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Tuesday, October 12, 2010

Lady Gaga, Justin Bieber: Killer video stars

Lady Gaga, Justin Bieber: Killer video stars


Lady Gaga Biography Birth name Stefani Joanne Angelina Germanotta Born March 28, 1986 (1986-03-28) (age 24) Origin Manhattan, New York City, U.S. Genres Pop, dance, electronica Occupations Singer, songwriter, musician, dancer Instruments Vocals, piano, synthesizer, keytar Years active 2006-present Labels Interscope, Streamline, Kon Live, Cherrytree, Def Jam Website http://www.ladygaga.com Lady Gaga (born Stefani Joanne Angelina Germanotta; March 28, 1986) is an American recording artist. She had enrolled at New York University's Tisch School of the Arts to study music, but left the college and began performing in the rock music scene of New York City's Lower East Side. She soon signed with Streamline Records, an imprint of Interscope Records, upon its establishment in 2007. During her early time at Interscope, she worked as a songwriter for fellow label artists and captured the attention of Akon, who recognized her vocal abilities, and got her signed to his own label, Kon Live Distribution. Her debut album, The Fame, was released on August 19, 2008. In addition to receiving generally positive reviews, it reached number one in Canada, Austria, Germany and Ireland, and topped the Billboard Top Electronic Albums chart. Its first two singles, "Just Dance" and "Poker Face", co-written and co-produced with RedOne, became international number-one hits, topping the Billboard Hot 100 in the United States as well as the charts of other countries. The album later earned a total of six Grammy Award nominations and won awards for Best Electronic/Dance Album and Best Dance Recording. In early 2009 she embarked on her first headlining tour, The Fame Ball Tour. By the fourth quarter of the year, she had released her second studio album The Fame Monster, with the global chart-topping lead single "Bad Romance", as well as having embarked on her second headlining tour of the year, The Monster Ball Tour. Lady Gaga is inspired by glam rock musicians such as David Bowie and Freddie Mercury, as well as pop music artists such as Madonna and Michael Jackson. She has also stated fashion is a source of inspiration for her songwriting and performances. In December, 2009 Lady Gaga was ranked the #73rd Artist of the Decade by Billboard Magazine. As of May 2010, she had sold over 11.5 million albums and over 40 million singles worldwide. In May 2010, Time magazine included Gaga in its annual Time 100 list of the most influential people in the world. Contents 1 Biography 1.1 1986-2004: Early life 1.2 2005-07: Career beginnings 1.3 2008 onwards: The Fame and The Fame Monster 2 Musical style and influences 2.1 Public image 3 Discography 4 Tours 5 Awards and nominations ==Biography== 1986-2004: Early life Stefani Germanotta was born on March 28, 1986, the eldest child of Italian American parents Joseph and Cynthia Germanotta (née Bissett), in New York City. She learned to play piano from the age of four, went on to write her first piano ballad at 13 and began performing at open mike nights by age 14. At the age of 11, Germanotta attended Convent of the Sacred Heart, a private Roman Catholic school. An avid thespian in high school musicals, Germanotta portrayed lead roles as Adelaide in Guys and Dolls and Philia in A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum. She described her academic life in high school as "very dedicated, very studious, very disciplined" but also "a bit insecure" as she told in an interview, "I used to get made fun of for being either too provocative or too eccentric, so I started to tone it down. I didn’t fit in, and I felt like a freak." Acquaintances dispute that she did not fit in school. "She had a core group of friends; she was a good student. She liked boys a lot, but singing was No. 1", recalled a former high school classmate. Referring to her "expressive, free spirit", Gaga told Elle magazine "I'm left-handed!" At age 17, Germanotta gained early admission to the New York University's Tisch School of the Arts. There she studied music, and improved her songwriting skills by composing essays and analytical papers focusing on topics such as art, religion, social issues and politics. Germanotta lived in a NYU dorm on 11th Street but felt that she was more creative than some of her classmates. "Once you learn how to think about art, you can teach yourself," she said. By the second semester of her sophomore year, she withdrew from the school to focus on her musical career. Her father agreed to pay her rent for a year, on the condition that she re-enroll for Tisch, if she was unsuccessful. "I left my entire family, got the cheapest apartment I could find, and ate shit until somebody would listen," she said. 2005-07: Career beginnings Germanotta had initially signed with Def Jam Recordings at the age of 19, after Island Def Jam Music Group Chairman and CEO L. A. Reid heard her singing down the hallway from his office. After three months, she was dropped from Def Jam, although they introduced her to songwriter and producer RedOne, whom they also managed. The first song she produced together with RedOne was "Boys Boys Boys", a mash-up inspired by Mötley Crüe's "Girls, Girls, Girls" and AC/DC's "T.N.T.". She moved into an apartment on the Lower East Side, and from there she started the Stefani Germanotta Band with some friends from NYU. They recorded an EP of their Fiona Apple-esque ballads, at a studio underneath a liquor store in New Jersey, becoming a local fixture at the downtown LES club scene. She began taking drugs soon after, while performing at burlesque shows. Her father did not understand the reason behind her drug addiction and could not look at her for several months. Music producer Rob Fusari, who helped her write some of her earlier songs, compared her vocal style to that of Freddie Mercury. Fusari helped create the moniker Gaga, after the Queen song "Radio Ga Ga". One day, Germanotta was in the process of trying to come up with a stage name, when she received a text message from Fusari that read "Lady Gaga". He explained, "Every day, when Stef came to the studio, instead of saying hello, I would start singing 'Radio Ga Ga.' That was her entrance song. Lasy Gaga was actually a glitch; I typed 'Radio Ga Ga' in a text and it did an autocorrect so somehow 'Radio' got changed to 'Lady'. She texted me back, "That's it." After that day, she was Lady Gaga. She’s like, "Don’t ever call me Stefani again." Gaga performing at a barShe was known thereafter as Lady Gaga. Throughout 2007, Gaga collaborated with performance artist Lady Starlight, who helped create her onstage fashions. The pair began playing gigs at downtown club venues like the Mercury Lounge, The Bitter End, and the Rockwood Music Hall, with their live performance art piece known as "Lady Gaga and the Starlight Revue". Billed as "The Ultimate Pop Burlesque Rockshow", their act was a low-fi tribute to 1970s variety acts. In August 2007, Gaga and Starlight were invited to play at the American Lollapalooza music festival. The show was critically acclaimed, and their performance received positive reviews. Having initially focused on avant-garde, and electronic dance music, Gaga found her musical niche when she began to incorporate pop melodies and the vintage glam rock of David Bowie and Queen into her music. Fusari sent the songs he produced with Gaga to his friend, producer and record executive Vincent Herbert. Herbert was quick to sign her to his label Streamline Records, an imprint of Interscope Records. She credited Herbert as the man who discovered her, adding "I really feel like we made pop history, and we're gonna keep going". Having already served as an apprentice songwriter under an internship at Famous Music Publishing, which was later acquired by Sony/ATV Music Publishing, Gaga subsequently struck a music publishing deal with Sony/ATV. As a result, she was hired to write songs for Britney Spears, and labelmates New Kids on the Block, Fergie, and the Pussycat Dolls. While Gaga was writing at Interscope, singer-songwriter Akon recognized her vocal abilities, when she sang a reference vocal for one of his tracks in studio. He then convinced Interscope-Geffen-A&M Chairman and CEO Jimmy Iovine to form a joint deal, by having her also sign with his own label Kon Live Distribution, and later called her his "franchise player." Gaga continued her collaboration with RedOne, by working with him in the studio for a week on her debut album, spawning the future singles "Just Dance" and "Poker Face". She also joined the roster of Cherrytree Records, an Interscope imprint established by producer and songwriter Martin Kierszenbaum, after co-writing four songs with Kierszenbaum including the single "Eh, Eh (Nothing Else I Can Say)". 2008 onwards: The Fame and The Fame Monster By 2008, Gaga had relocated to Los Angeles, working closely with her record label to finalize her debut album The Fame. She combined a lot of different genres on the album, "from Def Leppard drums and hand claps to metal drums on urban tracks." The Fame received positive reviews from critics; according to the music review aggregation of Metacritic, it garnered an average score of 71/100. The album peaked at number one in Austria, the United Kingdom, Canada, and Ireland, and the top-five in Australia and the United States. Its lead single "Just Dance", topped the charts in six countries Australia, Canada, the Netherlands, Ireland, the United Kingdom, and the United States and later received a Grammy Award nomination for Best Dance Recording. The following single, "Poker Face", was an even greater success, reaching number-one in almost all major music markets in the world, including the United Kingdom and the United States. It won the award for Best Dance Recording at the 52nd Grammy Awards, over nominations for Song of the Year and Record of the Year. The Fame was nominated for Album of the Year; it won the Grammy Award for Best Electronic/Dance Album. Although her first concert tour happened as an opening act for fellow Interscope pop group, the reformed New Kids on the Block, she ultimately headlined her own concert tour, The Fame Ball Tour, which began on March 2009. Gaga at the 2009 MTV Video Music Awards.The cover of the annual 'Hot 100' issue of Rolling Stone in May 2009, featured a semi-nude Gaga wearing only strategically placed plastic bubbles. In the issue she discussed that while she was beginning her career in the New York club scene, she was romantically involved with a heavy metal drummer. She described their relationship and break-up, saying of it, "I was his Sandy, and he was my Danny of Grease, and I just broke." He later became an inspiration behind some of the songs on The Fame. She was nominated for a total of nine awards at the 2009 MTV Video Music Awards, winning the award for "Best New Artist", while her single "Paparazzi" won two awards for "Best Art Direction" and "Best Special Effects." In October 2009, Gaga received Billboard magazine's Rising Star of 2009 award. She attended the Human Rights Campaign's "National Dinner" on October 10, 2009, before marching in the National Equality March in Washington, D.C. In November 2009, Gaga released The Fame Monster, a collection of eight songs that dealt with the darker side of fame as experienced by her over the course of 2008-09, while travelling around the world and are expressed through a monster metaphor. Her second concert tour, The Monster Ball Tour, was announced in support of The Fame Monster and began in November 2009. "Bad Romance" was released as the first single from the album and topped the charts in eighteen countries, while reaching the top-two in the United States, Australia and New Zealand. "Speechless", a song from The Fame Monster, was performed at The 2009 Royal Variety Performance where Gaga met and sang for Queen Elizabeth II. Gaga performing on The Monster Ball TourGaga was chosen as of one the '10 Most Fascinating People of 2009' by Barbara Walters during Walters' annual ABC News special. When interviewed by the journalist, the singer went to dismiss the claim that she is intersex as an urban legend, responding to a question on this issue by stating: "At first it was very strange and everyone sorta said, 'That's really quite a story!' But in a sense, I portray myself in a very androgynous way, and I love androgyny." On January 7, 2010, she was named chief creative officer for a line of imaging products for Polaroid, stating that she will create fashion, technology and photography products. In the wake of the 2010 Haiti earthquake, Gaga donated all of her proceeds from the January 24 show of The Monster Ball (ticket sales, merchandise, etc.), and from her online store; the total amount donated was over $500,000. She also collaborated with artist Cyndi Lauper, for MAC AIDS Fund's VIVA Glam campaign, which raised over $160 million to fight against AIDS and HIV, and bring awareness about the diseases to women around the world. The second single "Telephone", which features R&B singer Beyoncé, became her fourth UK number-one single, while reaching the top three in Australia, France, Germany, Austria, Hungary, Canada and the United States. On March 19, 2010, Rob Fusari sued Gaga's production company Mermaid Music LLC, claiming that he was entitled to a 20% share of its earnings. Gaga's lawyer Charles Ortner described the agreement with Fusari as "unlawful" and declined to comment. In an interview with MTV United Kingdom, Gaga stated that she had begun work on her new studio album. She said that shes "already written the core of it" and that "it's certainly my best work to date." On April 16, 2010, her music videos gained over one billion viral views, becoming the first artist to reach this milestone. Later that month, Gaga was named one of Time magazine's 100 most influential people of the year. Cyndi Lauper, who wrote the article in TIME about Gaga, called her "a performance artist" saying that "she herself is the art, she is the sculpture." ==Musical style and influences== Gaga has been influenced by glam rock musicians such as David Bowie and Freddie Mercury, as well as pop music artists such as Madonna and Michael Jackson. The Queen song "Radio Ga Ga" inspired her stage name, "Lady Gaga". She commented: "I adored Freddie Mercury and Queen had a hit called 'Radio Gaga'. That's why I love the name Freddie was unique one of the biggest personalities in the whole of pop music." Madonna told Rolling Stone that she sees "herself in Lady Gaga." In response to the comparisons between herself and Madonna, Gaga stated: "I don't want to sound presumptuous, but I've made it my goal to revolutionise pop music. The last revolution was launched by Madonna 25 years ago." Actress and singer Grace Jones was also cited as an inspiration by her. She has often been likened to Blondie singer Debbie Harry. Gaga's vocals have drawn frequent comparison to Madonna and Gwen Stefani, while the structure of her music is said to be reminiscent of classic 1980s pop and 1990s Europop. While reviewing her debut album The Fame, The Sunday Times asserted "in combining music, fashion, art and technology, Lady GaGa evokes Madonna, Gwen Stefani circa 'Hollaback Girl', Kylie Minogue 2001 or Grace Jones right now." Similarly, The Boston Globe critic Sarah Rodman commented that she draws "obvious inspirations from Madonna to Gwen Stefani... in her girlish but sturdy pipes and bubbly beats." Though her lyrics are said to lack intellectual stimulation, "she does manage to get you moving and grooving at an almost effortless pace." Music critic Simon Reynolds wrote that "Everything about Gaga came from electroclash, except the music, which wasn't particularly 1980s, just ruthlessly catchy noughties pop glazed with Auto-Tune and undergirded with R&B-ish beats. Gaga has stated that she is "very into fashion" and that it is "everything" to her. She considers Donatella Versace her muse. Gaga has her own creative production team called the Haus of Gaga, which she handles personally. The team creates many of her clothes, stage props, and hairdos. Her love of fashion came from her mother, who she stated was "always very well kept and beautiful." She said that: "When I'm writing music, I'm thinking about the clothes I want to wear on stage. It's all about everything altogether performance art, pop performance art, fashion. For me, it's everything coming together and being a real story that will bring back the super-fan. I want to bring that back. I want the imagery to be so strong that fans will want to eat and taste and lick every part of us." The Global Language Monitor named 'Lady Gaga' as the Top Fashion Buzzword with her trademark 'no pants' coming in at No. 3. Entertainment Weekly put her outfits on its end of the decade "best-of" list, saying, "Whether it's a dress made of Muppets or strategically placed bubbles, Gaga's outré ensembles brought performance art into the mainstream." ==Public image== Gaga wearing a plastic bubble dress while performing on The Fame Ball Tour.Contrary to her subsequent outré style, the New York Post described her early look as like "a refugee from Jersey Shore" with "big black hair, heavy eye makeup and tight, revealing clothes." Gaga is a natural brunette, however she bleached her hair blonde, because she was often mistaken for Amy Winehouse. She often refers to her fans as her 'little monsters' and got a tattoo with that inscription as a tribute. She has another six known tattoos, among them a peace symbol, which was inspired by the late John Lennon who she stated was her hero, and a curling German script on her left arm which quotes the poet Rainer Maria Rilke, her "favorite philosopher," commenting that his "philosophy of solitude" spoke to her: In the deepest hour of the night, confess to yourself that you would die if you were forbidden to write. And look deep into your heart where it spreads its roots, the answer, and ask yourself, must I write? Rainer Maria Rilke Toward the end of 2008, comparisons were made between the fashions of Lady Gaga and recording artist Christina Aguilera, noting similarities in their styling, hair, and make-up. Aguilera later said she was "completely unaware of Gaga" and "didn't know if it was a man or a woman." Gaga released a statement in which she welcomed the comparisons, due to the attention providing useful publicity, saying, "She's such a huge star and if anything I should send her flowers, because a lot of people in America didn't know who I was until that whole thing happened. It really put me on the map in a way." Comparisons continued into 2010 when Christina released the music video of her single "Not Myself Tonight". Critics noted similarities between the song and its accompanying music video with Gaga's video for "Bad Romance". Gaga delivers a speech at the National Equality March, October 11, 2009.Gaga attributes much of her early success as a mainstream artist to her gay fans and is considered to be a rising gay icon. Early in her career she had difficulty getting radio airplay, and stated, "The turning point for me was the gay community. I've got so many gay fans and they're so loyal to me and they really lifted me up. They'll always stand by me and I'll always stand by them. It's not an easy thing to create a fanbase." She thanked FlyLife, a Manhattan-based LGBT marketing company with whom her label Interscope works, in the liner notes of her debut studio album, The Fame, saying, "I love you so much. You were the first heartbeat in this project, and your support and brilliance means the world to me. I will always fight for the gay community hand in hand with this incredible team." One of her first televised performances was in May 2008 at the NewNowNext Awards, an awards show aired by the LGBT television network Logo, where she sang her song "Just Dance". In June of the same year, she performed the song again at the San Francisco Pride event. After The Fame was released, she revealed that the song "Poker Face" was about her bisexuality. In an interview with Rolling Stone, she spoke about how her boyfriends tended to react to her bisexuality, saying "The fact that I’m into women, they’re all intimidated by it. It makes them uncomfortable. They’re like, 'I don’t need to have a threesome. I’m happy with just you'." When she appeared as a guest on The Ellen DeGeneres Show in May 2009, she praised DeGeneres for being "an inspiration for women and for the gay community". She proclaimed that the October 11, 2009, National Equality March rally on the national mall was "the single most important event of her career." As she exited, she left with an exultant "Bless God and bless the gays," similar to her 2009 MTV Video Music Awards acceptance speech for Best New Artist a month earlier. ==Discography== Main article: Lady Gaga discography The Fame (2008) The Fame Monster (2009) Tours The Fame Ball Tour (2009) The Monster Ball Tour (2009-2011) Awards and nominations Main article: List of awards and nominations received by Lady Gaga Related Websites: http://www.ladygaga.com/ http://www.ladygaga.com/telephone/ http://www.ladygaga.com/news/ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lady_Gaga http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qrO4YZeyl0I http://twitter.com/ladygaga http://www.facebook.com/ladygaga?v=app_157391050947062 http://www.myspace.com/ladygaga http://www.mtv.com/music/artist/lady_gaga/artist.jhtml
Lady Gaga, Justin Bieber: Killer video stars

Most viewed: Videos by Lada Gaga and Justin Bieber have compiled some astounding statistics
An odder pop couple doesn't exist: Justin Bieber with his heartthrob looks and Mayberry sweetness, and Lady Gaga with her outrageous costumes and kinky persona.
And yet behold the king and queen of today's music video scene, taking over for MTV-era monarchs Michael Jackson and Madonna.
At their torrid mouse-click pace — in September, Bieber was getting 3.7 million views a day, Gaga 1.8 million — the singers will be the first entertainers to top 1 billion YouTube views each, Gaga by Oct. 25 and Bieber by Nov. 3, says David Burch of TubeMogul, which monitors online video traffic.

IN THE SPOTLIGHT: Justin Bieber and Susan Boyle
Contributing heavily to their staggering stats are Bieber's Baby, with 353 million views (with a playing time of 3:45, that's roughly 2,518 years of screen time), and Gaga's Bad Romance, which has tallied 291 million views (at 5:08, 2,832 years).
The distant runners-up? Jackson and Britney Spears, each with about 600 million total views.
"No one comes close to Gaga and Bieber in terms of compiling this sort of statistic in this short a time," Burch says. "Clearly, they are tapping into something big."
That would be a keen understanding of the interactive nature of today's media consumers. In contrast to the passive days of watching videos on TV or hearing songs on the radio, today's music fans can actively promote an artist through repeated viewings and forwarding videos to friends, says Monica Herrera, news editor at Billboard.
"Today's model involves keeping the content coming in short bursts and staying very visible with fans, compared to days when being unseen might be viewed as cool," Herrera says. "When you click on your mouse, you get to be with the star."
YouTube spokesman Chris Dale says that for many music fans, "clicking on a video is like a form of competition — the more they do it, the more they wind up helping their favorite artist," he says. "Bieber and Gaga have figured out that there's a core overlap between what they do and what this generation wants."
Video is central to the careers of both stars. Gaga's elaborate creations, which often enlist the help of divas such as Beyoncé, almost demand to be seen more than heard.
And Bieber literally owes his livelihood to YouTube: Amateur videos of him singing are what led to his being signed by R&B star Usher. It also appears the teen is angling for a career in front of the camera: He's playing a troubled teenager in episodes of CBS' CSI.
"Justin Bieber is the first teen phenomenon in the era of universal access" to stars, says Bob Lefsetz, author of music-industry watchdog blog the Lefsetz Letter. "He's showing that the Internet really is providing new opportunities for the music business.

"And the production values of (Gaga's) clips prove the music video is not dead."

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Sunday, October 10, 2010

X Factor reject Gamu pleads with Simon and Cheryl: Don't let me be deported, I will face a firing squad

X Factor reject Gamu pleads with Simon and Cheryl: Don't let me be deported, I will face a firing squad
  • 'My two brothers have had to be kept out school because they are so upset and it's all my fault'
  • Labour leader Ed Miliband 'feels sorry' for teenager

Fears: X Factor reject Gamu claims she will be punished if she is deported

Fears: X Factor reject Gamu claims she will be punished if she is deported
Rejected X Factor contestant Gamu Nhengu claimed today she will face the firing squad if she is forced to return to her native Zimbabwe.
The 18-year-old singer faces deportation after her mother wrongly claimed state benefits.
Speaking from a secret location in Scotland, she said her relatives back home have been approached by men she feared work for her country's ruthless President Robert Mugabe.
She told the News of the World: 'I've been in the public eye now and people there know I've fled Mugabe's regime. They will punish us if we go back. They're going to know where we are.
'There's a firing squad waiting for us there and they're putting me in front of it.'
The singer said she had not been contacted by show judges Simon Cowell or Cheryl Cole although she had heard Cowell's lawyers were 'trying to help.'
Last week it emerged Nhengu and her family faced being kicked out of the UK after the visa application of her mother Nokuthula Ngazana was turned down over the benefit claims.
Ms Ngazana's lawyer Frances Farrell said she planned to fight the decision at an immigration tribunal despite the family being told they have no right of appeal.
Officials have told them they must leave the country voluntarily or face deportation

Cheryl's picks: Cher Lloyd wowed the judges with her performance, while Katie Waissel's rendition of We Are The Champions earned her mixed reviews
Cheryl's picks: Cher Lloyd wowed the judges with her performance, while Katie Waissel's rendition of We Are The Champions earned her mixed reviews

Cheryl's picks: Cher Lloyd wowed the judges with her performance, while Katie Waissel's rendition of We Are The Champions earned her mixed reviews
She told the Sunday People she had spent the last week locked in her bedroom sobbing since the decision that wrecked her future.

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Insistent: Cheryl last night stood by her decision to put Katie, Cher and Rebecca through instead of Gamu

Insistent: Cheryl last night stood by her decision to put Katie, Cher and Rebecca through instead of Gamu
She said: 'I'm a total mess. People want to know if I'm OK - well, I'm definitely not OK.
'I don't understand. I'm a good person, what have I done to deserve this? I feel so responsible I have put my family through all this.
'My two brothers have had to be kept out of school because they are so upset and it's all my fault. If I hadn't applied for the X Factor none of this would ever have happened.'
She told the People she couldn't think straight and was not in a 'good place'.
Despite more than 250,000 people signing up to a Facebook group calling for Nhengu to be re-instated, the idea was rejected by X Factor producers.
Meanwhile, Labour leader Ed Miliband said he felt sorry for Gamu but that she should be dealt with like anybody else.
He told BBC1's The Politics Show: 'I feel very sorry for Gamu but I think you do have to have the proper rules enforced, you can't make an exception for someone because she was on the X factor, so I think the authorities have to make their own decisions in the normal way.'
Last night Gamu was not among the four wildcards picked to join the final 12 by the show's judges.

Contestants Treyc Cohen, Wagner, Paije Richardson and duo Diva Fever had their hopes of pop stardom revived after being selected for the live show.
Boy band FYD who covered Travie McCoy's Billionaire, kicked of the show,adding a reference to Cowell into the lyrics.
Next up was painter and decorator Matt Cardle, singing David Guetta's When Love Takes Over. Cowell said his version was 'genius' and would be 'a monster hit' if he released it as a single.
All eyes were on Cher Lloyd and Katie Waissel, who were the two girls picked ahead of Gamu despite poor judges' houses auditions.
Cher, 17, showed no sign of the throat problems which had left her in tears as she sang, rapped and danced her way through a version of The SOS Band's Just Be Good To Me.
Cowell, who turned 51 on Thursday, told her: 'You are exactly what we were looking for which is a new little star and you should be unpredictable, that's what pop music is all about.'
Katie, also impressed three of the four judges with her performance of Queen's We Are The Champions, despite her strange outfit, which included a multi-coloured helmet.
Grandparents: Chipo Ngazana and wife Ananias at their smallholding near Harare
Grandparents: Chipo Ngazana and wife Ananias at their smallholding near Harare
But Louis Walsh told her he thought she was 'more style than substance' at her first audition 'and I haven't really changed my mind.'
Treyc finally put the Gamu argument to bed - in Simon Cowell's mind at least - with a strong performance singing U2's One.
The mogul said Cheryl had done the right thing bringing her back and described her performance as the 'best vocal of the night'.
Voting lines opened at the end of last night's show and two acts will leave the show tonight, which will also feature performances by last year's winner Joe McElderry and American singer Usher.

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Wild Child Lady GaGa as a rebellious 15 year old on hit TV Show The Sopranos

Wild child! Lady Gaga as a rebellious 15-year-old on hit TV show The Sopranos

We're used to seeing Lady Gaga in a variety of crazy and controversial styles.
But the 24-year-old star was once just a regular teenager like anybody else with normal, down to earth looks.
Gaga, real name Stefani Germanotta, had a guest spot on hit show The Sopranos when she was 15 years old.
Fame Monster: 15-year-old Lady Gaga appears in an episode of The Sopranos called TheTelltale Moozadell
Fame Monster: 15-year-old Lady Gaga appears in an episode of The Sopranos called TheTelltale Moozadell
And it's clear the young brunette was already eager for the spotlight.
In the episode, called The Telltale Moozadell, she appears in a pool scene in which Tony Soprano’s son A. J. and his friends are swimming at their high school pool after hours.
Gaga plays one of three friends who watch and laugh as the boys swim.
Wild child: Lady Gaga (real name Stefani Germanotta) smokes cigarettes in the episode
Wild child: Lady Gaga (real name Stefani Germanotta) smokes cigarettes for her guest spot on the episode
When the boys start to get out of hand and do some vandalising, one of the girls joins in while Gaga and the other girl look on and laugh.
And the teenager was already flirting with risque roles as she wore a midriff-baring top and smoked a cigarette.
It looks like Gaga started as she meant to continue, judging by her very cheeky costume on stage earlier this week for the We Are Plastic Ono Band concert held at LA’s Orpheum Theatre.
Drink up! Lady Gaga was just 15 in this episode, and had long brunette hair
Drink up! Lady Gaga was just 15 in this episode, and had long brunette hair
The Just Dance star recently took to the stage with John Lennon's widow Yoko Ono.
And she completely upstaged the 77-year-old as she teetered around the stage in a pair of super-high platform boots.
Her typically cheeky outfit - a bejewelled catsuit - deliberately exposed her bottom.
Gaga joined with the Plastic Ono Band, formerly a loose supergroup of musicians that Lennon assembled 40 years ago.
Hanging with the boys: Gaga plays one of three girls who watch A.J swimming at the school pool
Hanging with the boys: Gaga plays one of three girls who watch A.J swimming at the school pool
But Ono was not at all fazed by the eccentric pop star, focusing instead on how happy she was to be performing again.

She said: 'I have never done a show in L.A., so I am very happy to be finally doing it.'
The Alejandro singer and Ono performed in front of a sold-out audience.
Cheeky so and so! Lady Gaga wears a bottom-exposing outfit as she performs with Yoko Ono at the Orpheum Theater
Cheeky so and so! Lady Gaga wears a bottom-exposing outfit as she performs with Yoko Ono at the Orpheum Theater
Gaga tweeted: 'WE ARE PLASTIC ONO. I got to sit in as a guest musician tonight, what a legendary band + mother, Yoko.'
Earlier in the day the 24-year-old boasted about her musical success, as she tweeted: 'Today THE FAME spends its 100th consecutive week on Billboard.
'I wrote it myself + sang it live everynight. Thanku for believing lilmonsters.'

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Miley Cyrus' 'Who Owns My Heart?' video's too 'sexualized': Parents Television Council president

Miley Cyrus's 'Who Owns My Heart?' video shows the songstress writhing around in bed before heading off to a club in revealing attire. WATCH VIDEO below.
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Miley Cyrus's 'Who Owns My Heart?' video shows the songstress writhing around in bed before heading off to a club in revealing attire. WATCH VIDEO below.
Miley Cyrus´ new-found sexiness is "unfortunate," according to a TV watchdog group.
The president of the Parents Television Council has publicly lashed out at the 17-year-old singer for her latest age-inappropriate video, "Who Owns My Heart?," in which she writhes in bed in her underwear.
"It is unfortunate that she would participate in such a sexualized video like this one," Tim Winters told TMZ.com. "Miley built her fame and fortune entirely on the backs of young girls, and it saddens us that she seems so eager to distance herself from that fan base so rapidly."
The video, released Friday, shows the singer waking up in bed blindfolded with no pants on as she writhes between the silk sheets and saucily sings to the camera. She then heads off to party in glittery barely-there club gear -- with plenty of cleavage and leg on display -- before hitting the dance floor where she gets down with some older men.
"Who owns my heart?" she sings. "Is it love or is it art?"
Cyrus, who turns 18 on Nov. 23, has been experiencing non-stop growing pains in the past few months for attempting to kill her vanilla "Hannah Montana" image with a series of hyper-sexual music videos and performances.
In what seemed to be a response to her detractors, she told MTV.com that "Who Owns My Heart?" is about "freeing yourself from anything you think is holding you back."
The teen pop star last came under fire in June for her tribal-themed "Can't Be Tamed" performance at the 2010 Much Music Video Awards. While performing her homage to “King Kong,” her skimpy white bodice threatened to expose her nether regions.

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Love me do: Yoko Ono reveals it was Paul McCartney who saved her marriage to John

Love me do: Yoko reveals it was Paul who saved her marriage to John

Last updated at 5:45 PM on 10th October 2010
It became a legendary event in John Lennon's increasingly eccentric life - famously known as 'the lost weekend'.
And now, on the day John Lennon fans around the world are celebrating what would have been his 70th birthday, his widow, Yoko Ono, has revealed what happened during those days when John disappeared with their pretty personal assistant.
And despite a well known war of words with Beatle Paul McCartney, Yoko credits Macca with actually saving their marriage.
John and Yoko had separated in the summer of 1973 after a period of marital strife, and subsequently Lennon began a relationship with his personal assistant May Pang - a collusion Pang says was entirely orchestrated by Yoko.
Yoko continued to stay in touch with her errant husband but it was not until they met backstage at an Elton John concert in November1974 that they became reconciled.
John Lennon and Yoko Ono
John Lennon and Yoko Ono at their home at Tittenhurst Park
Paul McCartney, pictured earlier this month, wanted to help John sort out his marriage, Yoko said in an interview today
Genuinely worried: Paul McCartney, pictured earlier this month, wanted to help John sort out his marriage, Yoko said in an interview today
But the surprise element of the story is that Yoko reveals Paul McCartney stepped in and brought the couple back together.
That the two were not on good terms and a feud developed after Lennon left the Beatles is well known.
Yoko tells The Times: 'I want the world to know that it was a very touching thing that he did for John.
'He was genuinely concerned about his old partner. Even though John was not even asking for help - John, Paul, all of them were too proud to ask anything - he helped. John often said he didn't understand why Paul did this for us, but he did.'
As Yoko recounts, Paul and Linda McCartney visited her in New York early in 1974, and they talked long into the night.
Paul asked Yoko what would make her take John back and she told him that if John courted her she would perhaps consider it.
Paul then visited John in Los Angeles where he was living with May Pang, and according to Yoko advised him on how to get Yoko back.
The fact that John immediately tried to court Yoko, and came back to New York, was hugely important she says.
He made several attempts to woo her, including taking her to a Man Ray exhibition and to see a film, after she watched him perform at the Elton John concert and realised it could all begin again.
John Lennon (right) is accompanied by May Pang (left) at the Beacon Theatre in New York, shortly before he became reconciled with Yoko Ono
elton john and john lennon concert
John Lennon and May Pang (left) at the Beacon Theatre in New York, shortly before he became reconciled with Yoko Ono after Elton John's concert (right) at Madison Square Garden, New York in November 1974
Less than a year after they were reunited their son Sean was born, on John’s birthday.
To mark what would have been John's 70th birthday Yoko is in Iceland today to light the Imagine Peace Tower in Reykjavik bay’s Videy Island.
She lights the Tower every year on the same day, sending a vast beam of light shooting upwards into space, and it remains lit until December 8, the day he was murdered by Mark Chapman outside the Dakota building in New York where they lived.

Yoko also reveals that John preferred to celebrate her and their son’s birthdays rather than his own, explaining that they would usually have a quiet, private party.

He was not happy about reaching 40, she added, but believed had he reached 70 he would have been ‘energetic and very wise and enjoying life’.
There are a number of Lennon anniversary celebrations, notably a massive re-issue of solo Lennon material which Yoko personally remastered.
It is the largest project of its kind since the much-acclaimed reissue of the Fab Four’s catalog in 2009.
Sean ono Lennon (left), Yoko Ono (middle) and Julian Lennon (right) pictured lat month in New York. Yoko insists the brothers received the same amount from John's estate
Good relationship: Sean Ono Lennon (left), Yoko Ono (middle) and Julian Lennon (right) pictured last month in New York. Yoko insists the brothers received the same amount from John's estate
There will also be a concert in Japan on December 8, the day of his death.
The Dream Power Concert will have Japanese artists singing Lennon songs and all the money will go towards schools in Africa, Asia and South America.
Yoko is at pains to point out that Lennon’s children enjoy a normal relationship as brothers, and her and Sean were photographed recently with Lennon’s first wife, Cynthia and their son Julian at the premiere of Nowhere Boy, the film about John’s early days.
She ends the interview by saying that she feels John is still with her, guiding her and giving her ideas. ‘Yoko in her own words’ will be broadcast on Radio 6 at 8pm tomorrow.
Today, May Pang lives just outside New York City, and has two children.

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Friday, October 08, 2010

Adriana Lima Google Images 4 Victorias Secret


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Adriana Lima Hot Biography Birth name Adriana Francesca Lima Date of birth June 12, 1981 (1981-06-12) (age 28) Place of birth Salvador, Bahia, Brazil Height 5 ft 10 in (1.78 m) Hair color Brown Eye color Blue Measurements 86-61-89 (34-24-35) Dress size 4 (US) Shoe size 9 (US) Agency Marilyn Agency Spouse(s) Marko Jaric (2009-present) USA Fashion & Music News http://goo.gl/gKk73b PICASA WEB PHOTO GALLERY http://goo.gl/i7uHME Adriana Francesca Lima (born June 12, 1981) is a Brazilian model best known as a Victoria's Secret Angel since 2000 and a spokesmodel for Maybelline cosmetics from 2003 to 2009. At age 15, Lima finished first place in Ford's "Supermodel of Brazil" competition and took second place the following year in the Ford "Supermodel of the World" competition before signing with Elite Model Management in New York City. Lima never thought about being a model, although she had won many beauty pageants in elementary school. However, she had a friend at school who wanted to enter a modeling contest and didn't want to enter alone, so Lima entered with her. Both sent in pictures, and the contest sponsor soon asked Lima to come out for the competition. Soon after, at the age of 15, she entered and finished in first place in Ford's "Supermodel of Brazil" model search. She subsequently entered the 1996 Ford "Supermodel of the World" contest and finished in second place. Three years later, Lima moved to New York City and signed with Elite Model Management. After acquiring representation, Lima's modeling portfolio quickly began to expand, and she appeared in numerous international editions of Vogue and Marie Claire. As a runway model, she has walked the catwalks for designers such as Vera Wang, Christian Lacroix, Emanuel Ungaro, Giorgio Armani, Fendi, Ralph Lauren and Valentino, among others. Lima became a guess girl in 2000, appearing in that year's fall ad campaign. She also appeared in the book A Second Decade of Guess? Images. Lima continued to build upon her portfolio, doing more print work for Maybelline, for whom she worked as a spokesmodel from 2003 until 2009, the same year she appeared in the company's first calendar, a limited edition run also featuring Kemp Muhl, Jessica White, Julia Stegner, and Anna Wang. Lima has also worked for notable fashion brands bebe, Mossimo, Armani, Bulgari, De Beers, FCUK, Intimissimi, Keds, Swatch, Versace, and BCBG. She also appeared on the covers and in the editorials of other fashion magazines such as Harper's Bazaar, ELLE, GQ, Arena, Cosmopolitan, and Esquire. Her April 2006 GQ cover was the highest-selling issue that magazine for the year, while her April 2008 cover brought a record number of hits to the magazine's website. She also appeared in the 2005 Pirelli Calendar and became the face of Italy's cell phone carrier, Telecom Italia Mobile, a move that earned her the nickname, "the Catherine Zeta-Jones of Italy." In 2006, Sao Paulo Fashion Week released a calendar featuring twenty-five Brazilian models, including Lima. The calendar was accompanied by a movie containing interviews with the models, which was broadcasted at GNT in Brazil and then hit the shelves as a DVD. In February 2008, she was featured on the cover of Esquire, re-creating the classic 1966 Angie Dickinson cover on Esquire's 75th anniversary along with fellow Victoria's Secret Angels Alessandra Ambrosio, Karolina Kurkova, Izabel Goulart and Selita Ebanks. She appeared only in shoes, diamonds and gloves for the November 2007 issue of Vanity Fair celebrating 20 years of supermodels with her fellow Angels. In February 2008, she was chosen to be the face of Mexico's Liverpool department store chain and launched the partnership with a press conference, runway show, and summer campaign. Lima returned to the high fashion runway in 2009, walking for Givenchy. That same year, after visiting Turkey, Lima signed a contract with Doritos to appear in print campaigns and commercials which began airing in Turkey in April. She is also one of the faces of Givenchy for the Fall/Winter 2009 season, alongside Mariacarla Boscono and Iris Strubegger. In 2006, Lima ranked as the fifth highest paid supermodel. In 2007 and 2008, she ranked as the world's fourth highest paid supermodel by Forbes Magazine. ==Victoria's Secret== Lima is probably best known for her work with Victoria's Secret. Her first fashion show for the company came in 1999, and since being contracted as an Angel in 2000, she has appeared on subsequent shows ever since, opening the show in 2003, 2007, and 2008, in which she also closed the opening segment. Lima has appeared on several television ads for the brand, including the praised and criticized "Angel in Venice" commercial of 2003 with Bob Dylan and her solo Victoria's Secret's Super Bowl XLII ad, the single most-seen ad of the game, watched by 103.7 million viewers. 2008 continued for Lima with hosting the What Is Sexy? program for the E! Entertainment Network and a July tour for the BioFit Uplift Bra launch, with stops in Long Island, Boston, and Miami Beach. She was also featured in November's Miracle Bra relaunch. Topping the year off, Lima wore the "Fantasy Bra" for the 2008 Victoria's Secret Fashion Show. In 2009, Lima launched the company's new makeup line, "Christian Siriano for VS Makeup." ==Acting== Lima's first acting role was the wife, alongside Mickey Rourke and Forest Whitaker, in The Follow (2001), a short film in BMW's series The Hire, starring Clive Owen. She also appeared with her fellow Angels in a guest spot playing herself in the series How I Met Your Mother in November 2007. In 2008, Lima appeared on the American television series Ugly Betty, where she played herself and made friends with the series' title character, played by America Ferrera. According to her publicist, Liza Anderson, "Adriana has always been a huge fan of Ugly Betty and is thrilled for the opportunity to make a guest star appearance." ==Reception== Since her rise to fame, Lima is often cited by popular media as one of the world's sexiest women. Lima was listed in the 2005 Forbes' edition of The World's Best-Paid Celebrities Under 25. Also, she ranked No.99th in the 2006 Forbes' edition of The Celebrity 100 (Forbes' Highest Paid and Powerful Celebrities in the World). Lima was chosen to be a part of People magazine's 100 most beautiful people in the world list, sharing that space with the Angels, with whom she also received a star on the Hollywood "Walk of Fame" prior to the 2007 Victoria's Secret Fashion Show. That same year, she ranked 7th on FHM's "100 Sexiest Women 2007" list and was awarded as the "Hottest Girl on the Planet" at the first Spike TV Guys' Choice Awards, although the category was not mentioned in the actual broadcast. Lima was also voted on the Maxim "Hot 100" 2007 at the #53 spot. She was voted #1 as the Most Desirable Woman in 2005 by visitors of the men's lifestyle website, Askmen.com (she placed 4th in 2006 and 2007, 10th in 2008, and 19th in 2009). Lima is also listed in the 2009 Guinness Book of World Records as the youngest model on Forbes' Celebrity 100 List. As of November 2008, Models.com featured her at No.1 on the list of the Sexiest Models today. In 2009, she was voted sixth in "FHM's Sexiest Women In The World". ==Public image and Personal life== Victoria's Secret Angels Adriana Lima (left), Marisa Miller and Selita Ebanks ride in the Guantanamo Bay Christmas Parade Dec. 1, 2007 In addition to her native Portuguese, Lima speaks English, French, and a bit of Italian. Lima was shy around boys when she was younger, not receiving her first kiss until she was 17 years old. Afterward, the boy went directly to her mother to ask if he could marry her. She is a devout Catholic who attends church every Sunday. In April 2006, she told GQ that she was a virgin. "Sex is for after marriage," she explained. "They have to respect that this is my choice. If there's no respect, that means they don't want me." Staying true to her religious roots, she is known for taking a Bible backstage to read. She has been romantically linked to musician/singer Lenny Kravitz and Prince Wenzeslaus of Liechtenstein. In 2009 she married Serbian basketball player Marko Jaric'; they wed in a private civil ceremony in Jackson Hole, Wyoming on Valentines Day. The couple originally planned on a large wedding in Salvador in June 2009, but the couple decided to opt for a wedding in each of their hometowns; both are scheduled to take place at the end of 2009. Lima and Jaric' are reportedly expecting their first child together in December 2009. Lima's representative told People magazine: "Adriana and Marko are overjoyed that they are expecting their first child together and are excited to share the happy news and start their family together." She has also recently applied for Serbian citizenship in order to promote a positive image of Serbia abroad. ==Charity== Lima does charitable work helping with an orphanage, "Caminhos da Luz" (Ways of Light), located in her hometown. She helps with construction to expand the orphanage, and buys clothes for poor children in Salvador, Bahia. She appeared on Var Yok musun, the Turkish version of Deal or No Deal, where her prize money went to a hospital in Istanbul for children fighting leukemia. 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Adriana Lima Google Images 4 Victorias Secret


Adriana Lima

Adriana Lima, April 30, 2007
Birth name Adriana Francesca Lima
Date of birth June 12, 1981 (1981-06-12) (age 28)
Place of birth Salvador, Bahia, Brazil
Height 5 ft 10 in (1.78 m)
Hair color Brown
Eye color Blue
Measurements 86-61-89 (34-24-35)
Dress size 4 (US)
Shoe size 9 (US)
Agency Marilyn Agency
Spouse(s) Marko Jaric (2009-present)

Adriana Francesca Lima (born June 12, 1981) is a Brazilian model best known as a Victoria's Secret Angel since 2000 and a spokesmodel for Maybelline cosmetics from 2003 to 2009. At age 15, Lima finished first place in Ford's "Supermodel of Brazil" competition and took second place the following year in the Ford "Supermodel of the World" competition before signing with Elite Model Management in New York City.

Lima never thought about being a model, although she had won many beauty pageants in elementary school. However, she had a friend at school who wanted to enter a modeling contest and didn't want to enter alone, so Lima entered with her. Both sent in pictures, and the contest sponsor soon asked Lima to come out for the competition. Soon after, at the age of 15, she entered and finished in first place in Ford's "Supermodel of Brazil" model search. She subsequently entered the 1996 Ford "Supermodel of the World" contest and finished in second place. Three years later, Lima moved to New York City and signed with Elite Model Management. After acquiring representation, Lima's modeling portfolio quickly began to expand, and she appeared in numerous international editions of Vogue and Marie Claire. As a runway model, she has walked the catwalks for designers such as Vera Wang, Christian Lacroix, Emanuel Ungaro, Giorgio Armani, Fendi, Ralph Lauren and Valentino, among others. Lima became a guess girl in 2000, appearing in that year's fall ad campaign. She also appeared in the book A Second Decade of Guess? Images.

Lima continued to build upon her portfolio, doing more print work for Maybelline, for whom she worked as a spokesmodel from 2003 until 2009, the same year she appeared in the company's first calendar, a limited edition run also featuring Kemp Muhl, Jessica White, Julia Stegner, and Anna Wang. Lima has also worked for notable fashion brands bebe, Mossimo, Armani, Bulgari, De Beers, FCUK, Intimissimi, Keds, Swatch, Versace, and BCBG. She also appeared on the covers and in the editorials of other fashion magazines such as Harper's Bazaar, ELLE, GQ, Arena, Cosmopolitan, and Esquire. Her April 2006 GQ cover was the highest-selling issue that magazine for the year, while her April 2008 cover brought a record number of hits to the magazine's website. She also appeared in the 2005 Pirelli Calendar and became the face of Italy's cell phone carrier, Telecom Italia Mobile, a move that earned her the nickname, "the Catherine Zeta-Jones of Italy."

In 2006, Sao Paulo Fashion Week released a calendar featuring twenty-five Brazilian models, including Lima. The calendar was accompanied by a movie containing interviews with the models, which was broadcasted at GNT in Brazil and then hit the shelves as a DVD.

In February 2008, she was featured on the cover of Esquire, re-creating the classic 1966 Angie Dickinson cover on Esquire's 75th anniversary along with fellow Victoria's Secret Angels Alessandra Ambrosio, Karolina Kurkova, Izabel Goulart and Selita Ebanks. She appeared only in shoes, diamonds and gloves for the November 2007 issue of Vanity Fair celebrating 20 years of supermodels with her fellow Angels. In February 2008, she was chosen to be the face of Mexico's Liverpool department store chain and launched the partnership with a press conference, runway show, and summer campaign. Lima returned to the high fashion runway in 2009, walking for Givenchy. That same year, after visiting Turkey, Lima signed a contract with Doritos to appear in print campaigns and commercials which began airing in Turkey in April. She is also one of the faces of Givenchy for the Fall/Winter 2009 season, alongside Mariacarla Boscono and Iris Strubegger.

In 2006, Lima ranked as the fifth highest paid supermodel. In 2007 and 2008, she ranked as the world's fourth highest paid supermodel by Forbes Magazine.

==Victoria's Secret==
Lima is probably best known for her work with Victoria's Secret. Her first fashion show for the company came in 1999, and since being contracted as an Angel in 2000, she has appeared on subsequent shows ever since, opening the show in 2003, 2007, and 2008, in which she also closed the opening segment. Lima has appeared on several television ads for the brand, including the praised and criticized "Angel in Venice" commercial of 2003 with Bob Dylan and her solo Victoria's Secret's Super Bowl XLII ad, the single most-seen ad of the game, watched by 103.7 million viewers. 2008 continued for Lima with hosting the What Is Sexy? program for the E! Entertainment Network and a July tour for the BioFit Uplift Bra launch, with stops in Long Island, Boston, and Miami Beach. She was also featured in November's Miracle Bra relaunch. Topping the year off, Lima wore the "Fantasy Bra" for the 2008 Victoria's Secret Fashion Show. In 2009, Lima launched the company's new makeup line, "Christian Siriano for VS Makeup."

==Acting==
Lima's first acting role was the wife, alongside Mickey Rourke and Forest Whitaker, in The Follow (2001), a short film in BMW's series The Hire, starring Clive Owen. She also appeared with her fellow Angels in a guest spot playing herself in the series How I Met Your Mother in November 2007.

In 2008, Lima appeared on the American television series Ugly Betty, where she played herself and made friends with the series' title character, played by America Ferrera. According to her publicist, Liza Anderson, "Adriana has always been a huge fan of Ugly Betty and is thrilled for the opportunity to make a guest star appearance."

==Reception==
Since her rise to fame, Lima is often cited by popular media as one of the world's sexiest women. Lima was listed in the 2005 Forbes' edition of The World's Best-Paid Celebrities Under 25. Also, she ranked No.99th in the 2006 Forbes' edition of The Celebrity 100 (Forbes' Highest Paid and Powerful Celebrities in the World). Lima was chosen to be a part of People magazine's 100 most beautiful people in the world list, sharing that space with the Angels, with whom she also received a star on the Hollywood "Walk of Fame" prior to the 2007 Victoria's Secret Fashion Show. That same year, she ranked 7th on FHM's "100 Sexiest Women 2007" list and was awarded as the "Hottest Girl on the Planet" at the first Spike TV Guys' Choice Awards, although the category was not mentioned in the actual broadcast. Lima was also voted on the Maxim "Hot 100" 2007 at the #53 spot. She was voted #1 as the Most Desirable Woman in 2005 by visitors of the men's lifestyle website, Askmen.com (she placed 4th in 2006 and 2007, 10th in 2008, and 19th in 2009). Lima is also listed in the 2009 Guinness Book of World Records as the youngest model on Forbes' Celebrity 100 List. As of November 2008, Models.com featured her at No.1 on the list of the Sexiest Models today. In 2009, she was voted sixth in "FHM's Sexiest Women In The World".

==Public image and Personal life==
Victoria's Secret Angels Adriana Lima (left), Marisa Miller and Selita Ebanks ride in the Guantanamo Bay Christmas Parade Dec. 1, 2007

In addition to her native Portuguese, Lima speaks English, French, and a bit of Italian. Lima was shy around boys when she was younger, not receiving her first kiss until she was 17 years old. Afterward, the boy went directly to her mother to ask if he could marry her. She is a devout Catholic who attends church every Sunday. In April 2006, she told GQ that she was a virgin. "Sex is for after marriage," she explained. "They have to respect that this is my choice. If there's no respect, that means they don't want me." Staying true to her religious roots, she is known for taking a Bible backstage to read.

She has been romantically linked to musician/singer Lenny Kravitz and Prince Wenzeslaus of Liechtenstein. In 2009 she married Serbian basketball player Marko Jaric'; they wed in a private civil ceremony in Jackson Hole, Wyoming on Valentines Day. The couple originally planned on a large wedding in Salvador in June 2009, but the couple decided to opt for a wedding in each of their hometowns; both are scheduled to take place at the end of 2009.

Lima and Jaric' are reportedly expecting their first child together in December 2009. Lima's representative told People magazine: "Adriana and Marko are overjoyed that they are expecting their first child together and are excited to share the happy news and start their family together." She has also recently applied for Serbian citizenship in order to promote a positive image of Serbia abroad.

==Charity==
Lima does charitable work helping with an orphanage, "Caminhos da Luz" (Ways of Light), located in her hometown. She helps with construction to expand the orphanage, and buys clothes for poor children in Salvador, Bahia. She appeared on Var Yok musun, the Turkish version of Deal or No Deal, where her prize money went to a hospital in Istanbul for children fighting leukemia.

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