SATURDAY, JUNE 28, 2014

Susan Sarandon knew Brad would be ‘something special’

he 67-year-old actress starred alongside the actor in his breakout movie ‘Thelma & Louise’ and says even so early Tin his career he made performing look “easy”. She said: “He’s told stories about how professional I was and how I made him a professional-I don’t remember any of that! “It seemed like it was absolutely, absolutely easy for him. When I saw the movie and I saw him in the scene in the police station, that’s when I knew that he really was something special. “There was really something there. He’s a very smart guy.” Meanwhile, Susan’s co-star Geena Davis, 58, admits she found it difficult shooting a love scene with Brad. She said: “ It was very challenging! I just didn’t know how to get into it.” And Geena also worried she’d ruined the ‘Moneyball’ star’s audi- tion before he even got the part. She told The Hollywood Reporter: “I actually read with him first-there were five candi- dates for the role. “And then he came in-this is so embarrass- ing-but I got a little distracted during the scene, you know? I was forgetting my lines. I was like, ‘I’m totally screwing up this kid’s audition’.”

Cheryl Cole’s new Olivia Palermo boyfriend planning married he 28-year-old beauty reportedly secretly tied the birthday party knot with German model Johannes Huebl - who Tshe has been in a relationship with since 2008 - at he ‘Crazy Stupid Love’ hitmaker will turn 31 next Monday Manhattan’s City Hall last Saturday, with just three and her French lover Jean-Bernard Fernandez-Versini is guests in tow. The couple had reportedly planned to tie Teager to help her celebrate in style by throwing a lavish the knot in St. Barts - where Johannes proposed last bash for her over the weekend. The 33-year-old restaurant December - later this year but brought the date forward owner is hoping to reserve new celebrity hotspot Chiltern as the model had been experiencing issues with his visa Firehouse in west London for the exclusive party, which will be which may have meant he had to leave the US sooner. A catered by his own eatery, Cosy Box. Guests are expected to seems the star is hoping for a simpler affair than her raucous source told the New York Post newspaper: “They were include ‘X Factor’ boss Simon Cowell and Cheryl’s closest getaway to Las Vegas for her 30th birthday last year. The planning a big wedding in the fall, but Johannes left friends, her former Girls Aloud bandmates Kimberley Walsh insider added: “The best thing about this birthday for Cheryl is Wilhelmina Models last year, and he currently isn’t with and Nicola Roberts. A source told the Daily Star newspaper: that she’ll have Jean-Bernard on her arm for the whole week- an agency, and was told he would have to leave the US “Cheryl knows there’s going to be a party, but doesn’t know all end. “She’s excited to show him off to her nearest and dear- in September. “Olivia’s friends were surprised when they the details yet. “But she’s excited and has already invited her est. However, she doesn’t want it to be as boozy as her 30th got married at City Hall on Saturday, with the only guests friends along, including Simon Cowell and former Girls Aloud was last year.” being his friend Ulli Saeuberlich and her parents, who bandmates Kimberley Walsh and Nicola Roberts.” Cheryl can’t weren’t happy with the rush, but decided to be there at wait to celebrate her 31st birthday with her new man, but it the last minute.” However, a spokesperson for the for- mer ‘City’ star insisted they are “not married yet”, though she did admit they were planning a small ceremony this month ahead of a bigger celebration later. Barbara Saint-Aime insisted: “They had always planned to have a Ellie Goulding finds it hard to maintain a relationship small civil wedding in June. The whole visa thing is not relevant. They have been together for six-and-a-half he 27-year-old singer admits it’s a constant battle to keep the years, they got engaged this past January. They travel so romance alive in her relationship with McFly musician Dougie much during the summer, they really don’t have much TPoynter, 26, as she’s required to jet around the world for her pop time to plan things. They are not married yet. They are career. She explained: “I’ve definitely met someone. You get to know doing a much smaller civil ceremony in the States this someone who makes you very happy and then you go away on tour, month and they are planning to do something much right when it was just getting somewhere awesome. It’s not fun, but larger later on.” Olivia previously hinted she planned to we can make it work. Love is beyond everything, beyond the uni- marry outside of the US. She said recently: “Johannes’ verse.” The ‘Beating Heart’ songstress - who recently earned a BRIT friends and family are all over Europe and my parents are Award for Best Female Solo Artist - also confessed she only discovered happy to travel, so it will probably be somewhere in the her passion for music after taking up guitar playing to impress a love middle. Then you will always have a special place in your interest. She told Self magazine: “I started playing guitar to impress a heart for the destination where you got married.” guy, but all of a sudden I was more engrossed in the guitar than the guy and playing it became my everything. It was a big deal, because I started singing my own songs.” Ellie’s road to pop stardom wasn’t without its difficulties, however, as the singer was crippled by anxiety while recording her debut album ‘Lights’. She recalled: “I’d have these faux heart attacks that felt real. There was so much adrenalin.”