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Hugh Hefner and his editorial team at Playboy have compiled the annual roster of the hottest women in the world.

The list this year consists of 26 actresses, reality TV stars, musicians and models, and while Holly Madison received an honourable mention her fellow “Girls Next Door” Bridget Marquardt and Kendra Wilkinson did not, reports Fox News.

The list had models Bar Refaeli, Ida Ljungqvist, Karissa Shannon, Kristina Shannon, Alina Puscau, and Crystal Harris, and singers Beyonce, Aubrey O’Day, Katy Perry, Nicole Scherzinger, and Alicia Keys.

Actresses Scarlett Johansson, Tara Reid, Sasha Grey, Olivia Wilde, Megan Fox, Lisa Rinna, Anna Paquin, Jessica Alba, Christina Hendricks, Camilla Belle, Angelina Jolie, and Carmen Electra were also on the list.

And so were reality TV stars Kim Kardashian, Joanna Krupa, and Holly Madison.

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A normally private person, music mogul Simon Cowell is said to have surprised onlookers when he kissed his new girlfriend at the ”Britain’’s Got Talent” auditions.

Cowell, 50, was seen hugging make-up artist Mezhgan Hussainy, 36, and kissing her on the lips on February 11, as she sat next to him at the audition at Hammersmith Apollo in West London.

“This is serious. He is head over heels in love. The fact he’’s happy to show his affection in the most public manner says it all,” the Mirror quoted a pal as saying.

“She is everything Simon wants in a woman. They are blissfully happy,” the pal said.

The pair kissed during a break in rehearsals before Hussainy straightened his tie and patted his back.

“Simon doesn”t normally show off his girlfriends in public – quite the opposite. He squirrels them away and keeps them out of the limelight,” an ITV show source said.

“It was a shock to see him kiss her in front of everyone. He certainly wasn”t shy in letting people know what he thought,” the source added.

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Vanessa Redgrave is set to receive this year’’s Bafta Fellowship for her contribution to cinema.

Redgrave, 73, actress has acted in over 80 movies, including 1977′’s Julia for which she bagged the best supporting actress Oscar.

David Parfitt, chairman of the British Academy of Film and Television, said Redgrave was “a hugely talented and respected actress”.

She will receive the honour at the Bafta awards gala on February 21.

“I”m truly delighted – it’’s such an honour to be recognised in this way,” the BBC quoted Redgrave, as saying.

She added: “Looking through the list of past recipients shows what a wonderful accolade this is.

“The fact that Alfred Hitchcock was the very first recipient makes it even more special as my father made his first film with him.”

Redgrave, the daughter of actors Sir Michael Redgrave and Rachel Kempson, first received critical acclaim for her stellar performance in Morgan: A Suitable Case for Treatment.

She became more successful with the title roles in 1968′’s Isadora and 1971′’s Mary, Queen of Scots.

Redgrave complemented her film success with her performance on the stage and won numerous awards, including Tonys and Oliviers.

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Vanessa Redgrave set to receive Bafta Fellowship

French model/singer Brigitte Bardot has called one of President Nicolas Sarkozy’’s oldest friends a “big, fat wide-boy liar” after he claimed to have slept with her at the height of her fame.

Bardot, 75, was infuriated by Patrick Balkany’’s claim in his autobiography released last month, and his repeating it on radio and television.

The 61-year-old controversial and flamboyant mayor-MP of a Paris suburb, portrays himself as a Don Juan who wooed a host of beauties, in his book, ”Une Autre Verite, La Mienne” (Another Truth, Mine).

Among his conquests he cites Shirley MacLaine, the film star, and Bardot, who fell for his charms at the zenith of her seductive powers.

“I must have been 18. She was a star hounded by the paparazzi. We had gone together to a soiree in Deauville [a chic Normandy seaside town]. I was proud to have her on my arm,” the Sydney Morning Herald quoted him as writing.

“”Listen,” she whispered in her inimitable voice, ”I can”t sleep with someone if I”m not in love”. Oh well, I thought. Ten minutes later, she added, in a breath: ”But you know, I can fall in love three times a day”,” he wrote.

He claims the star of ”And God Created Woman”, who is now a prominent animal rights campaigner, mentioned the one-night stand in 2004 when she used his town hall for her Brigitte Bardot Foundation’’s Christmas function.

But Bardot categorically denied the liaison in a statement to the press.

“I know with whom I have slept and it certainly was not with this fat wide-boy liar, an unusually inelegant cad,” she wrote.

“For a politician who claims to be credible, respected and dignified, this lowliness shows his true personality,” she added.

Balkany recently recounted the incident on a television programme called ”We Haven”t Gone To Bed”, and Bardot said it should have been renamed ”We Haven”t Gone To Bed Together” for the occasion.

If he restated his claim once more, she promised to sue him for slander. Her lawyer said she was considering filing for a court injunction to force the book’’s publisher to insert a denial from Bardot in the book.

“All her life, people have told rubbish about her,” Christophe Marie, head of animal protection at her foundation, said.

“She feels wounded and soiled and doesn”t understand the Levallois mayor’’s actions unless it’’s a desire to get people talking about him to sell his books,” Marie stated.

But Balkany has stuck to his story, reportedly saying: “Nothing surprises me any more. I just find all this very sad for her.”

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Brigitte Bardot calls Sarkozy’’s oldest friend “big, fat wide-boy liar”

Comedian Russell Brand’’s joke about the state of Amy Winehouse’’s liver has topped a list of the greatest on-stage quips at the Brit Awards.

MySpace users were asked to choose from a shortlist of the most amusing and cringeworthy comments since the event began in 1977.

Brand, who hosted the show in 2007, landed the spot after he famously joked about the ‘Rehab’ singer: “Amy Winehouse – her surname’’s beginning to sound like a description of her liver.”

Brand’s gag came ahead of Robbie Williams challenging Liam Gallagher to a punch-up as he stepped on stage to collect an award in 2000.

Liam stood third for his 1996 remark at host Chris Evans: “It will take more than Ginger Bollocks to throw us off.”

“The Brits are a national institution and millions of us tune in every year, not just to see who wins and who loses but to see who trips up on stage and who gives the wittiest speeches – the best of which linger in the memory long after the ceremony is over,” the Mirror quoted Will Francis, editor of MySpace UK, as saying.

Justin Timberlake came fourth in the list with his 2004 quip: “This is only my first record so you guys stick with me, we”ve got depression and drug addiction to go through.”

Bjork’’s bizarre 1998 comment ‘I am a grateful grapefruit’ rounded off the top five.

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Russell Brand’’s Amy Winehouse’’s liver joke named greatest on-stage quip

Norah Jones has no plans of mastering the sitar as the instrument has left her father Ravi Shankar and half-sister Anoushka Shankar with twisted backs.

The multiple Grammy Award winner revealed that she once took sitar lessons from Anoushka but later realized it wasn’t her cup of tea, reports Contactmusic.

She says, “It was fun, but you have to twist your back all around. My dad and Anoushka both have twisted backs from playing so much.

“And you have to sit cross-legged. See, that ain”t cool! I can”t imagine doing a world tour cross-legged.”

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No sitar for Norah Jones