Simon Cowell could be set to leave US 'X Factor' since it will need a lower budget as its ratings has dropped and the media mogul's rates are too high.
	The 54-year-old is a judge on the singing contest, but he could be planning to leave the show since it is pulling in fewer viewers than in previous years, reported Contactmusic.
	"People have talked as if it is all over for 'The X Factor' USA but that's not the case at all. It is true that ratings are down but it still does well with younger viewers if it was to come back next year it would have to have a lower budget.
	"Simon leaving the show would allow a cheaper panel to be introduced - and give him the time to be reunited with the British show," a source said.
	The 'X Factor' USA is currently in its third season with the winner awarded a USD 1 million recording contract with Cowell's label Syco, however, in the previous two series' it was worth USD 5 million.

Simon Cowell to leave US 'X Factor'?

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Kerry Washington, who is intensely private about her personal life, says she is not bothered by gay rumours.
	The 'Django Unchained' star, 36, who is expecting her first child with husband Nnamdi Asomugha, told The Advocate that such rumours originate because there is not much in public about her personal life.
	"It's interesting how much people long to fill in the gaps when someone in the public eye doesn't share their personal life. I understand their frustration. I like how people will post pictures of me with other women that I adore, hugging on red carpets, and say, 'See?'," Washington said.
	"Are we so uncomfortable with love between two people of the same gender that we immediately label it as sexual? But I've never been bothered by the lesbian rumor. There's nothing offensive about it, so there's no reason to be offended," the 'Scandal' star added.
	Washington had surprised her fans by revealing that she had secretly married Asomugha.

Kerry Washington not bothered by gay rumours

After having back-to-back schedules through out the year, small screen celebrities are hoping to spend some quality time with their family and loved ones this Diwali.
	Gautami Kapoor of Zee TV show 'Khelti Hai Zindagi Aankh Micholi' fame is excited for the family get together, whereas Deepika Singh of Star Plus show 'Diya Aur Bati Hum' is looking forward to meeting the elders on the auspicious day. Toral Rasputra, Anandi of Colors' 'Balika Vadhu', says she will make sweets for her loved ones.
	 Gautami said, "I have always looked forward to festivals ever since I was a kid. This is the only time when the entire family gets together and we all exchange gifts. This year I'm hoping for a day off from the shoot of 'Khelti Hai Zindagi Aankh Micholi' so that I can go shopping for diyas and other decorative and decorate my house beautifully.
	Deepika said lighting diyas at home was her favourite activity during the festival of lights.
	"Since childhood I have loved celebrating Diwali. From ..

TV artistes looking forward to have 'family time' this Diwali

Amitabh Bachchan turned the clock back to look 20 years younger for a sequence in Anurag Kashyap directed TV drama.
	The 71-year-old termed the process of making him look younger "hilarious" and "inconvenient".
	"The desperate attempts to make me look 20 years younger for the sequence at the shoot, was hilarious... To say the least!! How conveniently easy it is to age rapidly, but how inconveniently long it takes to push time back," Bachchan mused on his blog.
	The megastar also shared the result of the process by posting his youthful photographs.
	"And now that all have carefully suppressed their giggles and snide asides, it is time for me to seek my time with the pillow," he added.
	Kashyap, who was earlier at loggerheads with Bachchan, reconnected with the actor while working on 'Bombay Talkies' where Bachchan had a guest role.
	They later reunited for the show, which will mark Bachchan's fiction debut on TV.
	It is not for the first time that Bachchan has altered his appearance in 

Amitabh Bachchan to look 20 years younger in TV show

Pop star Lady Gaga and 'Hunger Games: Catching Fire' star Josh Hutcherson are set to host 'Saturday Night Live'.
	The singer, who releases her new single 'Dope' in the first week of November, would make her SNL debut on November 16 to promote her upcoming album ARTPOP, said the Hollywood Reporter.
	Hutcherson, who reprises his role as Peeta in the Hunger Games follow-up, will make his hosting debut a day after his film hits theaters on November 22.
	The popular faces that have hosted SNL this season include Tina Fey, Miley Cyrus, Edward Norton and Bruce Willis.

Lady Gaga, Josh Hutcherson to host 'SNL'

Actor Orlando Bloom says even though he and Miranda Kerr have ended their marriage, they would never stop loving each other.
	The 36-year-old actor and Kerr, who have a son Flynn, recently announced that they have 'amicably separated', reported People magazine.
	"We love each other. We're a family. We're going to be in each other's lives for the rest of our lives. There's no question that for the sake of our son and everything else, we're going to support one another and love each other as parents to Flynn," Bloom said on a TV show.
	"Life sometimes doesn't work out exactly as we plan or hope for, but we're adults, I'm 36 and now she's 30. We're professionals. We love and care about each other. Most of all, we love our son," he added.

Orlando Bloom still loves Miranda Kerr

MGM is planning to make a new animated film on 'The Addams Family', the famous cartoon characters originally created by Charles Addams.
	The studio is in final negotiations with Berman Braun's Gail Berman and Lloyd Braun to resurrect the characters in a new animation film, reported Variety.
	The Iconic "Addams" family first appeared as an unrelated group of 150 single panel cartoons. Half of them were published in The New Yorker between 1938 and Addams' death in 1988.
	The Addams clan gained fame after it was adapted into a TV series in the 1960s.
	The characters saw a movie adaptation, video games, books and recently a Broadway musical.

'The Addams Family' to be revived in MGM animated film

Actor Rahul Khanna has no qualms about doing a guest appearance in television show '24', where he was initially supposed to do a larger role.
	Rahul, who has been missing from the silver screen for a while, began his career as a veejay on TV in 1994 and hosted talk shows and other events. '24' will mark his acting debut on the small screen.
	Rahul said Anil Kapoor had sometime back told him about his plans to make the Indian version of '24' and it sounded quite exciting to him.
	"I was a huge fan of the original '24' and the Indian version was positioned as a game changer for TV here," Rahul told PTI in an email interview.
	"Initially, we had discussed about me doing a larger role in the show but when that didn't work out, he offered me this dramatic two-episode guest role and I was overjoyed to accept," he said.
	Rahul has shared a great equation with Anil Kapoor, who is a close friend of his actor-brother Akshaye Khanna. That is how he met him often and the two always expressed an ..

Overjoyed to accept guest role in '24': Rahul Khanna

Oscar and Grammy-winning composer Hans Zimmer has formed a supergroup by teaming up with musicians Pharrell Williams, Johnny Marr, Michael Einziger, and Dave Stewart to create the music for Marc Webb's 'The Amazing Spider-Man' 2'.
	"Marc and I were talking about Spider-Man, and as the word got out, so many of our friends and musicians started calling us up, wanting to be a part of it, because they love Spider-Man.
	"That was the thing that united all of us - the great love for Spider-Man. With all of these hugely talented people wanting to join us, it was Marc who said,'Why not start a band?' Marc and I have had a great start jamming with everybody, and we still have a few surprises up our sleeve," Zimmer said in a statement.
 	The Sony Pictures film will see Webb and most of the original cast returning. The story is based on the Marvel Comic Book by Stan Lee and Steve Ditko. The film is slated to release on May 2, 2014 in the US while international release dates commence April 16, ...

Webb, Hans Zimmer form supergroup for 'Spider-Man 2' music

Actor Ewan McGregor is all set to make his Broadway debut with Tom Stoppard's 1982 play 'The Real Thing'.
	The play within a play is a witty story about love and marriage and and revolves around playwright Henry who is married to Charlotte, an actress starring in his play but is in love with Annie, the activist wife of Charlotte's co-star Max.
	McGregor will play Henry in the Tony-award-winning revival while the casting of other roles will be announced at a later date.
	The play is being produced by Roundabout Theatre Company, the play will be directed by Sam Gold.
	'The Real Thing' will begin preview performances on October 2, 2014 for an official opening on October 30, 2014 at the American Airlines Theatre on Broadway.
	McGregor recently finished shooting 'Jane's Got a Gun' and is currently filming 'Mortdecai' opposite Johnny Depp and Gwyneth Paltrow.
	He'll next be seen on the big screen in John Wells' film adaptation of Tracy Letts' Pulitzer and Tony Award-winning play 'August: ...

Ewan McGregor to debut on Broadway

Actress Aishwarya Rai Bachchan turned 40 today and celebrated the occasion by donating cash for cancer patients.
	"Heartfelt thank you to everyone for the wishes. It's a good coincidence that my birthday comes with Diwali... It's a celebration time. I am thankful to God for this life... Thankful to my parents for this gift of life. It means a lot to me. I embrace everything that life gives me," Aishwarya said.
	"Every year I help cancer patients and this year also I have donated some amount. Every year I do something like this... It is something my parents have taught me - to do something meaningful as it makes a difference to those people. I believe in doing service for the society," said the actress, dressed in a red salwar suit on her big day.
	Aishwarya, who married fellow actor Abhishek Bachchan in 2007, said her daughter Aaradhya is the best gift to her.
	"Aaradhya means the world to me. She is the best gift of my life. Two years ago when I was expecting baby that time was ...

Aishwarya turns 40, donates money to cancer patients

Reality TV star Kim Kardashian and her rapper fiance Kanye West have filed a lawsuit against YouTube co-founder, Chad Hurley, for sharing the couple's engagement video.
	In the lawsuit, Kim, 33, and West, 36, who got engaged on October 21, claim that Chad leaked 2-and-a-half minute clip taken from their private event to his new video-sharing site MixBit, reported TMZ.
	"Hurley proceeded to try to turn the event into one starring himself, broadcasting the images he knew were the exclusive property rights of someone else," the pair allege.
	West had only invited some of his friends and family members for his surprise proposal to the socialite on her 33rd birthday at AT&T Park in San Francisco. It is rumoured that Chad was not invited to the occasion, but somehow he found a way in.
	The couple allege that he broke the confidentiality agreement by sharing the video to his 500,000 Twitter followers.
	Footage of the engagement apparently was meant to be broadcast on 'Keeping Up With the ...

Kim, West file lawsuit over leaked engagement video

Former couple Kristen Stewart and Robert Pattinson, who parted ways five moths ago, had a secret meet up recently.
	The 23-year-old actress recently visited Pattinson's rented house in Beverly Hills and spent hours there, reported E!Online.
	After the meeting, Stewart was pictured driving her blue Toyota pickup truck with Pattinson's silver Jeep trailing behind.
	It is believed that the ex-couple were allegedly heading in the same direction, which was the actress's home.
	However, their plan changed when they realised that paparazzi had been tailing them.
	The 27-year-old actor and Stewart had found love while filming the "Twilight' series but suffered a setback when the Stewart's affair with her 'Snow White and the Huntsman' director Rupert Sanders became public.
	The couple tried to patch up after a brief split but finally decided to call it quits in May.

Stewart, Pattinson meet secretly after five months split

Former couple Ashton Kutcher and Demi Moore have reportedly signed the documents related to their divorce and would file them soon.
	The couple got separated in 2011, after being married for six years, amid rumours that Kutcher, 35, cheated on Moore, 50, reported E!Online.
	"Ashton and Demi have finally signed their divorce agreement. They are about to file paperwork with the court that will formally end their marriage," a source said.
	"There had been lengthy negotiations between lawyers for both sides about the financial settlement - in particular, how much he owed her from their marriage. They have finally come to an agreement that was acceptable to all sides," the source added.
	The pair previously were reported to have been fighting over money as Moore was requesting for spousal support.
	Apparently Moore will not get any spousal support from Kutcher.
	A source explained that the actress was not entitled to spousal support based on a claim that he cheated on her as the divorce ...

Ashton Kutcher, Demi Moore finalising divorce?

One Direction star Harry Styles is set to auction his shirt to raise money for UNICEF.
	The 19-year-old singer is planning to auction his leopard print Burberry shirt, which he wore at this year's London fashion week, through Hardlyeverwornit.Com , reported E! online.
	In a message posted on the auction's website, the singer's auctioned material was listed.
	"Among others you will have the opportunity to bid on Harry Styles leopard print Burberry t-shirt worn at London Fashion Week 2013."
	 The Official World Cup 2002 England Suit signed by the whole team and an Oasis Union Jack Guitar presentation signed by Liam Gallagher are some other items to be auctioned at the charity.
	The auction will take place on November 13 to raise funds for UNICEF.

Harry Styles auctioning his leopard print shirt for charity

Television personality Lauren Goodger has sparked concern after admitting that she starved herself for three days because of constant criticisms about her weight.
	 Goodger, 27, was upset after comments were made about her figure and took to Twitter to vent her frustration, reported Daily star.
	"Haven't eaten for 3 days not stopping until I get left alone! I don't think I look like they make out but I'm going to be so skinny!!," Goodger wrote.
	"I won't stop until they accept who I am, the thought of food makes me sick, I am going be the slimmest girl in industry. I'll always be the bad girl who has lived and learned," she added.
	While many fans tweeted to Goodger to assure that she is 'beautiful', others branded her 'irresponsible', saying that she is in danger of influencing her younger fans.

Lauren Goodger admits to starving herself for three days

Rolling Stones legend Mick Jagger shot down reports of flirting with pop star Katy Perry.
	The 29-year-old 'Roar' hitmaker claimed that Jagger hit on her when she was 18-year-old backup singer for the band but Jagger denied her claims, reported Ace Showbiz.
	"Mick Jagger categorically denies that he has ever made a pass at Katy Perry, perhaps she is confusing him with someone else," said Jagger's representative.
	Perry was backup singer to many popular artists including Rolling Stones and previously shared that Jagger flirted with her when the group went together for dinner.
	"I actually went to dinner with (Jagger) one time, and he hit on me when I was like 18!, that was a long time ago, and he's been very kind." she had said.

Mick Jagger denies flirting with Katy Perry

Maroon 5 rocker Adam Levine may have been designing apparels for long but he considers himself anti-fashion.
	The 34-year-old singer launched his own fashion line, 222, in August 2010 by entering into a long-term partnership with Sears Holdings, reported People magazine.
	"In a way I'm not into fashion. What I'm trying to do is something that in a lot of ways is the anti-fashion line, and not necessarily based on momentary trends," Levine said.
	The singer was overwhelmed when he a saw a contestant wearing a leather jacket designed by him on 'The Voice' which he co-judges with Cee Lo Green, Christina Aguilera and Blake Shelton, reported People magazine.
	 "I saw somebody wearing one of my T-shirts at The Voice. All of a sudden I see this graphic t-shirt that this guy's wearing and he's really into it and he was kind of giving me a thumbs up. I was just really proud," he added.

I am not into fashion: Adam Levine

Basketball player Lamar Odom says that his marriage with Khloe Kardashian is "wonderful", adding he and his wife are unbreakable.
	The couple were rumoured to be filing for divorce because of Odom's drug addiction, but the player insists that they currently working on their relationship, reported Aceshowbiz.
	"We're wonderful. We're unbreakable," Lamar said in upbeat mood. "That's why I wear my wedding ring. It is a beautiful ring. From a beautiful wife," the 33-year-old said. When asked how he was doing, Lamar answered, "I'm good."
	Last Monday, Odom and Kardashian showed up together at Kanye West's concert at the Staples Center in Los Angeles.
	They were joined by Kardashian's mother Kris Jenner, brother Rob Kardashian and half-sister Kendall Jenner. Other celebrities such as Fergie aka Stacy Ferguson, Russell Simmons, Jessica Alba and Ashley Benson reportedly also attended the gig.

Odom says his marriage to Khloe Kardashian is unbreakable

Reality TV star Pooja Misra is all set to do an item number in Chandra Barot's upcoming film "Hum Baaja Baja Denge".
	Misra said that the song 'Tilasmi', unlike any raunchy item number, is an integral part of the film and helps the storyline to develop further.
	"I am doing an item number in 'Hum Baaja Baja Denge'. I got the offer couple of months before my stint in 'Bigg Boss 5'. When my director Chandraji saw me, he finalised me for it then and there and said 'You are my item girl'. I also liked it because it not raunchy at all," Pooja told PTI.
	"Hum Baaja Baja Denge" is produced by singer-turned- producer Anup Jalota and will hit theatres on November 15.
	Having started her career in showbiz with a dance number in Shatrughan Sinha's wife Poonam produced "Mera Dil Leke Dekho" (2006), Pooja feels that item numbers have changed a lot over the period of time.
	"Item numbers have become coveted now. Movie comes and goes but item numbers are remembered for ages. Today top actresses are .

Pooja Misra turns item girl for 'Hum Baaja Baja Denge'

The members of boyband One Direction have been rated as the UK's five most influential tweeters, ahead of Prime Minister David Cameron and Labour Party leader Ed Miliband.
	Liam Payne took the top spot followed by band-mates Harry Styles, Niall Horan, Louis Tomlinson and Zayn Malik, reported Daily Telegraph.
	Musician Ed Sheeran has been named next on the PeerIndex list with the Prime Minister in seventh place.
	All the members of One Direction, except Zayn Malik, boast more than 12 million followers on the micro-blogging site, compared with just 400,000 for Cameron.
	Family and friends of the teenage heartthrobs also dominated the top of the list with Louis Tomlinson's girlfriend Eleanor Calder being rated as more influential than the Labour leader or the Chancellor George Osborne.

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