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Eminem throws in the towel, with plans for his latest tour canceled. PHOTO: EPA

Singer Madonna suffered several broken bones on Tuesday when she fell off a horse while riding at her English country estate on her 47th birthday, her spokeswoman said. "She sustained three cracked ribs, a broken collar bone and a broken hand," spokeswoman Barbara Charone said of the accident at Madonna's Ashcombe House estate.

Rapper Eminem has canceled a European tour scheduled for September, citing treatment for "exhaustion, complicated by other medical issues," his record label said in a statement on Tuesday. The Anger Management tour, also featuring his protege 50 Cent, was scheduled to run from Sept. 1 in Hamburg to Sept. 17 near Dublin. The trek is not expected to be rescheduled, the statement added. A publicist at Interscope Records declined to elaborate on Eminem's health.

Hollywood siren Demi Moore has spoken publicly for the first time about her celebrated love affair with young showbiz hunk Ashton Kutcher. The 42-year-old mother of three told Harper's Bazaar magazine that when she met Kutcher, 26, at a dinner party two years ago, she felt she had met her "soul mate" and that the couple are now looking forward to having babies together.

"Talk about meeting your soul mate," said the ex-wife of actor Bruce Willis. "I truly feel I have been given that gift. And believe me, I wasn't some lightweight package. I'm, like, the package that didn't just come with luggage - I had trunks."

Moore denied that they planned to get married explaining that they "don't need something formal."

Readers of the celebrity magazine In-Style have named Hollywood's hot pair of Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt as the world's sexiest actors, the fourth time the estranged husband of Jennifer Aniston has been named as the sexiest leading man.

Nicole Kidman and Orlando Bloom were voted the "sexiest imports" while Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes were chosen as the sexiest couple. Beyonce was voted the sexiest singer while Tiger Woods and David Beckham were in a virtual tie for the coveted award of the world's sexiest athlete.

The critics have not been kind to the new musical Lennon, which opened in New York last Sunday night after delays and changed that were meant to improve the show about the late Beatles' life and times.

The Hollywood Reporter recommended that Beatles fans stay home and listen to their records, while the New York Times quoted Liza Minelli as saying at the intermission of the premiere "It's, uh, it's all right, uh -- well, let's talk about it later."

Universal Pictures is jumping on the 9/11 movie bandwagon with a film about the doomed Flight 93 which crashed in Pennsylvania after being taken over by hijackers, Variety reported Tuesday.

Jennifer Lopez and Salma Hayek have been named on Time magazine's list of the most influential Hispanics in the US.

Singer-actress Jennifer Lopez has already been climbing up the mainstream lists after landing the 19th spot on Fortune magazine's list of the richest people under age 40. Time chose her for her rise from background dancer to chart-topping actress and singer. Her clothing lines and fragrances brought in more than US$300

million in revenue last year.

Salma Hayek was already a superstar in Mexico when she decided to go to Hollywood, at the age of 23, with no support. She went on to star in numerous movies and produce the film Frida which was nominated for six Academy Awards (including Best Actress for Hayek), and won two.

Legendary crooners Barbra Streisand and Bee Gees star Barry Gibb are to reunite for a collaborative album, as a follow-up to their 1980 smash hit Guilty, according to reports.

The album Guilty Pleasures, which is expected to feature the pair's duets Come Tomorrow and Above the Law, is due to be released in September.

Budding Chinese entrepreneurs are set to go head-to-head on domestic television in a new reality programme that reads like a watered-down version of hit US show The Apprentice, starring tycoon Donald Trump. Sixteen contestants will pitch their plans for start-up businesses and the one deemed as having the best idea will win 1 million yuan to turn his or her dreams into reality, the China Daily said yesterday.
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