Ryan Reynolds’ biggest hobby is his career

The ‘Green Lantern’ actor – who split from wife Scarlett Johansson in December after two years of marriage – insists he isn’t a workaholic, but even in his down time is happy to turn his attention to business calls because making movies is not a difficult profession.

He said: “My hobbies are work. No, I’m kidding. But I do love to work and my hobby is also my career.

“Am I a workaholic? It depends who you ask. I don’t think so. I think when I have time off I really use it, but I work in Hollywood. It’s not like I’m a neurosurgeon. I can take a phone call when I’m relaxing.”

Ryan admits that as he has gotten older he finds it easier to relax and no longer has to be busy all the time.

He added: “I’m closer to moderation now than I’ve ever been, but years ago I would have had trouble with that. If it was a vacation I had to climb something or do something, but that’s just being younger I think.

“Now I can handle a book and some TV for a while.”

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Cheryl Cole reunited with her ex-husband Ashley Cole at her birthday bash on Friday night (01.07.11)

The 28-year-old star – who divorced the England and Chelsea soccer ace in September 2010 amid allegations of multiple affairs on his behalf – spent the evening partying at London’s exclusive Sanderson Hotel, allowing the beauty to forget her career troubles after being axed from the US ‘X Factor’.

A close friend of Cheryl’s said: “That evening they realised how much chemistry they still have and how much they mean to each other. Cheryl wanted Ashley at the party to share her special night.

“It’s a liberating time for her – without ‘The X Factor’ she can be herself. Besides, she figured that since people were talking about her and Ashley being together again, she had nothing to hide.

“Ashley and Cheryl looked really happy. It was obvious they were close.”

However, the reported reconciliation is said to have made Cheryl question whether they should have ever have got divorced in the first place.

The friend added to the News of the World newspaper: “Cheryl couldn’t have looked happier when she was in Ashley’s arms. It was just a small party for those closest to her. There were only around 40 there. Cheryl only had eyes for one man. They looked so in love.

“Cheryl now wishes they’d just separated. She’s madly in love with her ex-husband and she’s the happiest she’s been for a long time. They both want to make this work. Finally their friends and family accept them, they just want the public to accept it now.”

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Steven Spielberg likes to make films the “old-fashioned way”

The ‘E.T.’ director began making movies as a child and believes many people can now make films by even using a mobile phone to shoot something, but he prefers older forms of filmmaking.

He said: “All kids have to do these days is take their cellphone, flip it open and make a movie, but I like the way it started. “It wasn’t a point-and-click art form, it was a craft. It involved solvents, photo-chemistry, cutting out poster board with industrial scissors and getting your fingers fused with Elmer’s glue.

“It was all homemade stuff. If I was a chef, a microwave would be my worst enemy. I would want to do it the old-fashioned way”. His love of cinema started when his father used to take a camera on holiday with them as a child.

He explained to Empire magazine: “My dad used to film our camping trips. He’d put the camera outside the window as we were driving along, and all you’d see was a blurring, brown motion of the Arizona desert streaking past. It got to the point where I begged him to be the videographer.”

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Cheryl Cole celebrated her 28th birthday at London’s Sanderson Hotel last night (01.07.11)

The former ‘X Factor’ star partied with friends including Nicola Roberts, Kimberley Walsh and Black Eyed Peas singer will.i.am at the exclusive party, which she is using as an opportunity to “jumpstart” her career following her shock sacking from the US version of the singing competition.

A family friend told The Sun newspaper: “Her moping about ‘The X Factor’ is over. She’s determined to jumpstart her career. She still has America in her sights.” Cheryl wore a 60s style Stella McCartney white dress for the occasion, teamed with high heeled shoes.

However, her ex-husband Ashley did not make an appearance as some had expected. Cheryl has only been seen in public twice since she was replaced by Nicole Scherzinger on ‘The X Factor’, but before her first return – at the US embassy in London earlier this week – she was keen to tell her fans she was doing fine.

She wrote on her website: “I have had the time that I have not had in so long to just chill with my loved ones and do the normal things that I like to do. See my friends and family and be with my doggys. It feels long overdue and sooooo good, even my feet are happy to not have to wear a pair of high heels hehe.

“It also breaks my heart a little when i hear that some of you worry about me and need to know that I am ok, so I want to PROMISE you that I am absolutely fine and more than OK! (sic)”

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Former Sugababe Keisha Buchanan made peace with her former bandmates in an emotional reunion this evening (01.07.11)

Keisha left the group to in 2009 amidst rumours of fall-outs with other members Heidi Range and Amelle Berrabah, but today they put their differences behind them, speaking for the first time in almost two years at the Barclaycard Wireless festival in London.

Amelle exclusively told BANG Showbiz: “I was really nervous when we saw her, but we had a little chat and I feel like we can now put everything behind us, my heart now feels complete.” The teary reunion saw Keisha – the last remaining original member of the group to leave – make the first move, approaching her former band mates in the backstage Barclays Unwind area of the festival.

A BANG Showbiz reporter who witnessed the reunion, said: “It was really tense. Sugababes were already here where Kesha arrived. “After a short while talking with her friends, Keisha took the plunge and spoke to the girls. It was very emotional, both her and Heidi hugged for ages and were crying. They had a brief chat, Keisha even hugged Amelle before she left. “Heidi said afterward she was shaking with nerves.”

Keisha was replaced in the group by Jade Ewen, giving the band an entirely different line up to the when it started in 1998 with Keisha, Mutya Buena and Siobhan Donaghy. Heidi is the second longest serving member, replacing Siobhan in 2001, while Amelle replaced Mutya in 2005.

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Jim Carrey doesn’t know if he’ll ever find someone to spend the rest of his life with

The ‘Mr. Popper’s Penguins’ actor – who split from girlfriend of five years Jenny McCarthy in 2010 – admitted after having had to “erase” a number of former flames from his life, he doesn’t know if he will ever commit to another person fully.

He said: “I’ve been erased and I know what it’s like to erase someone. You know the feeling when you loved somebody and it ends and you feel as if they’ve moved on or maybe even none of it ever mattered? It’s a terrible feeling.

“But everything in my life comes to me for a reason, to step me up to another level and to make me learn. Every single relationship has brought me a little bit closer to realising what I want and what I don’t want, and teaching me the value of love.

“I don’t know if I’ll ever actually find somebody I can hang with for the rest of my life.”

The 49-year-old star – who has battled with depression in the past – explained he has on occasions veered into a “bad neighbourhood” in his life.

Jim added to the Daily Telegraph newspaper: “I veer off the road once in a while and take the off-ramp into a bad neighbourhood and live there for a while, but it’s not usually very long.

“Everything starts to go wrong and you can only stay in that mode for a short time if you’re awake and sober and looking at the universe.”

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Motherhood has given Alicia Keys a “reason in life”

The ‘Empire State of Mind’ hitmaker – who has an eight-month-old son, Egypt, with husband Swizz Beatz – says becoming a mum has changed her life in a “fun” way.

She explained: “Motherhood is heaven. It’s so purposeful and such fun. I feel much wiser in the choices I make. I have a reason in life I never had before.”

Alicia’s new outlook on life is a far cry from when the 30-year-old singer first found success and she admitted her fame was “scary” to begin with.

She told the Daily Mail newspaper: “I suddenly found myself doing tours, TV shows and flying every day.

“Everyone wanted a piece of me and that was scary. Being from New York, I covered that up.”

Now with a successful career and a happy personal life, Alicia is looking to the future and first on the agenda is a collaboration with Kings of Leon.

She said: “For a while I’ve wanted to do something with Kings of Leon. I definitely want to do it – I’m just waiting for the right moment.”

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Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie have to “hide behind some walls” to escape their celebrity status

The ‘Tree of Life’ star – who raises children, Maddox, nine, Pax, seven, Zahara, six, Shiloh five and two-year-old twins Knox and Vivienne with the 36-year-old actress – thinks he now has his lifestyle down “pretty well” after spending 10 years getting used to being known as one of the world’s most famous actors.

He said: “It took me a good decade of hiding in my house and not going outside to even, like, get my arms around this idea of celebrity, where suddenly people are looking for you to pick your nose or get a shot of you kissing some woman.

“It’s a very discombobulating thing. But Angie and I have got it down pretty well. We have to hide behind some walls, but we’re good.”

Despite being happy with his domestic life, the 47-year-old hunk still struggles with his views on religion – having been brought up in the mid-west of the US, which well-known for its Christian views.

He told the Guardian newspaper: “I grew up in the f**king buckle of the Bible belt.

“This idea of an all-powerful, watching being that’s controlling our moves and giving us a chance to say he’s the greatest so we get into some eternal heaven – that just doesn’t work for me, man. I got a real problem with it.

“I see the value of religion and what it offers to people as a cushion and I don’t want to step on that. On the other hand, I’ve seen where I grew up how it becomes separatist, and I get quite aggravated and antagonistic.”

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