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Former Baywatch babe Carmen Electra,who shot to fame after posing for Playboy in 1996, braved Britain’s cold snap at the UK premiere of her latest film, I Want Candy. The American actress, visibly shivering at the event in London’s Leicester Square on Tuesday night, stars in the British-based comedy.
The actress said she jumped at the chance to take part in the film and said. “It was a great opportunity to work in London and with a British cast.
“They were so professional and sweet - we had a great time. You have to just go for it in a movie like this, because playing a porn star, you know, you could get very shy and intimidated at times.
“But I think it was done very tastefully, so I didn’t feel really that uncomfortable at any point.”

Carmen Electra researched her latest movie role as a porn star by digging out her own collection of X-rated films. The 34-year-old says, “I’m no stranger to watching porn but I did sort of have to brush up on a couple, you know, dusted off a few old porn films in the closet. Read more!

Canadian singer Nelly Furtado has revealed she once turned down a $500,000 offer to pose nude in Playboy. But believe it or not, she almost did (although we’re not exactly sure when) but never said a word about it. Sneaky, sneaky. The hitmaker has recently made a comeback to the charts with a racy new image, but insists she’s not ready to show off her body just yet.
She told MTV: “I was offered half a million dollars to pose fully clothed. To do it would be a vanity thing, an egotistical thing. It’s not to say that I would never do it. It’s intriguing, it’s very tempting. It’s got to be under the right terms. We will see what happens.”

The 28-year-old star, who is currently single and has a daughter Nevis, admits she feels as though her sexuality has blossomed as she has got older. Read more!

18-year-old Aaron Carter has broken off his six-day engagement to his older brother Nick’s ex-girlfriend, 22-year-old former Playboy Playmate Kari Ann Peniche just a week after he proposed onstage in Las Vegas, Harris said Monday.
“I got caught up in the moment and proposed,” the younger Carter told Us Weekly in a report on its Web site. Both brothers will appear in the reality series “House of Carters,” which debuts Oct. 2 on the E! network. E! News anchor Ryan Seacrest also reported Aaron’s comments about his engagement to Kari Ann Peniche being a “mistake.”

Kari Ann Peniche is an ex-girlfriend of Carter’s 26-year-old brother, Backstreet Boys singer Nick Carter. She’s also a former Miss Teen USA and former Playboy Playmate. Carter proposed to former Playboy Playmate Kari Ann Peniche in Las Vegas after only knowing her for 5 days. Read more!

80-year-old Playboy Hugh Hefner wants Oscar-winning actress Nicole Kidman to pose for Playboy, according to reports. was inspired to approach the actress after watching her perform naked in the play The Blue Room in 1999 - which critics described as “theatrical Viagra.”
Hefner said: “She’s bewitching and the vision of her with a cigarette in one hand and her knickers in the other as a delicious French au pair haunts my fantasies. I’d better add that she’s a terrific actress.”

While taking the interview, Hefner also offered an invitation to Australian celebrities Naomi Watts, Kylie Minogue and Elle McPherson to pose for Playboy.
Actresses that have already posed for the world famous Playboy include Kim Basinger, Alison Eastwood (Clint’s daughter), Erica Releniak and of course, the other Baywatch babe, Pamela Anderson. Read more!

Remember the fake Paris Hilton, Natalie Reid (she has Friendster too)? TMZ has a video of Ms. Reid posing as Paris Hilton at Nicole Miller’s fashion show. This Paris Hilton lookalike, Natalie Reid, really looks like Paris Hilton, so much so that the real Paris invited the fake Paris to the real Paris’ house for an evening of debating the intricacies of Israeli diplomacy in the Middle East conflict. Or not

Natalie Reid, the Paris Hilton lookalike scheduled appearance in Playboy more or less confirms it. Reid’s nude photos, along with her surely intriguing interview, are set to run in the August 4 issue to Playboy. Read more!

Justin Timberlake says he’s well over the whole romance thing with ex-love Britney Spears as he opens up about his messy break-up with pop star Britney Spears in the new issue of GQ magazine, which hits stands July 25. He tells GQ that he wishes her well, and says people shouldn’t count her out yet because she’s “very clever.”
“I was in love with her from the start, I was infatuated with her from the moment I saw her.”

But despite having “loved that person half your life” he found the hardest thing after their split was seeing the girl he was so close to being disloyal. It was this frustration at Britney, he admits, that led him to write his hit revenge song ‘Cry me a River’. Justin — promoting his comeback album FutureSex/LoveSounds — admits that his heartbreak initially made him a playboy who pursued “the affections of many young females”. Read more!

‘Rescue Me’ actor Denis Leary has slammed Paris Hilton for making “bad porn”. The actor blasted the socialite’s adult home movie, ‘One Night In Paris’, for it’s lack of hardcore action. He says, “It’s not very good homemade porn. I’m not talking about the way it was filmed. I’m talking about the actual sex.” But according to Page Six, it’s not the poor quality of the tape - it was Paris’s talent - or lack thereof.
“I’m not talking about the way it was filmed. I’m talking about the actual sex,” he tells the Men’s mag.

One Night in Paris is an authorized sex video of Paris Hilton with her then-boyfriend Rick Salomon, who leaked it onto the Internet. Hilton sued Salomon for releasing the tape. In July, the suit was settled, with Hilton receiving $400,000 and a percentage of the profits. All profits she received from the video were donated to charity . Read more!

Ashlee Simpson has apparetly turned down a huge sum of money to pose nude for Playboy. The singer/ actress is said to have turned down an offer of $4 million to pose in Playboy, it is thought that she ’seriousley considered’ the offer before saying no.
The Milli-Vanilli-ing singer was reportedly offered a whopping US$4 million to strip down for Hugh Hefner’s famous publication. “Ashlee figures she’s never looked better, so this may be the perfect time to do it,” a pal of Simpson’s told In Touch Weekly. “She feels confident and sexy and thinks this is one way for her to separate her image from Jessica’s.”

Although her publicist, Rob Shuter, confirmed she snubbed the opportunity to strip for the mag, a source said that her friends think she’s making a mistake. They reckon it would be a good move, to raise her profile. Read more!

Playboy Enterprises Inc. will buy Valley-based adult entertainment company Club Jenna, was founded by adult porn actress Jenna Jameson, for an undisclosed amount. Playboy said Thursday that it had paid an undisclosed amount of cash for the hard-core film production company founded by Jameson, one of the world’s most celebrated sex stars.
“I think this is the last piece of the puzzle,” said Christie Hefner, Playboy chief executive. “It’s about wanting to own, rather than license, content.”

The Phoenix-based company also owns 18 websites and a library of adult films, including “I Dream of Jenna” and “The Masseuse.” Jameson and her husband, Jay Grdina, will continue to manage the operation. Read more!

Former Go-Go’s frontwoman Belinda Carlisle is said to be producing a film based on her life and she wants Jessica Alba to play her character.
Jessica Alba was nominated as “Worst Actress” for both “Fantastic Four” and “Into the Blue” for the 26th annual Razzie Awards. And the good news (?) was Jessica Alba being named by Playboy Magazine among its 25 Sexiest Celebrities, and the “Sex Star of the Year” in its March 2006 issue, on whose cover she appeared. Read more!