominent celebrities, professional athletes, politicians and other newsmakers, then calculated the percentage of the resulting sites tagged as dangerous by the company's SiteAdvisor software.
SiteAdvisor is a free plug-in for Microsoft's Internet Explorer and Mozilla's Firefox that flags risky sites -- those serving up malware, adware, spyware and the like -- in a search result list.
Diaz replaced Jessica Biel, last year's top name bait. Biel fell two spots to third on McAfee's list this year.
Actress Julia Roberts placed second on the Most Dangerous list, while supermodel Gisele Buendchen took fourth. Brad Pitt, the highest ranking man on the list and one of only two on the top 10, held the fifth spot.
"It's a simple fact. The bad guys read the same news as the good guys," said Marcus as he explained why some celebrities ranked higher than others. He attributed Diaz's prominence to the fact that McAfee's list was composed around the time when she was in two currently-showing films, "Knight and Day" and "Shrek Forever After."
Attackers and scammers trade on the names of prominent people and topical events to dupe users into visiting malicious sites, to open malicious e-mails, and to click on malicious links embedded in Twitter messages, said Marcus.
"Dangerous searches relate to the news of the day," he said. "In 2008, politicians like President Obama and [former Governor] Sarah Palin were the most abused. We expect politicians to be abused in the future."
Obama was at No. 49 on McAfee's list this year, while Palin was right behind the president at No. 50.
Others on the dangerous list included tennis player Andy Roddick (No. 14), and singers Lady Gaga (No. 37) and teenager Justin Bieber (No. 46).
"We're not saying stay away from searching for celebrities like Cameron Diaz," said Marcus. "We're saying be aware of the broad use of their names, and know that criminals are looking for a way to social engineer you, and this is the type of attack they'll use."
McAfee released the fourth annual most-dangerous celebrity list Thursday just minutes before it announced Intel was buying the company for nearly $8 billion . Before the interview with Marcus, a McAfee spokeswoman made it clear he would not take any questions about the acquisition.
Gregg Keizer covers Microsoft, security issues, Apple, Web browsers and general technology breaking news for Computerworld. Follow Gregg on Twitter at @gkeizer , or subscribe to Gregg's RSS feed . His e-mail address is gkeizer@ix.netcom.com .
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NBA - Loved or loathed, cash-register ringing for Heat - Celebrities

By Simon Evans
MIAMI (Reuters) - Love them or loathe them, the Miami Heat have become the most talked about team in the NBA since signing up LeBron James and Chris Bosh to play alongside Dwyane Wade but with revenue rising, the franchise are not worrying too much about becoming the bad guys.
"I think it is just part of the game, the interesting thing is that while some of that is true, the fact that we are getting orders from all around the world for our jerseys dispels that notion a little bit," Michael McCullough, the Heat's chief marketing officer, told Reuters.
The Heat were described as the "Evil Empire" in a column in the newspaper The Plain Dealer in Cleveland, where feelings still run high about James's decision to quit Ohio for South Florida.
Even closer to home in the Florida media, there have been critical words about the way the Heat celebrated the signings with a giant, glitzy party and premature talk of multiple titles from James.
Across the NBA there is a feeling of waiting to see if the Heat can live up to their own billing -- if they can deliver the success that the trio are presumed to be bringing. The waiting ends in a season-opening trip to the Boston Celtics on Oct. 26.
But while radio talk shows, internet forums and newspaper columns may be full of jibes at the Heat, the cash registers are busy with season tickets and sold out premium seating packages.
At Miami International Airport, visitors are now greeted by Heat tee-shirts featuring James, Bosh and Wade, on sale at news stands.
McCullough says that Heat are now number one in NBA retail sales, with James's number six vest the top-selling jersey in the league and it is clearly not only fans in Florida that are snaffling up the red, white and black gear.
"The media has done a pretty good job of playing up 'so-and-so is saying this about the Heat' but when you look at where the requests are coming from -- we aren't number one in jersey sales because people in Miami are buying it -- people all over the U.S. and the world are buying our jerseys and that shows the interest in our team," says McCullough.

THROWING ACCOLADES
He added: "There will be a lot of people who choose to make us the villain. I think that is just part of the territory if you are a really, really good team or you have something extraordinary such as what has happened with us and people are throwing accolades that we probably haven't earned yet because we haven't played yet.
"But I also think there are a number of people around the world who will gravitate towards this team and we have seen that by people putting their money where their mouth is."
The Heat and the NBA will look to take advantage of international support for the team but it could well be the players who stand to profit from global interest.
Much of that worldwide fan base now interacts online and James has over three millions "fans" of his facebook page. The team has just 178,000.
The players' presence in social media offers huge potential according to digital sports marketing consultant, Pat Coyle.
"LeBron announced a lot of what he was doing in free agency on Twitter -- his own following is growing. That is a whole new situation, the individual player having his own brand and digital channel to market through," said Coyle.
The old business -- of selling seats -- is pretty much exhausted for the Heat though -- even the highest-priced premium seats, usually reserved for celebrities have all been snaffled up.
McCullough said: "Everybody has been in touch, anybody who is anybody has called and we've talked to them.
"We looked to fill as many orders as we could and at some point we just ran out of inventory."
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Girl Guides target airbrush images of perfection - Celebrities

By Paul Casciato
LONDON (Reuters Life!) - British Girl Guides have demanded Prime Minister David Cameron introduce labelling to distinguish between airbrushed and natural images of women in glossy magazines and advertisements.
Girlguiding UK, the country's largest organisation for girls and young women, said on Wednesday it had launched a petition demanding Cameron take action to help "shape a generation of self-confident girls and young women".
The petition comes after research last year by Girlguiding UK, the Girls' Attitudes Survey, showed 50 percent of 16-21 year-old girls would consider having surgery to change the way they look and 42 percent of 11 to 16 year-olds admitted watching what they ate or had cut down on certain foods.
Chief Guide Liz Burnley said the survey and everyday experiences working with girls and young women gave the Guides an understanding of how profoundly girls and young women feel the pressure to conform to a particular body image and how badly they can be affected by unobtainable ideals.
"We are proud to support the calls of our members who believe that it is time the Prime Minister addressed their concerns and acted in the interests of girls and young women across the country," Burnley said.
Girlguiding member Natalie Fontaine said in a statement that that airbrushed images of models, celebrities and even "ordinary" women in magazines and adverts can really affect the self confidence of girls and young women.
"Most of us have no idea how significantly these pictures are altered and are shocked when they realise that the images they have of celebrities and models are not a reality," she said.
The chief executive of eating disorder charity Beat, Susan Ringwood, said that young people with eating disorders tell the charity that being surrounded by pictures of unnaturally "perfect" bodies made their own recovery so much more difficult to achieve.
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