Day 5: Miss New Zealands, unite!
Top Uma Lele with Rosie de Malmanche (sponsored by A Team Debt Consultants) at Farmers Lambton Quay. Above Miss Universe New Zealand 2009 Katie Taylor fields questions from this year’s entrants from the penthouse suite at the Museum Hotel. The Miss Universe New Zealand 2010 contestants might not have stopped Parliament today (see the parliamentary […]
Miss Universe New Zealand 2010 contestants stop Parliament
From top The contestants at the steps of Parliament. The Hon Maurice Williamson MP receives glamorous guests—calling it a highlight of his political career. Before heading to Parliament, at Bowen Street. It’s not every day that you can stop a session of Parliament. But that’s exactly what happened today as the Miss Universe New […]
Day 3: a packed itinerary for Miss Universe New Zealand contestants
From top Kirsty Pritchard (Miss Museum Hotel) meets a Kilmarnock Heights resident. The contestants at Wagamama earlier tonight. Zeisha Frémaux (Miss Moontide) and Danijela Unkovich (Miss East Auckland) at Wagamama. The Miss Universe New Zealand 2010 contestants had lunch with Wellington mayor, Kerry Prendergast, today. Which is why, as someone eyeing the mayoral post, […]
Miss Universe New Zealand 2010: an afternoon at the mall
Monday was the first full day for the Miss Universe New Zealand 2010 contestants at the Museum Hotel, beginning with interviews with Laura McQuillan of the NZPA and their first choreography class with Sarah McIntyre. During the daytime, the highlight was heading to Johnsonville Shopping Centre for a parade, arranged with the help of […]
A positive feeling for this year’s Miss Universe New Zealand contest
Miss Universe Above Katie Taylor, Miss Universe New Zealand 2009. The author says he looks forward to a strong competition in 2010 as he and his fellow judges find Taylor’s successor on June 5 in Wellington. Last year, the Miss Universe New Zealand pageant was one of the best natured ones I’ve judged here. What […]
The final of Ashes to Ashes: a cultural phenomenon
Above Keeley Hawes as DI Alex Drake and Philip Glenister as DCI Gene Hunt in Ashes to Ashes, concluding tonight on BBC One. Tonight on BBC One, the final of Ashes to Ashes airs in the UK. Of all the TV shows we have covered in Lucire, Ashes to Ashes seems to be one […]
From Cheryl Cole to the fitness “boot camp”
Sean Gallup for de Grisogono/Getty Images For those of you catching up with Lucire on your RSS feeds, a little note to say that we were among the first media to get you pics from Cheryl Cole’s performance at the de Grisogono dinner party, where she entertained some of the stars at the Festival de […]
Model Noémie Lenoir recovering after suicide attempt
Model Noémie Lenoir has attempted suicide and is currently being treated in Paris, according to the Press Association and other sources. She is currently recovering in a Paris hospital. She reportedly called for an ambulance from the La Celle-Saint-Cloud home of Claude Makelele, the footballer with whom she has a son, before cancelling it. […]
Lady Gaga: from American Idol to ballet
Lady Gaga seems to be in the Zeitgeist this week. First, we receive word from Giorgio Armani that it has designed the singer’s outfit for American Idol. Not really a show we take in, and we noted the dramatic design from the Italian company: ‘Lady Gaga will wear a silk mesh bodysuit with embroidered Chantilly […]
FHM readers vote Cheryl Cole their favourite pin-up
With over a million votes cast, Britain’s lad magazine, FHM, has announced that Cheryl Cole (left, in a L’Oréal promotional image) is its readers’ choice for Sexiest Woman in the World for the second year running. Cole, 26, beat actress Megan Fox and model Marissa Miller. Frankie Sandford, Keeley Hazell, Kristen Stewart, Kelly […]
