Fast on the heels of our tale (below at the end of "
Cate Blanchett Snubbed") a UK tabloid the
Daily Star has published a tale about our pal
Russell Crowe titled :
CROWE'S CONCERT CANCELLED
Music-loving RUSSELL CROWE abandoned plans to sing at a children's charity show on Monday (09Aug10) - and spent the evening reading stories to his sons instead.
The Gladiator actor had volunteered to perform a song at a show for the Australian Children's Music Foundation at the State Theatre in Sydney on Monday evening.
But after travelling to the venue, Crowe's slot was cancelled - and he took advantage of his night off by spending quality time with his kids.
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Errr..not quite folks. The event to which the Shuttle was invited was the
Dueting For Kids concert to raise funds for the
Australian Children's Music Foundation which was founded by children's TV host
Don Spencer OAM who is the father of
Danielle Spencer who is married to Crowe.
Although Russell is an Ambassador for the foundation along with a host of music identities like
Dame Joan Sutherland, Andrew Farriss from
INXS, The Wiggles honorary Oz resident
Leo Sayer,
Rolf Harris and
Andre Rieu, Russell Crowe had never intended to either attend the function or perform at it.
Naturally Crowe and his wife Danielle are great supporters of Don who is a tireless charity worker and the pair nearly always turn up at events to aid his works but Crowe is always mindful that being one the world's current top box office movie stars, he is bound to be the center of attention.
If the
Daily Star had read the Shuttle as at least 4 other British tabloids do on a regular basis (reproducing stories from here,) they would get these things right.
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| Russell & Danielle at a Don Spencer event in 2008 |
Fortunately one daily London newspaper has now come to an arrangement with
the Social Shuttle to have first access to our exclusives. That's one to us and nil to the
Daily Star
As we noted yesterday Crowe would not be at the event (with organisers confirming to us today that he was never going to be). He twittered that night that he felt he was coming down with the flu.
Which didn't stop him taking his usual morning walk with his kids today around Wooloomoolloo and through the Botanic Gardens where he gave the Shuttle a cheery wave. Crowe has told us in the past that one of the reasons he loves being back home in Sydney is because of the relative freedom he has to wander about unbothered by paparazzi.
2 Years ago he devised a scheme perfect in it's simple brilliance to maintain that privacy. Every time he leaves his home now for his daily constitutional he wears exactly the same clothes, thereby devaluing possible sales of snaps of him out in public.
