Reality TV star and model Holly Madison has insured her breasts for US$1 million with Lloyd’s of London, she told People magazine
on Thursday.
Madison, 31, said she took out the policy to protect herself and others in her Las Vegas production, Peepshow.
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“If anything happened to my boobs, I’d be out for a few months and I’d probably be out a million [US] dollars,” she told People. “I thought I’d cover my assets.”
Madison has said she had plastic surgery in 2001 that took her from an A-cup size to a larger D-cup.
Madison, who gained fame as one of Playboy founder Hugh Hefner’s girlfriends on the TV series The Girls Next Door, was a contestant on TV show Dancing With the Stars before starting her Las Vegas show.
In Europe, organizers of the seventh Zurich Film Festival awarded two Americans, an Austrian and a Swiss moviemaker with the coveted Golden Eye award on Saturday, a statement said.
American director Jeff Nichols won the international feature film category for his thriller Take Shelter, which was also awarded at the Festival of American Film in Deauville, France, last month, and the Cannes Film Festival in May.
The film, which stars Michael Shannon, Jessica Chastain, Tova Stewart and Katy Mixon, portrays the life of an unassuming man afflicted by nightmares.
The Golden Eye for international documentary went to the American Cindy Meehl, for Buck, the story of a real-life “horse whisperer.”
Austrian Karl Markovics was honored in the German-language section for his film Atmen, which recounts the story of a 19-year-old released after four years in youth detention.
Swiss moviemaker Nick Brandestini won the German-language documentary prize with Darwin about a Californian town by the same name.
Each Golden Eye earned its winner a check for US$22,000.
The festival, which opened on Sept. 22, closed yesterday, having given American actor Sean Penn a lifetime achievement award and bestowing on Oscar-winning director Roman Polanski an award he was unable to receive two years ago because to his arrest in a decades-old child sex case.
In other celebrity news, former Australian cricketer Shane Warne and British actress Liz Hurley have become engaged during a trip to Scotland, reports said yesterday.
Warne proposed to Hurley after a romantic dinner on Friday at an exclusive hotel in St Andrews, on Scotland’s east coast, where the sportsman was taking part in a golf tournament.
The spin legend, 42, got down on one knee and popped the question in front of other diners and when Hurley agreed the couple were given a standing ovation, the Mail on Sunday and Telegraph newspapers reported.
Pictures showed the couple smiling as they walked arm in arm across a golf course on Saturday, with Hurley, 46, wearing a large sapphire and diamond engagement ring.
The couple first met at an English race meeting in July last year and have since been spotted together regularly.
When she met Warne, Hurley was still married to Indian businessman Arun Nayar but the couple divorced
in December.
Hurley and actor Hugh Grant were one of Britain’s leading celebrity couples in the 1990s but separated in 2000.
Lost in Translation star Scarlett Johansson defended her right to privacy in an interview Thursday, weeks after her smartphone was hacked and someone posted semi-nude pictures of her on the Internet.
“Who doesn’t want to protect their own privacy? Just because you’re in the spotlight, or just because you’re an actor or make films or whatever doesn’t mean you’re not entitled to your own personal privacy,” Johansson told CNN.
“If that is sieged [sic] in some way, it feels unjust. It feels wrong.”
Johansson, 26, said that people have asked her how she deals with the invasion of privacy.
“It’s an adjustment, but there are certain instances where you give a lot of yourself and then finally you just have to kind of put your foot down and say, ‘No, wait, I’m taking it back,’” she said, in her first comments on the incident.
The pictures of Johansson, star of The Horse Whisperer and Girl With a Pearl Earring, appeared in the middle of last month and showed her in a state of undress in a home setting.
In one she was holding a towel round herself while facing the camera, her unclothed rear view clearly visible in a mirror, while in the other she was topless.
The FBI is probing allegations that smartphones and computers of several Hollywood celebrities, including Johansson, have been hacked.
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