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Leonardo DiCaprio has been spotted partying with a group of sexy blonde girls, according to sources.

The hotties surrounded the ‘Titanic’ star at a party thrown by billionaire Nicholas Berggruen at Hollywood’’s Chateau Marmont.

“Leo was surrounded by a gaggle of girls all night. At one point, he threw his arms around a tall blonde and chatted with her and her friends,” the New York Post quoted a source as saying.

The insider added: “He left with a male pal, followed by three girls — including the blonde — at about 3 a.m.”

Meanwhile, rumors are abuzz that DiCaprio has reunited with supermodel Bar Refaeli.

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Leonardo DiCaprio ‘spotted flirting with blondes’

Fans have already given an Oscar to James Cameron’’s Avatar – the 3-D sci-fi saga bagged 33.7 percent votes in the Moviefone.com survey to emerge as Best Picture.

But readers named Cameron’’s ex-wife as the Best Director.

Kathryn Bigelow, who helmed “The Hurt Locker,” received 39 percent votes as she outscored her former hubby.

“Audiences are pulling for her to become the first woman to win for best director,” the New York Daily News quoted Kevin Polowy, editor of Moviefone.com, as saying.’

Jeff Bridges’ role of a country singer in “Crazy Heart” won him the favour of 46.4 percent readers who named him as Best Actor while 60 percent fans named Sandra Bullock as Best Actress for her performance in “The Blind Side.”

The poll, which was conducted from Feb. 9 to March 4, saw the participation of over 45,000 people.

According to Polowy, the survey was a look at what the Oscars would look like “if the power was put in the hands of moviegoers rather than the Academy [of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences].”

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R ‘n’ B singer Chris Brown is said to have been invited to read at Harlem’s Sisulu-Walker Charter School’s annual Family Read Night, despite being convicted for beating up ex-girlfriend Rihanna.

The event, which is held to encourage students to read, will see Brown, 20, reading to kids.

“I extended an invitation to all celebrities and politicians, and we had an acceptance by him,” the New York Daily News quoted principal Dawn Cejas as saying.

Brown pleaded guilty to a felony and was sentenced last August to community service along with a year of domestic-violence counselling for his attack on the “Umbrella” singer.

Olubunmi Sonubi, a mother of Sisulu-Walker fifth-grader Ishola, said she was okay with a “second chance” for Brown.

“He can come even though he was arrested,” she said.

“He’s coming to read to the children. He apologized on TV. Sometimes in real life we make mistakes,” she added.

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Brown to read at Harlem school despite conviction for beating up Rihanna

Supermodel Naomi Campbell has broken her silence for the first time since she was accused of whacking her driver.

The catwalk queen issued a statement shortly after the driver, Miodrag Mejdina, apologized for claiming that Campbell assaulted her.

“I have worked very hard on correcting my previous wrongdoings and I will not be held hostage to my past,” the New York Daily News quoted Campbell as saying in a statement.

“I am pleased the driver has apologized. I would like to put the last few days behind me and move on,” she added.

Mejdina’’s lawyer issued a statement in which the driver blamed himself for a ‘misunderstanding.’

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Demi Moore beat Kevin Bacon in an online contest called ”Pepsi Refresh Celebrity Challenge”, to bag 156,250 pounds for her anti-sex slave charity.

The cash has gone to ”The DNA Foundation”, founded by Moore and husband Ashton Kutcher.

”The Ghost” star received the most public votes in the poll.

Moore’’s foundation plans to forward the prize money to the Girls Educational & Mentoring Services (GEMS), which helps women who have suffered sexual exploitation and domestic trafficking.

“I am thrilled that GEMS has gained powerful allies in Demi Moore and The DNA Foundation and honoured to be the beneficiary of a Pepsi Refresh Grant,” the Daily Star quoted GEMS founder/Executive Director Rachel Lloyd, as saying.

He added: “The grant will support us in the important work of transforming survivors of domestic trafficking and commercial sexual exploitation into future leaders.”

Meanwhile, Bacon’’s charity ”SixDegrees.org”, which is presently helping Haiti earthquake victims, will receive a 62,500-pound grant.

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Demi Moore beats Kevin Bacon, wins £156,250 prize for anti sex-slave charity

West End theatres is not only playing host to Hollywood stalwarts like Keira Knightley, Jude Law and Ewan McGregor, but it is also home to many rodents, it has been revealed.

Actors involved in some of the best-known plays and musicals in London have disclosed that the majority of theatres are infested with rats, mice and fleas.

Three quarters of the 250 actors surveyed in a report said that their theatre had a “problem with vermin and infestations”.

On the other hand two thirds agreed there was “evidence of vermin infestation inside your dressing room”.

“I had tiny bite marks on my lipstick recently when I left the lid off,” the Times Online quoted a respondent as saying.

The survey— commissioned by Equity, the actors’ union— received responses from cast members of productions including ‘Billy Elliott’, ‘Dirty Dancing’, ‘The Lion King’, ‘Love Never Dies’, ‘Mamma Mia!’, ‘Oliver’ and ‘Phantom of the Opera’.

Ironically, one theatre that was excluded from the survey was the St Martin’s Theatre, home of the longest-running play in the world, ‘The Mousetrap’.

“These findings mean that tonight, over 600 actors and stage managers will go to work knowing that they will probably see and smell vermin. These appalling conditions must come to an end,” said Christine Payne, the general secretary of Equity.

The survey also suggested that a third of theatres in the West End have temperamental heating, half have problems with ventilation, a third are unclean or poorly decorated and a third have grotty lavatories.

Theatre owners said that they were doing their best to control the problem.

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Revealed: West End theatres infested with mice