Aussie superstar Naomi Watts is currently gracing our TV screens as the face of online Presto in a campaign titled "Demand More", where she embraces the more 'demanding' side
of her personality playing an over-the-top version of herself. Her runoured salary is said to be just over $2M
But in New York Naomi and husband Liev Schreiber are giving back to the community. They have just hosted their annual Turtle Ball to aid the Turtle Conservancy which protects threatened turtles and tortoises and their habitats worldwide. left : Naomi & Liev And they found support when a host of Hollywood & show biz greats turned up to help raise a whopping $800,000 as our exclusive pics from the event at the Bowery Hotel show. Photographs : Patrick McMullan (c) www.patrickmcmullan.com
Ted Danson Helena Christensen Bruce Webber Richard Branson
Graydon Carter * Griffin Dunne Shauna Robertson * Edward Norton Susan Rockefeller *Anna Scott
Robert Kennedy Jnr Gina Gershon * Cheryl Hines Lynn Goldsmith * Patti Smith
Former Home & Away star Chris Hemsworth has married his girlfriend Spanish actress Elsa Pataky. Hemsworth has a major role in the new Avenger's film along side Scarlet Johannsen and Robert Downey Jr due for release in 2012 but it's his starring role in the film Thor which should catapult him into action superstar status. Thor is to be released in March next year.
Hemsworth and Elsa married in Bali surrounded by a handful of close friends and family and are honeymooning on Phillip Island.
Emma Cooper
And one of Australia's top film publicists Emma Cooper wed film writer Henry Cripps at a North Sydney chapel yesterday with a host of Hollywood stars in attendance including her good pal Naomi Watts as a bridesmaid. Naomi's husband Liev Schreiber gave a reading of Henry Lawson's After All during the service and the party moved onto Taronga Park Zoo for the reception.
Emma's dad Guy Cooper was the director of the zoo for years and was once named Australian of The Year.
bridesmaid Naomi Watts
And cheering on the couple-Mentalist star Simon Baker who has just scored a $30M contract to appear in his hit show for the next 3 seasons, Without A Trace's Anthony LaPaglia who flew in from the US for the wedding, actress Lisa Hemsley, singer Tim Freedman from The Whitlams and designer Collette Dinigan.
Cooper who has become the top Aussie film publicist over the past 20 years divides her time between Sydney , Melbourne and New York. In 1996 she masterminded the successful Victor Chang charity visit of Princess Diana to Sydney on her last ever public appearance.
The happy couple return to New York next week where they are neighbours of Watts and Schreiber
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Move over Justin Beiber.
Get ready for Munther Mania with the new teen heart throb 16 year old Swedish singer and songwriter Ulrik Munther.
With the cool tussled looks of the late Rivers Phoenix Ulrik has become an internet sensation and his first album-Boys Don't Cry had 30 record companies bidding for it when the title song was uploaded to YouTube. It's released early next year and here is rough cut of the video :
Aussie superstar Naomi Watts is currently gracing our TV screens as the face of online Presto in a campaign titled "Demand More", where she embraces the more 'demanding' side
of her personality playing an over-the-top version of herself. Her runoured salary is said to be just over $2M
