Emma Watson told to quit acting

Emma Watson was advised to quit acting by her university professor.
The 23-year-old star - who shot to fame playing Hermione Granger in the 'Harry Potter' franchise when she was just nine - admits she almost considered ditching her career as an actress on the advice of one of her tutors.
Speaking to Entertainment Weekly magazine, she said: 'For a while I kind of bought into the hype of, 'Will they ever be able to play anything else?' It gave me a sense of paralysis and stage fright for a while. And then a professor told me that they didn't think I should act, either.
'So I was really grappling with it and wasn't feeling good about it. And then, I don't know ... it got so bad and people had put me in a box so much that it started p***ing me off. I suddenly wanted to prove them wrong. It gave me fuel, in a way. I'm not sure why that shift happened.'
The brunette beauty credits the script of her 2013 movie 'The Perks of Being a Wallflower' for encouraging her to step back into the film industry and assuring her there were roles to challenge her after 'Harry Potter'.
She explained: 'I was really unsure, but then I read the script for 'The Perks of Being a Wallflower', and falling in love with that and then having such a great experience on that movie kind of sealed the deal for me.
'I stopped intellectualising it, and it became much more instinctual. I just got the bug and got very driven all of a sudden, which I really wasn't before. But I'm so happy. It's all felt very new to me, really.'

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Kim Kardashian ‘films reality show while in hiding’

Kim Kardashian's baby, North West, could appear on her reality show.
The TV star - who welcomed her daughter with Kanye West in June and has not been seen in public since - has reportedly been filming her reality show 'Keeping Up With The Kardashians' while in hiding.
Kim was reportedly filming scenes for the show while living in her mother Kris Jenner's home Calabasas shortly after North's birth.
A source revealed to RadarOnline: '[The camera's have been] a constant presence in Kris' house since Kim and Kanye brought North home from the hospital. Kanye has been angry about the intrusion, but Kim is contractually obligated to film.'
Kanye - who narrowly skipped an assault charge for attacking a photographer last month - has reportedly been cautious to have North filmed for the series and he will not be appearing in the show himself.
The source added: 'The baby hasn't been filmed close up, but has been captured at a distance while Kim has been holding her. North's temporary nursery has also been filmed, when Kanye wasn't around. There is no doubt that Kim would want to have North appear on the show, if Kanye wasn't so opposed to it. She is a great mother, and totally devoted to her baby.'
Meanwhile Kris has been teasing a debut of the baby on her new talk show.
The mother-and-manager pretended to carry baby North on the first episode of the show only to later reveal it wasn't her.

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Lindsay Lohan moves to NY to stay sober

Lindsay Lohan has swapped Los Angeles for New York in order to maintain her sobriety.
The 27-year-old actress - who has just completed a court ordered 90-day rehab stint for substance abuse issues after pleading no contest to charges of lying to police about driving during a car crash in June 2012 - is determined to change her ways and believes New York will provide less temptation than Los Angeles.
A source told RadarOnline: 'Lindsay is doing so well, she's back in New York City and is trying to figure out where she is going to live and what she is going to do next. But she is clean and sober now and she's planning to stay that way.
'Lindsay loves to go out to clubs in New York but this time she's saying that she's serious about just working and not getting in trouble again.'
While the 'Canyons' actress wants to get her own apartment, she is currently living with her mother Dina and working on repairing her fractured relationship with her father Michael.
The insider added: 'Lindsay hasn't made any real plans about where she is going to live long term. She likes living on her own but also likes living with Dina. She is enjoying spending time with her family now.
'Michael doesn't want to be a part of her business life, he just wants to be Lindsay's dad and a dad with all of his kids.'

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Khloe Kardashian promotes new WWF campaign

Khloe Kardashian has teamed up with the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) for a stylish campaign.
The 'Keeping Up with the Kardashians' star, who was previously a spokesperson for PETA, is the face of the organisation's NEW Prizeo campaign, which aims to help save the 3,200 wild tigers left in the world, and as part of her involvement will take one lucky donor on a free shopping spree in her designer store Dash, during which she will act as a personal stylist.
The 29-year-old brunette beauty said: 'I have always been a lover of exotic cats - leopard, tigers, lions, you name it. And I never knew how almost to extinction tigers were in the wild. And as soon as I became aware of that information just a few years ago, I really became passionate about just having a voice and letting people know that we need to protect our wildlife.'
Khloe, who is married to basketball star Lamar Odom, helped raise $15,000 for the organisation in a week after she tweeted its phone number to her followers, according to EOnline.com.
She hopes her fans will be equally supportive of her new campaign.
She said: 'I am so thankful to all my fans for supporting me and for supporting the causes that I love and that are so dear to my heart.'
Khloe stopped supporting PETA in March 2012 after it voiced its support for a woman who flour-bombed her sister Kim on the red carpet for wearing fur.
Announcing her departure from the group, Khloe said: 'I just received word that the woman responsible has very close ties to PETA, despite PETA publicly stating otherwise.
'I've been a vocal supporter of PETA for a long time but I have also been very vocal about anti-bullying, so this was a huge disappointment for me. As you all know, I don't condone violence and bullying and what happened last Thursday was just that.'

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Lindsay Lohan begs mum to go to rehab

Lindsay Lohan has reportedly been 'begging' her mother to go into rehab.
'The Canyons' actress recently completed her own 90-day court ordered stint at the Cliffside Malibu treatment centre and is said to be urging Dina to seek similar treatment.
A source told RadarOnline.com: 'Lindsay has been worried sick about Dina lately.
'She knows Dina has been out drinking and she sees how much her own treatment helped her, so she has been begging her mother to go and get help.'
According to reports, the 27-year-old star is trying to get her mother to realise she needs help - but Dina apparently 'refuses to listen.'
The insider added: 'Lindsay has been trying to get Dina to see she has a problem too and she needs to get help, but Dina refuses to listen and insists she doesn't have a problem and doesn't need rehab.'
Those close to her family suggest Lindsay's own reluctance to seek help will be matched by her mother.
The source said: 'Getting Lindsay to go, even though it was ordered by the court, was almost impossible and it seems like Dina is going to fight even harder than Lindsay did to stay out of rehab.'

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Jamie Campbell Bower: Teens need movies

Jamie Campbell Bower thinks teenagers need movies they can 'identify' with.
The 24-year-old actor can understand why his latest film, supernatural saga 'The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones', has been compared with the 'Twilight Saga' franchise - in which he also appears - but insists that is just because they explore similar themes which are relevant to their target audience.
He told Event magazine: ''The Mortal Instruments' is not 'Twilight'. There are similarities like vampires, werewolves and a love triangle, but love triangles have existed throughout history, in literature and movies.
'It's never been easy being a teenager emotionally and hormonally, so it's really important for them to have movies like this that they can identify with.'
Jamie - who is dating his 'Mortal Instruments' co-star Lily Collins - also admitted he is grateful for the support of his parents, particularly when he dropped out of private education to pursue his dream.
He said: 'I dropped out of my A-levels because I started to act. 'Sweeney Todd' with Johnny Depp was my first film, and I chose not to go back to school.
'My parents could have gone, 'Are you mental? We put so much effort, time and money into your education.' But they were very supportive.'

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