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Tuesday, March 29, 2011

Poonam Pandey

This 19 year old from Mumbai is quite clear about what she wants from life - become a model, and a top one at that. At 5 feet 7 inches, she is confident that she has what it takes to make it - not just a pretty face and a rocking body, but also an amazing attitude.










Poonam was one of the Top 8 contestants of Gladrags 2010. And she is currently shooting for the Kingfisher Calendar Girl Hunt.


Thursday, February 17, 2011

Ana de la Reguera


Anabell Gardoqui "Ana" de la Reguera (born April 8, 1977) is a Mexican actress who has starred in telenovelas, films and the HBO television series Eastbound & Down.


Reguera was born in Veracruz, Mexico. Her mother was Miss Veracruz who became a journalist and TV personality.She began her performance arts studies in the Instituto Veracruzano de Cultura and was the host of Pasarela on TelevisaVeracruz. She left the Televisa's CEA, and then studied with Rosa María Bianchi, Patricia Reyes Spíndola and Rafael Miranau. She also studied at the Centro de Formación Actoral de TV Azteca (CEFAC).


Her acting career began with her role in the telenovela Azul (1996) followed by Pueblo chico, infierno grande (1997) for which she received the Heraldo award for best female acting, and Desencuentro which was her third telenovela under the direction of Ernesto Alonso.


Tentaciones (1998) marked her beginning with the production company Argos Comunicación. She was immediately offered a role in Destino and Todo por amor, for which she received the Palmas de oro award.
Cara o Cruz was the first telenovela co-production between Argos Comunicación and Telemundo, that was made exclusively for the Hispanic audience living in the United States. It was later rebroadcast in Mexico, by independent channel CNI. She was also seen playing María in the telenovela Por tí for TV Azteca and the mini-series that followed up on Pedro El Escamoso, Como Pedro por su casa which was a co-production between Caracol from Colombia and Telemundo.



Reguera has been in many commercials and television shows in Mexico, such as: Mujer, casos de la vida real, Al derecho y al Derbez, Íntimamente Shanik, Chiquitos pero picosos, La venta increíble, Llévatelo and Cómplices en familia.
In theatre she has participated in El cartero directed by Raúl Quintanilla, for which she received two awards from the 'Mexican Association of Theatre Journalists.



In 2010, she began appearing in commercials for Kahlua liqueur. She signed a multimillion-dollar contract with Cover Girl to be one of the official faces, along with Drew Barrymore and Queen Latifah, of its ad campaign.


Her introduction to film began in Por la libre, under the direction of Juan Carlos de Llaca. Later she acted in the film Un Secreto de Esperanza and in 2003 Ladies Night, alongside Ana Claudia Talancón. In 2005 she played the starring role in Gitanas which aired on Telemundo in the United States.
She is perhaps best known for her role as Sister Encarnación in Nacho Libre, a film by Jared Hess, director of Napoleon Dynamite.



In 2006, Reguera hosted the MTV Video Music Awards Latin America along with Mexican alternative rock group Molotov.
She is currently working with Argos Comunicación on the HBO Latin American series "Capadocia" along with Rebecca Jones and also serves as spokesperson for CoverGirl cosmetics.
Reguera has been cast as Kenny Powers' love interest in Season 2 of HBO's Eastbound & Down.



Her relationship with Univision's top journalist Jorge Ramos was ended in late 2010. Reasons for the unfortunate break-up were not given; which has resulted in much speculation by the public and the media alike.


Sunday, February 13, 2011

Ivanka Trump


Ivanka Maria Trump (born October 30, 1981) is an American businesswoman, socialite, heiress, and fashion model. The daughter of Ivana and Donald Trump, she is Executive Vice President of Development & Acquisitions at The Trump Organization. She is one of the boardroom judges on her father's reality show The Apprentice.


She attended The Chapin School in New York City, and graduated from Choate Rosemary Hall in Wallingford, Connecticut. She spent two years at Georgetown University, then transferred to the Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania, graduating summa cum laude in 2004 with a B.S. in Economics.


In July 2009, after studying with Rabbi Elie Weinstock from the Modern Orthodox Ramaz School, Trump converted to Judaism and took the name Yael. The beth din that converted her included Modern Orthodox Rabbi Haskel Lookstein. On October 25, 2009 she married Jared Kushner in an Orthodox marriage ceremony.
Jared Kushner's father Charles Kushner owns Kushner Properties and Jared shares in the ownership. Jared Kushner is also the owner of The New York Observer, in Bedminster, New Jersey. On January 21, 2011, Trump announced that she and Kushner are expecting their first child together.



Before joining the family business, Trump worked for Forest City Enterprises, and joined forces with Dynamic Diamond Corp., a diamond trading company sightholder, to design and introduce a line of jewelry at the brand's first flagship retail store called 'Ivanka Trump' on Madison Avenue. Trump is currently Executive Vice President of Development & Acquisitions at The Trump Organization.


Trump's first cover was a 1997 issue of Seventeen. Since then, she has made her way down fashion runways for Versace, Marc Bouwer and Thierry Mugler. She has done advertisement campaigns for Tommy Hilfiger and Sassoon Jeans and was featured on the cover of Stuff in August 2006 and again in September 2007. She was also featured on the covers of Forbes, Golf Magazine, Avenue Magazine, Elle Mexico and in the October 2007 issue of Harper's Bazaar. She placed Number 83 in the 2007 Maxim Hot 100. She has also placed Number 99 in the Top 99 Women of 2007 and then at 84 in the 2008 edition on AskMen.com.


In 2006, she filled in for Carolyn Kepcher on five episodes of her father's television program The Apprentice 5, first appearing to help judge the Gillette task in week 2. Like Kepcher, Trump visited the site of the tasks and spoke to the teams, asking them pointed questions. She also evaluated contestants in the boardroom, pointing out critical errors and rebutting excuses they offered for losing the tasks. Though initially unsympathetic to the contestants, Trump later said, "Whenever I see their breakdowns, I understand. They go virtually 24 hours a day, and each task takes about three days. Unless they win, they don't get a day off... It's an incredible amount of work..." Trump now collaborates with season 5 winner Sean Yazbeck on his winner's project of choice, Trump Soho Hotel-Condominium.vanka replaced Carolyn Kepcher as a primary boardroom judge during the Apprentice 6 and The Celebrity Apprentice.


In 1997, she hosted the Miss Teen USA Pageant, which is partially owned by her father, Donald Trump. In 2003, she was featured in Born Rich, a documentary about the experience of growing up as a child in one of the world's most affluent families. During an April 2006 appearance on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, Jay Leno commented that he could hear her father's influence and inflections in her. David Letterman also made a similar comment when she appeared on Late Show with David Letterman on April 24, 2007.[citation needed] Trump was a featured guest-judge on Project Runway Season 3. She was also at a Milwaukee, Wisconsin, event in April 2007 called the Creating Wealth Summit in which she spoke for about 30 minutes about making money and her latest projects. She has been offered to appear on The Bachelorette, but she declined.[16] On October 25, 2010, Trump along with her husband, Jared Kushner, showed up on Season 4 Episode 6 of Gossip Girl portraying themselves for a brief time.


Wednesday, February 9, 2011

Camilla Belle


Camilla Belle (born October 2, 1986) is an American actress. Her works include The Lost World: Jurassic Park, When a Stranger Calls, 10,000 BC, The Quiet, and Push.



Belle was born as Camilla Belle Routh in Los Angeles, California. Her mother, Cristina, is a Brazilian-born fashion designer, and her father, Jack Wesley Routh, owns a construction company and was a composer of country music. Belle was raised in a strict Catholic household. She attended St. Paul's Catholic Elementary School and then the Marlborough School, an all-girl high school in Los Angeles.





At age five she was cast as a lead in her first film, NBC's thriller, Trapped Beneath the Earth. Belle began her career with a small role in the film production of the novel A Little Princess starring Liesel Matthews. Her first lead role was in Rip Girls in 2000, a Disney Channel original movie. She returned to performing after a short break with the lead role in the remake of When A Stranger Calls. 


Her next role was in the feature film 10,000 BC, directed by Roland Emmerich, a film about prehistoric humans. Belle's next big release was playing the role of Kira Hollis in Push, a sci-fi thriller involving a group of super-powered youths, hiding from a clandestine U.S. government agency.


Tuesday, February 1, 2011

Minka Kelly


Minka Dumont Kelly (born June 24, 1980) is an American actress. She starred in the NBC series Friday Night Lights as Lyla Garrity from 2006 to 2009.



At 19, after graduating from Valley High School in Albuquerque NM, Kelly returned to Los Angeles.




 While on a test shoot for a modeling agency, she was approached by a former Playboy Playmate interested in managing her, and who placed Kelly as a receptionist at a surgeon's office who would provide Kelly breast augmentation in exchange for hours worked.She ultimately chose against the procedure, leading to her being fired



However, the exposure to the medical field prompted her to attend school for a year to become a surgeon's assistant; afterward, she worked as a scrub tech. She spent four years in that vocation while also auditioning as an actress before landing the new NBC television drama Friday Night Lights, based on the high school football movie of that name. 



In the interim, she had small roles in movies and shows, including the film State's Evidence, and a recurring guest role on the TV sitcom What I Like About You.
In preparation for her role as cheerleader Lyla Garrity on Friday Night Lights, she trained with the Pflugerville High School cheerleading squad. 



Kelly received praise for her acting on the series, with the The New York Times calling her performance "heartbreaking".
She shot a cameo for The Kingdom, alongside Jamie Foxx. Peter Berg, the creator and pilot director of Friday Night Lights, directed the film. 



Kelly was the lead actor on the The CW's 2009 pilot Body Politic, which did not go to series. Kelly was a member of the ensemble quartet that starred in the CBS comedy pilot True Love, playing Kate, a Midwestern girl who falls in love with Henry at the top of the Empire State Building, but was replaced by Sarah Chalke.
Kelly appeared with Alyson Hannigan, Jaime King, Emily Deschanel, and Katharine McPhee in a video slumber party featured on FunnyorDie.com to promote regular breast cancer screenings for the organization Stand Up 2 Cancer.




In 2010, Kelly was named "Sexiest Woman Alive" in the annual Esquire magazine feature.
Kelly is joining the cast of the upcoming TV series Charlie's Angels. 




Monday, January 31, 2011

Sasha Grey



Sasha Grey (born Marina Ann Hantzis on March 14, 1988) is an American pornographic actress who is also active in mainstream acting, modeling and music.


She is a member of aTelecine, an Industrial Noise band.
 


Grey won several AVN Awards between 2007 and 2010. She was featured in music videos and advertising campaigns. 


In 2008 she was cast as the lead in Steven Soderbergh's mainstream feature film The Girlfriend Experience.





Wednesday, January 26, 2011

Arianny Celeste


Arianny Celeste (born on November 12, 1985 in Las Vegas, Nevada) is an American ring girl and model. She is best known for being an Octagon girl for the UFC.



Arianny Celeste was born and raised in Las Vegas, Nevada. She is of Mexican and Filipino descent. She attended Palo Verde High School and attended college at the UNLV where she majored in fitness management and nutrition.




Celeste made her UFC debut in 2006 at the Hard Rock Hotel. Celeste has modeled for magazines such as Maxim, FHM, Sports Illustrated, Fighter's Only Magazine  and Playboy.




On February 4, 2010, Sports Illustrated named her "Lady of The Day." She was voted "2009 Ring Girl of the Year" in 2010 by Fighter's Only Magazine, an award she won the previous year as well. Maxim voted her "The Hottest UFC Octagon Girl" in the May 2010 issue where she was featured as the cover model.



Arianny also appears in Maxim's Hot 100 list for 2010; she placed #23 on the list.
Celeste posed nude for the November 2010 issue of Playboy.



In September 2009, high school senior Conner Cordova, a fan of mixed martial arts, asked Celeste to attend his prom with him, using a series of three YouTube videos. Celeste agreed, provided that he found a date for her friend. 




However, Celeste was unable to appear due to her schedule, so the plan changed to attending another dance. That also proved impossible, so Cordova and Celeste sponsored their own event, which doubled as a fundraiser for victims of the 2010 Haiti earthquake.



The UFC premiered a new weekly, web-only show called UFC Ultimate Insider on July 29, 2010.[13] Celeste serves as host for the show, with Joe Rogan interviewing various UFC fighters. It also features updates on upcoming matches, PPV's, as well as highlights from previous events. The first episode featured a new photo shoot with Celeste.






On December 1, she was voted "Ring Girl of the Year 2010" from the 2010 MMA Awards.She is currently dating pro skateboarder Dorien Walker.







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