Bollywood Bond girl Aishwarya Rai Bachchan furious over Elle magazine cover 'skin-whitening' scandal

Leave it to those elitist mag honchos that think white is the template of beauty for the entire world. How little do they know women of color are the most beautiful.

The Daily Mail reports that fans of Aishwarya Rai Bachchan were left stunned last week after the actress's skin appeared to have been digitally lightened on the cover of a new issue of Elle magazine.

Now the 37-year-old Bollywood star, who is widely believed to be the world's most beautiful woman, is said to be considering suing the Indian version of the title over what has been deemed 'racist airbrushing'.

The actress herself has not commented on the situation, but friends
'Aishwarya's first reaction was disbelief,' said one.

'She believed that these things don't happen anymore. Not in this day and age when women are recognised for their merit, and not for the colour of their skin.

'She is currently verifying this skin-whitening allegation. If there is any proof of this, she might even take action.'

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Page 3 gal Peta Todd’s sexy military outfits

Now stand at attention fellas!

The Sun reports that Page 3 beauty Peta Todd delights her army of fans - by going on parade in sexy military-style outfits.

Our little belter, 23 - who has raised funds for Help For Heroes - is a major attraction in khaki kecks for her calendar

And when it comes to naval gazing, we'd rank her top of the ratings in shipshape white.

As for her black outfit... we uniformly agree: she can only be described as a force of nature.
Peta's 2011 calendar is available from

The National Enquirer Exposes Lesbian life of Oprah Winfrey and Gayle King

Do you remember this Seinfeld classic episode?


Well, apparently Oprah thinks there’s something wrong with being a lesbian and refuses to come clean.

The National Enquirer reports that a teary Oprah Winfrey insisted to Barbara Walters that she and best friend Gayle King are not gay - but an in-depth ENQUIRER investigation has uncovered the REAL truth about their shocking secret life.

Inside sources reveal that behind closed doors the two women live a lesbian lifestyle - sleeping together in the same bed and vowing to love each other unconditionally for the rest of their lives.

Both washed their hands of men years ago, insiders say, with Oprah callously betraying her former fiance Stedman Graham to nurture her relationship with Gayle.What's more, sources say the wealthy and powerful talk-show queen has used payoffs, bribes and outright lies to keep America from learning her secrets.

"Oprah and Gayle genuinely love each other," an Oprah family member told The ENQUIRER.

"But they don't think the rest of the world could ever understand their feelings, so they keep their private life quiet."Oprah, 56, opened up about her sexuality and her relationship with BFF Gayle, 56, during an interview on ABC's "A Barbara Walters Special: Oprah, The Next Chapter."

Oprah told Barbara: "I am not a lesbian…I'm not even kind of a lesbian."But when she tried to explain her feelings for Gayle, Oprah became overwhelmed by emotion, breaking down in tears."She is the mother I never had. She is the sister everybody would want. She is the friend that everybody deserves. I don't know a better person. I don't know a better person," Oprah said.

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Do you really think Oprah is straight?

The British beauty (Patricia Roc) who saved Ronald Reagan

Looking at this dish, I wouldn’t want to check out either.

The UK Daily Mail reports that America begins a year of nationwide celebrations in January to commemorate the centenary of the birth of Ronald Reagan, for eight years the 40th President of the United States, and for another eight years before that, 33rd Governor of California.

When Reagan won the presidential election in 1980, he was dismissed by the cynics of Capitol Hill as a political ­lightweight and as an indifferent actor in a series of ­undistinguished B-movies, in one of which, Bedtime For Bonzo, he memorably co-starred with a chimpanzee.

But Reagan’s critics underestimated him both as an actor and politician. Nothing showed this more clearly than the ease with which he trounced incumbent President Jimmy Carter in televised debates, before winning a landslide ­victory by a huge majority of 489 electoral votes to Carter’s 49.

Last year, Reagan’s widow, Nancy, stood at President Barack Obama’s shoulder in the White House to hear him praise her husband as a man who helped ‘to restore a sense of optimism in our country, a spirit that transcended politics’.

Since his death, Reagan has come to be regarded as one of the greatest of all American presidents.
Millions of words have been devoted to his life and legacy. But a new book, by ­British film historian Michael Hodgson, makes startling and dramatic new claims about him.

If they are to be believed, Nancy might never have become Reagan’s wife, and Reagan might not have survived to enter the White House.

In his biography of Patricia Roc, one of the British cinema’s top box-office stars of the 1940s and 1950s, Hodgson alleges that in 1945, with his first marriage to screen star Jane Wyman in ruins, Reagan suffered a severe nervous breakdown.

This startling fact has never been revealed before, but Hodgson had access to Miss Roc’s private papers and they detail her scandalous affairs with married men — which earned her the name ‘Bed Roc’ within the film industry,

According to Hodgson, it was only Roc’s willingness to have a passionate affair with ­Reagan that prevented him from ­taking his own life — something he was threatening, such was the depth of his depression following the collapse of his marriage.

Their relationship, which began in Hollywood, where Roc was starring in a movie, continued in London while Reagan was ­filming at a British studio.

And Hodgson maintains that if Roc had accepted the newly-divorced Reagan’s subsequent proposal of marriage in 1948, there would have been, in the fullness of time, an English First Lady in the White House.

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