Our only question is… why did Ryan wait until Simon’s last season to stand up to him like this?!

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When Sandra Bullock thanked her bad-boy husband, Jesse James, as she accepted her best actress Oscar for The Blind Side, she may not have known that while she was away shooting the film, Jesse was carrying on a steamy affair with a tattoo model. While Jesse has had an 11-month affair, including five weeks of sex, with Michelle “Bombshell” McGee, she believed he and Sandra were no longer together. “I would never have hooked up with him if I thought he was a married man,” Michelle tells In Touch in an exclusive interview. “He gave me the impression they were separated.” For weeks, while Sandra was in Atlanta shooting The Blind Side, Michelle had sex at least once a week with the Monster Garage star. Far from a one-night stand, his relationship with Michelle was intimate and highly charged. Michelle even says she called Jesse, who didn’t wear underwear or condoms, by a special pet name, Vanilla Gorilla, because he was so “well-endowed.”

While Jesse was in Atlanta with Sandra when she started to film The Blind Side, Michelle sent West Coast Choppers a friend request because she hoped to snag a modeling gig there. She was surprised that it was actually Jesse who wrote back to her and told her to e-mail him at his personal e-mail. From the start, Jesse wanted to meet Michelle, and it was never about business: “He started saying, ‘Do you want to hang out?’” So a week after he got in touch, Michelle drove two hours from her San Diego home to West Coast Choppers in LA. “I got there around 9 at night,” remembers Michelle, who was starstruck at first. “I was like, ‘Holy s**t. It’s really Jesse James.’” After taking Michelle on a tour of his garage, Jesse brought her into his office and locked the door. “We ended up on the couch,” she says. “He wanted to watch movies, but I asked him, ‘What’s going on with you and Sandra?’” Jesse was evasive. “He said, ‘She doesn’t live here. She has a house in Austin. She is filming, and I can’t talk about it.’” Assuming he and Sandra were separated, Michelle continued talking to Jesse, she says, and then, “We had intimate relations.” Michelle says she and Jesse had sex “two or three times,” that night — and began what she believed was a serious relationship, texting each other several times a day, and meeting up for sex at least twice a week for the next five weeks.

For more on this story, check out this week’s In Touch magazine!

UPDATE:

From UsMagazine:

Sandra Bullock has pulled out of the London premiere of The Blind Side, set for next Tuesday, UsMagazine.com has confirmed. The film will still be screened.

In a statement from Warner Brothers UK, Bullock, 45, tells Us: 

“Due to unforeseen personal reasons, a trip abroad to support The Blind Side has been deemed impossible at this time. I apologize for any inconvenience this may have caused and thank you for your continued support of the film.”

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Being in the consulting industry, John was under tremendous pressure to deliver and strategize. The day at work use to start by 8.00 in the morning and finish at wee hours of night. Some nights were spent in office sleeping on the desk and presenting papers to clients the next morning.

Recession! Recession! All over the place – the buzz word has been creating havoc with job cuts, downsizing, salary and budget cuts and many more. With four people being asked to resign due to low performance and clients complaining about the quality being delivered, John has been over stressed. Slowly it’s starting to wear on him.

Job stress is like an epidemic and spreads very fast. It starts affecting one’s productivity and reduces physical and emotional health. Some of the common symptoms of work stress are -

1. Feeling anxious, irritable, or depressed

2. Apathy, loss of interest in work

3. Problems sleeping

4. Fatigue,

5. Trouble concentrating

6. Communication patterns

7. Muscle tension or headaches

8. Stomach problems

9. Social withdrawal

10. Loss of libido

11. Using alcohol or drugs to cope

12. Behavior at work

Not all kind of stress is over bearing. Some healthy stress like anxiety, irritation etc. is required at work place to think gainful activities and plan work in a better way. Sometimes companies purposely design stressful situations and make employees perform in order to see their survival instincts. So people have to work against stress rather them getting affected by its consequences. It is necessary to maintain a large measure of self control and confidence at work place. One of the ways which every can practice is think positive and be an optimist. You should be able to manage your thoughts in a constructive and positive way. A lot of it depends upon how you communicate with others at work place. Your body language, verbal and non verbal communication styles indicate a lot about your stress. It’s about communicating with others in ways that draw people’s attention to you, overcome differences, repair wounded feelings, and defuse stress and tension.

A lot of times people get stress due to old negative habits, predetermined notions about things at work commonly called as self defeating habits. Perfectionism, punctuality, job dissatisfaction, lack of incentives and promotions, employees’ attitude towards commitment, integrity issues all are primes motivators to one’s stress.

What is that one can practice is being at ease with oneself and understanding the fact that not all are equal and perfect at work whether situation or people. Creating allies, opinion groups, self motivating quotes, positive attitude, take time away, create humor at work, delegation, prioritizing etc are all few ways to relieve stress.

At the end tell you heart and mind – All Is well and it will be over. Nothing is permanent.

LONDON — British movie star Kate Winslet has separated from her film director husband Sam Mendes after nearly seven years of marriage, their law firm said Monday.

The surprise split puts an end to a golden couple of Britain’s show business world, buttressed by matching Oscars and a host of commercial successes and artistic accolades.

The pair’s law firm, Schillings, said the split was “entirely amicable and is by mutual agreement.”

Winslet, 34, shot to international stardom on the back of her appearance opposite Leonardo DiCaprio in James Cameron’s “Titanic,” and sealed her reputation with an Academy Award for best actress for her role in “The Reader” in 2009.

Mendes, 44, was already an acclaimed stage director by the time he won an Oscar for directing “American Beauty” in 1999.

For more on the story at HuffingtonPost.com, click here.

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You can check out some of Giselle’s photos and watch the behind-the-scenes video about her cover story here:

For more on the story at Vogue.com, click here.

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The new show debuts Monday, March 15, and will run regularly on Vh-1.

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In April’s GQ, Rielle Hunter, John Edwards‘ mistress, breaks her silence about her affair with the former Democratic presidential candidate.

Contrary to reports, Hunter 45 – mother to their 2-year-old daughter Frances Quinn – says they never met in the lounge of The Regency in NYC.

But she says that’s where they first locked eyes. “He saw me. And it was a mutual unusual staring going on,” she tells GQ. “There was an instant and odd connection that we both felt. Like, ‘I know you, you know me, who are you?’ Anyway, he then got up and left.”

She insists she didn’t know it was him at the time. “The John Edwards I saw in 2004 on TV I believed to be a disconnected, two-dimensional-geek kind of guy,” she says. “And the man sitting across the room was not that at all.”

After she learned who he was, she slipped one of his associates a business card that read: “‘Rielle Hunter. Being is free,’” she tells GQ.

When Edwards later spotted her “on the corner of 61st and Park Avenue,” he “lit up like a Christmas tree,” she says. “And I thought his reaction when he saw me was just so cute. I mean, he looked like a little kid at Christmas. And I just uttered to him, ‘You’re so hot.’ And he said, ‘Why, thank you!’ And he almost jumped into my arms. Literally.”

Hunter – who went on to work as a videographer on his campaign – says she told him, “‘I can help you.’ And he said, “I want your help. I need your help.” And he told me how to contact him [at the Regency]. He said, ‘Please call me.’ I said, ‘How long are you staying?’ He said, ‘Until tomorrow morning. Please, call me. Call me.’”

They eventually connected on the phone.

“He said that he really wanted to hear what I had to say. Would I mind, um, meeting him in his room? And I said, ‘No, I wouldn’t mind at all,’” she recalls. “And the reason I wouldn’t is because he’s a celebrity. I have a lot of celebrity friends, and I know their rules are different. Also, it felt completely familiar, like I’d known him all my life. Anyway, so I said, ‘Let me eat my Caesar salad, and I’ll see you in 15 minutes.’ And I said to my friends, ‘I’m going over there.’ And it was funny, because they were like, ‘You cannot sleep with him! You cannot sleep with him, because you can help him!’ And I said, ‘I am not going to sleep with him.’ I gave them my word: ‘I won’t sleep with him.’ [laughs] And so I went over to his room, and I walked in, and I. Was. Terrified.” 

“Because I had never experienced anything like what was flowing between us,” she continues. “I sat on the other side of the room. I wouldn’t go near him. And he kept saying [she mimics his southern drawl], ‘What are you doin’ over there? Come over here. I can’t even see you. Come closer. I won’t bite you.’ I was just — there was sooo much attraction and sooo much… I want to say love, but it wasn’t love at that point. You know, it was just this, this magnetic force field like I had never experienced. It terrified me. Absolutely terrified me. And, um, I eventually walked over to his side of the room. [laughs] He was pretty relentless. And that’s all I’m gonna say on that! Now fade to black!”

He called her the next day, she says, and they “talked on the phone almost every night for four hours. We met on February 21. On February 25 — on the phone, from Davenport, Iowa — I fell in love with him. Head over heels in love. I was a goner.”

She says she helped him keep the affair hidden from his breast cancer-stricken wife Elizabeth, 60, by buying him a second cellphone — identical to his regular one — for her to call him on.

But Elizabeth, suspicious he was having an affair with Hunter, discovered the second phone one day. When she dialed the last number called, “I answered the phone and said, ‘Hey, baby.’ And, click,” Hunter recalls.

Elizabeth then “confronted him and confronted him, and he finally confessed,” Hunter says.

Hunter says she initially had “problems” having an affair with a married man, but that their “force field of our love overrode any issues” she had.

Plus, she says: “Infidelity doesn’t happen in healthy marriages. The break in the marriage happens before the infidelity. And that break happened, you know, two-and-a-half decades before I got there. So the home was wrecked already. I was not the Home Wrecker.”

Adds Hunter, “I believe what happened in his marriage is, he could not go to his wife and say, “We have an issue.” Because he would be pummeled. So he had a huge fear. Most of his mistakes or errors in judgment were because of his fear of the wrath of Elizabeth. He’s allowed himself to be pushed into a lot of things that he wouldn’t normally do because of Elizabeth’s story line. And the spin that she wants to put out there. He was emasculated. And you know, the wrath of Elizabeth is a mighty wrath.”

In July 2007, Hunter says she learned she was pregnant. Though Edwards said he would support her, “on some level, he was hoping I would get an abortion,” Hunter says. “He wasn’t happy about the timing. Which is understandable. He was married and running for president.”

Hunter says Edwards has been a “sweet” and “very loving” father, adding that their daughter “calls him Da-da. She’s always known who Da-da is. Yeah. She’s never had Da-da missing from her life … He very much wants to be in her life full—time, and he doesn’t want to hide.”

Now that Edwards and Elizabeth have separated, she says she has “no idea” if they’ll wind up together. “I do know that I will love him and that love is till death do us part, and probably beyond,” Hunter says. “We have a child together, so at the very least we will be co-parents together.”

Looking back, she says she knew they had something special the night they met.

“We had an extraordinary night, and I did know that this was unlike anything either of us had ever experienced,” she says. “And as we have all learned, that was accurate! [laughs] He in fact did say to me the first night, ‘Falling in love with you could really f–k up my plans for becoming President.’ And of course I said, ‘If you want to make God laugh, tell him your plans.’”

For more on this story, check out the interview in April’s GQ.

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