Celebrities who haven't aged in more than ten years

TIME is a celebrity's greatest enemy, because with it comes wrinkles, sagging and the degradation of their million dollar looks.

But a handful of stars have somehow managed to defy the effects of ageing, looking just as good in 2013 as they did in the early 2000s.
Here are ten celebrities who either have great genes, great surgeons or have located and drunk from the fountain of youth.
Nicole Kidman:

Nicole Kidman has as many wrinkles in 2013 than she did in 1992 ... none! Source: Splash News Australia

Tom Cruise:

Ageing appears to be a Mission Inpossible for Tom Cruise, who looks exactly the same in 2013 as he did in 1999. Source: Splash News Australia

Kate Hudson:

No wonder Kate Hudson’s smiling, she looks as good nowadays as she did in 2001. Source: Splash News Australia

Will Smith:

We want whatever he’s on! Will Smith had more wrinkles in 1996 than he does in 2013. Source: Splash News Australia

Jennifer Aniston:

Same haircut, same lipstick, same good looks. Jen Aniston hasn’t aged over the past 12 years. Source: Splash News Australia

Paul Rudd:

Paul Rudd was a stud in 1997, and he’s still a stud in 2013. Source: Splash News Australia

Halle Berry:

Is it possible that Halle Berry looks better in 2013 than she did in 2001? Source: Splash News Australia

Elijah Wood:

Elijah Wood hasn’t aged in the last 10 years, and it’s fair to say he’ll look exactly the same in another 10 years. Source: Splash News Australia

Jamie Foxx:

He’s still looking just as foxy in 2013 as he did in 1999. Source: Splash News Australia

Rob Lowe:

How about those eyes? Just as sexy in 2002 compared to 2013. Source: Splash News Australia

Lisa Curry posts cryptic message as mag claims Fifi Box has baby 'news'

SOMEONE isn't happy that Fifi Box and Grant Kenny are 'looking forward to baby number two'.

As Woman's Day hit newsstands on Monday with a story that said Fifi and Grant are expecting baby number two already the ironman's ex-wife Lisa Curry posted five words on Facebook.
"Breathe in ... Breathe out ... Repeat ..."
While the Woman's Day story was "untrue" according to Curry, it might have been difficult for her to see considering she has shared her struggle to have a child with her new, younger partner.
"I'm not sure how they can get away with headlines like that," Curry told news.com.au. "Leave Grant, Fifi and poor little Trixie alone."
Rival magazine New Idea broke the story that Kenny, 50, was 36-year-old Box's baby daddy last year, although the pair have never commented on the speculation.

Melbourne's Funniest New Breakfast Show on The Fox with Fifi Box and Dave Thornton. Picture: Supplied. Source: Supplied

The news that Kenny was baby Trixie's father originally stunned his friends and family who had no idea of the whirlwind romance between the intensely private businessman and very public radio presenter.
Now Woman's Day credits a "close friend" as saying: "Fifi would love to have a baby boy with Grant. They're in a really good place and Fifi would love nothing more than to give Trixie a little brother. I know she's already discussed it with Grant, who is pleasantly surprised at just how much he's enjoying being a dad again."
The story came out on the same day that New Idea published an interview with Lisa Curry in which she says she has given up on her dream to have a baby via IVF with partner Joel Walkenhorst who is 20 years her junior.

Grant Kenny, 50, and son Jett, 18, at Maroochydore Beach. Picture: Mark Cranitch. Source: News Limited

Curry and Kenny have three adult children from their high-profile 23-year marriage.
The youngest child Jett, a budding ironman, graduated from high school last year. Their eldest daughter Jaimi, 26, has been living in Brisbane while their middle child Morgan, has been living her dream as a chorus girl with the Moulin Rouge in Paris.
Kenny has largely avoided romance since splitting with Curry. Instead the workaholic threw himself into his business. In recent years Kenny has sold assets including Queensland-based Curry Kenny Aviation which netted an estimated $70 million.
Melbourne-based Box, 36, and Sunshine Coast-based Kenny, 50, have never discussed their relationship publicly but Woman's Day last month claimed they were 'a happy family now', secretly spending weekends together.
"It's one of Australia's most fascinating relationships and yet radio personality Fifi Box and former ironman champion Grant Kenny, who already has three adult children with Curry, both go to great lengths to keep their enduring love affair under wraps," the magazine reported.

Former Olympic swimmer Lisa Curry-Kenny with daughter Jami and Grant Kenny on the Sunshine Coast, Queensland, after Lisa talked about her heart condition during a press conference. Source: News Limited

"Neither will even confirm that Grant, 50, is the father of 36-year-old Fifi's seven-month-old daughter Trixie Belle. But friends insist they are both madly in love with each other, regularly meeting and talking daily on the phone."
Unlucky-in-love Box has not been spotted on the Sunshine Coast, where Kenny lives, but Kenny could easily fly her up in one of his aircraft.
Meanwhile Curry's Facebook friends were quick to sympathise with the former swimming champ.

"BS magazine stories hey!!!! I think of you, your family and all your feelings every time I read them. BS. Xxxx Lots of love to you. Hope you're OK," Vanessa Manion posted.

Oops! The worst celebrity wardrobe malfunctions of 2013

Iggy Azalea happily flaunted her pins at the 2013 MTV EMAs in Amsterdam. Picture: Getty Source: Supplied

FROM nipple slips to dangerously thigh high splits that went askew - even the most sophisticated celebrities suffer wardrobe malfunctions.

Here are some of 2013's most memorable.
Iggy Azalea: The Aussie rapper flashed her private parts on the red carpet at the MTV Europe Music Awards. She then took to Twitter to respond to all the hype, saying "I don't give a f*** about a bikini line."

Iggy Azalea exposed a tad more than she bargained for at the MTV EMAs. Picture: Getty Source: Getty Images

Kylie Gillies: The good-natured Morning Show co-host was able to laugh about this moment when the wind caught her cut-out frock at the Prix de Marie Claire Awards.

Photos of Kylie Gillies’ windswept moment quickly went viral. Picture: Getty Source: Getty Images

Lady Gaga: Gaga gave her little monsters their money's worth when her black leather pants tore up the backside during her Born This Way concert. And on opening night, too.

This is one costume change Gaga didn’t count on. Picture: Splash News Source: Splash News Australia

Eva Longoria: It was a blink-and-you'll-miss-it moment, but plenty of hungry photographers captured the moment Eva Longoria lost her footing in the rain at Cannes Film Festival. Too bad she had opted to go commando that day.

A sky-high split, a drizzly day and an absent pair of knickers spelled disaster for Eva Longoria at Cannes. Source: Getty Images

Katy Perry: The singer's performance at the Opera House earlier this year made headlines around the world for all the wrong reasons. Damn that Sydney Harbour breeze.

US pop star Katy Perry performed live at the Opera House for Sunrise. Picture: Supplied Source: News Limited

Stefanie Scott: The Disney star was all smiles on the red carpet at the Nickelodeon's 26th Annual Kids' Choice Awards ... until this happened.

Stefanie Scott didn’t know where to grab, so she just crossed her legs and hoped for the best. Source: Splash News Australia

Jennifer Lawrence: The lovable J-Law suffered every actress' worst nightmare when her skirt appeared to fall apart at the Screen Actors Guild awards as she headed to the stage to accept her award.

All eyes were on J-Law at the SAG Awards ... and then this happened. Picture: YouTube Source: Supplied

Rita Ora: The British singer accidentally flashed her underwear while out on the town celebrating her 23rd birthday. She didn't seem too fazed though.

We wonder what boyfriend Calvin Harris thought about this awkward moment ... Picture: Splash Source: Splash News Australia

Rosario Dawson: Ruthless winds at Cannes Film Festival meant that the Seven Pounds actress accidentally exposed her undies at the As I Lay Dying premiere. The face says it all.

Rosario Dawson was well aware of her cheeky red carpet flash at the As I Lay Dying premiere. Source: Splash News Australia

Rebel Wilson: Honourable mention goes to this ballsy bird for faking a double nipple slip while hosting the MTV Movie Awards. Rebel, we salute you.

Rebel Wilson made sure all eyes were on her while hosting the MTV Movie Awards. Picture: Getty Source: Supplied

Obama economic adviser to stay an extra month

Gene Sperling will stay on an extra month or so as director of the National Economic Council, the White House said Wednesday.
Sperling, who has held the job for nearly three years, will participate "in the process around the State of the Union address that the president will deliver at the end of January, and to continue work on some of the issues that he's been focused on," said White House spokesman Jay Carney.
His projects include a pair of upcoming conferences, one on helping low-income students attend college and another on ways to address the long-term unemployed.

Sperling will also help with the transition to his successor Jeff Zients, who until this week has been supervising improvements to the troubled health care website.

Judge's strike at U.S. surveillance won't be last word

Judge Richard Leon's criticism of government snooping on Americans' phone records is almost certain to meet with conflicting decisions from other courts.

WASHINGTON — U.S. District Court Judge Richard Leon posed a basic concern as he opened a sparsely attended hearing into the federal government's telephone and Internet surveillance program exactly one month ago: Could the plaintiffs bring the case, and did he have authority to handle it?
It was a humble start for a 64-year-old jurist who could not have foreseen the national security issues that would consume much of his time for the next dozen years when he was nominated by President George W. Bush on Sept. 10, 2001.
Now Leon has claimed his 15 minutes of fame with a 68-page decision challenging the constitutionality of the National Security Agency's surveillance program.
Yet for all of his colorful phrasing (he described the NSA's collection of millions of Americans' phone records as "Orwellian"), Leon's is far from the last word in a debate that began six months ago with the unauthorized disclosures by former NSA contractor Edward Snowden.
Leon's stinging rebuke flies in the face of decisions rendered in secret by 15 Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court judges who have approved the widespread snooping every 90 days since 2006. It also challenges a 1979 decision in which the Supreme Court denied privacy protections to telephone records.
Those decisions and others, including a November ruling by a federal judge in California upholding the sweeping phone data collection program, form the basis for the government's claimed authority to conduct such surveillance operations. Now they appear destined to be vetted in full — and in public — for the first time by the nation's highest legal authorities.
"Only the Supreme Court can resolve the question on the constitutionality of the NSA's program,'' said Senate Intelligence Committee Chairwoman Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., one of the strongest advocates for the surveillance programs. "It has been more than 30 years since the court's original decision of constitutionality, and I believe it is crucial to settling the issue once and for all.''
That prospective venue for settling the national security debate, made even more contentious by Leon's ruling, is about the only thing lawmakers, civil liberties advocates and legal analysts can agree on.
"It is not clear one way or another how this will be ultimately decided,'' said University of Notre Dame law professor Jimmy Gurule, who applauded Leon's decision as a "victory for the U.S. Constitution and the rule of law.''
The Justice Department, which has yet to comment on its all-but-certain appeal, said it remained confident in its authority to continue the programs. "We believe the program is constitutional, as previous judges have found,'' spokesman Andrew Ames said.
That previous judicial review, Deputy Attorney General James Cole told a Senate panel last week, includes a decision rendered in November by U.S. District Court Judge Jeffrey Miller. He denied an appeal by four convicted terror associates who claimed in part that the phone collection program violated their Fourth Amendment right to privacy.
"Judge Miller was ruling on a real-world terrorist case,'' Feinstein said Tuesday.
Orin Kerr, a George Washington University law professor who specializes in computer crime law, said other federal courts are more likely to follow the Supreme Court's 1979 ruling in Smith v. Maryland and approve the phone-tracking program. He called Leon "an outlier in his approach to the main Supreme Court case."
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit, which would consider the Justice Department appeal, mostly has backed the government in cases involving national security. It is dominated by conservative judges, but three new judges named by President Obama will tilt the balance of power.
If the issue does go to the Supreme Court, it would be decided by a different set of justices than those who decided the Smith case. The court has not addressed directly the issue of informational privacy. But two petitions for review involve conflicting lower-court rulings on the privacy of cellphone data during arrests, and the court is likely to hear one or both of them next year.
"They will give the court an opportunity to begin to develop a theory of informational privacy," says Erwin Chemerinsky, a constitutional law scholar and dean of the University of California-Irvine School of Law.
Having laid down a marker, Judge Leon now plays the role that U.S. District Court Judge Henry Hudson of Virginia played in December 2010, when he was first to strike down the individual mandate at the core of President Obama's health care law.
Hudson's verdict represented the initial shot across the bow in a case that wound up at the Supreme Court. Within hours of his ruling, Randy Barnett, a Georgetown University Law Center professor who first argued that the law was unconstitutional, got an e-mail from Yale Law School professor Jack Balkin. "Your argument is officially not frivolous anymore," Balkin wrote.
"It changes the dynamic when you have a federal judge endorse the argument that you've made, even one," says Barnett, a libertarian who agrees with Leon's decision. "This is a necessary first step to an outcome invalidating the bulk data collection program."
Leon clearly recognized that by granting conservative gadfly Larry Klayman's request for a preliminary injunction but staying its impact while the Justice Department mounts what will be a vigorous appeal — something the judge predicted at the Nov. 18 hearing.
"However I come out," Leon said, "I know it's going upstairs."

Mandela’s Candid Opinion Of Nigerian Leaders

Six years before his death last Thursday, Nelson Mandela took a look at Nigeria and expressed sadness at the political, economic and social degeneration of the once touted giant of Africa.
He came up with a damning verdict. He blamed the leaders for abandoning the people. Madiba, as he was popularly called by South Africans, accused Nigerian leaders of betraying their people in a candid interview with Dr Hakeem Baba Ahmed in 2007.
In the interview conducted in his home, the former South African late hero blasted Nigerian leaders for lack of genuine interest in the success of their people. He lamented the poverty level in Nigeria and the bad education system.
Though he acknowledged Nigeria’s effort in the fight against apartheid, he accused Nigerian leaders of letting their people and Africa down.

                     Nelson Mandela: 1917-2013

FULL TEXT OF OBASANJO'S REALITY LETTER TO PRESIDENT JONATHAN

December 2, 2013
His Excellency,
Dr. Goodluck E. Jonathan, GCFR
President and Commander-in-Chief
of the Federal Republic of Nigeria,
Presidential Villa,
Asokoro, Abuja.
Dear Mr. President,
I am constrained to make this an open letter to you for a number of reasons. One, the current situation and consequent possible outcome dictate that I should, before the door closes on reason and promotion of nation interest, alert you to the danger that may be lurking in the corner. Two, none of the four or more letters I have written to you in the past two years or so has elicited neither an acknowledgement nor any response. Three, people close to you, if not yourself, have been asking, what does Obasanjo want? Four, I could sense a semblance between the situation that we are gradually getting into and the situation we fell into as a nation during the Abacha era. Five, everything must be done to guard, protect and defend our fledgling democracy, nourish it, and prevent bloodshed. Six, we must move away from advertently or inadvertently dividing the country along weak seams of North-South and Christian-Moslem. Seven, nothing should be done to allow the country to degenerate into economic dormancy, stagnation or retrogression. Eight, some of our international friends and development partners are genuinely worried about signs and signals that are coming out of Nigeria. Nine, Nigeria should be in a position to take advantage of the present favourable international interest to invest in Africa – an opportunity that will not be open for too long. Ten, I am concerned about your legacy and your climb-down which you alone can best be the manager of, whenever you so decide.

Mr. President, you have on a number of occasions acknowledged the role God enabled me to play in your ascension to power. You put me third after God and your parents among those that have impacted most of your life. I have always retorted that God only put you where you are and those that could be regarded as having played a role were only instruments of God to achieve God's purpose in your life. For me, I believe that politically, it was in the best interest of Nigeria that you, a Nigerian from minority group in the South could rise to the highest pinnacle of political leadership. If Obasanjo could get there, Yar'Adua could get there and Jonathan can get there, any Nigerian can. It is now not a matter of the turn of any section or geographical area but the best interest of Nigeria and all Nigerians. It has been proved that no group – ethnic, linguistic, religious or geographical location – has monopoly of materials for leadership of our country. And no group solely by itself can crown any of it members the Nigerian CEO. It is good for Nigeria. I have also always told you that God has graciously been kind, generous, merciful and compassionate to me and He has done more than I could have ever hoped for. I want nothing from you personally except that you should run the affairs of Nigeria not only to make Nigeria good, but to make Nigeria great for which I have always pleaded with you and I will always do so. And it is yet to be done for most Nigerians to see.

For five capacities in which you find yourself, you must hold yourself most significantly responsible for what happens to fails to happen in Nigeria and in any case most others will hold you responsible and God who put you there will surely hold you responsible and accountable. I have had opportunity, in recent times, to interact closely with you and I have come to the conclusion painfully or happily that if you can shun yourself to a great extent of personal and political interests and dwell more on the national interest and also draw the line between advice from selfish and self-centered aides and advice from those who in the interest of the nation may not tell you what you will want to hear, it will be well. The five positions which you share with nobody except God and which place great and grave responsibility on you are leadership of the ruling party, headship of the Federal Government or national government, Commander-in-Chief of the Military, Chief Security Officer of the nation, and the political leader of the country. Those positions go with being President of our country and while depending on your disposition you can delegate or devolve responsibility, but the buck must stop on your table whether you like it or not.

Let me start with the leadership of the ruling party. Many of us were puzzled over what was going on in the party. Most party members blamed the National Chairman. I understand that some in the presidency tried to create the impression that some of us were to blame. The situation became clear only when the National Chairman spoke out that he never did anything or acted in any way without the approval or concurrence of the Party Leader and that where the Party Leader disapproved, he made correction or amendment, that we realised most actions were those of the Chairman but the motivation and direction were those of the Leader. It would be unfair to continue to level full blames on the Chairman for all that goes wrong with the Party. The Chairman is playing the tune dictated by the Paymaster.

But the Paymaster is acting for a definitive purpose for which deceit and deception seems to be the major ingredients. Up till two months ago, Mr. President, you told me that you have not told anybody that you would contest in 2015. I quickly pointed out to you that the signs and the measures on the ground do not tally with you statement. You said the same to one other person who shared his observation with me. And only a fool would believe that statement that you made to me judging by what is going on. I must say that it is not ingenious. You may wish to pursue a more credible and honourable path. Although you have not formally informed me one way or the other, it will be necessary to refresh your memory of what transpired in 2011. I had gone to Benue State for the marriage of one of my staff, Vitalis Ortese, in the State. Governor Suswam was my hospitable host. He told me that you had accepted a one-term presidency to allow for ease of getting support across the board in the North. I decided to crosscheck with you. You did not hesitate to confirm to me that you are a strong believer in a one-term of six years for the President and that by the time you have used the unexpired time of your predecessor and the four years of your first term, you would have almost used up to six years and you would not need any more term or time. Later, I heard from other sources including sources close to you that you made the same commitment elsewhere, hence, my inclusion of it in my Address at the finale of your campaign in 2011 as follows:

“…PDP should be praised for being the only party that enshrines federal character, zoning and rotation in its Constitution and practices it. PDP has brought stability and substantial predictability to the polity and the system. I do not know who will be President of Nigeria after Dr. Goodluck Jonathan. That is in the hand of God. But with PDP policy and practice, I can reasonably guess from where, in term of the section of the country, the successor to President Jonathan will come. And no internal democracy or competition will thereby be destroyed. The recent resort to sentiments and emotions of religion and regionalism is self-serving, unpatriotic and mischievous, to say the least. It is also preying on dangerous emotive issues that can ignite uncontrollable passion and destabilise if not destroy our country. This is being oblivious of the sacrifices others have made in the past for unity, stability and democracy in the Nigeria in giving up their lives, shedding their blood, and in going to prison. I personally have done two out of those three sacrifices and I am ready to do the third if it will serve the best interest of Nigerian dream. Let me appeal to those who have embarked on this dangerous road to reflect and desist from taking us on a perishable journey. With common identity as Nigerians, there is more that binds us than separates us. I am a Nigerian, born a Yoruba man, and I am proud of both identities, as they are for me complementary. Our duties, responsibilities and obligations to our country as citizens and, indeed, as leaders must go side by side with our rights and demands. There must be certain values and virtues that must go concomitantly with our dream. Thomas Paine said “my country is the world”, for me, my country I hold dear.

On two occasions, I have had opportunity to work for my successors to the government of Nigeria. On both occasions, I never took the easy and destabilising route of ethnic, regional or religious consideration rather I took the enduring route of national, uniting and stabilising route. I worked for both President Shagari and President Yar'Adua to succeed me not just because they are Moslems, Northerners or Hausa-Fulani, but also because they could strengthen the unity, stability and democracy in Nigeria. We incurred the displeasure of ethnic chauvinists for doing what was right for the country. That is in the nature of burden of leadership. A leader must lead no matter whose ox is gored.

In the present circumstance, let me reiterate what I have said on a number of occasions. Electing Dr. Goodluck Ebele Jonathan, in his own right and on his own merit, as the President of Nigeria will enhance and strengthen our unity, stability and democracy. And it will lead us towards the achievement of our Nigerian dream.

There is press report that Dr. Goodluck Jonathan has already taken a unique and unprecedented step of declaring that he would only want to be a one-term President. If so, whether we know it or not, that is a sacrifice and it is statesmanlike.

Rather than vilify him and pull him down, we, as a Party, should applaud and commend him and Nigerians should reward and venerate him. He has taken the first good step.

Let us encourage him to take more good steps by voting him in with landslide victory and the fourth elected President of Nigeria on the basis of our common Nigerian identity and for the purpose of actualizing Nigerian dream…”