The mystery ex-boyfriend behind Adele’s heartbreaking hit songs has finally been revealed, according to a celebrity magazine.

Heat magazine has today claimed to unveil the previously unknown ex-love as Alex Sturrock, a 31-year-old photographer who has worked for The Guardian and Vice magazine among others.

Despite rumours that Adele and Sturrock dated in secret in 2008 and 2009, Adele has stayed mum on the identity of her ex.

Read more here (via The Telegraph)

Just over ten years ago, the powers that be at BAFTA — the British Academy of Film and Television Arts — took the wise decision to move their annual award ceremony up in the calendar so that it took place before the Oscars.

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Legendary pop singer Whitney Houston was found dead Saturday at a Beverly Hills, California, hotel, officials said. She was 48.

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While HIV/AIDS and cancer loom large on South Africans’ awareness radar, most people give little thought to the world’s number one killer: cardiovascular disease.

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Charlize Theron sleeps with her statue. Christopher Plummer boogies to house music and Tilda Swinton talks about her first time. Watch the stars tell their tales and more in Newsweek’s annual Oscar Roundtable:

Read the full story and view more videos here (via Newsweek)

Heidi Klum and Seal have confirmed that they are splitting after almost seven years of marriage.

In an exclusive statement to PEOPLE, the Project Runway host and the singer say:

“While we have enjoyed seven very loving, loyal and happy years of marriage, after much soul-searching we have decided to separate.

Read more here (via People.com)

It seems every second Capetonian woman with a Twitter handle is helping to spread the message that actor Ryan Gosling has landed in Cape Town.

The social media network is rife with rumours that the 31-year-old Canadian actor, known for his roles in the indie hit Drive and the upcoming film The Ides of March, has reportedly checked into the One&Only hotel in Cape Town, joining friend and 2011′s Sexiest Man Alive, Bradley Cooper.

The fact that these rumours have yet to be confirmed has not deterred dozens of local Twitter users from feverishly alerting the masses to the actor’s low-key visit. Below are just a few tweets currently circulating:

• I have no desire whatsoever to see Ryan Gosling in Cape Town. I am not ready to get married - @Stellllaaaaaaaa
• Cue wetness, and I don’t mean rain. “@PietSmedy: So apparently Ryan Gosling and Bradley Cooper were spotted in CT last night…”- @Nick_Frost
• R-R-Ryan G-G-Gosling in C-C-Cape Town?!? *faints* - @TheCobraSteph
• Is Ryan gosling really in Cape Town and are there people looking for him? this is a very important question – @captbyron
• Why does everyone want to see Ryan Gosling? You already know what he looks like – @Oolex
• If Ryan Gosling is in Cape Town, I need to find this man and have his babies! – @Rasheeda_S
• Twitter stalking Ryan Gosling in Cape Town. Last seen at Long Street Stones, anyone else got any later updates? – @Happy_Ginger
• Ryan Gosling spotted playing pool at Stones in Long Street! Go go go! And thank me later – @JordiCasinos
• RYAN GOSLING is in Campsbay - @JarrydDN

More info to follow.

Sofia Coppola and her longtime rocker beau, Phoenix frontman Thomas Mars, were married Saturday in a civil ceremony in Italy.

The filmmaker went back to her roots for the event, saying “I do” at her family’s villa in the Southern Italian hamlet of Bernalda, hometown of Coppola’s grandparents.

Read the full story here (via People)

David Beckham has hired an armed bodyguard to protect his family.

The soccer player – who has kids Brooklyn, 12, Romeo, eight, Cruz, six, and one-and-a-half month Harper Seven with wife Victoria – was spotted being protected by a minder who was wearing an openly holstered pistol and is thought to be an off-duty policeman, on Malibu Beach in Los Angeles as his sons played in the water.

Read the full story here (via CTV)

Peaches Geldof, the daughter of the rock star and Live Aid founder Bob Geldof, says she regrets every one of her many tattoos.

The 22-year-old television presenter says she wishes that she had been dissuaded from covering her body with “art” work. “Fourteen-year-old girls should not be allowed to have tattoos,” she tells Mandrake. “The ones I have from that age are more like prison tattoos.”

Read the full story here (via The Telegraph)

Curves ahead! These revealing photographs of models, actors, musicians, and athletes were culled from Vanity Fair’s glossy archives—our “best undressed,” you might say.

This fashionable season, it’s our ode to those who might look great in clothes—but look even better in the buff.

Read more here.

Brad Pitt is taking on an on-screen zombie invasion in Scotland, but for a moment on Thursday night’s shoot, the Oscar-nominee took on the role of a real life-saving hero.

Starring as Gerry Lane in the big screen undead apocalypse film, “World War Z,” Pitt was in the midst of shooting a scene in which fearful masses rush through Glasgow’s George Square, trying to get away from the scourge of the face eaters. One woman, involved in the stampede of fearful Scots, fell over amidst the madness, and was in danger of being trampled upon by her fellow extras.

Read the full story here (via The Huffington Post)

Director/actor Kevin Smith tells CNN he’s eternally grateful to golf star Tiger Woods for deflecting media attention away from him when he was “too fat to fly.”

Last year, the “Red State” director was kicked off a Southwest Air flight because he wasn’t able to comfortably fit in his seat. Smith had originally purchased two tickets for the Oakland-to-Burbank trip, but when he was bumped to an earlier flight, only one seat was available. After being seated, he was asked to leave.

Read the full story here (via CNN)

Kelly Brook would “love” to get married.

The ‘Piranha 3D’ actress – who experienced a tragic miscarriage in March – would like to walk down the aisle with her rugby player
boyfriend Thom Evans at some point in the future but is not in a rush and is focusing on being a “good girlfriend” for the moment.

Read the full story here (via IOL)

Al Pacino says he got burned while making Scarface.

Literally, he grabbed the hot barrel of a gun that had just shot 30 rounds during one of Tony Montana’s violent scenes.
“My hand stuck to that sucker,” the 71-year-old actor recalled. He couldn’t work for two weeks.

Read the full story here (via The Mail & Guardian)

Rose McGowan’s first nine years were anything but traditional. They were spent in the Children of God sect, a group that extolled the virtues of free love and prepared for the second coming of Jesus.

Read the full story here (via CNN)

It’s not outrageous to speculate on the possibility of a Kanye West biopic by the time the controversial hip-hop superstar is ready to get out of the rap game, but for now, we’ll settle for the play.

A duo of thespians at Australia’s University of Sydney is putting on a production aptly titled “Kanye: The Musical.”

Read the rest of this article here (via The LA Times)

For a decade, starting in 1963, Jane Fonda embodied the upheavals—artistic, political, and sexual—that rocked America and the world: making shocking breakthrough films, becoming a force in the anti–Vietnam War movement, and personifying women’s liberation.

In an adaptation from her new biography of Fonda, Patricia Bosworth, drawing on years of interviews with the star and those close to her, examines her startling early evolution as an actress, activist, and woman.

Read the rest of this article here (via Vanity Fair)

Pop star Miley Cyrus’ version of the hit Nirvana track Smells Like Teen Spirit has been named the worst cover ever in a new magazine poll.

 
Rolling Stone readers voted the teenager’s live rendition of the grunge anthem the worst of the worst – ahead of Madonna’s take on American Pie and Limp Bizkit’s cover of The Who’s Behind Blue Eyes.

Read the rest of this article here (via Hindustan Times)

Old Spice pitchman Isaiah Mustafa has snagged a recurring role on ABC series “Charlie’s Angels,” reports TVLine.com.

The hunky actor joins the cast of the upcoming ABC series as athletic Miami detective Ray Goodson. Goodson was engaged to Kate (Annie Ilonzeh), but broke it off after she was exposed as a dirty cop.

Read the rest of this article here (via CNN)