Hollywood star Drew Barrymore looks amazing as she shows off her fantastic new figure on the beach. Here’s how you can, too.

She’s struggled with her weight in the past but Drew Barrymore looked incredible as she celebrated her 33rd birthday in Mexico last month.

Relaxing on a beach with her new love, actor Justin Long, she showed off a taut and toned body - very different to her figure of two years ago.

And she says it’s all down exercise and, amazingly, takeaway food! She said: “I don’t cook, so I get all my food from healthy takeaways in LA. You can order delicious fresh, steamed fish or chicken with vegetables. I am careful about what I eat but not obsessive - everything in moderation.” Continue Reading »

According to Perez Hilton, Cameron Diaz and Drew Barrymore attended the Los Angeles Derby Dolls match this past weekend, perhaps in preparation for Drew’s directorial debut, “Whip It!”

The LA Derby Dolls is a league of roller derby teams, whose bad grrrl coolness just went up several notches by the participation of two-thirds of Charlie’s Angels in the audience.

The Derby Dolls can be so dangerous, they often make their patrons sign an indemnity waiver just to watch them race around the track and beat the crap out of each other. Cameron Diaz (There’s Something about Scary?) and Drew Barrymore (Never Been Kissed… or Body-Slammed?), however, were up for the challenge. Continue Reading »

Cameron Diaz called in to Oprah Winfrey’s talk show from a film set in Los Angeles on Monday to pay tribute to her best friend Drew Barrymore’s generous $1m charity donation.

Barrymore was on the show to present the cash to the United Nations World Food Programme, and her donation and footage of the actress in Africa, helping starving kids, led Diaz to reach for the phone.

Calling in to her thrilled pal, Diaz said: “I’ve been listening to this show and literally I’m choked up because… I’m so proud of this information that she’s (Barrymore) giving the world… It’s unprecedented.

“Learning about how our children are living in the world is devastating and the truth that is being spoken there is so important for people to hear and I’m just so proud of you Drew.”

An obviously moved Barrymore responded: “That’s my best friend, man.”

Barrymore has travelled to Kenya twice with the WFP organisation, who she has worked with since 2005.

The 33-year-old told Winfrey: “I have seen with my own eyes what a difference a simple cup of nutritious porridge can make in a child’s life. It helps them learn, stay healthy and sets them on track for a bright future.”

Source: Breaking News

Actress Drew Barrymore said Monday she is donating US$1 million (€660,000) to help fight hunger worldwide, and she met later with commodities traders in Chicago to highlight the hardships caused by soaring food prices.

The 33-year-old American actress will give the money to the World Food Program, a U.N. body that delivers millions of tons of food aid to more than 70 million people in about 80 countries, she said on “The Oprah Winfrey Show.”

“I’m able to make this incredible donation — this has changed my life,” said Barrymore, who serves as a WFP ambassador against hunger. “But I encourage everyone to give.”

Later, she told The Associated Press that the US$1 million (€660,000) was “by far” the largest donation she has ever made.

“But nothing has ever felt so good,” she said.

Barrymore — whose screen credits include the “Charlie’s Angels” movies and “E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial” — visited the floor of the Chicago Board of Trade on Monday afternoon, saying she discussed the impact of rising food prices on the poor.

“I wanted to bring awareness to it because it’s not something we think about,” she said.

There has been a 40 percent rise in commodity prices since the middle of last year, caused in part by skyrocketing energy costs and rising consumer demand in developing countries such as India and China, a WFP statement said.

The Rome-based agency has an annual budget of about US$3 billion (€2 billion), but it said it needs US$500 million (€330 million) more than anticipated this year due to the rise in food and energy prices.

Source: IHT

Drew Barrymore has a way of making the expression “best friends” sound like something a lot more than that – especially when she and boyfriend Justin Long showed up on Oprah Winfrey’s show Monday fresh out of the shower.

“We used the hotel shampoo,” a giggling Barrymore, 33, told Winfrey, explaining why she smelled so good.

The talk host already deciphered why the actress-producer emanated a special glow: it was because of Long, who sat in the audience.

His hair was wet, too.

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It is a very chilly Friday night in Toronto, just before Christmas, and I am standing ankle deep in hay watching Drew Barrymore, who is wearing, among other things, black fishnets, an upside-down skirt, and a bathing suit pulled over a tiger-striped turtleneck, feed a very large raccoon his “luncheon” while announcing to no one in particular that she simply has to go to New York City and lead her own life. Except that it’s not actually Drew Barrymore I’m looking at; she hasn’t been Drew for almost three months. She is Little Edie Beale, the eccentric debutante cousin of Jackie Kennedy Onassis—in mind, body, and maybe even, at this point, soul.

“I haven’t seen her since September 30,” says Kent Cummins, a friend of many years and Barrymore’s dresser on Grey Gardens, the HBO film Barrymore stars in with Jessica Lange. It is after midnight on the dilapidated set, and “Little Edie” is now descending the stairs in clunky white patent shoes. “Even when we go out, I’ll be like, ‘Are you in there?’” Cummins says. “Once she told me, ‘Drew’s inside and she loves you very much, but she just can’t come out right now.’ It truly is like living with Sybil.”

Barrymore fought hard for the role of Little Edie, who lived with her mother, Big Edie, in gothic isolation in a crumbling—and cat-and-coon-infested—mansion in East Hampton, New York. The two were the subjects of a cult documentary, also called Grey Gardens, in 1975, and, more recently, of the Broadway musical starring Christine Ebersole. When the film, which does not yet have a release date, was announced, Drew approached its director, Michael Sucsy, and pressed the inches-thick “Little Edie binder” she’d compiled into his hands. “I thought somebody else must have printed out this big book,” he tells me, “but then I looked and it was all her.”

The role of angry, self-doubting daughter to an overbearing, reclusive mother required Barrymore to be a deeply sad lost soul one minute and a madcap entertainer, literally singing and dancing, the next. It was a difficult juxtaposition and a serious departure for the ever-sunny star of such romantic comedies as Never Been Kissed and Music and Lyrics, and the toughest of the three Charlie’s Angels. Continue Reading »

There’s nothing better than celebrating your birthday with your closest gal pal by your side - a sentiment clearly held by Charlie’s Angels co-stars and best friends Cameron Diaz and Drew Barrymore.

Locked in a warm hug, it was clear the pair were sharing a special moment on the eve of Drew’s special day as they partied away the last hours of the actress’ 32nd year at a pre-Oscars party in LA on Thursday night.

Though their hectic schedules often keep them apart, the pair always make the effort to be together on Drew’s birthday. Last year they jetted to Hawaii to celebrate with a sunshine- and surf-filled break before flying back for the Academy Awards.

With this year’s ceremony just days away, Drew and Cam were joined at the party by a host of famous faces gearing up for the event. Anna Friel - the latest British actress to hit Hollywood - put in a glam appearance with her partner, Harry Potter actor David Thewlis. Also on hand were Spanish best supporting actor nominee Javier Bardem and Madonna.

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- Event in 2008: Soho House Grey Goose Pre-Oscar Party

American actress Drew Barrymore has a piece of advice for young Hollywood stars who are entering rehab. Drew’s stardom started at a very young age, and she had trouble handling it. She started drinking at the age of 9, smoked marijuana at 10, and snorted cocaine at 13.

By the time she was 14-years-old, she had been in rehab twice. The 32-year-old actress, who has been sober for sometime, decided to offer her advice when she saw the rise in the number of young actresses currently entering rehab. “If you don”t pull it together for yourself, no one else will,” US mag quoted her as saying in the March issue of Vogue. Continue Reading »

Near the entrance, Drew Barrymore, wearing a black-and-yellow Gucci dress, and her new beau, Justin Long, had a question for Jennifer Lopez.

“When are we going to do game night?!” Barrymore asked the pregnant singer, who was accompanied by husband Marc Anthony and a team of bodyguards.

“He’s the BEST gamer,” Barrymore said, pointing to Long.

“We’re into Scrabble and charades,” Long said.

Barrymore recently finished shooting “Grey Gardens,” a movie based on the documentary of the same name about “Big” Edith and “Little” Edith Bouvier Beale, Jacqueline Kennedy’s reclusive aunt and cousin. Barrymore plays the younger Edie, who gained sartorial notoriety in the 1970s for wearing odd head coverings made of skirts and towels and broaches.

Preparing for the role meant reading Nathaniel Hawthorne’s “The Marble Faun,” a book referenced often in the documentary, and watching the movie to “a psychotic degree,” Barrymore said. She also lived for a period a la “Little” Edie Beale, without television, magazines, newspapers, computer or phone.

“But even under normal circumstances,” said Long, “we like to be a little reclusive together.”

Source: Associated Press

– In the meanwhile, I’ve also uploaded 4 new inside photos from ‘Madonna and Gucci Host A Night to Benefit Raising Malawi and UNICEF‘ on February 6, 2008 alongide with her boyfriend, Justin Long & Gwyneth Paltrow.

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- Event in 2008: Madonna & Gucci Host A Night to Benefit Raising Malawi & UNICEF

Actress Drew Barrymore is amazed she has been declared a ‘Hollywood beauty’ as she has struggled with acne her whole life.

The ‘Charlie’s Angels’ star said that she is always struggling with acne problem and battles to keep her skin clear.

“My only beauty recommendation is zit cream. I couldn’t live without it. I get zits all the time and they annoy me more than anything else in the world. I’ve used every face wash, acne cream, everything,” Contactmusic quoted her as saying.

The 32-year-old actress also admitted that she still lacks confidence in her appearance.

“It’s so funny because people say, ‘You’ve got such great skin’, and I’m like, ‘Are you kidding?’

“I guess now I’m getting older I’m getting more wrinkles to go with the pimples. Sometimes now, I think I’m starting to look like something out of Night of the Living Dead!” she added.

Source: China Daily