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Green Celebrities: Sugarland band waived humanitarian LOVE flag on CMT?

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Sugarland band waived humanitarian LOVE flag on CMT?

[Jun. 9]

Sugarland band members Jennifer Nettles and Kristian Busch were honored by their loyal fans when they were named the recipients of this year’s Duo Video of the Year at the 2011 CMT Music Awards show last night in Nashville. But they really brought the crowd to their feet as they offered one of the most inspiring performances of the evening singing their anthem Stand Up. Nettles and Busch walked onto the stage carrying a large white flag and began their song as the crowd went wild. The harmonious duo continued to sing as they welcomed Tiffani and Lexi Gilbert, two young sisters from Joplin, Mo., whose home was destroyed during a recent tornado. Graphic photographs showing the devastation left behind loomed in the background as the sisters took center stage and Jennifer Nettles handed them the simple, hand-made, white flag with the single word “LOVE” written on it. The sisters waved the flag along with a smaller version while the audience waved similar flags in unison. It was an emotional and uplifting scene to say the least. And the message was loud and clear, “won’t you stand up and use your voice”.

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Celebrate World Environment Day with Gisele Bundchen by going green?

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Celebrate World Environment Day with Gisele by going green for a day?

[Jun. 4]

Nations from all over the celebrate World Environment Day (WED), an annual holiday observed every June 5th. WED was officially launched by the United Nations General Assembly back in 1972. The holiday was created to help raise worldwide awareness of environmental issues, climate change, and the need for what eco-friendly people call positive environmental action. Latin supermodel Gisele Bundchen, originally from Brazil, and wife of celebrity athlete football player Tom Brady is challenging Americans and global citizens to go green for the day. The radiantly beautiful international supermodel, Gisele Bundchen hails from her home country of Brazil. A natural born athlete, originally Gisele had planned to become a professional volleyball player. Luckily for us, she instead decided to become the world-famous supermodel that we know today — and is going green!

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Celebrity Death: God decided the right time for Jack Kevorkian to die?

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God decided the right time for Dr. Jack Kevorkian to die?

[Jun. 3]

Dr. Death Jack Kevorkian was a humanitarian who didn’t choose assisted suicide for himself? In an Associated Press report, the Washington Post shared very real trivia that Dr. Jack Kevorkian had claimed to have assisted at least 130 people commit suicide. “Those outraged by what he did accused him of being unethical and playing God.” However, in the case of Jack Kevorkian and his celebrity death, it seems God decided the right time to take him. Jack Kevorkian, known as Dr. Death for his right-to-die advocacy, has died. Kevorkian who was an unapologetic supporter of assisted suicide, died at age 83 early Friday morning at William Beaumont Hospital, a Detroit area hospital in Royal Oak. Kevorkian had been hospitalized for kidney and respiratory problems, according to the Huffington Post. Surprisingly, in spite of his advocacy for assisted suicide, he did not take that option himself. “It’s not necessarily murder,” Kevorkian told Mike Wallace in a recent celebrity interview for television. “But it doesn’t bother me what you call it. I know what it is…” said the convicted felon. Dr. Jack Kevorkian had been nicknamed Dr. Death, following a string of assisted suicide cases in the 1990s. While Kevorkian had been acquitted on murder charges for several of the assisted suicide cases, he ultimately wound up in prison on a 10 to 15 year prison sentence for second degree murder. He served eight of those years and had been released from jail as a celebrity senior citizen and cult folk hero back in 2007.

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Bieber Fever: Justin Bieber star power hit 10 million Twitter followers?

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Justin Bieber hit 10 million Twitter followers Memorial Day Weekend 2011… now what will he do with all that good star power ju ju?

[May 29]

Pop music singer Justin Bieber is a green celebrity teen who knows how to use his star power wisely. The humanitarian and pet friendly star celeb might be young, but he is a master of Social Media. Using tweets effectively, Justin Bieber has advocated to help the residents of New Orleans recover financially after the oil spill disaster and has brought countless teen volunteers in to the habit of helping raise money and awareness for a variety of causes. Spending Memorial Day Weekend on the beaches of Hawaii kissing his green celebrity girlfriend Selena Gomez while the two frolicked in bathing suits, playing in the water he got plenty of free media coverage from entertainment journals. But to reach the benchmark of having 10 million followers on Twitter? That number of fans who Justin Bieber can reach out to and share a message with 24 hours a day, 7 days a week is pure marketing gold. Why? Because whether the Biebs is tweeting about a hot new place to go, his next album, promoting the work of a celebrity friend, or sharing a call to action about any number of humanitarian, eco friendly or pet friendly causes, he can get a message right to his fan base via text message on a telephone or into their bedroom or living room on their desktop or laptop computer. But when it comes to using star power and social media wisely, Justin Bieber is not the first of the Hollywood star celebs to make Twitter part of their daily ritual of self promotion with the green tech marketing tool. There are folks like Barack Obama who have endorsed the use of Twitter, reality television star Kim Kardashian and the Kardashian sisters Khloe Kardashian and Kourtney Kardashian, and Lady Gaga, too.

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Oprah Winfrey ends 25 years on television with all-star cast of guests?

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Oprah Winfrey ends 25 years on television with all-star cast of guests?

[May 25]

Today marks 25 years of history, with Oprah Winfrey broadcasting her final episode of The Oprah Winfrey Show this afternoon. The show was taped earlier this month and promises an all-star cast of guests and audience members alike. For those who have grown up with Oprah Winfrey, today marks the end of a legacy. Even for those who are just getting to know the star celeb hostess, Oprah Winfrey will be missed.

In an era before the rise of internet media and on-demand television recording, Oprah Winfrey was the voice of women who were staying at home and wondering what to do with their lives. She spoke of personal well-being, self-validation, and empowerment. To an audience that at times felt stuck at home with the children and the housekeeping, Oprah introduced guests that made everyone think: I can do this too.

The star celeb hostess is well known for her piercing and often personal questions to her guests. She has interviewed two presidents of the United States on her show (most recently Barack Obama) and she has consistently made her star-studded guests feel comfortable answering the questions that no one else dared to ask. While few would consider her an investigative reporter, the fact that she could initiate conversations with people and make even the biggest Hollywood celebrity feel like a regular person again was what propelledThe Oprah Winfrey Show.

Remember Tom Cruise dancing on the couch? Or the time that everyone in the audience received a new car? Expect nothing less from her sign-off today. Oprah may not surprise the crowds with an unexpected stunt, but she certainly will have a captive audience and is unlikely to disappoint.

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Royal Wedding Trivia: Princess Beatrice ugly hat story has happy ending?

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Princess Beatrice ugly hat story has happy ending?

[May 12]

USA Today is reporting that Princess Beatrice wedding hat for the Royal Wedding of Prince William and Kate Middleton looked like antlers. Not a good fashion critique if you are a young princess who is an up and coming royal family member and very much so still single. However, there is a story behind the hat of red carpet fashion disasters that tells a tale of luxury and decadence while ending up with a happy ending not here yet. We have to wait on all the eBay bids, because Princess Beatrice took a celebrity fashion tip from Hollywood’s favorite Armenian-American pseudo pop culture icon princess Kim Kardashian. She wore the expensive hat, got the pics, and by God now she’s selling that one of a kind fashion faux pas on eBay for the benefit of charity, Yes, that’s right. The horny hat is headed for a glass case or to mount over a mantle rather than to make another celebrity red carpet appearance on some other poor confused person’s head. Princess Beatrice is selling her Royal Wedding hat as a keepsake — and will be donating the proceeds to charity (we know to be a few of her favorites as a green celebrity humanitarian).