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14 Sunday, February 26, 2017 Ellen DeGeneres@TheEllenShow Let’s all go out and do something nice today for someone you have nothing in common with. Los Angeles nternationally acclaimed Bollywood actress Priyanka Chopra announced on social media thatI she will be attending the 89th Academy Awards, which will take place on Sunday night. Priyanka took to Instagram on Friday night Los Angeles to share the news with her fans while posting a inger Celine Dion photograph with legendary British singer Mick finds it hard to go Jagger. windowS shopping. “Change of plans! Oscars here we come. The 48-year-old says Mick Jagger LA LA Land,” Priyanka wrote her fame means she gets alongside the image. Apart from Priyanka, mobbed when she goes into actress Priyanka Bose is also expected to attend stores, and even before she the 2017 Oscars for her film “Lion”. became a household name, This won’t be the first time when Priyanka the chaotic life as the youngest would be gracing the red carpet at Oscars. of 14 children meant she The 34-year-old, who got fame in the West never had the luxury of casual through her lead role in TV thriller series browsing, reports femalefirst. “Quantico”, was one of the presenters at the co.uk. 88th Academy Awards last year. “I love fashion a lot, obviously. Looking stunning in an elegant white gown, I’m a woman on top of it, but a creation by Lebanese designer Zuhair Murad, it’s hard for me to go window Priyanka presented the Oscar in the Best Film shopping. That’s bad, it ain’t Editing category to “Mad Max: Fury Road” happening with me, there’s no along with Hollywood star Liev Schreiber. window shopping,” Dion told (IANS) Las Vegas Review Journal. “But I have such a wonderful relationship with my fans, even more than ever. People had so much compassion since Rene (her husband Rene Angelil) passed. I’ve always been accessible like an open book... “I’ve never had the regular thing of being ordinary and going window shopping. It’s not me to want to go into a store that’s closed and opens just for me even though I love shopping too much,” she added.(IANS) New York ctor Jake Gyllenhaal says he is delighted to be working onA the Broadway show “Sunday in the Park with George” because singing is his “love”. The 36-year-old says he only pursued acting because he had “wonderful luck”, but his first love was always music. So, he is thrilled to show off his vocal talent in “Sunday in the Park with George”. Teresa Palmer “It’s so nice to get to express myself through music, I always have in my family and I did February 26, 1986 growing up as a child throughout school,” Gyllenhaal said. “I had so much wonderful luck Australian-born actress who starred in the as an actor in films. But truly my 2016 films The Choice and Lights Out. She also love, my heart has always been in singing, particularly in the appeared in the action film, I am Number Four. musical space,” he said.(IANS) .

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