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Thursday, December 4, 2008
LifeStyles condoms auctions artsy boxes
To commemorate World AIDS Day and AIDS Awareness Month, the makers of LifeStyles® Condoms are dressing up their undeniably recognizable condom boxes in an effort to raise both money and awareness for the worldwide AIDS epidemic. LifeStyles has enlisted some celebrities to create exclusively designed condom boxes for the LifeStyles Celebrity Pop Art Auction. This auction will be live until tomorrow, Dec. 5, on www.lifestyles.com/popart, with all proceeds being donated to YouthAIDS.
Some of today’s big names, from movie stars to fashion moguls, jumped at the chance to transform the signature LifeStyles condom carriers into works of art for this cause. Participants include Ashley Judd, Ethan Hawke, Margaret Cho and Dita Von Teese (that’s Dita’s, pictured above).
Some of the designs may make it into retail stores, said a LifeStyles marketing guru. The LifeStyles Celebrity Pop Art Auction was designed to harness the power of celebrities to raise money and increase awareness about AIDS, which takes the life of one child every minute. For additional information on YouthAIDS visit www.youthaids.org.
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Sean Avery apologizes for vulgar comment
Hockey star Sean Avery, suspended by the NHL for making an offensive statement apparently referring to ex-girlfriend Elisha Cuthbert, apologized Wednesday.
“I should not have made those comments and I recognize that they were inappropriate,” he says in a statement to People magazine. “It was a bad attempt to build excitement for the game, but I am now acutely aware of how hurtful my actions were.”
The hockey league’s commissioner summoned Avery, 28, who plays for the Dallas Stars, for a hearing today on his indefinite suspension for making what the commissioner called “inappropriate public comments, not pertaining to the game.”
Avery’s vulgar comment came Wednesday morning, when he told reporters, “it’s a common thing for NHL guys to fall in love with my sloppy seconds.” Although he didn’t mention her by name, his ex, 24 actress Cuthbert, 26, now dates Calgary defenseman Dion Phaneuf and was previously linked to a player for the Montreal Canadiens. (Avery also dated “Stacey’s Mom” star Rachel Hunter, who now dates Los Angeles Kings star Jarret Stoll.)
“I caused unnecessary embarrassment to my peers as well as people I have been close with in the past,” Avery says. “As many of you know, I like to mix it up on and off the ice from time to time, but understand that this time I took it too far.”
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Anne Heche announces pregnancy
Anne Heche and her beau, actor James Tupper, are expecting their first child together. The two first met in 2006 on the set of their short-lived ABC drama Men In Trees while Heche was still wed to husband Coley Laffoon.
“In that friendship, we kind of discovered we saw the world in a somewhat similar way,” Tupper, who was also married at the time, told the Vancouver Sun last year. “I think we both made decisions that were based on the relationships we were in.”
Shortly after Heche announced her split from Laffoon (with whom she has a 6-year-old son, Homer), the two stepped out publicly.
“I wish people could meet her in person,” Tupper told the Sun of Heche, with whom he shares a home in Vancouver. “She has such a sparkle and such a love for people, and she works so hard. She is so dedicated to all the good things.”
Heche told Extra last year that she was relieved that they can finally be open about their relationship. “We’re so much more comfortable now that our feelings are exposed and everybody knows about them,” said Heche, who will be appearing with Tupper on an upcoming episode of Samantha Who? this season.
Asked whether she’ll expand her family, Heche said, “Gotta leave it open, ya know what I’m sayin’?”
