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Gossip Shep Gordon trusts

hep Gordon “trusted” Mike Myers to retell his life story because he is such a “good friend”. The veteran Smusic manager helped promote a number of huge acts during his career - including Alice Cooper, Teddy Pendergrass and Pink Floyd - but until recently, had rejected all invitations to bring his story to the silver screen. Reflecting on the documentary, ‘Supermensch: The Legend of Shep Gordon’, he told BANG Showbiz: “I met Mike on ‘Wayne’s World’ and then he came to Hawaii and we became friends. He bought a house on Maui, where I live, and he loved all my stories and for years he’s been asking me about doing [the film]. “I didn’t see any reason to do it other than ego ... then I had some surgery, was heavily medicated and feeling sorry for myself. Later I called him and said, ‘Yeah, let’s do this’.” Despite being close friends now, Shep admits he and Mike disagreed over which Alice Cooper song - ‘School’s Out’ or ‘Freak My Frankenstein’ - was to be included in ‘Wayne’s World’ when they first met. He added: “In the end, we com- promised and put both in the movie, and we came away respecting each other. And then I heard he was in Hawaii and I invited him by for dinner and then started a real friendship.” ‘Supermensch: The Legend of Shep Gordon’ is in cinemas now.

Karen Gillan Miller to play sous chef in Jones praised for head shave ienna Miller will play a sous chef in ‘Adam Jones’. The 32-year-old aren Gillan has been praised for shaving her actress is to take on the role of an assistant chef in the upcoming film, Khead for ‘Guardians of the Galaxy’. Marvel Salongside , the Daily Mail newspaper reports. Cooper Studios boss Kevin Feige thinks it’s “really will play the title character, a genius cook who returns to London to revive cool” the ‘Doctor Who’ actress was willing to show his career and attempt to win a third Michelin star after a period of detoxify- such commitment to her part as Nebula by going ing away from the kitchen. Steven Knight wrote the script for the film - bald in the new intergalactic superhero movie. He which was originally titled ‘Chef’ - and filming is to begin in London under said: “She was willing to shave her head and she not the direction of John Wells in the next few weeks. The majority of the cast - only ended up shaving her head, but at Comic Con which also includes , Daniel Bruhl and Jamie Dornan - last year she came out on the panel in a wig and spent a day with top chef Marcus Wareing at his two Michelin-starred dramatically revealed it - it was so ballsy and it was Marcus restaurant at the Berkeley hotel in Knightsbridge, London in prepa- so awesome. And she did all of her behind-the- ration for their upcoming roles. Miller - who has been shooting the untitled scenes interviews completely bald and she is beau- Whitey Bulger biopic with , in which she must age from 28 to tiful with hair and without hair, so it was really, really 76-years-old - practiced her chopping skills and studied the way in which cool that she was willing to do that.” Feige went on Wareing and his colleagues worked during the study session. ‘Adam Jones’ to praise Gillan’s performance in the movie, adding will act as a reunion for Cooper and Miller as they recently wrapped on Clint to BANG Showbiz: “Her audition was good and Eastwood’s ‘American Sniper’ in which Cooper plays Navy SEAL Chris Kyle Nebula, the character she is playing, is a conflicted while Miller plays his wife Taya Renae Kyle. The film was adapted from Kyle’s character and needs to have a number of different book ‘American Sniper: The Autobiography of the Most Lethal Sniper in US layers and a performance that comes through.” The Military History’. producer insists Gillan’s popular role as Amy Pond in the sci-fi series didn’t influence direc- tor James Gunn’s decision to hire her, but concedes her strong fan base is only a positive.

Ashley Benson wants Woody Allen role

shley Benson wants to work with Woody Allen. The ‘Pretty Little Liars’ star would Alove to make more films, and has a wish-list of directors whose projects she wants to be involved in. She said: “I’ve always wanted to work with Woody Allen - I’m a huge fan of his, I love all his movies.”And Darren Aronofsky and Quentin Tarantino - he’s pretty awesome and I want to be one of his badass characters.” The 24-year-old beauty would love to win an Oscar one day - but admitted she would just settle for attending the prestigious awards ceremony, which celebrates excellence in film. Asked if she wants to win an Oscar, she told Company magazine: “Oh, man, I mean, yeah, that would be awesome, but you never know. Even just to attend the Oscars and see everybody would Cameron Diaz’s be pretty cool.” Benson also confessed to admiring former ‘Dawson’s Creek’ actress Michelle Williams’ career and would love to follow in her footsteps. She said: “I love Michelle Williams, she’s really great. I love Natalie Portman’s work. I love singing worries and Scarlett Johansson. There are so many...” ameron Diaz says producers did “the best Cthey could” with her singing voice for ‘’. The 41-year-old actress plays the cruel Miss Hannigan in the upcoming remake of the classic children’s musical, but Cameron admits she was apprehensive to sing for the role as she isn’t a natu- rally gifted warbler. Appearing on ‘Chelsea Lately’, she said: “With ‘Annie’, we did the best we could.” However, despite her worries the blonde beauty believes she gave an adequate performance in her musical number. She added: “I think we got to my optimum which is different to other people - yeah, we tried.” The movie, produced by rap mega-star Bear Grylls Jay Z and A-list actor , will star Quvenzhane Wallis in the lead role of Annie. and are also part of the star-stud- ded cast. Jay will provide the score for the movie appears in Planes 2: Fire and Rescue and admits the story of the red-headed orphan res- onated with him as a youngster. He previously said: ear Grylls has recorded a cameo appearance in ‘Planes 2: Fire & Rescue’. The adventurer has lent his voice to the “When the TV version [of ‘Annie’] came on, I was character of Avalanche, a smoke jumper, in the big Disney summer movie. Bear had great fun taking himself out- B drawn to it. It was the struggle of this poor kid in side of his comfort zone, saying: “It was a huge honor having Disney ask me to do it, I have been a huge Disney fan this environment and how her life changed - it as a kid and I am now a renewed Disney fan as I have got three young boys who all love it.” The movie focuses on a crew of immediately resonated.” elite firefighting aircraft who are devoted to protecting the historic Piston Peak National Park from wildfire. The story comes alive when Dusty (voiced by Dane Cook) - a world renowned air racer - learns that his engine is damaged and he may never race again. Dusty then turns his attention to the world of aerial firefighting, where he and his friends discover what it takes to become a true hero. The list of notable people who have lent their voices to the flick also includes Ed Harris and Julie Bowen, who is perhaps best known for playing Claire Dunphy on the sitcom ‘Modern Family’. ‘Planes 2: Fire & Rescue’ follows last year’s hit movie ‘Planes’ which grossed over $200 million worldwide. won’t play songs o Devotion will “definitely never” play Lostprophets Nsongs. The Welsh group disbanded after frontman Ian Watkins was jailed for 35 years for child sex offences in December, but the remaining members - Lee Gaze, , and - now formed a new band with ex-Thursday singer Geoff Rickley, but won’t be paying homage to their previous work when they go on the road. Guitarist Lee said: “It’s always at the back of your mind, it’s a raw nerve. We have every right to carry on writing music, but you do think about how people will take it. “We’d definitely never play the songs again. We can take some good stuff from it and some bad stuff and just bury it in a box at this point, but I don’t think we’d ever revisit anything.” Lee admits he has no “regrets” about the end of his former band, except for the circumstances, but he does feel embarrassed when asked about his musical background. He added to NME magazine: “We did Lostprophets for a long time. I flirted with loving it and hat- ing it for many years for different reasons. “So in the bluntest way possible, I don’t have any regrets about the band being finished; I obviously just wish it wasn’t in the circumstances that it was. “You can’t ever mention it to any- one, you know? We were really proud of it, whether people liked us or not, we came from the middle of nowhere.