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Singer Ke$ha has revealed she wears her placenta round her neck to get a “second sight”.

The placenta helps a foetus in nutrient uptake and is expelled from the body after birth. And Ke$ha believes it enhances her chances of having a spiritual experience.

“I’m into energy. I recently went to see a past-life regressionist, who is also a psychic. I wear my placenta around my neck every day, because it’s supposed to give you second sight. I feel like I’ve had many lifetimes before,” the Age quoted her, as telling the Sunday Times.

The 23-year-old star also hit back at critics for labelling her as a party girl.

She said: “So many people say, ‘So, what, are you a party girl?’ And I say, ‘I’m a walking good time.’ Do I sometimes go out and drink? Hell, yes. But could I have a number one song if I wasn’t also working hard? Maybe that needs a little more respect.

“Also, the phrase ‘party girl’ implies someone who is out at a club, maybe doing some guy in the back who you’ve just met. Then you get in your car and you flash your vagina at the paparazzi. And I’m none of the above.

“I have been working on realising this dream, my path, my mission, for years. I’ve really invested a lot of thought, time and effort into it. I think it’s a bummer when people don’t epresent that properly, when they portray me as purely one-dimensional.”

Iraq war movie “The Hurt Locker,” took the Oscars by storm on Sunday winning six of the major film honours, including best movie and director for Kathryn Bigelow who became the first woman to win that honour.

The drama about a squad of bomb defusing specialists and the emotional toll war takes on them also secured writer Mark Boal the Academy Award for best original screenplay, and claimed honours for film editing, sound editing and mixing.

“Hurt Locker” and Bigelow won Oscars over stiff competition from her ex-husband James Cameron, whose sci-fi adventure “Avatar” is the top-grossing movie ever with $2.5 billion at box offices and was seen as a favourite for best movie.

“This really is, there’s no other way to describe it, it’s the moment of a lifetime,” Bigelow said.

“Avatar” earned 3 Oscars, but in technical categories — visual effects, cinematography and art direction.

Veteran Jeff Bridges claimed best actor playing a drunken country singer in drama “Crazy Heart.” The son of Hollywood star Lloyd Bridges held his trophy high over his head, looking to the heavens and thanking his deceased parents.

“Mom and Dad, yeah,” he shouted. “Thank you Mom and Dad for turning me on to such a groovy profession.”

Sandra Bullock was named best actress for “The Blind Side” in a first for the actress once dubbed “America’s Sweetheart” because she won so many early fans in her romantic comedies.

But for “The Blind Side,” she took the part of a real-life, strong-willed mother who helps take a homeless youth off the street and makes him into a football success.

“Did I really earn this, or did I just wear you all down?” she joked on Oscar’s stage.

Dark drama “Precious: Based on the Novel ‘Push’ by Sapphire” earned two Oscars including supporting actress for Mo’Nique and adapted screenplay for writer Geoffrey Fletcher, who became the first African American to claim that honour.

Christoph Waltz won best supporting actor for his turn as a menacing Nazi officer in revenge fantasy “Inglourious Basterds,” which follows a band of American Jews killing their enemies behind lines during World War Two.

“Up” was named best animated movie, and Argentina’s “The Secret in Their Eyes” won best foreign language film.

Mariah Carey was booed by fans at a concert after she turned up for the performance a good hour late. The popstar was late for the final night of her ”Angels and Advocates” tour and had to apologise to the crowd who had paid upto USD 250 for the tickets.

Mariah swiftly apologised to the crowd, telling them she was ill, reported Sun online. “I”d like to apologise for my tardiness.

You probably won”t believe me, and they”ll probably make a big thing of it, ”Oh Mariah had to get her doctor in”, but I got sick yet again because it’’s winter, I didn”t think I could come out here tonight,” said the Grammy winning singer. “But I was very grateful I could get some sleep and we could pull it together.

It’’s not so glam at 6.30 in the morning when you”re coughing and sounding like a frog,” continued the 40-year-old. But the fan backlash, and the illness didn”t stop Carey from attending the after party where she popped champagne and danced with her group.

”Poker Face” hitmaker Lady Gaga says rude comments by an ex-boyfriend inspired her to make a name for herself in the music industry. The 23-year-old singer, best known for her kinky outfits and on-stage antics, feels that her determination stems from her ex’’s comments about her career.

He told her she would never be a pop star. Gaga set on to prove her former lover wrong, who told her that she was a terrible musician and would never make it to the world of music, Contactmusic reported.

“I had a boyfriend who told me I”d never succeed, never be nominated for a Grammy, never have a hit song, and that he hoped I”d fail. I said to him, ”Someday, when we”re not together, you won”t be able to order a cup of coffee at the deli without hearing or seeing me.

” ” Gaga has been a rage in music circles since she launched her career last year. As well as releasing several number one tracks, the singer, real name Stefani Joanne Angelina Germanotta, has scooped numerous awards for her work, including a Grammy for her debut album ”The Fame” and another for her single ”Poker Face”.

But the ”Paparazzi” singer claims she put up with a lot of negative comments and only stuck at the music industry because of her unrealistic levels of ambition. “.

being told I didn”t fit the mold and that I was ”too pop” or ”too theater”.

I”ve always been delusionally ambitious to the point where people don”t understand me.”

Actress Hilary Duff has confirmed her engagement to hockey player boyfriend Mike Comrie.

Confirming rumors that the actress, who recently appeared on Gossip Girl, would soon be hearing wedding bells, her rep says that the Edmonton Oilers player, 29, did indeed propose.

“Hilary Duff and Mike Comrie were engaged this weekend while vacationing in Hawaii,” People mag quoted Duff’s rep Nanci Ryder, as saying.

She added: “After having been together for over two years, they are very excited to share this happy news. They are thankful for all of your warm wishes.”

Early in their courtship, when he was with the New York Islanders, Comrie surprised Duff, 22, with a Mercedes for her birthday.

Duff, 22, has been romancing the Edmonton Oilers player, 29, since 2007.

R&B superstar Beyonce Knowles’’s father has been ordered to pay child support after fathering a baby boy earlier this month. Mathew Knowles, 59 is said to have had an 18-month relationship with actress Alexsandra Wright from Los Angeles, resulting in the birth of baby Nixon on February 4.

The former Destiny’’s Child manager has been ordered to pay USD 8,200 a month backdated to February 1 and 100 per cent of all uninsured medical expenses, reported TMZ.com. The news comes after Beyonce’’s mother Tina Knowles, 55, began divorce proceedings against her husband on November 11 last year.

At the time the couple, who wed in 1980, issued a statement saying the decision to end their marriage was amicable. In addition to the maintenance payments, it is thought Knowles gave Wright USD 10,000 in January to cover the baby’’s expenses.

He has also been ordered to pay a further USD 20,750 in child support for that month, according to the website. In addition to 28-year-old Beyonce, Knowles and Tina have another daughter, 23-year-old singer Solange.

Announcing their split in December, they said in a joint statement, “If anyone is expecting an ugly, messy fight, they will be sadly disappointed.”

Singer-actress Jessica Simpson is looking for an ‘artistic’ husband.

The 29-year-old star, who broke off with Dallas Cowboys quarterback Tony Romo last year, also wants her next husband to fit into her ‘emotional type’, reports contactnmusic.com.

‘My next husband will be an artistic man. It will show you the colours of my character, the person that I fall in love with next,’ she said.

‘I don’t even have a type! I don’t have a physical type. I have an emotional type,’ she added.

Pop singer Shakira and tennis star Rafael Nadal have sparked rumours that they might be more than just friends.

The pair was spotted sharing a cozy meal at the W Hotel in Barcelona, Spain, after shooting a video together there late last week.

“There was just the two of them at the table together. They were whispering and all smiles. It definitely looked like they are more than just friends. They were there for a few days shooting,” the New York Post quoted an eyewitness as saying.

Earlier this month, Shakira celebrated her 33rd birthday with long-time fianci Antonio De La Rua, while Nadal has been dating high school sweetheart Maria Francisca Perello, a.k.a. Xisca, for early four years.

American singer Katy Perry has no worries about her weight and claims she doesn”t need to work out because her hectic schedule keeps her in shape. The ”I Kissed A Girl” hitmaker, who is known for her skimpy stage outfits doesn”t need to work hard to maintain her figure, but thinks she will be more prone to putting on weight as she gets older, Contactmusic reported.

“I don”t feel pressure, no, as I know I”m kind of voluptuous and I”ve always been that way. Saying that, I”m young and metabolism is on my side and my schedule is so crazy that I lose weight from the intensity of it.

But if you ask me that question in five or six years and I”ll probably have a different answer for you,” Perry said. However, the 25-year-old singer, who is engaged to British comedian Russell Brand is continuously told to go for a healthy diet by her older sister.

“My sister makes me watch what I eat. She’’s a pescatarian, a vegetarian who eats fish, and she’’s lost so much weight from being that.

She”ll scream at me if some of the crew on my tour get hot pizza for a snack and I want some. Sometimes I can grab a slice, but if my sister sees me, I get a verbal lashing! I eat secretly in the corner – my one pepperoni slice,” Perry said.

Lady Gaga says she was saved from cocaine addiction by the spirit of her aunt who has a huge influence on her career.

The ‘Paparazzi’ singer says she used to lock herself in her bedroom and snort ‘bags and bags’ of cocaine for songwriting inspiration when she was starting out. But realised she was jeopardising her life and recalled unfinished job of her aunt Joanne who died at 19, reported femalefirst.co.uk.

Gaga, whose real name is Stefani Joanne Angelina Germanotta, said: ‘I thought I was going to die. I wanted to be the artists I loved, like Mick Jagger and Andy Warhol… I thought the only way to do it was to live the lifestyle. My cocaine soundtrack was always The Cure. I would lock myself in my room and listen to ‘Never Enough’ on repeat while I did bags and bags of cocaine.’

‘But then I realised my father’s sister Joanne, who died at 19, had instilled her spirit in me. She was a painter and a poet – and I had a spiritual vision I had to finish her business.’