April 27, 2011

Twilight's Kristen Stewart slips into bikini to film love scenes with Robert Pattinson during night shoot

Nobody likes doing overtime.

But when Robert Pattinson was told that he had to re-shoot scenes for the final Twilight movie at the weekend, he probably yelped with joy.

The 24-year-old was flown to the Caribbean, for starters, and once there, his 'toil' consisted of filming love scenes with his real life girlfriend Kristen Stewart, 21.

It was all meticulously covert in a bid to prevent the hotly-anticipated scenes between their characters Edward Cullen and Bella Swan from being observed.

There was controversy last month when stills from their honeymoon scenes, and even a short video, found their way onto the internet.

It's widely believed that most of the steamy action, the stills showed the couple in bed, has already found its way onto the cutting room floor after failing to meet the criteria for the PG-13 film.

And so, despite the cast thinking they'd wrapped up the franchise for good in Vancouver last week, Pattinson and Stewart were asked to do more sex scenes.

And it's apt that the final scenes for Breaking Dawn were filmed right up to the break of dawn on the beach - 5am on Saturday morning to be exact - in St Thomas in the U.S. Virgin Islands.

Stewart showed off her stunning figure in a bright green bikini, that was unfastened at the halter - perhaps suggesting that a topless scene was on the agenda.

Meanwhile, the couple's co-stars started arriving at Vancouver airport today, to work on their slightly  less glamorous re-shoots.

Jack Rathbone, 26 , who plays Jasper Hale, arrived on a separate flight from rumoured girlfriend Ashley Greene, 24, who is better known to fans as Alice Cullen.

She rocked up with her on-screen brother Kellan Lutz, 26, aka Emmett Cullen, and they both appeared to be in high spirits as they headed back to their hotel.

There's no denying, however, that these sex scenes between vampire Edward and his enduring love, Bella, are what fans are really desperate to see.

The characters finally consummate their love after years of abstinence culminates with a wedding, the nuptials were filmed in Squamish, near Vancouver earlier in the month.
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The deadly tan jab: DIY injection promises instant all-over tan but as these women discovered, it can trigger heart disease and cancer

Starved of sunshine over the winter and desperate for a healthy glow, Terri Sotherton, 21, sat at her computer screen four weeks ago looking for a cheap and easy way to get a perfect all-over tan.

She didn’t have to look far. Type the words ‘quick tanning’ into Google and the first three online companies to come up offer cheap deals on tanning accelerators in the form of creams, pills — and  even injections.

Terri, from Bolton, bought three doses of a product called Melanotan for £25. On the website, it was claimed these one-milligram injections would make her browner faster than if she went on a sunbed or sunbathed.

But this online shopping trip ended in the local hospital A&E. ‘I didn’t think about the risks,’ says Terri, a full-time mother to her 18-month-old daughter, Megan. ‘What happened was terrifying.’

The kit she had bought included syringes and vials of Melanotan, but came without instructions. After recalling a friend had used something similar, Terri rang her.
‘She told me to inject myself with one milligram, which I did,’ she says. ‘Looking back, I can’t believe I was so stupid, but I did it without a second thought because at the time all I wanted was a tan without any hassle, just like she had.

‘I didn’t see any effects until two days after the injection. Then bizarre things started to happen. My face became luminous and swollen. It had the strangest green tinge and became hypersensitive. It was itchy, painful and I couldn’t bear to touch it.’
Extremely frightened, she went to A&E at Bolton Hospital and told the doctor what she had done.

‘He had never heard of Melanotan, but went off to research it with their poisons unit,’ she says. ‘When he came back, his face was grave. I started to panic.’
Melanotan contains hormones that increase the levels of the brown pigment melanin in the body.

In December 2008, the drugs watchdog, the Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency (MHRA), outlawed the product, which has earned the nickname ‘jabba-tan’, after finding it causes skin discoloration, stops the healing process and lowers the immune system so dramatically that patients have got meningitis.
Yet, as Terri proved, you can still obtain it easily on the internet. While its sale is banned in Britain, it is not illegal to buy or possess it.

He told me not to inject myself ever again, as my extreme reaction was so dangerous,’ says Terri.

‘I was kept in hospital for several hours, and then told to go home and rest, but to come back immediately if I felt faint or sick.’

After a few days, moles and freckles started to appear all over her chest.
‘They are still there and I am so worried they are a sign I might be developing skin cancer,’ she says.

‘What’s so upsetting is that this is all my fault. I feel so irresponsible because I have a baby to look after. I am still weak and shaken. I can only pray that I haven’t done any long-term damage to myself.’

Terri may have been naive, but she is far from alone. Tan-accelerating products have become increasingly popular with beauty-conscious web-surfers seeking an easy fix.
They differ from fake tans, which colour the skin by dyeing it or prompting the outer layers to change colour.

Tan accelerators meddle with our body chemistry on a far deeper level. They can be swallowed as pills, injected or applied directly to the skin as creams.
They make our skin react to sunlight in a stronger way than normal, turning us brown faster than is natural.

Often these products are marketed as a safe option, with makers claiming they reduce the time you need to spend roasting in the sunshine or under ultraviolet lights in order to achieve a deep, bronze tan.

Yet the truth is very different. Chemicals in the products make  the skin more sensitive to ultraviolet light by making our cells much  more reactive.
In response, we produce more brown pigment — melatonin — more quickly. The results can be dangerously disfiguring, as Terri and other women have found to their cost.
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Whitney Port makes her tiny waist appear even slimmer in an optical illusion dress

Whitney Port may already have a naturally slender frame, but the reality TV star tried a little wardrobe trickery to make it appear even smaller last night.

The former Hills star made her appear leaner by wearing a clever white dress with strategically placed colour panels.

The dark insets and cropped purple belt had an optical illusion effect, making her waist seem tiny.

The 26-year-old reality star rocked the clever couture to the US Weekly Annual Hot Hollywood Style Awards event held at Eden nightclub in Hollywood at which she picked up an award.

Whitney paired the GUiSHEM designed one shouldered mini dress with electric blue Giuseppe Zanotti platform sandals to collect The Individualist award at the event.

Whitney, who is best known for her role in the reality TV shows The Hills and its spin-off The City, has worked as a model and worked with fashion designer Diane von Fürstenberg in New York.

She said: 'I feel like I'm open to all kinds of silhouettes. As long as it's flattering on the body it doesn't matter if it's really out there.

'I can be a risk taker when it comes to fashion and I don't really care if people accept my style.'

The honour of the night went to Jessica Simpson, 30, who took home the award of Style Icon Of The Year.

She appeared slim and radiant as she posed for pictures on the carpet in a brightly patterned Etro mini dress.
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