US talk show queen Oprah Winfrey visited the Taj Mahal Thursday, spending more than an hour while her camera crew captured the 17th century marble marvel from various angles for her new talk show.

She was followed by scores of journalists and camera persons, which made her security a daunting task for her bouncers.

At Vrindavan, she made an unscheduled stop at the Ma Dham widows’ home. This caused quite a ruckus between her security personnel and local TV journalists, who wanted to follow her inside the home.

The police managed to work out compromise between the two sides.

It was later learnt that the local authorities had sent a report to the state home department saying that such visits without prior information could cause problems.

American actor-comedian Kelsey Grammer, who won the best actor in a television series drama at the 69th Golden Globe awards, announced that his wife is expecting twins.

Grammer, who walked away with the golden trophy for Boss, married Kayte Walsh last year.

“I’m really looking forward to meeting these new arrivals,” mirror.co.uk quoted the 56-year-old as saying backstage at the Golden Globe Awards.

“Fatherhood’s always different, based upon the character that comes into your life. They arrive and tell you what you have to do,” he added.

Grammer also feels that his wife is one of the extraordinary person he ever met.

“(Kayte is) extraordinary. She’s one of the most loving, amazing, warm human beings I’ve ever met. She’s funny and serious all at the same time. She’s an amazing person and I think she’ll blow [the kids] away,” he said.

Ricky Gervais, who has hosted the Golden Globes three times, has ruled out the possibility of returning for the fourth time.

The 50-year-old British actor said this time the show went better than the last year, Ace Showbiz reported.

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“I’m really done this time. It’s enough. Three is plenty – at least that’s what Charlie Sheen told me.”

“The crowd was with me this time. They went where I went. It’s like they were ready for me this time and it felt pitch-perfect,” he said.

While hosting the show Gervais inserted an expletive in his line.

Asked if it was his way of getting back at the HFPA, the co-creator of Life’s Too Short quickly cleared things up and said, “Oh no no no. The censors knew it was coming. That was planned.”

Despite getting negative feedbacks last year for mocking some top-notch stars, Gervais still poked fun at the A-list guests this year. He used the word “evil” to describe Colin Firth, and called Natalie Portman “foolish”.

ctress Evan Rachel Wood was left disappointed at the Golden Globes functions, not because she didn’t won an award, but security guards banned her family from entering an after party.

The 24-year-old was nominated for her TV drama Mildred Pierce, and she took her relatives along to enjoy the glitzy bash.

“I am a nominee and they wouldn’t let my family into the parties. Disappointed in this function. Security is so mean. It’s awful,” Wood posted on her Twitter page.

The actress tried to take her family along to the glamorous parties after the ceremony, but had to leave after the doormen refused to all Actress Evan Rachel Wood was left disappointed at the Golden Globes functions, not because she didn’t won an award, but security guards banned her family from entering an after party.

The 24-year-old was nominated for her TV drama Mildred Pierce, and she took her relatives along to enjoy the glitzy bash.

“I am a nominee and they wouldn’t let my family into the parties. Disappointed in this function. Security is so mean. It’s awful,” Wood posted on her Twitter page.

The actress tried to take her family along to the glamorous parties after the ceremony, but had to leave after the doormen refused to allow her guests entry. ow her guests entry.

Sir Roger Moore loved doing bedroom scenes when he played James Bond.

The 84-year-old actor – who appeared as the British spy in seven films in the franchise between 1973 and 1985 – wishes he had been able to get up close and personal with more actresses in the iconic movie series.

He said: “I always rather liked the bedroom scenes. I felt we didn’t have enough of those really.

“I very much enjoyed being the debonair hero, but I did find it hard to believe Bond could be a spy and yet be so well known by barmen all over the world.”

However, he admits he was glad to put Bond behind him after he finished playing the character, but finds he rarely gets asked to audition for parts now.

He added in an interview with Britain’s Hello! magazine: “Old actors, we don’t retire, the phone just stops ringing. “After Bond, I got a bit choosy about what I did as I wanted a change. I was fed up with being blown up and thrown around. So now I don’t do that many things with a high income.

“After a while I realised I was working to keep all my houses around the world.”

Milk star Sean Penn has become an ambassador at large for Haiti, where he has spent the last two years helping with relief efforts after it was struck by an earthquake.

The 51-year-old actor was offered the position by the nation’s foreign minister Laurent Lamothe while at the Cinema for Peace benefit here, reported E! online. “I do accept (the job). It would be nice to be called, ‘Hey Mr Ambassador,” Penn said.

The event raised USD 5 million for the troubled country, with an auction taking place which saw Damien Rice spend USD 475,000 on a guitar owned by Bono and Julia Roberts’ husband Danny Moder placing a USD 50,000 bid on a trip to Hawaii with Penn.

Other celebrities who attended the event included Demi Moore, who took along daughter Rumer, Mel Gibson, Kim Kardashian, Hilary Swank, Orlando Bloom, George Clooney and James Gandolfini.

US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton also made an appearance.

Harry Potter star Daniel Radcliffe has confirmed reports that he will be playing writer Allen Ginsberg in a new murder mystery.

The 22-year-old said he has been attached to the project titled Kill Your Darlings for a long time, reported Contactmusic.

“I’m thrilled to actually finally be able to talk about it. It’s a project that I’ve kind of been attached to for a long time.

“It’s called Kill Your Darlings and it’s a story about a murder that was kind of the catalyst to forming the Beat Generation, so it’s a film about Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac, William Burroughs and Lucien Carr… who was a really instrumental figure in all of their lives.

“Potentially, I think, it could be a really great film and it’s already got a really great cast,” Radcliffe said.

Actors Chris Evans and Jesse Eisenberg are also reportedly cast in the movie.

Actress Katherine Heigl is keen to adopt another child with husband Josh Kelley.

The 33-year-old, who raises three-year-old adopted daughter Naleigh with Kelley, said she was to give a home to another child before trying for biological kids, reported Contactmusic.

“Josh and I started talking about it before we were even engaged. We have talked about having biological children as well, but we decided to adopt first. I’d like to adopt again,” Heigl said.

The actress also said she loved daughter Naleigh from the moment she was put into her arms.

“Anyone who doesn’t have experience with adoption wonders, ‘Does love for a child come through DNA?’ I knew it didn’t. They’re yours. You love them the moment they’re put into your arms. Josh had to learn that, but he was so gracious and accepting.”

Actress Helen Mirren hopes Katy Perry and Russell Brand will get back together in the future and admits it is hard to keep high-profile marriages going.

The 66-year-old Oscar-winning actress, who has been a friend of the couple since she starred alongside Brand in Arthur last year, thinks the pair could reignite their romance later on in life, reported Contactmusic.

“It’s very hard to keep things going. Maybe they’ll come back together again later on in life! They’re both very, very successful,” Mirren said.

Brand, 36, filed for divorce from Perry on December 30 after being together for 14 months. The duo had married in a traditional Hindu ceremony in Rajasthan, India.

Actress Carey Mulligan says she prefers acting on the stage as opposed to in front of cameras.

The 26-year-old, who has previously been nominated for an Oscar for her film An Education, said she sometimes struggles in films because she is not fond of cameras, reported Daily Mirror.

“The closer a camera gets to me, the worse I am at acting, it completely throws me. The best moment of my career to date was doing The Seagull on Broadway. It was a couple of years ago, before all that stuff happened with An Education’.

“Nothing’s topped it, the feeling of being on that stage. It’s so immediate and so consuming in a way that film isn’t. Film’s so stop and start and that often makes me act badly. But on stage I’m blinded by the lights,” Mulligan said.

However, the actress said she was very keen to win the role of eccentric Sissy in Steve McQueen’s sex addiction movie Shame.

“Steve kept trying to leave the meeting and I sat him back on his chair and said, ‘What do I need to get this job?’ I told him I felt a passionate desire to play the part.”