The daily dish … a spicy serving of celebrity news
A home for Azhar…
“Slumdog Millionaire” child star AzharuddinMohammedIsmail and his mother moved into their new home Tuesday, leaving behind a corrugated metal slum shanty for four solid walls, doors that lock and an indoor toilet. “I was shocked when I saw this house,” Azhar, 11, said, before turning on one of his favorite Hindi songs and dancing around the living room. “I want to thank Danny Boyle for giving us this flat.” Boyle, the director of the Oscar-winning hit, and producer Christian Colson will transfer the $50,000 one-bedroom apartment to Azhar’s name when he turns 18, provided he finishes school. Officials from the trust— set up by the filmmakers to secure an education for Azhar and his co-star Rubina Ali, 9— are actively searching for a new home for Rubina as well.
The apartment is on the ground floor of a seven story concrete apartment building in the Santa Cruz West section of Mumbai, not too far from where Azhar attends school.
Ron recovers…
Rupert Grint, who recently recovered from a mild bout with swine flu, showed up with his co-stars Tuesday for the London premiere of “Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince.”
Grint, who plays Harry’s friend Ron Weasley, said the illness was not severe and “just like any other flu I’ve had before.”
Thousands of fans showed up for the screening in the rain, some holding signs reading “Harry, I’ll be Your Chosen One” and “Britain Loves J. K. Rowling.”
The movie opens around the world next Wednesday.
Blake’s bod…
“Gossip Girl” star Blake Lively may wear revealing outfits on the set, but the 21-year-old actress says she doesn’t work out—or watch her diet.
“I have never worked out, but I know you feel better when you do,” she tells the August issue of UK Glamour Magazine, “so I am planning on getting a trainer.”
Lively, who played a soccer standout in “The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants,” said: “I do panic before I have to wear a really skimpy outfit, but I don’t have enough willpower.” She added: “I had to do a scene in a bra and shorts for the first time in two years. On the day of the shoot, I ate a pork burrito, chips and coke. Afterwards, I thought, ‘I probably shouldn’t have done that.’ But whatever.”
Spray suit…
A St. Petersburg, Fla., chemist has filed suit against actress Lindsay Lohan, claiming she and a Nevada woman stole her formula for a new tanning mist spray.
The St. Petersburg Times says the lawsuit was filed in Tampa federal court over the new Sevin Nyne tanning spray.
Lohan launched the spray this summer, taking credit for creating it over the past three years with Lorit Simon, a Las Vegas businesswoman who air-brushes tans for celebrities, the Times reports.
Count out…
Casey Kasem has done his final countdown.
The 77-year-old DJ told “American Top 20” listeners across the country that the program would be his last.
Kasem launched his weekly countdown of the nation’s most popular songs, the “American Top 40,” on July 4, 1970.
Kasem said he “loved every minute” of his broadcasting career, but that he was leaving the show to “free up time I need to focus on myriad other projects.”
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