Justin Bieber in "totally reckless" 100mph high speed car chase through LA

Justin Bieber in "totally reckless" 100mph high speed car chase through LA

Justin Bieber was apparently involved in a 100mph chase in LA as he tried to get away from paparazzi.

The man/boy (we're still confused) was given a speeding ticket by police at about 10.45am yesterday but insisted he was being chased by five or six other cars.

This claim is backed by a local councillor called Dennis Zine, who called authorities after seeing Bieber's distinctive chrome Fisker Karma being chased.

Zine, who was a Los Angeles police officer for 33 years ( with 18 of them spent as an LAPD motor cop), reckons that the chase exceeded 100mph as paparazzi engaged in wild manoeuvres to keep up with Bieber, including driving on the hard shoulder and cutting up other vehicles.

Zine told TMZ said he saw Bieber's car drive up behind him and zoom around him, weaving wildly in and out of traffic while the other cars gave chase and reckons his estimate that he was driving at 100mph wer e "conservative".

Bieber was given a speeding ticket, but Zine reckons he should have been pulled off the road for driving recklessly and speeding. Even though the paps were hounding him he was still endangering lives. He said: "This was very bizarre, very outrageous and showed a total disregard for life and property.

"The way [Bieber] was driving was totally reckless, I would have arrested him if I had pulled him over," he said. "I wouldn't have given him a ticket and let him go."

TMZ are reporting that a total of 10 other drivers called 911 and that a member of Bieber's security team was in the passenger seat during the chase.

"Want an autograph?" asked Biebs hopefully

 

Bieber's had a bit of a bad time with being harassed recently. He was caught running away from paps a few weeks ago, had a go at some fans who wouldn't leave him alone while he was waiting to meet his girlfriend, Selena Gomez, at the airport and is still waiting to hear if he's going to be charged for reportedly roughing up a pap who wouldn't leave the couple alone in May.

Last April Bieber called off a meeting with the Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Jerusalem, saying he had cancelled partly because he did not want to face the country's notoriously aggressive paparazzi.

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Rihanna on heartbreak: "I never thought I'd feel that pain in my life. I'm afraid of feeling that again"

Rihanna on heartbreak: "I never thought I'd feel that pain in my life. I'm afraid of feeling that again"

Rihanna has spoken to Harper's Bazaar US magazine about how hard she finds it to let people in after having her heart stomped on before. She also talks about the controversy surrounding her decision to record two duets with ex-boyfriend Chris Brown.

The 24-year-old said, "I'm rebellious through my music, my fashion, tattoos and my hair. I have been conservative in my love life...it's pretty much nonexistent. If I come across someone who I find really cool, I'll hang out. But the minute I find that we're getting too close I just...I don't let people in."

It's a refreshing bit of honesty from the star who always seems so strong, confident and completely unflappable.

She goes onto reveal, "When I was in love, I fell so hard...The way it made me feel was priceless. And in a blind of an eye my whole life changed. Everything that I knew was different. I never thought I'd feel that pain in my life. I'm afraid of feeling that again."

 

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While she doesn't specifically name Chris Brown as the person who hurt her, they did go through a devastating and dramatic public break-up in 2009.

The rapper was arrested and charged for assault after hitting Rihanna in a car on the way to the Grammy Awards. A restraining order was issued, although later lifted.

We've only just noticed how cool Rihanna's nails are in this picture

 

She and Brown started talking again and controversially even recorded two duets together earlier this year - Birthday Cake and Turn Up The Music.

She tells Harper's, "The fans could have said, 'We don't want anything to do with it'. I understood that people had every right to be concerned about it, but I didn't see it that way because I'm in a different place."

Rihanna's father recently told Grazia magazine that he thinks they were "the perfect couple" and that he hopes they get back together. Which is a smidgen terrifying, but we're pretty sure that's the last thing she's thinking about at the moment as her beloved grandmother passed away earlier this week and she dropped everything and rushed back to the States to support her mum.

She's also in the process of suing her accountants - random, but true.

On a lighter note (that's a joke - you'll get it at the end of the next sentence) Rihanna also talks about how she'd like to put on some weight. (See?) She says, "I don't know if there's something going on with my body right now, but I'm eating everything in life!

"I miss my ass. It just went away! I need a butt. I have an idea of one, but it's not living up to its full potential right now."

The August issue of Harper's Bazaar is out on July 17

            

Also, find out where Rihanna came in our 100 Top Celebrity Girl Crushes here.

 

Benedict Cumberbatch: "I wish my 15-year-old self had known about my allure to the opposite sex"

Benedict Cumberbatch: "I wish my 15-year-old self had known about my allure to the opposite sex"

Yeah, we're in love with The Cumberbatch. Every since the silky voiced 36-year-old gave Sherlock a massive dose of the 'yeah, we totally woulds', we've become a bit obsessed with him. And we're not alone. In a new interview with Instyle magazine, the actor talks about his new-found sex appeal and particularly the Twitter fan account, @Cumberbitches, that has been set up in his honour and has nearly 30,000 followers.

"I wish my 15-year-old self had known about my allure to the opposite sex! It's flattering, though I do worry about what it says for feminism, it's quite a perjorative term. Cumberbabes might be better."

Can you imagine Benedict saying "Cumberbabes" in that melodic voice. *swoons like Victorian maiden subsequently undoing years of feminist groundwork*

The only problem with pictures is we can't hear his lovely baritone voice

 

He also talks about being a single man after splitting up with The Thick Of It actress Olivia Poulet last year after 12 years together. The interviewer asks him if he's enjoying being a batchelor (Cumber-batchelor?): "Yes and no. I have a sort of clock ticking. I'd really like to be a dad before I'm 40, but at the same time I'm in this weird territory where people know me before I know them."

That gives us four years to stalk him, make him love us and then convince him we should be the mother of his children. Wow, I think we may have just crossed some kind of line. What a strange feeling.

The Batch is currently a busy man and has recently been in LA filming his role as the villain in the second Star Trek movie and has already shot his scenes for upcoming mega-movie The Hobbit in which he plays Smaug The Dragon: "It's an extrapolation of a performance into something other than an actor. But essentially [even though you're in front of a green screen], you're still doing a scene."           

He can rock blonde or brunette

 

He mentions how he nabbed a voiceover role in The Simpsons: "I was at a meeting yesterday in the same place The Simpsons is recorded and heard there was a part going in an episode. I said, 'I hate to muscle in here, guys, but could I record it?' Next thing, I'm standing in a room with all those famous voices: Bart, Marge, Homer, Lisa..."

He also talks about how weird it is being recognised now after a decade of hard slog: "I'm quite sensitive to people noticing me. There are times when I'm relaxed, then others when it does make me self-conscious. I'm not complaining - it's all come from good things...

"I'm glad it all came when it did. I think it's wonderful that you can go from 19-year-old unknown to superstardom, but for me, having a slightly harder time of it to begin with, doing a lot of theatre work and with every penny counting, means I'm humbled by the reality of the profession."

The full interview is out soon in August's issue of InStyle magazine.

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'He was totally reckless': Justin Bieber gets speeding ticket after 100mph chase through LA

'He was totally reckless': Justin Bieber gets speeding ticket after 100mph chase through LA

Justin Bieber was apparently involved in a 100mph chase in LA as he tried to get away from paparazzi.

The teenage heart-throb was given a speeding ticket by police at about 10.45am yesterday but insisted he was being chased by five or six other cars.

The claim of a chase is backed by a local councillor called Dennis Zine, who called authorities after seeing Bieber's distinctive chrome Fisker Karma being chased.

Mr Zine, who was a Los Angeles police officer for 33 years, reckons that the chase exceeded 100mph as paparazzi engaged in wild manoeuvres to keep up with Bieber, including driving on the hard shoulder and cutting up other vehicles.

Mr Zine said he saw Bieber's car drive up behind him and zoom around him, weaving wildly in and out of traffic while the other cars gave chase.

Bieber was breaking the law by driving recklessly and speeding and the paparazzi were breaking the la w by hounding him, he claimed.

"This was very bizarre, very outrageous and showed a total disregard for life and property," Mr Zine said.

Can I help, officer? Justin talking to police on a previous occasion

 

Zine, a witness to countless crashes and fatalities during his police career, said he was surprised no-one crashed.

"The way (Bieber) was driving was totally reckless, I would have arrested him if I had pulled him over," he said. "I wouldn't have given him a ticket and let him go."

Yesterday's incident is not the only conflict between the floppy-haired singer and the paparazzi.

In May, a photographer called authorities, complaining he was roughed up by the star in The Commons at Calabasas shopping centre.

Authorities said the scuffle happened when a photographer tried to take photos of Bieber and his girlfriend Selena Gomez.

Last April Bieber called off a meeting with the Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Jerusalem, saying he had cancelled partly because he did not want to face the country's notoriously aggressive paparazzi.

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Cheryl signs deal for tell-all autobiography. Ashley Cole: you have our permission to panic

Cheryl signs deal for tell-all autobiography. Ashley Cole: you have our permission to panic

Is it too early to start queueing? Cheryl Cole has signed a megabucks deal with publisher HarperCollins to write her life-story.

The book is due to come out on October 11 with the money men hoping it'll hit the bestseller lists in time for Christmas.

(She'll have to get cracking. Two months to write, edit, publish and market a book? Sheesh.)

The book is expected to go into detail about her marriage and split from love rat ex-husband Ashely Cole - which is really what everyone wants to read about, isn't it? Just us? Don't lie.

We bet Ashley won't enjoy this news. Anyone got his phone number?

 

The book will cover her childhood and her rise to fame through ITV talent show Popstars: The Rivals. It should also cover her brief tenure as a judge on The X Factor US - and her subsequent firing by mate and mentor Simon Cowell.

We're guessing Simon might feature heavily in the book - especially as he talked about her in his biography by Tom Bower.

This is exactly the expression Simon is going to pull when he hears about the book

 

HarperCollins said, "For the first time Cheryl will tell her story in full in her own words."

We're so excited we almost forgot it's nearly dinner time. Now we're excited about this and dinner. The scandal! The gossip! The cheating!           

Hurray! It's revenge time!

 

We just hope she doesn't skim over the whole break-up bit. Not because we're gossip vultures (okay, not only because we're gossip vultures) but because it always gets right up our noses when people write 'autobiographies' and skip out massive chunks of their lives. You can't suddenly think "well, this isn't their business" if you're writing a bloody autobiography. By the very nature of the process you're saying your life is our business.

Anyway - back to the book.

Carole Tonkinson, publisher for Harper non-fiction, said, "Cheryl Cole is the nation's sweetheart. We are absolutely thrilled to be publishing her story.

"Cheryl's an amazing woman with a capacity to inspire everyone. She emerges from every challenge stronger and with more grace and good humour and beauty - inner and outer.

"We're still pinching ourselves that Cheryl chose us as her publisher and we're going to do everything in our power to make this the Christmas number one."

Can you even begin to imagine how much they must have paid her? Is that crass? Sorry. (Not really.)

The Girls Aloud girls will no doubt play a starring role

 

Cheryl has previously said she would consider writing a book about her life - mainly because there are so many unauthorised ones doing the rounds: "I see these girls that say, 'This is literally like a bible for me - I read it and I hang off every word it says', and I've had nothing to do with it. I don't have the heart to say 'this book is almost completely made up'."

Want to know where Cheryl's come in our 100 Top Girl Crushes list? You can ogle our gallery here.

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Millie Mackintosh gives us hair envy in new photoshoot

Millie Mackintosh gives us hair envy in new photoshoot

These pics of Made in Chelsea hotpot Millie Mackintosh have made us feel a little bit ashamed about our greasy, split-end ridden locks.

The pictures were taken for hair care brand Umberto Giannini. When she starred in a sexy online novel for the company in March of this year, sales of their Incredible Body range rose by a hair-raising (geddit? GEDDIT?) 80%.

Oh, Prof Green - you're a lucky man

 

She starred as a femme fatale (with awesome hair, obviously) who seduces a barman by stripping off and flashing her 'Incredible Body'. Geddit? Okay, we'll stop asking now.

We want this top/dress. Anyone know what it is?

 

Millie apparently even postponed her holiday so she could do the photoshoot. And we're glad she did because she looks amazing and we get to stare and point at her lovely face.

Speaking about the shoot Millie said, "In the online novel I played a super sexy femme fatale. This latest shoot gave me the chance to try some completely different hair styles.

"All the styles have volume and body but all look so different, I love them!

"My two favourite products from the range are the Root Boost Volume Spray and the Volume Mousse For Big Hair."

Okay, we're sold. Give us the products

 

Millie is also the face and body of St Tropez tan and, oh pretty much everything else.

She's also busy supporting her boyfriend, Professor Green, at his various gigs around the country. According to his Twitter page he's off to Ibiza for two weeks from tomorrow. Wonder if she'll be joining him? If she is can we borrow her hair until she's back?

Millie watching the Prof at BBC Radio 1's Hackney Weekend

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Conor Maynard tells us about naked modelling, his celebrity crushes and that odd thing he does with his hand... (VIDEO)

Conor Maynard tells us about naked modelling, his celebrity crushes and that odd thing he does with his hand... (VIDEO)

 

Houston, we think we have a problem - we seem to have developed a crush on a man who has a penchant for silly hats.

When we met Conor Maynard earlier this week after he performed super intimate gig at Spotify (he could see our face when he was singing, it was off putting for us, so God knows how he felt), we were pleasantly surprised to discover that the 19 year old is a thoroughly nice chap.

Following the huge success of Can't Say No, which sat at number 2 in the chart for well ages in March, Conor is releasing second single Vegas Girl on 22 July, which features a lady with lovely boobies in the music video (obviously we had to point this out to the teenage singer in our chat).

Speaking of ladies with boobies (fact: most ladies have them), it turns out that Conor actually can say no to some of them - namely Tulisa. That's about the only one though - watch the video above to find out who Conor does fancy cracking onto in the near future.

And somet hing else he can say no to (we're starting to think his song was a lie. A LIE!) is naked modelling. We know, it's a damn shame.

Find out more on this - and all about Conor's secret hand signs and his favourite type of cheese above.

Conor's debut album Contrast will be available on Spotify on July 30 - but if you can't wait until then, listen to some of his jazzy songs here.