Sunday, February 8, 2009
Liam Neeson to help UNICEF, plus wedding news for celebs

Irish movie star Liam Neeson is considering a return as a UNICEF ambassador because he wants to fight the sex slave epidemic.

The actor quit as an UNICEF ambassador for Ireland because he feared people were tiring of seeing his face in awareness campaigns - and it wasn't serving the organization.

But he still can't forget the sex slave statistics he was privy to - and he wants to do more to expose Eastern Europe and Asia's dirty little secret.

He tells WENN, "I had access to facts and figures and numbers of children that do disappear from Eastern Europe and Asia that would make the hair on the back of your neck curl. It has been going on for many years and it still goes on. There is a big sex slave trade happening. I may have to go back to UNICEF. I got out of it because I had spent 10 years there and I thought they needed fresh blood instead of people looking at my face all the time. But it's a wonderful organisation and every now and again I'd like to do something for them."

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Shawshank Redemption actor James Whitmore has died aged 87.

The veteran Hollywood star, who played Brooks Hatlen in the 1994 prison movie, had lung cancer.

He starred in more than 50 movies including 1968 sci-fi hit Planet Of The Apes, Tora! Tora! Tora!; Chato's Land and The Guns Of The Magnificent Seven.

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Matt Damon's sister, actress Sarah Bradford, 21, is trying out a new career as a model. The cute blonde will make her runway debut at Alvin Valley's fashion show at the Altman Building Thursday, followed by New Museum board member Michele Gerber Klein's dinner for the designer at Via dei Mille in SoHo.

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Actress Kristy Swanson and her boyfriend Lloyd Eisler have tied the knot!

Swanson, 39, walked down the aisle Saturday in a strapless ivory wedding gown by Amy Michelson while Van Morrison's "Crazy Love" played in the background, People magazine reports. Eisler, 45, wore a tux by Nicole Miller.

The ceremony took place in front of 100 family and friends at a hotel in southern California's San Luis Obispo, People said.

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Actress Eva La Rue reveals that despite being featured on the winter issue of InStyle Weddings, her spring wedding has been cancelled.

The star of the CBS hit "CSI: Miami" told 104.3MYfm's Valentine in the Morning that commitment issues on the part of her fiancé, Joe Cappuccio, played a major role in the wedding being called off.

"I think our issues and our patterns just butted up against each other wrong, and some people are capable of breaking through those issues and patterns and learning and growing, and some people aren't," La Rue said.

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Black Eyed Peas rapper Taboo and wife Jaymie Dizon are expecting their first child together.

"We're very excited," he told Us magazine.

The baby is due later this summer. The 33-year-old Taboo (real name: Jaime Gomez) and Jaymie, a fashion publicist, were married this past July in Pasadena, Calif. Taboo has a 15-year-old son, Joshua, from a previous relationship.

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