SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 5, 2015 enjoys date with Sheeran school friend he ‘Photograph’ hitmaker - who split from his previous humorous messages over Twitter. Ed - who attended Thomas girlfriend Athina Andrelos in February this year - was Mills High School in Framlingham, Suffolk with Cherry. Cherry Tspotted sat alongside Cherry at Citi Field in New York currently attends Duke University in New York and is an City, where the New York Mets beat the Philadelphia Phillies. accomplished hockey player. Speaking in 2013 about her deci- The sight of Ed - who signed autographs for young fans - sat in sion to move to America, Cherry said: “It has been incredible. It a matching baseball cap beside his childhood friend has fur- still feels surreal, the whole American college thing. I still have thered speculation they are an item, having now been spotted to pinch myself every time I go play.” together on two separate occasions in the space of a few days. On Sunday, the duo was seen leaving a New York hotel together, while they have also been sending each other

Stone doesn’t think she’s Woody Allen’s ‘muse’ he ‘Birdman’ star has been labeled as the 79-year-old legendary director’s inspiration but she insists it is Tonly because she is a woman. She said: “I don’t think he would agree with the muse idea. There were two films in a row where the characters, for whatever reason, he wanted me to play them. He’s working with different peo- ple now. [This just] gets attached to the women.” The 26- year-old beauty also hit back at claims she is regularly paired with older men in his films. She added: “[Starring alongside Joaquin Phoenix] was a pretty big draw ... he’s a truly brilliant actor.”Just to speak solely of ‘Irrational Man’, the relationship is genuinely a plot point. It’s pretty openly discussed in the film that this is a student who is falling in love with her professor, and she wants to bring this intelli- gence and almost toxic energy into her life.” And Emma has admitted her role in ‘Aloha’, playing a part-Chinese and part-Hawaiian pilot, taught her about how “prevalent whitewashing” is in Hollywood. She told The Guardian newspaper: “I’ve learned on a macro level about the insane history of whitewashing in Hollywood and how prevalent the problem truly is.”

McKellen Lovato isn’t afraid to stand up for herself

he ‘Cool for the Summer’ hitmaker, who sought treat- snubbed role in ment in rehab for an eating disorder, self-harming, alco- Thol and drug abuse in 2010 after she hit a back-up dancer while on a flight to South America, insists she would ‘Mission: Impossible II’ never attack anyone now, but would defend herself if she felt disrespected. Speaking to the new issue of Cosmopolitan he 76-year-old actor has admitted it was a huge risk magazine, she said: “I’m not proud of the mistakes that I’ve turning down a role in the franchise but says he made. At the same time, my past shows what I’m capable of. Twouldn’t have got his famous parts in ‘The Lord of the I’m a wiser person today. On a plane in Colombia, I probably Rings’ and ‘X-Men’ if he had accepted. He told PEOPLE maga- won’t hit you. But if you disrespect me, I can’t say that I won’t zine: “I got offered a part in ‘Mission: Impossible II’ with Tom come at you. I’ll just never throw the first punch any more.” Cruise, but they wouldn’t let me see the whole script because The 22-year-old beauty is also critical of her own gender and I might have spilled the beans. I only got my scenes. “Well, I believes girls can be very “catty” which is not a good thing. couldn’t judge from reading just those scenes what the script She said: “I wish I could word this in a way that doesn’t sound was like. So I said no. And my agent said, “You can’t say no to bitchy, but I don’t fool around. Girls can be catty with one working with Tom Cruise!” and I said, “I think I will. “The next another. Nobody really tries to pill stuff on me because they day, Bryan Singer asked me to play Magneto (in 2000’s ‘X- know I physically don’t put up with it.” The brunette beauty Men’) and then Peter Jackson asked me to play Gandalf (in admits she thought she was better than a lot of people after ‘The Lord of the Rings’), and I said yes to both.” Meanwhile, Ian first getting sober, but has recently reconnected with a lot of previously admitted he swiped a few of the “precious” props her old friends. She said: “I used to be judgmental and stuck from the set of the fantasy film series. He admitted: “And I up when I had a year-and-a-half sober. I recently rekindled think my favorite set that I didn’t act in was the golden Liar, friendships with people, because I thought that if you weren’t where the dragon was hiding. Hundreds of thousands of gold- sober then you didn’t have your shit together. I thought I was en coins, specially made. And if you don’t tell anyone, I can tell better than you. I’m not longer that judgmental person.” you that I have some of those coins. “[I also have] the front door key to Bag End, which i know Peter Jackson is looking for, but will never find.”