S! TV VIRAL: Son gives his Mom the best surprise!

Aug 12, 2014

We think all mothers would like their son to be this generous, normally this gift is given the other way around!

Actress in talks to make Broadway debut later this year!

Celebrity

Aug 12, 2014

Fancy seeing Emma Stone in the flesh? Later this year you may be able to do just that – by buying a ticket to see her perform on Broadway!

The actress is currently in negotiations with the Broadway production of Cabaret. If all goes to plan, she will be making her theatrical debut this November, playing the headline role of Sally Bowles in the well-loved musical.

The show is set to run in New York’s Studio 54 until next January.

Emma came close to cutting a deal with the show’s organisers earlier this year, but scheduling conflicts with another project forced her to call off the plans.

The actress may not be well known for her singing talents, but check out this clip from a VH1 reality show, In Search Of The Partridge Family, which aired back in 2004 and shows Emma singing under her given name, Emily. Turns out she’s a right little belter!

15 things that are more likely to happen than winning the lotto

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Aug 12, 2014

by Amber Saunders

You may really, really, want to win the lottery – but we wouldn't hold our breaths if we were you… Here are some things that are in fact, much more likely to happen than getting a winning Euromillions ticket.

1. Date A Millionaire (In America)

Odds: 1 in 215

That’s right, you are over 500,000 times more likely to date a millionaire than you are to win the Euromillions. Ain’t nothin’ wrong with being a gold digger, men and women alike!

2. Find A Four-Leaf Clover

Odds: 1 in 10,000

Perceived as one of the luckiest things that can happen to anyone, in the context of this list it appears to actually be quite common.

3. Win An Oscar

Odds: 1 in 11,500

Obviously there’s a lot of hard work involved in getting yourself to a level where you’ll be considered for the award, but of course you don’t have to act, and can be anything from a singer, to a make-up artist, to a big computer nerd.

4. Average Golfer Getting A Hole In One

Odds: 1 in 12,500

And the odds significantly decrease if it’s a pro golfer, obviously, with the odds of one of them scoring one being 2500/1.

5. Be Dealt A Royal Flush In Poker

Odds: 1 in 650,000

The best hand in poker, for those who don’t know, it consists of a ten, jack, queen, king and ace, all of the same suit.

6. Win An Olympic Gold Medal

Odds: 1 in 662,000

Again, like winning an Oscar, there is an incredible amount of hard work involved in actually getting there. But with these odds, even if you did no training at all and just showed up on the day of the event, you’d still be more likely of winning a medal than winning a Euromillions jackpot.

7. Be Killed When Using A Right-Handed Product (Left-Handed People Only)

Odds: 1 in 4.4-7,000,000

This is the main reason why the life expectancy of lefties is up to 7 years shorter than right-handed people, but I’m left-handed and I don’t ever feel like my life has been in danger when using a scissors with the wrong hand. Although it is pretty frustrating.

8. Hit By A Falling Airplane Part

Odds: 1 in 10,000,000

I’m not sure how big these pieces are, and whether they are critical to the plane’s ability to stay in the air. Which if they are, means much more people are in danger than the unfortunate person getting hit on the head with a piece of metal.

(Note: Picture will only make sense to fans of Breaking Bad)

9. Struck And Killed By Lightning

Odds: 1 in 10,000,000

But the odds of just getting struck by lightning at any time in your life, and not die, is anything from 3 to 7,000 to 1.

10. Become The President Of The United States

Odds: 1 in 10,000,000

You have to be born in the United States to be the President, so obviously this makes it impossible for most people in the world to become elected. But anything that is less likely than Honey Boo-Boo’s mother becoming the leader of the free world is not something that you should ever put money towards.

11. Attacked By A Shark (Again, In America)

Odds: 1 in 11,500,000

Considering how scared everyone is of sharks, this number is actually ridiculously big And it’s still ten times smaller than the odds of winning this stupid lottery.

12. Give Birth To Identical Quadruplets

Odds: 1 in 13 million

This means that a single egg will have had to have been split up into four different parts, and then for them all to grow individually and be born healthily. Even if you know any triplets, let alone quadruplets, just think about, are they identical?

13. Become A Saint

Odds: 1 in 20,000,000

A true dream…

14. Crushed By Vending Machine

Odds: 1 in 112,000,000

Considering how cheap some people are and are willing to shake the machines in the hope of getting free food, this number is surprisingly high.

15. Die Waiting For The Numbers To Be Announced

Odds: Depends on when you buy the ticket.

According to the death rates in Britain, the average 15-24 year old would actually have to wait until 12 minutes before the draw is announced before buying their ticket, to make it more likely that they will win the jackpot than to die waiting for it. And anyone over 85 has to wait until literally the last second before this is becomes true. Obviously being healthy and exercising can skew the odds in your favour, but when you find out that you can only buy tickets up until 90 minutes before the draw is made, this whole paragraph becomes irrelevant, and you are basically always more likely to die before the draw is made, than to win when it finally is.

So, basically you should just give up on the lottery.

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This lunch is way prettier than our ham sandwiches

Aug 12, 2014

by Amber Saunders

A bento box is a single-portion home-made meal made for eating out. They’re popular in Japan and traditionally include rice, fish or meat.

Megan Noh decided to take the traditional bento box, and make it into the prettiest lunch ever. You may scoff and say, “Sure I could do that too if I didn’t have a million and one other things to do”, but Megan is actually a lawyer, so she definitely hasn’t got a lot of time on her hands.

She said she did it so that she could have at least five minutes of relaxation and beauty in her life:

“I started doing bento, just as the bio on my website says, to ensure that at least 5 minutes of my day was spent in a relaxing, delicious and aesthetically pleasing fashion. It was also a creative outlet for me.

“Preparing and photographing an individual bento typically took me between 45 minutes and 2 hours. I'm not suggesting that that's a reasonable amount of time for most people to spend preparing lunch — particularly busy moms preparing kids' lunches. However because I was, especially towards the end of my bento career, an extreme perfectionist, and because this was my art form, I spent a lot of time getting each shot just right.”

We are in awe of her talent and dedication!

Mark Wright reveals fiancée Michelle Keegan’s diet secrets!

Aug 12, 2014

by Amber Saunders

Michelle Keegan is definitely no slacker when it comes to diet and fitness, as is clear from her enviable body. In a recent interview though, the actress’ fiancé Mark Wright revealed she’s not all that strict about what she eats.

“She doesn’t diet that much,” he told New! Magazine. “She had a Magnum ice cream at 12 o'clock last night in bed!”

A tub of Ben and Jerry’s might not be the answer to our diet prayers though, as Mark admitted that despite Michelle’s relaxed attitude to food, she still works to stay in shape. “She just goes to the gym two or three times a week and watches what she eats,” he said.

The couple use the same gym but you won’t see them sharing workout routines, says Mark. “We do train at the same time but not together. She does her own thing. We teach each other and give each other tips.”

Are you suffering from Tinderella syndrome?

Relationships

Aug 12, 2014

by Amber Saunders

Research has shown that people who are trying to find love online, are actually staying single for longer.

Psychologist Emma Kenny said that one reason for this could be that people are becoming too dependent on communicating online, and are losing their ability to approach people in real life:

“The problem is, online dating breeds impatience and insecurity. You're suddenly inundated with so many potential love interests that you stop investing the same amount of effort into meeting actual people offline.

“Of course, it's going to be harder to take the plunge to start up a conversation with a stranger in a bar than sending an anonymous message to a man with a witty dating profile – especially because you can just log off if it gets uncomfortable, rather than finding yourself trapped in an awkward conversation.

“But online dating was designed to enhance your love life – not replace it altogether.”

It’s easy to fall into the trap of investing all your romantic efforts into online dating, but remember, there’s a big bad world out there, full of eligible men. And they don’t all have smartphones!

12 memories everyone who had braces will have

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Aug 12, 2014

by Amber Saunders

Those of us who had to suffer through braces during our teens have this kind of silent understanding with one another. We understand what it was like.

Here are some things you will remember from your time having braces:

1. Thinking “Why ME?!” when you found out it was time to get your braces
Sometimes the world just seems so unfair. Some people are born with perfect teeth, and others need to get braces on for two and a half years.

2. The sheer pain you endured for days afterwards
The immense pain in your gums was almost unbearable. No amount of painkillers could totally numb it.

3. Drinking all of your meals for the next week
The blender and straw were your best friends. Remember surviving on a diet of yoghurt and soup?

4. Refusing to smile for ages
And when you did smile, you gave that weird, creepy grin where you tried to hide your braces so only the tops of your gums were on show.

5. Getting elastic bands attached
What a horrific idea. Whoever though of this? Bright and colourful elastic bands which pin themselves across your teeth. At least change the colour so people don’t ask you about them over and over again.

6. Fearing that you wouldn’t get to kiss anybody until you got them off
When you have braces, you think that they are the most unattractive thing in the world. But they’re not, and you quickly realised that there’s far more unattractive things than braces.

7. The great feeling when your friends got braces too
You’re not alone in this struggle! Solidarity. The glorious feeling when one of your friends gets braces too. You say nothing of course, but inside you’re weeping with happiness.

8. Running your tongue along your braces
How weird? Don’t lie, you did it.

9. Having food lodged in your braces
It was one of the worst situations about having braces. You had to try and remove the bits of food that crept into the gaps between the metal and hope that nobody noticed you doing so.

10. Getting your braces tightened
You knew it was coming but it never made it any better. The pain would resurface, as would the blender and straw…

11. Being called the worst nicknames in the world
Braceface, Train Tracks and Metal Mouth were among the worst. Then some people had the audacity to shout “CHOO CHOOOOO!”

12. The euphoria you feel when you get your braces off!
There is no better feeling in your adolescent, or indeed adult, life than the day you get your braces off. Going from trying not to smile to unleashing that glorious Hollywood grin at every opportunity is just fantastic!

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Zelda Williams shares heartbreaking public tribute to her late father

Celebrity

Aug 12, 2014

by Amber Saunders

Robin Williams’ daughter Zelda publicly acknowledged her father’s death with a touching post on Instagram earlier today.

She shared a quote from Antoine de Saint-Exupéry’s book The Little Prince, in memory of her father.

“You – you alone will have the stars as no one else has them… In one of the stars I shall be living. In one of them I shall be laughing,” reads the quote. “And so it will be as if all the stars were laughing… You – only you – will have stars that can laugh.”

The quote is followed by a short personal message:

“I love you. I miss you. I’ll try to keep looking up. Z.”

Zelda is the second of Williams’ three children. Robin’s final Instagram post, nearly two weeks ago, was a black-and-white shot of himself and a young Zelda with the caption “#tbt and Happy Birthday to Ms. Zelda Rae Williams! Quarter of a century old today but always my baby girl.”

Famous couple announce they are back together

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Aug 12, 2014

by Amber Saunders

It has been revealed that infamous couple, Courtney Stodden and Doug Hutchinson, are back together!

The couple are planning on getting married (again) and the news was announced by Courtney herself over her Twitter account.

When a fan asked her to confirm the happy news, she replied: “It’s true, hun.”

Courtney and Doug received a lot of media attention during their relationship due to the big age gap between them; Courtney was only 16 at the time, while Doug was 51.

The married couple later announced they were separating in November 2013.

Disco Stu’s fish platforms have become a reality

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Aug 12, 2014

by Amber Saunders

It was funny when a cartoon character had live goldfish incorporated into his outfit, but we’re not laughing quite so much now that it’s an actual thing.

You can now buy a Cassandra Verity Green water-filled backpack for displaying live fish.

We don’t even know what to say about this – who would carry a bag like this around? You can’t even put anything in it! And the poor fish – surely PETA will be up in arms any second now. We certainly are!