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Victoria Dawn Justice (born February 19, 1993 in Hollywood, Florida, U.S.) is an American child actress, model and spokesmodel. She is best known for playing the role of Lola Martinez on Zoey 101.

She currently resides in Hollywood, Florida and Los Angeles, California. Justice is set to star in a fetaure film entitled The Kings of Appletown. She also made an appearance in The Suite Life of Zack & Cody as Rebecca.

Justice is Puerto Rican on her mother’s side, and is mostly of Irish decent on her father’s side with some German, French, and English. And appeared in ads for Union Bay and Bratz clothing.

She just recently finished filming Season 4 of the hit show Zoey 101. Justice is set to star in a fetaure film entitled The Kings of Appletown.

Victoria Justice was born on February 19, 1993 in Hollywood, Florida to Zack Justice and Serene (Justice) Reed [divorced]. She has a younger sister named Madison Reed (about three years younger). Victoria is of Puerto Rican (mom) and Irish (dad) decent.

At a very young age (8), she knew what she wanted to do with her life: act and model, which she began to do. After watching some kid on a TV commercial, she told her mom, “I want to act” Her mom made some calls to find an agent and her career had begun. [Fast fact: Victoria also likes to sing and would one day like to record her own CD.] Her love of acting might have come from her mother and grandmother who both did some acting.

She started to gain some success in her commercial acting (her first one was for Ovaltine) and modeling, so in 2003 her family moved to from one Hollywood (Florida) to Hollywood, California to further grow in her career. Within three weeks of arriving in California, she already had her first television role, when she co-starred on an episode of the Gilmore Girls playing the role of a Hobbit.

After a long summer in Hollywood, her family returned back to Florida for the winter and following spring so Victoria could continue with her schoolwork – which she scored A’s. In 2004 she began to make it big in the kid’s modeling world by contracting for three of the industry’s biggest campaigns: Guess, Gap and Ralph Lauren.

Victoria’s first big screen debut came in 2004, in a supporting role in the indie movie Fallacy starring Stephen Baldwin and Gary Busey, followed by a little larger role the following year as the young Nikki in When Do We Eat? about a Passover dinner gone out of control. In 2004, she appeared in other small indie films, such, My Purple Fur Coat, and Mary, where she received her first lead role and the film became an Official 2005 Sundance Selection.

In 2005 she continued her schoolwork in Los Angeles, after auditioning and being accepted into the renowned Performing Arts Magnet school. While in school, she continued to do commercials and even appeared in an episode of The Suite Life of Zack and Cody where rumors were made that she dated on of the Sprouse twins. He has also appeared in theater in productions of Annie, Give My Regards to Broadway and Tribute to Disney.

As her career began to grow, so did her roles and in 2005 appeared as Holly in the horror movie, The Garden and then a made for TV Christmas movie, Silver Bells. She also filmed a psychological thriller entitled Unknown, which will be released in 2006.

Victoria Justice’s big break came in 2005, when she was asked to join the cast of Nickelodeon’s popular television show, Zoey 101 (as Lola Martinez) along side child star Jamie Lynn Spears and the rest of a talented young cast [PS: No, she is not dating co-star Matt Underwood, they are just good friends and have know each other for years from the modeling circuit back in Florida.] In 2006, she, along with the cast of Zoey 101, won the Young Artist Award for Best Young Ensemble Performance in a TV Series (Comedy or Drama) and the show was also nominated for an Emmy Award. Victoria is set to star in the Kings of Appletown (originally set to be released in Sept. 2007, but still under production).

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Ellen Pompeo Photos and News

Ellen Pompeo (born November 10, 1969) is a Golden Globe-nominated and Screen Actors Guild award-winning American actress, known for playing the title role of Meredith Grey on the ABC medical drama Grey’s Anatomy.

Pompeo was born in Everett, Massachusetts, the daughter of Kathleen and Joseph Pompeo, a salesman. Pompeo is of Irish and Italian descent and was raised Catholic. Her grandfather was born in Gesualdo, a village in Province of Avellino, Italy.

Her mother passed away when she was four years old and her father remarried soon after her mother’s death. She was nicknamed the pencil and Straciatella (which translated from Italian to “little rags” or “strings”) for her thin frame.

For more than two years, she served cocktails in Miami where she met then-boyfriend, fashion photographer Andrew Rosenthal. In 1996, she was bartending at the SoHo Bar & Grill in New York City’s Upper West Side when an agent approached her to appear in commercials. Subsequently, she appeared in commercials for Citibank and L’Oreal. She began her career with minor roles on television shows like Strangers with Candy and Law & Order and a handful of films.

Determined to succeed in acting, Pompeo moved to Los Angeles in 2001. A turning point came when she was selected by director Brad Silberling in 2002 for a role in his film Moonlight Mile playing Jake Gyllenhaal’s sympathetic love interest. She also appeared in the film Daredevil playing Matt Murdock’s (Ben Affleck) secretary Karen Page, but most of her scenes were deleted from the theatrical version of the film.

In 2002 and 2003, Pompeo appeared in Catch Me If You Can and Old School. Television guest roles include two episodes of Law & Order and an episode of Friends. She portrayed Jim Carrey’s ex-girlfriend, Naomi, in the 2004 film Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind. Although her scenes were cut from the film, she felt grateful that director Michel Gondry chose her to appear in his film.

Pompeo landed her first major role in the ABC medical drama Grey’s Anatomy, as the title character, Meredith Grey, a surgical intern at a prestigious hospital. The show became the highest-rated on network TV in its fourth season. In 2007, Pompeo was nominated for a Golden Globe for Best Actress in a Drama Series. That year, she also signed a new contract for Grey’s Anatomy that increased her salary to $200,000 per episode.

On October 13, 2007, Pompeo was honored by the National Italian American Foundation for her achievement in entertainment at a black-tie gala in Washington, D.C.

Pompeo married record producer and ex-convict Chris Ivery on November 9, 2007 at New York’s City Hall, with Mayor Michael Bloomberg serving as their witness. They met in 2003 when mutual friends introduced them at a Whole Foods Market, and began dating six months later. They later discovered that they grew up in Boston 10 miles from each other. They now reside in Los Angeles.

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Leah Remini new Wallpapers

The rags-to-riches story of Brooklyn-born Leah Remini is pure Horatio Alger (in a petticoat). Dropping out of school at the age of 14, she experienced the cruel world from the vantage of waitress, cashier and telemarketer, among other vocations, before landing an agent and a one-line role on “Head of the Class” (ABC).

After that, she made steady progress in the sitcom world, snagging regular roles in the short-lived likes of “Living Dolls” (ABC, 1989), “Man in the Family” (ABC, 1991) and “First Time Out” (The WB, 1995).

Though those series tanked, Remini managed to get excellent exposure in two recurring roles on popular shows: from 1991-93 she played Carla’s rebellious daughter Sarafina in NBC’s long-running “Cheers”, and 1993 saw her as Daisy in episodes of “Evening Shade” (CBS). She also made guest appearances on many series, including “Blossom” (NBC), “NYPD Blue” (ABC) and “Friends” (NBC).

The raven-haired Remini caught a huge break playing Sharon Lawrence’s foil in NBC’s “Fired Up” (debuting April 1997), but despite its Number 1 rating among women 18 to 49 for the first five weeks of the 1997-98 season, it did not survive the year. Remini had, however, lent an authentic New York voice to “Fired Up”, and her stock for portraying “tough” somewhat in the style of Fran Drescher was going through the roof.

She next signed on to “The King of Queens” (CBS, 1998- ), the blue-collar comedy reminiscent of “The Honeymooners”, which has provided the best showcase of her talent to date. Completely at home as the Queen of Queens, she is quick to keep her truck-driving husband (Kevin James) in line, while loving the big lug all the same.

The series looks like a keeper, its success in no small part due to Remini, whose first love is sitcom TV, taped in a studio full of people. “I need an audience. I need to hear the cameraman laughing. If the crew laughs, it’s a hit.”

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Jamie Lynn Spears Photos and Biography

Jamie Lynn Marie Spears (born April 4, 1991) is an American actress and singer. She is best known for starring in the Nickelodeon television series Zoey 101 and as the sister of Britney Spears. Spears, the youngest of the family, also has a brother, Bryan.

Spears appeared in 2001’s Total Britney Live and in a Pepsi commercial in 2002. In the same year, she appeared briefly in the movie Crossroads, as the younger version of the main character, Lucy, who was played by her older sister.

Like many youngsters with celebrity siblings, Jamie Lynn Spears has often been linked to the shadows of her older sister Britney Spears, pop singer and dancer who is often the subject of many controversies. But with her own television show, Zoey 101, she has gradually established her own following and has emerged as a thriving teen star that has caught the attention of various award-giving bodies.

“It’s hard when your sister is very famous and the whole world knows her, follows her every move and bashes her. You also get bashed just because you’re her sister. People need to see that I am my own person and I don’t want to be like my sister. I am trying to be my own person and I am happy being myself,” she told Orato’s Michelle Kenneth.

Yeah, I am Britney Spears’ sister and stuff, but I am also Jamie Lynn Spears, star of a hit show and I have my own life. I hope that in the future when I do sing that people will treat me as my own person and not say ‘she’s just following her sister’s footsteps’ or that the reason why I am a star is because of who my sister is,” she added.

Although Jamie Lynn Spears wants to eventually pursue a singing career and still looks up to her sister’s achievements in the music world, she has no intentions of directly following her sister’s footsteps.

“I just want my fans and media to treat me as myself. I don’t want to be just Britney Spears’ little sister. I want to be my own woman and be known for my acting and singing.”
At 16, she tries to live a normal teenage life while living in the limelight as the star of Zoey 101, in which she plays Zoey Brooks.

“Right now, I am happy with where I am in life and acting. I would like to maybe do some films later on down the road. But with Zoey doing so well right now, being 16 and still a teenager, I enjoy doing just Zoey during the summer and then going to school and cheerleading during the time we are not filming…just being a normal teen,” she revealed.

“I enjoy spending time with my friends, going to malls, watching movies, go-carting, camping and doing teenage stuff… It’s hard being a teen and a celeb, because you have the whole world watching you. You’re pretty much followed around, being recorded and having your photo taken no matter what you do,” she added.

For two seasons, Jamie-Lynn was a cast member on the comedy-variety show on Nickelodeon, All That. While on All That, she played many different characters, including one of her own creation- Thelma Stump, an 80-year-old bodyguard who loves bacon. She also did many On-Air Dares (a Nickelodeon version of Fear Factor) skits where she and other All That cast members had to do many disgusting tasks. She eventually left All That to star in Zoey 101.

Jamie-Lynn garnered her first starring role as Zoey Brooks in the Emmy Nominated Nickelodeon television show, Zoey 101. When the show debuted in January 2005, the show drew record numbers with the premiere of the show, which gave the channel viewers aged 9-14, its biggest viewership in the demographic for a premiere in eight years. Jamie-Lynn stars as one of the first girls to enter a formerly all-boy boarding school called Pacific Coast Academy. Zoey 101 was nominated for a 2005 Emmy. In 2006, Spears won a Nickelodeon Kids’ Choice Awards blimp for best Female TV Star and best TV Female Actress. Spears also sings the theme song for the show, which was co-written by Emily Bob and her older sister Britney, entitled “Follow Me”.

Spears attended school at Parklane Academy in McComb, Mississippi, where she was a cheerleader and was involved in other sports, and is continuing her education there by online correspondence. On December 18, 2007, it was announced in an article in OK! Magazine, to be released on December 19, 2007, that Jamie-Lynn is 12 weeks pregnant.

She and her mother spoke to the magazine in an exclusive interview. Nickelodeon, the network that carries Spears’ series Zoey 101, issued the following statement shortly after the announcement: We respect Jamie-Lynn’s decision to take responsibility in this sensitive and personal situation. We know this is a very difficult time for her and her family, and our primary concern right now is for Jamie Lynn’s well being.

The father is Casey Aldridge, 19 at the time, whom she met through church. Spears stated shortly before Thanksgiving that she had no steady boyfriend.

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Dita von Teese Wallpapers and Photos

Dita Von Teese (born Heather Renée Sweet on September 28, 1972) is a popular American burlesque artist, model and actress. She is one of the instigators of the burlesque revival and has been a considerable factor in bringing burlesque to mainstream attention. Her fame increased during her relationship with Marilyn Manson, whom she married and subsequently divorced.

Von Teese began her career in a local strip club when she was nineteen. Disappointed with the lack of originality in all the other strippers’ acts, Von Teese created a vintage-inspired outfit, with beehive hairstyle and elbow-length gloves, piquing the interest of the clientele.

It was during this time at the strip club that she began some glamour modeling, before she eventually became a fetish model. Her retro pin-up look, frequently emulating Bettie Page in photo shoots, set her apart from most other fetish models.

Her official website, often referred to as one of the first model sites on the internet, was created in 1992. Von Teese has maintained meticulous care to own the copyright to the majority of her images, very aware of what became of models, such as Bettie Page, who did not.

Von Teese achieved some level of recognition in the fetish world as a tightlacer. Through the wearing of a corset for many years, she had reduced her natural waistline to 22 inches, and can be laced down as far as 16 and a half inches. A diminutive person already, Von Teese stands at only 5′3″ and weighs 105 pounds.

Von Teese appeared on a number of fetish magazine covers, including Bizarre and Marquis. It was around this time when she appeared, bound and partially suspended, on the cover of Midori’s book, The Seductive Art of Japanese Bondage.
Von Teese was featured in Playboy magazine in 1999, 2001 and 2002. It was her Playboy cover in December of 2002 that gave her her last name. Originally known simply as “Dita”, a tribute to silent film actress Dita Parlo, Playboy insisted she use a last name. She picked “Von Treese” out of the phonebook, but it was misspelled “Von Teese”. Dita, preferring the typo, adopted it as her name. Dita says that it is her appearances in Playboy that finally won her father’s respect for her profession. The German metal band Atrocity revealed that the cover model for their new album, Werk 80 II, will be Dita Von Teese. The album is due in 2008.

It is Von Teese’s burlesque routines that she is best known for, and is frequently dubbed “the Queen of Burlesque” in the press. Von Teese began performing burlesque in 1993 and, as a proponent of New Burlesque, has helped to popularize its revival. In her own words, she “puts the tease back into striptease” with long, elaborate dance shows with props and characters, often inspired by 1930s and 1940s musicals and films. Some of her more famous dances include numbers involving a carousel horse, a giant powder compact, a filigree heart and a clawfoot bathtub with a working shower head. Her feather fan dance, inspired by burlesque dancer Sally Rand, features feather fans that are the largest in the world and are now on display in Hollywood’s Museum Of Sex. Her signature show features a giant martini glass.

Her burlesque career has included some memorable performances, including once performing at a benefit for the New York Academy of Art wearing nothing but $5 million worth of diamonds. Additionally, Von Teese became the first ever guest star to perform at the Parisian Crazy Horse cabaret club in the show’s history when she appeared there in October, 2006.

Cameron Diaz performed a tribute to Von Teese’s martini glass routine in the film Charlie’s Angels: Full Throttle. Von Teese’s name appears in the credits, listed under “Special Thanks”. It is rumoured that this was only added after Dita threatened to sue the film makers for stealing her idea.

Von Teese’s first book, which consisted of her opinions on the history of burlesque and fetish, Burlesque and the Art of the Teese/Fetish and the Art of the Teese, was published in 2006 by HarperCollins. Vanity Fair called her “a Burlesque Superheroine.” Von Teese is also an occasional actress. In her early years she appeared in fetish-related movies, such as Romancing Sara, Matter of Trust, in which she is billed as Heather Sweet, and also in two films by Andrew Blake: Pin Ups 2 and Decadence.

In recent years she has appeared in more mainstream features, such as the 2005 short film, The Death of Salvador Dali, written by Delaney Bishop, which won best screenplay and best cinematography at recent festivals, including SXSW, Raindance Film Festival and Mill Valley Film Festival, and Best Actress for Von Teese at Beverly Hills Film Festival. She is due to appear in the upcoming feature films Saint Francis and The Boom Boom Room, both expected in 2007.

In addition to this, she has appeared in a number of music videos, including the video for the Green Day song “Redundant”, the video for Zip Gun Bop by swing band, Royal Crown Revue, Agent Provocateur’s video for their cover of She’s Lost Control, and performed her Martini Glass burlesque routine in the video for “mOBSCENE” by Marilyn Manson.

However, Von Teese has said that acting is not at the top of her agenda and she would only take roles that she feels are right for her, stating, “I don’t understand why women feel the need to go into acting as soon as they become famous…But I suppose if the part were aesthetically correct, then maybe I could consider it.”

In recent years, the fashion world has come to accept Von Teese and her retro look, and she has appeared on a number of best-dressed lists. Von Teese frequents the front row of fashion shows, particularly Christian Dior and Marc Jacobs, labels she is often seen wearing.
She has also done various catwalk work. During Los Angeles Fashion Week, Spring 2004, she modeled for former-club kid Richie Rich’s fashion label, Heatherette. In 2005 she appeared in the Autumn/Winter Ready-to-Wear show for Giambattista Valli, a former designer for Ungaro, in Paris. In the 2006 Milan Fashion Week, Von Teese was on the runway, opening for the Moschino diffusion label, Moschino Cheap & Chic, autumn/winter 2006/7 show. In 2007, she appeared twice in the Jean Paul Gaultier Haute Couture show during the Paris Fashion Week. Additionally, she has starred in several ad campaigns. She appeared in Vivienne Westwood’s spring/summer 2005 collection adverts and became the face of Australian clothing range Wheels and Dollbaby for their 2006/7 Spring/Summer advertising campaign. Currently, she is a spokesmodel for MAC Cosmetics. Von Teese has appeared in Vanity Fair, Vogue, Elle, and international issues of nearly every fashion magazine.

In spite of this, Von Teese states that she never uses a stylist. “The one time I hired a stylist, they picked up a pair of my 1940s shoes and said, “These would look really cute with jeans.” I immediately said, ‘You’re out of here.’” She does her own make-up, and dyes her naturally blonde hair black at home. She has also campaigned on behalf of People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA), and appeared in their ads.

Von Teese currently resides in Hollywood. She is a collector of vintage china, particularly eggcups and tea sets, and she drives a 1939 Chrysler New Yorker and a 1965 Jaguar S-type. Von Teese frequently mentions that her best friend is fellow burlesque performer, Catherine D’lish, who designs all of Von Teese’s burlesque costumes.

Prior to her marriage, Von Teese had been romantically linked to vocalist/guitarist Mike Ness of Social Distortion and to actor Peter Sarsgaard. She has also admitted to having several lesbian experiences including a long-term relationship with a woman when she was 20.

Marilyn Manson had been a long time fan, and was a member of her website. They first met when he asked her to dance in one of his music videos. Though she was unable to, the two kept in contact. On Manson’s 32nd birthday, in 2001, she arrived with a bottle of absinthe, and they became a couple. Manson proposed on March 22, 2004 and gave her a 1930s, 7-carat, European round-cut diamond engagement ring.

On November 28, 2005, they were married in a private, non-denominational ceremony in their home. A larger ceremony was held on December 3 at Gurteen Castle in Kilsheelan (County Tipperary), Ireland, the home of their friend, Gottfried Helnwein. The wedding was officiated by surrealist film director and comic book writer Alejandro Jodorowsky. They reportedly exchanged vows in front of approximately 60 guests, including burlesque sensation Catherine D’lish, Lisa Marie Presley, Eric Szmanda, Jessicka (Ex-Jack Off Jill) of [Scarling] and Christian Hejnal also of Scarling. She wore a royal purple silk taffeta gown, made by Vivienne Westwood plus a tri-corned hat designed by Stephen Jones and matching Mr. Pearl corset.

Moschino designed an additional wardrobe for the rest of the weekend, exclusively for Von Teese. The reception music was provided by the retro German band “Palast Orchester mit Max Raabe”. Guests were invited to participate in skeet shooting, archery and falconry in the days following the wedding. The wedding pictures appeared in the March 2006 edition of Vogue under the heading “The Bride Wore Purple”. The couple lived in Laurel Canyon with their four Devon Rex cats, Lily, Aleister, Edgar and Hermann, and two dachshunds, Greta and Eva.

On December 29, 2006 Von Teese filed for divorce from Manson citing “irreconcilable differences.” Von Teese left their house empty-handed on Christmas Eve, and was not able to get in touch with Manson to inform him of her intentions of divorce. In an interview with The Daily Telegraph, Von Teese says “I wasn’t supportive of his partying or his relationship with another girl. As much as I loved him I wasn’t going to be part of that”. The ‘other girl’ is believed to be 19-year-old actress Evan Rachel Wood, with whom Manson has continued his relationship after his divorce from Von Teese, despite scathing comments from critics. Von Teese also stated that she gave Manson an ultimatum, but says “it didn’t work. Instead, it made me the enemy.” Von Teese is not seeking spousal support and seems to have no interest in his assets. The news broke for the public and for Manson on his birthday on January 5, 2007, when he was served the divorce papers.

“I think it’s unfortunate that he’s had to exploit our divorce for the sake of record sales, but you do what you gotta do, I suppose,” muses Dita. “I think most people at this point understand what happened and what they’re dealing with when he’s doing interviews drunk and offering journalists drugs. It kind of tells you what I might have been up against. I’m just trying to put it past me, I’m happy to be a single girl and have that drama out of my life.”

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