lifestyle SUNDAY, MAY 15, 2016

Splash introduces new way forward with ‘Love Unites’

ove’ one of the most popular of emotion intensifies new route of inspiring love through a multi-ethnicity cam- when said in conjunction with the word ‘Fashion’, paign which is best represented through fashion, the one ‘Linspiring a loyalty beyond reason. Two decades word that defines Splash. Titled ‘Love Unites’ this campaign ago, Splash, the UAE based high-street retailer chose to fall is our pitch to unite people against any resentment cur- in love with fashion and this one emotion has given the rently going on in the world. Adding further, “Emerging brand a journey to reflect upon and a path to create. from a successful celebrity driven campaign endorsed by Moving forward from celebrity led campaigns the brand stars like Salman Khan & Nicole Saba, this campaign aims has taken the route of addressing topical issues through to take Splash from an aspirational brand to an inspira- fashion imagery and highly stylized campaigns. tional route” The recently unveiled campaign takes cues from a world The campaign will be releasing across the MENA, India, where unrest has taken head and how even the smallest of Pakistan & Sri Lanka starting May 2, 2016 through a 360 acts of raising awareness can go a long way in uniting peo- degree communication strategy which will include Out of ple. Titled ‘Love Unites’ the Splash campaign brings togeth- Home, Print, Radio & TV. Digital campaigns will be the driv- er six top-models of various ethnicities from across the ing force of ‘Love Unites’ with an aim to connect & unite Globe to shoot for an inspirational fashion campaign people through interactions with the brand and subse- where caste, creed & color play no role. quently with each other. Speaking on ‘Love Unites’, Raza Beig, Director, Landmark Group and CEO Splash & ICONIC, said “I am a firm believer in the ideology of Love and this season Splash takes on a

Ayda Field’s first crush was on Tom Cruise he 36-year-old American actress - who would pleasure herself whilst thinking is married to ‘Angels’ singer Robbie about the hunky actor. And then she joking- TWilliams - has confessed the ly apologized to her husband and admitted Hollywood hunk was the first celebrity to she sounded “creepy”. make her giddy with excitement, mainly She added: “It was the first moment I because he looked so handsome and hunky remember noticing a boy on a film. I playing fighter pilot Maverick in ‘Top Gun’. thought oh he’s kind of nice, I might think Asked who her first ever crush was dur- about him later. That sounds so creepy and ing a discussion on UK TV show ‘Loose weird, sorry Robbie!” Ayda has always been Women’, Ayda spilled: “Mine was Tom Cruise. very candid about her sex life, and recently This is was in ‘Top Gun’. He was gorgeous. said the Take That star - whose ex-girlfriends But then the thing happened with the include Rachel Hunter and Nicole Appleton couch and I was disappointed. That’s when I - knows what he’s doing in the bedroom wanted a refund on my crush right there. because she’s had so many lovers. That’s when I wept inside. He switched me She said: “Rob has had so many affairs right off.” with so many women in the 1990s, if he The brunette beauty - who has two chil- doesn’t know what he’s doing by now, that’s dren, daughter Teddy, three, and 18-month- wrong. He’s had a lot of practice.” old son Charlton with Robbie - even joked that she used to saviour his good looks and “think about him later”, hinting that she Singer Robbie Williams and his wife actress Ayda Field.

Actress Chloe Sevigny Sharon Osbourne to interview divorce lawyers Chloe Sevigny had to he 63-year-old star recently kicked her husband Ozzy “This is what I do. It’s what I’ve done my whole life. So, Osbourne, 67, out of their Los Angeles home after it’s a huge part of who I am, you know. “We’ve been work- Treportedly discovering he had been cheating on her ing together, my lord, since ‘76. That’s how long we’ve been move out of her New with hairdresser Michelle Pugh and she is said to be taking working together. Before we were married. So, it’s been a steps to end their 33-year marriage. long time.” According to TMZ, Sharon - who is also Ozzy’s manager - Ozzy added: “She’s my right arm. She’s everyone for me. York neighborhood has started researching lawyers in order to dissolve their She’s great.” Sharon was supported by her daughter Kelly at personal assets. However, their professional partnership the event where her interactions with Ozzy onstage were because of rats appears to be solid for now as the pair reunited in Los described as “polite but icy”. Angeles on Thursday (12.05.16) for the Ozzfest meets Sharon confirmed her split from the Black Sabbath rock- he 41-year-old actress has left ’s East Knotfest announcement. er, whom she married in 1982, on her chat show ‘The Talk’ Village for Brooklyn and claims she had to move Ozzy told E! News: “Our wives have been very important this week as she thanked fans for their support. She said: Tbecause after Hurricane Sandy hit the Big Apple in to us.” And when asked if she is “still the boss,” he replied, “I’m 63 years of age, and I can’t keep living like this ... I’ve 2012, the area she lived in became overrun with rodents. “Oh, yeah.” And despite announcing the end of their mar- been avoiding looking at any pictures or reading anything. She said: “I got out, in all honesty, because of rats. After riage earlier this week, ‘The Talk’ co-host Sharon insisted I know what’s going on. I don’t need to read about or see Hurricane Sandy, my street was overrun and I couldn’t han- that their professional life will remain unchanged. about it. It’s like putting salt in a wound. I don’t need to ... dle it. The 10th Street Association are going to hate me for She told Entertainment Tonight: “It’s business. This is my He’s back, and now I’m out of the house.” saying that. But yes, the rats are all over the East Village, TV personality Sharon business, you know? This is what I do. People have forgot- they’re in Tompkins Square. Osbourne. ten, because they see me every day on the chat show, but “And I lived on the ground floor with the garden, and I this is still the other half of my life. could hear them scratching outside the window and I just couldn’t cope. I read they were going to put some steriliza- tion, some form of birth control, in the poison to manage the population. So they can’t reproduce. “They reproduce at such a crazy rate. They’re always screwing. They screw when they’re dying. It’s shocking to me.” Chloe also revealed she is also unhappy about the gen- ‘’ Hits $71 Million, Clooney’s ‘Monster’ at $15 Million trification of the neighborhood, complaining to The he second weekend of “Captain America: Civil War” is million; Sony’s 2002 “Spider-Man” is 10th at $71.4 million. “Civil BH Tilt’s horror-thriller “The Darkness,” starring Kevin Bacon Guardian: “The East Village, it’s lost. Have you seen Astor pulling in a massive $71 million at 4,426 U.S. locations War,” with Chris Evans returning as Captain America in a face- and Radha Mitchell, also scared up a respectable $2.1 million Place? Starbucks, Citibank, Kmart, and that’s about it. Some Twhile the opening of ’s “Money Monster” off against Robert Downey Jr. as Iron Man, should wind up the at 1,754 sites in a Friday the 13th launch aimed at horror fans. of the streets are still holding out - you can still find a few should bring in about $15 million. weekend with $294 million in its first 10 days. The weekend should see a $5 million-plus gross, placing it of the old mom-and-pop stores. The avenues? Forget it. Saturday estimates showed Disney-Marvel’s “Captain Sony’s opening of “Money Monster” was performing much above its $4 million budget and move it in the direction finan- They’re gone for good.” America: Civil War” dominating with a Friday gross of about better than recent estimates, which had pegged it at as low as cial success for Jason Blum’s Blumhouse. And it’s not just New York that disappoints the actress $19.5 million. The tentpole opened with $179.1 million last $10 million at 3,104 sites. The film, directed by , Disney’s fifth weekend of “The Jungle Book” looks likely and model, Chloe is also upset with changes in her home- weekend and looks likely to decline about 60% — a slightly banked $5 million on Friday as a counter-programming play in to edge out “Money Monster” for second place with about town of Darien, Connecticut. She said: “Change freaks me steeper decline than what “Avengers: Age of Ultron” took in a the wake of the film’s out-of-competition world premiere at $16 million. The family adventure took in $4.1 million on out. The town used to be really charming. Now it’s the year ago during the same weekend. the Cannes Film Festival. Friday, its 29th day of release.”The Jungle Book” should whole post McMansion thing, and everybody cuts down Early estimates had pegged “Civil War” at over $75 million Rory Bruer, Sony’s president of worldwide distribution, wind up the weekend with more than $310 million domes- the trees because they don’t want to deal with the leaves. for the frame. If the updated estimates hold, “Civil War” will pointed to the B+ Cinemascore as an indication that the $27 tically. — Reuters And they floodlight everything, and knock down the colo- become the 11th film of all time to top the $70 million mark in million thriller should see significant business in coming nial homes, and put up these big, ugly, boxy-looking its second weekend. That list is headed by “Star Wars: The Force weeks. “It’s a smart adult film made for a very reasonable price,” things that are very on trend. Everything used to be wilder Awakens” with $149 million and “Jurassic World” with $106.6 he added. and more romantic.”