Start your Ecuadorean adventure in Quito, where active volcanoes, rainforests and conquistadors' palaces are all on your doorstep. Just don't forgetyour pan pipes, says Stanley Johnson... more
Welcome aboard the Octopus, Microsoft founder Paul Allen’s superyacht and location of the most star-studded gathering at the Cannes Film Festival.... more
If there's one thing more baffling than seeing the customs of your youth dying before your eyes, it's seeing them resurrected, Night of the Living Dead style, in an unrecognisable form... more
As Madonna returns to Malawi to find a new daughter, top London (and Paris) chef Hélène Darroze reveals how she, too, felt the need to adopt abroad... more
Mick Jagger has always been famed for his generous pout. However when Hollywood actress Meg Ryan joined the crumbly rocker at the premiere of her latest film she bore an eerie resemblance to the Rolling Stone.... more
The characterisation is thin and the plot as feeble and mechanical as soap opera. There are far too many static, two-hander dialogue scenes where nothing really happens.... more
Tennis star Andy Murray thrilled fans as he made it through to the semi-finals at the US Open for the first time today, but no-one was more excited that his girlfriend Kim Sears.... more
They say with age comes wisdom. But that appears not to be the case with Mission Impossible actress Emmanuelle Beart as she stepped onto the red carpet at the Venice Film Festival with a trout pout.
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Hollywood sweetheart Meg Ryan has taken drastic measures to shed her saccharine image. The still stunning actress, 50, has gained TEN STONE in a new movie comedy.... more
Meg Ryan modeled a laidback look for a day out in New York with a casual blue T-shirt worn with windswept hair and sunglasses. There was just one accessory she seemed to have forgotten... her bra. ... more
Demi Moore's lookalike daughter Rumer Willis proved herself more than capable on the red carpet last night as she stole the limelight from A-list stars including Cameron Diaz and Salma Hayek.... more
It started with the lips and the unflattering 'trout pout' look - but now it seems Meg Ryan truly is morphing into British actress Leslie Ash. America's former sweetheart was attending a film soiree in New York on Monday night, where her uncanny resemblance to Ash was hard to miss. However besides their fondness for collagen implants and both being 47, their remarkable similarity is no doubt just a matter of coincidence
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She's a 35-year-old actress whose good looks have won her many admirers and a previous career as a model. However it seems Saffron Burrows has gone one giant step too far in her attempt to achieve fuller lips and ended up with possibly the world's worst trout pout. It was hard not notice the British-born beauty's 'bee-stung lips' as she attended the premiere of her latest movie, The Bank Job, in New York
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Andy Garcia's new film The Lost City is about the country he loved, and left, as a child and the star says he won't return to Cuba until its current leader Castro has gone.... more
Sound check: German industrial metal band Rammstein literally play with fire in their live performances - and now they are about to unleash their singeing spectacle on London. Watch out for your eyebrows
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