A-List Secrets: Catch a Star in Their Own Store
Was thinking about celeb-owned businesses, like the Kardashians’ boutique in Calabasas, Calif. How much of a chance is there that a celeb owner is on hand when you drop by?Erica, Palmdale, Calif.
During the two weeks a month or so that they’re in town, the Kardashian girls are “in and out of the store all day long,” according to Kris Jenner. Kind of like the female Flying Zucchini Brothers of fashion, I guess. Good luck with that.
Your odds increase greatly in the case of Belle Gray, a boutique run by both Lisa Rinna and her fabulously pneumatic lips.
Here’s why:
“She just left,” store buyer Heather Martin told me this morning. “Whenever she’s in town, she’s here every day. She’ll come in here, run to her cardio ballroom class down the street, come back in, rearrange a mannequin, leave, come back and do some business and leave again.”
Last year, the actress wasn’t in town much, being on Broadway and the Dancing With the Stars tour and whatnot. This year, she’s around more. Even her husband, Harry Hamlin, blows in about once a month, albeit it’s usually before store hours.
His missionand I swear I am not making this upis orchid arrangement.
“He wakes up in the morning, heads to the flower mart downtown, rides in his car with his 24 orchids and brings them back to the store,” Martin tells me. “He arranges them all. He puts the moss in there, everything.
“He also fixes the lights and does touch-ups on the paint,” Martin says, but his biggest pet peeve remains a wilty orchid.
Funny. My pet peeve is a Belle Gray cashmere wrap that sets me back $204. Now you’ll excuse me. I’m off to buy four. And say hi to Lisa Rinna.
Oh, and be my fan on Facebook, ’kay?
Cristián de la Fuente Going Under the Knife
Just call it Surgery With the Stars.
Cristián de la Fuente may have injured himself pretty badly earlier this week on Dancing With the Stars, but he insists the show will go.
“This Monday we will be dancing,” de la Fuente said last night at the15th annual Race to Erase MS gala benefiting the Nancy Davis Foundation for Multiple Sclerosis in Los Angeles. “We have the tango and the mambo.”
Even so, de la Fuente will eventually undergo surgery. “They have to reattach the tendon to the bone,” he said. “They put you to sleep, do the surgery and then you have a month and a half recovery.”
Fellow DWTS contestant football star Jason Taylor is lending a hand, too.
“He called the Miami Dolphins, and they sent two braces,” de la Fuente said. “It’s with metal so that helps the arm not move into a direction I don’t want it to.”
Meanwhile, Derek Hough gushed over his maybe-girlfriend Shannon Elizabeth. “It’s undeniable we have great chemistry,” he said. “I mean, every day we find something. We’re like the same person. It’s really funny. She makes the same silly voices that I do and I’m like, Wait! You make that, too?"
Also part of the serious fun at the the Race to Erase MS benefit at the Hyatt Regency Century Plaza: a Tommy Hilfiger celebrity fashion show and a live auction emceed by Lisa Rinna and Harry Hamlinwhere a shopping and lunch date with Paris and Nicky Hilton went for $14,000. That's what we call putting the super in superficial. Kudos to all.
Additional reporting by Laura Lane
Ursula Andress Biography
Smoldering blonde international star, briefly in vogue in the 1960s, whose big break came with the role of Honey in the first James Bond movie, “Dr. No” (1962). By the early 70s, though, Andress was relegated to modest European-made films, mostly shot in Italy and several erotic in genre, which received relatively little international distribution. She did, though, appear in a tiny role as one of the glamorously posed goddesses in “Clash of the Titans” (1981), an adventure saga based on Greek myths starring Harry Hamlin, with whom Andress had a son. From 1957 to 1966, she was married to actor-director John Derek who directed her in his “Once Before I Die” (1965).
- Born:
on 03/19/36 in Bern, Switzerland - Job Titles:
Actor
Family
- Father: Rolf Andress. German
- Mother: Anna Andress. German
- Siblings: has four sisters and one brother
- Son: Dimitri Alexandre Hamlin. born on May 19, 1980; father, Harry Hamlin
Significant Others
- Husband: John Derek. married in 1957; divorced in 1966; starred in his “Once Before I Die” (1965); died of heart failure on May 22, 1998 at age 71
- Companion: Fausto Fagone. together c. 1988-91
- Companion: Harry Hamlin. met while on the set of “Clash of the Titans” (1979); father of Andress’ son Dimitri
Milestones
- 1954 Film acting debut, “Le avventure di Giacomo Casanova”
- 1955 Seven-year hiatus from film work
- 1962 English-language debut in “Dr. No”
- Discovered by Italian film producer while on vacation in Rome
Couples Watch: Sabrina & Mark, Marcia & Tom…
• They’ve already confirmed
friend-sabrina-bryan/ target="_blank">they’re dating – and now Dancing
With the Stars super-couple Sabrina Bryan and Mark Ballas are stepping out in style. The pair hit West Hollywood hotspot Hyde
for a date night. Wonder if they impressed clubgoers with their dance moves?
• Lisa Rinna and hubby Harry Hamlin, on a romantic escape at the posh St. Regis Hotel in Dana Point, Calif. They both got massages – Rinna opted for deep tissue, while her husband preferred a shiatsu massage. Later, the two shared a leisurely dinner in the Stonehill Tavern.
• Marcia Cross, spending her time off work with hubby Tom Mahoney at a concert by the UBS Verbier Festival Orchestra at Los
Angeles’s Walt Disney Concert Hall on Thursday night.
• Pussycat Dolls singer Nicole Scherzinger, stepping out for dinner at Katsuya in Hollywood with Laguna Beach alum Talan Torriero. Says an onlooker: “They were really cozy during dinner.” Up next? The pair hit new hotspot S Bar for more together time.
• Amanda Peet, working out with hubby David Benioffat Equinox in West Hollywood. The couple jogged, side-by-side, on
neighboring treadmills.
• Thandie Newton, grabbing a beverage at a Starbucks in
Santa Monica with writer-director husband Ol Parker. The petite
actress, who looked radiant in grey skinny jeans and a sweater, playfully
goosed her hubby as they left the coffee shop – then tucked her hand
snugly inside his back pocket as they crossed the street.
• By ALEXIS CHIU, MAUREEN HARRINGTON, JENNIFER GARCIA, LISA INGRASSIA
and ALYSSA SHELASKY
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