14 MONDAY, MAY 6, 2019 celebs

Britney Spears does Madonna honoured ‘yoga on the green’ IANS | Los Angeles she would continue working Madonna with her therapists and doc- inger Britney Spears is tors. Sslowly getting back into The insider also said Spears at GLAAD Awards her routine after undergoing has “no plans” to “get back on treatment in a mental health the stage” and has been “urged facility, and that means doing to take it easy for a long period IANS | New York an outsider, like I didn’t fit in. Madonna also honoured yoga, among other things. of time”. It wasn’t because I didn’t shave her other close friends who The 37-year-old pop star In January, the singer an- opular singer Madonna under my armpits, I just didn’t died. posted on her Instagram page nounced she was taking an was among the many ar- fit in,” the 60-year-old said in “After I lost my best friend on Saturday a video of her do- indefinite work hiatus, putting Ptistes who were honoured her acceptance speech. and roommate Martin Bur- ing yoga and walking on her her Britney: Domination Las at GLAAD Media Awards New The singer also paid tribute goyne and then Keith Har- hands outside while wearing Vegas residency on hold. She York. to her first dance teacher and ing, happy birthday Keith, I a bikini, to the tune of rap- noted her father Jamie Spears’ Following the Los Angeles mentor, a gay man named Chris- decided to take up the bull per Cardi B’s track “I like health scare. Weeks earlier, he ceremony in March, the 30th topher Flynn. horn and really fight back,” it”, reports eonline.com. was hospitalised and treated GLAAD Media Awards went to “He was my ballet teacher in Madonna said, reports “Yoga on the green,” for a ruptured New York to continue honour- high school and he was the first people.com Spears wrote. “I really like colon. ing the celebrities, films, shows person that believed in me. That Recently, the pop star it like that!” and media organisations that made me feel special as a dancer, performed the single The singer, who has for have made strides in support- as an artist and as a human be- “Medellin” from her up- years shared musical dance ing the LGBTQ+ community this ing. I know this sounds trivial coming 14th album “Mad- and workout videos, had taken past year. and superficial but he was the ame X” with singer Maluma a social media break for a few Drag superstar Shangela host- first man to tell me that I was and five hologram-like avatars weeks amid her treatment. ed the event, which presented beautiful. of herself at the Billboard Mu- She returned to Instagram Madonna with the Advocate for “He took me to my first gay sic Awards. in late April, posting a video Change award and host Andy club in downtown Detroit. I told Cohen became the first talking about her well-be- Cohen with the Vito Russo my dad I was having a sleepover openly gay late-night talk show ing and a clip of herself award, reports variety.com. at a girlfriend’s house - that got host when his show “Watch lifting dumb-bells, writ- She gave an emotional speech. me grounded for the rest of the What Happens Live with Andy ing: “Who knew stress “Growing up I always felt like summer.” Cohen” launched in 2009. would be a great five pound weight loss. Yay for me.” Eonline.com learned on April 25, two days after she Naomi Campbell never returned to Insta- Kevin Costner isn’t gram, that Spears had checked out cared about fame of the mental impressed with IANS | London health facility after a month. A aomi Campbell never cared about “fame” or “celebrity” at source said at American politics Nthe height of her supermodel success. the time that Campbell told Britain’s Grazia magazine: “I adore Gigi and IANS | Los Angeles but we’re not first in hardly Bella, I embrace them, they are hard-working girls. So I can only Britney Spears anything that matters and we speak for my generation of women, Linda Evangelista, Christy ctor-filmmaker Kevin have an inflated idea about Turlington, Stephanie Seymour, Tatjana Patitz, Kate Moss. ACostner is not happy with how we are. She added: “We never cared about fame, we never thought the “political landscape” in “We exaggerate about what about the word ‘celebrity’. We just kept on the US. we are. We are everything working and it was for the creativity and Ryan Reynolds: “The political landscape that’s great and we are the prestige. It was a smaller knit in- Naomi is unrecognisable to me, and everything that’s human. And dustry.” Campbell said that she and Campbell shame on us for being in that our humanness and our level her peers were often baffled by Making fun of my spot,” the Oscar winner said, of selfishness is overtaking our the interest in their lives - and reports variety.com. chance to be great,” he said. she was stunned to realise even “That could change over- Costner campaigned for Ba- what she had for breakfast wife online is a sign of night, not because of a vote, rack Obama in 2008. Asked was headline news, reports but because people say, ‘I want about the idea of Michelle femalefirst.co.uk. healthy relationship to try to be more than about Obama running for president, She added: “We were myself’. That’s the definition Costner said: “Michelle’s in- equally as surprised of public service.” credibly bright and articu - at the curiosity in our Costner isn’t hopeful that late and has possessed good lives. I remember wak- change will come anytime judgement and experience as ing up in Milan and soon. a result. Why couldn’t she be being shocked to see a “This is the greatest experi- (president)?” report about what I’d ment in humankind: America. If the former first lady did eaten for breakfast This great idea about America jump into the presidential ring, the day before on the still exists, it’s still here. Peo- Costner said: “She’d have a lev- front page of a news- ple still want to come here, el of interest from me.” paper.”

Actor Peter Mayhew, Chewbacca in ‘Star Wars’ saga, dead Ryan Reynolds and Blake Lively AFP | Los Angeles the hip, his bright blue eyes, the original “Star Wars” film down to each subtle movement released in 1977. PTI | Los Angeles That’s how we roll. I think it’s ctor Peter Mayhew, who of his head and mouth,” the The role was unconventional a sign of a healthy relationship, Awon over fans worldwide statement said. to say the least -- a giant, hairy, yan Reynolds believes personally. I do, yeah.” as the Wookiee warrior Chew- “But, to him, Star Wars family 200-year-old humanoid from Rmaking fun of his wife The actor, however, admit- bacca in the blockbuster “Star meant so much more than a role the planet Kashyyyk. Blake Lively on social media is ted that often his digs at his Wars” movies, has died at the in a film. The relationships that Mayhew once joked at a fan a sign of the healthy relation- wife lands in trouble at home. age of 74, his family announced began then grew into the friends convention in 2013 that all he ship that he shares with her. “I think people kind of know on Thursday. and family that he would love had to do when auditioning for During his appearance on an (it’s a joke), it gets me in trou- Mayhew died on Tuesday at for decades to come.” the role of “Chewie” -- as the be- American syndicated morning ble at home but, you know, I his home in Texas, surrounded The towering British-born ac- loved character -- was to show talk show, the 42-year-old ac- can handle that,” he added. by loved ones, the family said tor, who was the son of a police- Peter Mayhew his height. tor was asked whether he en- It was recently reported that in a statement released on the man, measured seven feet three “In George’s office, he had a joys trolling Lively, with whom the couple are now expecting actor’s Twitter account. inches (2.21 meters) and was “Sinbad and the Eye of the Ti- sofa,” he said, referring to “Star he share two daughters. their third child together. “He put his heart and soul working as a hospital attendant ger,” in an uncredited role. Wars” creator George Lucas. “So Reynolds replied, “Oh yeah, Lively, 31, revealed her preg- into the role of Chewbacca and in London when he was discov- But he then was cast in the I sat down on the sofa waiting we do once in a while. It’s kind nancy when she appeared on it showed in every frame of the ered by film producer Charles role that would define his career for him to come in through the of like what my dad used to say, red carpet of New York City films from his knock-kneed run- Schneer. -- as the co-pilot and best friend door. He and (producer) Gary ‘If you can’t say anything nice, premiere of ‘Pokemon Detec- ning, firing his bowcaster from He was first cast in the film of Han Solo (Harrison Ford) in Kurtz walked in. say something embarrassing.’ tive Pikachu’ with Reynolds.