Singer Olly Murs has been named the most played pop star of 2013.
	The former 'X Factor' runner up saw off competition from the likes of Bruno Mars, Pink, Rihanna and Katy Perry to top the chart, compiled by music royalty body Phonographic Performance Ltd, reported Daily Mirror.
	The results were based on airplay on TV and radio and in venues including pubs, clubs, gyms and shops.
	"I'm absolutely delighted I've won this award. I'd like to thank all the writers and producers on all the records that I've done, they've been incredible, of course the TV channels, the radio stations, the pubs, the clubs, the bingo halls, whoever has played my songs.
	"It means a lot to me and of course the fans because I wouldn't be here today if it wasn't for them," Murs said.
	In another category, his track 'Troublemaker' was the ninth most played pop track of the year with Daft Punk's hit 'Get Lucky' topping that chart followed by Robin Thicke's 'Blurred lines' and 'Mirrors' by Justin Timberlake.

Olly Murs named most played pop star of 2013

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Hollywood star Will Smith is set to star in the NFL concussion drama 'Game Brain' and play doctor, Bennet Omalu.
	The movie, to be written and directed by Peter Landesman, is based on an article and follows the forensic neuropathologist who discovered the existence of CTE (chronic traumatic encephalopathy) in a professional football player, reported Digital Spy.
	The Ridley Scott-produced film will see Bennet stuck between his ethical obligations as a doctor and the harsh realities of the NFL.
	Smith, 45, recently dropped out of starring in Legendary Entertainment's Brilliance.
	The actor was tipped to appear in the sci-fi adaptation, but has bowed out due to scheduling constraints.

Will Smith to play doctor in 'Game Brain'

Singer John Mayer has revealed that he has no problem with his ex-girlfriends writing songs about him.
	The 36-year-old singer said he actually hoped those songs would become chart-toppers, reported Ace Showbiz.
	"I have super strength for gang-ups, I'm fine. That's what you're supposed to do, man, you're supposed to write songs. You're just not supposed to tell everybody you're doing it," he said.
	Mayer is already the subject of Taylor Swift's 'Dear John' which is featured on the pop star's 2010 album Speak Now.
	Now, another ex-girlfriend Katy Perry is reportedly working on a song about him as well.

John Mayer hopes ex-girlfriends' songs about him become hits

Pop star Katy Perry is said to have reunited with her ex-boyfriend Rob Ackroyd during the UK leg of her Prismatic World Tour.
	The 'Roar' hitmaker, who Ackroyd dated back in 2012 after the pair met at the Coachella music festival, is reportedly spending time with him, reported Contactmusic.
	Perry, 29, was spotted kissing and cuddling him at an afterparty in the exclusive backstage area of London's O2 Arena to celebrate the end of the European leg of her tour.
	"Katy and Rob seemed to be very much back together at her party on Saturday night. They were inseparable, kissing, flirting and cuddling away in front of the roadies, celebs and friends at the bash. There were a fair few famous faces in the room but Katy and Rob only had eyes for each other," a source said.
	Ackroyd, 30, also shared a picture of one of Perry's gigs on twitter praising the singer with the caption, "Killed It.

Katy Perry dating Rob Ackroyd?

Singer Kelly Rowland keeps her friendship to Destiny's Child bandmates Beyonce and Michelle Williams close to her heart.
	Rowland said she believes that you can have great soul mates in your friends, reported E! News.
	"I believe in soul mates. I believe soul mates are not just in relationships, but they're in friendships," she said.
	"I have soul mates through Beyonce and Michelle and Angie and Solange and LaLa. I have soul mates. I'm so thankful for that too, because I think they understand you... We're connected and I think that's such a beautiful thing. It's the greatest gift you can have," Rowland said.
	The singer said that despite their great bond they do fight but her husband Tim Witherspoon is barred from jumping in.

Beyonce, Michelle Williams are Kelly Rowland's soul mates

"Warrior" filmmaker Gavin O'Connor has been tapped to helm "Massacre in the Himalayas".
	Based on Freddie Wilkinson's story on 'Men's Journal', it tells the true story of international mountain climbers who were attacked by a group of terrorists while trying to conquer the K2 summit in Pakistan, reported Ace Showbiz.
	"I love the idea of using the colossal backdrop of K2, the second highest peak on earth, to explore a man's battle for survival against the Taliban, nature, and himself," he said.
	"Our hero becomes a one-man army on a quest to avenge the deaths of his mountaineering team. His experience becomes a living nightmare, a lifetime journey, and a redefinition of the man," he added.
	The film is produced by Gianni Nunnari's Hollywood Gang Productions which has bought movie rights to Wilkinson's story.
	Nunnari's credits include "300", "300: Rise of an Empire", and "Immortals". The producers are now looking for a screenwriter to help turn the story into the big screen.

Gavin O'Connor to direct 'Massacre in the Himalayas'

Filmmaker Woody Allen has opted to shoot his yet untitled film in Rhode Island, with lensing slated to start in July.
	Allen shot his last film, 'Magic in the Moonlight', on the French Riviera. His previous 'Blue Jasmine' was shot in New York and San Francisco, reported Variety online.
	Last month Emma Stone and Joaquin Phoenix had been set to star with Allen, who is expected to write, produce and direct the film.
	No distributor is yet on board.
	Casting on the untitled film is beginning next week with the movie is described as a contemporary story with academics, graduate students and middle and working-class characters.

Woody Allen's next movie to Shoot in Rhode Island

Songstress Jennifer Lopez is all excited to return to her hometown in the Bronx for a concert after 15 years.
	Lopez, 44, said preparing to perform a free concert just blocks from where she grew up for her State Farm Neighborhood Sessions concert, reported People magazine.
	"I haven't been this excited about something in a long, long time. To give a free concert and give back to the community that gave me so much and so much of my identity is not lost on me," she said.
	But being able to give back is not the only reason the 'First Love' singer gets excited about going home.
	"Something about walking those streets just takes me right back. I think it is because so much of my life was there.
	"I love walking down those streets and going for pizza at the Cross Bronx and just walking up and down there between the subway and where my house was on Blackrock Avenue," she added.

Jennifer Lopez excited to perform in hometown

Snoop Dogg is reportedly set to feature on Psy's new song.
	The pair will apparently collaborate on a new track called 'Hangover' with the music video set to premiere on Jimmy Kimmel Live! on June 8, reported Digital Spy.
	Last year, the 36-year-old singer, real name Park Jae-sang , revealed that he is collaborating with Aerosmith frontman Steven Tyler.
	Psy's breakthrough hit 'Gangnam Style' has now amassed over 2 billion views on YouTube.
	The song has also topped a poll aiming to find the best music video dance, beating the likes of Michael Jackson's 'Thriller' and 'Macarena'.

Psy to collaborate with Snoop Dogg?

Kourtney and Khloe Kardashian are reportedly planning to move into a USD 13.9 million mansion in the Hamptons for the summer.
	The sisters will be living it up in the luxury 9,000 square foot property on North Sea Harbour, with a heated pool and its own dock, to film 'Kourtney & Khloe Take The Hamptons', reported Radar online.
	Newly married Kim is expected to join the girls at the plush pad for a few weeks.
	The sisters along with Kourtney's partner Scott Disick and their children Mason, four, and Penelope, 20 months are moving to the resort and will set up a Dash clothing store nearby.
	Locals are apparently horrified that the "attention-seeking" reality stars will be descending on the upmarket area.

Kourtney, Khloe rent Hamptons mansion to film new reality show

Rob Kardashian is working hard to get back, says his trainer Gunnar Peterson.
	Peterson said the 27-year-old TV personality is a nice guy and he is managing well his gymming schedules despite his work commitments, reported E!Online.
	"He's such a good guy. Rob was a solid basketball player, a serious runner and he's a serious athlete. It's when life gets in the way, that's what makes it hard to get to the gym.
	"If it was Rob on his own, he'd be in every day. He's pitching shows, he's on a show, he has his sock line and other business ventures," the trainer said.
	Peterson also praises Kardashian's persistence and determination when it comes to his workout.
	"Here's a guy fighting paparazzi getting in and out of the gym. This guy is fighting through human walls, to get to the gym. A lot of people have blown off workouts with a lot less obstacles.
	"Rob is such a solid guy, when he gets in here. I don't care if he weighs 50, 100 or 200 pounds. He works like an athlete. He never tries ..

Rob Kardashian will get back to his best shape ever: Trainer

Enrique Iglesias admits singing in both English and Spanish keeps him on top of his game as an artiste.
	The 39-year-old singer said the best thing about his latest record 'Sex and Love' is its bilingual tracks which are fun to perform during his live gigs, reported Contactmusic.
	"I'm excited about my new album 'Sex and Love' as it's only the second time I have released a mixed record in both Spanish and English. There is such a big Spanish-speaking audience, and of course that's where my career began.
	"I was always bilingual. I wrote a lot in Spanish, so now that we're well and truly in the digital era, I thought it was time. Having songs in both languages keeps me on our toes. It means that live, I can do a set list that's very eclectic, it can move from one style to the next. That for me is what keeps me going," he said.
	Iglesias also revealed that he writes most of his music in the middle of the night when he cannot sleep.
	"That's how a lot of my music comes to me. It can be ..

Enrique Iglesias loves bilingual songs

Pop star Jessie J posted pictures from her bed wearing just a white sheet following her performances in Spain and Portugal.
	The 'Price Tag' hitmaker looked great in the four revealing pictures despite being make-up free with her dark shoulder-length hair sticking up in a short ponytail, reported Daily Mirror.
	"Today I am channeling a tired dora the explora...", she wrote referring to the children's cartoon character who travels the world on adventures.
	The former 'Voice' coach has been busy of late, what with completing her new album and performing in New York, as well as in Europe.

Jessie J posts naked selfie

Kimberley Walsh has revealed she is determined to have a natural birth but is too scared to have her baby at home.
	The former Girls Aloud singer is pregnant with her first child with her longtime boyfriend Justin Scott and she has started to create her birth plan, reported Contactmusic.
	"I'm hoping to have a natural birth, but I'm also very aware that things can happen and I'm trying to keep an open mind and see how it goes and how it's going to pan out, but I would like to give birth naturally," she said.
	Kimberley has decided against having a home birth after watching her nephew being born and witnessing the complications that occurred.
	"I wouldn't want a home birth because I experienced my nephew's birth which became quite complicated and I think that really put me off the idea of having a baby at home. I want to be near the emergency services. But I want to do it naturally," she added.

Kimberley Walsh wants natural birth

Grammy-award winning singer Miranda Lambert wants to go on tour with husband Blake Shelton before they start a family.
	The 'Voice' mentor's wife, 30, hinted that they are planning to hit the road for a string of performances soon, reported Femalefirst.
	"There would be nothing better than being able to hang out with my husband on tour, we've never actually done that. We're getting to the point where we want to slow down, we don't want to tour as much, so I think it's now or never, if you ask me.
	"If we want to collaborate we should, if we want to tour together we probably should start thinking about it," she said.

Miranda Lambert will tour before baby

'Mad Men' creator and executive producer Matthew Weiner is to be honoured with the 2014 International Emmy Founders Award.
	He will be presented with the award on November 24 at the International Emmy Awards Gala in New York.
	Bruce L Paisner, president and CEO of the International Academy of Television Arts & Sciences, said Weiner had created "a global cultural phenomenon", reported BBC online.
	The advertising agency drama set in the 1960s will end next year.
	Paisner added that Mad Men had "dramatically changed the television landscape".
	The seventh series of the award-winning US drama has been split into two parts - the first part has just aired, with the final seven episodes to be broadcast in 2015.
	Weiner said the two-part season would enable "a more elaborate story" to be told.
	Previous seasons of 'Mad Men' have spanned 13 episodes.

'Mad Men' creator Matthew Weiner to get Emmy honour

Movie star Brad Pitt is visiting China with his partner, actress Angelina Jolie, effectively ending an unspoken ban after he angered communist authorities by appearing in the 1997 film 'Seven Years in Tibet'.
	Jolie was in Shanghai today to promote her latest film 'Maleficent', a modern retelling of the life of Sleeping Beauty's arch-nemesis, along with three of their children, but Pitt seemed intent on keeping a low profile.
	"Right at this moment, they (the children) are in dim sum classes with their dad," Jolie said, referring to the popular southern Chinese cuisine.
	The family visited a contemporary art museum and took walks in the commercial Chinese city, she said, but made no mention of the earlier controversy.
	"It's been a wonderful experience for our family," she told journalists at Shanghai's luxury Peninsula Hotel, where the family is staying. Pitt did not appear at the news conference.
	Pitt previously played Heinrich Harrer, an Austrian mountain climber who became ...

Brad Pitt breaks the ice with China visit after Tibet row

In a cross between the kebabs of Lahore and Lucknow, the tanginess of the North-West and the mildly spicy Awadhi came on the same platter in the unique 'Nawab ki pasand' fusion food festival  here.
	"From Komal Gandhar, defining the raga in the morning, to Jugalbandi our endeavour has been to take the foodie into a culinary expedition from the Nizam land to the empire of Nawabs in Awadh and Pashtun land through fusion kebabs hunting centuries old recipes of royal kichens," reputed Mughal cuisine chef Debashis Kundu told PTI here.
	"For Nawab ki pasand to kalaklar ki pasand - We have brought for the first time the smell and taste of the Kakori Kebab, an Awadh speciality also associated with the Freedom movement, with the succulence of Chaplii kebab, having enjoyed immense following in Pakistan and Afghanistan with the taste remaining traditional through centuries," Kundu, having been part of the Alibaba Gold, said.
	"Blending distinct features from their disparate locales - in ...

Lahore-Lucknow cross for Nawab-ki-pasand' in city

Despite her tomboyish nature, 'Bojhena Se Bojhena' and Proloy actor Mimi Chakraborty is mortally scared of staying put in a haunted house.
	Mimi, also turning up as a warrior princess in Raj Chakroborty's period flick Yoddha, reveals how the shooting experience in 'Galpo Holeo Sotti' had that spooky feeling as she constantly felt being watched by someone, some invisibles keeping a tab on my shoots,
	"Galpo Holeo Sotti had been made sometimes back. But till this date, I feel haunted. I still get scared to be all alone in a room. I have had many experiences," Mimi said.
	Mimi was talking to PTI after the first ever launch of trailer of a  horror-thriller genre Bengali film in You Tube by  033 maker Birsa Dasgupta giving a peek into the film's macabre blood-dripping frames.
	"Golpo Holeo Shotti. Promises a very fresh view as films within the horror-thriller format had been very rarely made in Bengali," Birsa said.
	Behind the veneer of horror, the trailer gives a look into the romantic ..

'Ghosts kept tab on shoots in horror-thriller'

In a unique reality show contest on the social media, over 3.5 million watched on 'you tube' as upcoming models sashayaed the digital ramp before the prying eyes of juries from Bolly showbiz fraternity.
	"Instead of the reality shows on telly, which don't have the retention factor, you can view the FameBox Fashion channel on YouTube any time you click. And with digital integration and mobiles loaded with apps, browsing the net on move at any time of day is the next in thing. Becoming a couch potato is passe," Dhruvank Vaidya, organizers of the unique show told PTI.
	"As online presence takes over the world, I am really happy to be a part of the first ever web reality show, American Swan Beauty and the Blogger. Not only will it be fun and edgy it will also give an opportunity to push young fashion talent onto bigger runaways and maybe even become blogging beauties!"Anusha Dandekar, Indian VJ, Actor and Singer, who is part of jury team, said.
	Cyrus Sahukar, popular VJ and actor and ...

Social media hosts reality show for upcoming bloggers/models

Popular TV actress Mahi Vij will play the role of a gangster in the crime series 'Encounter'.
	The episode will depict the tale of an aspiring actress Aashna, who runs away from her home to become the first woman gangster in the history of underworld.
	The actress, popular for her role of Nakusha in daily soap 'Laagi Tujhse Lagan', will use an underworld gangster as her ladder to reach her aim.
	"I am essaying the role of a female gangster Aashna, the first woman gangster in the underworld, who is very strong headed and aspires to achieve a powerful life," Mahi said in a statement.
	"My experience of shooting for 'Encounter' has been lovely, specially working with talented actors like Manini Mishra, Siraj Mustafa, Vinay Jain and Ali Hasan, who have been in the industry from a long time. I am sure the audience will love our work," she said.
	Another popular TV actress Manini Mishra will essay the role of inspector Mita Gaikward.
	"In the show, I fight for women's rights and play an ...

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