Oh look, here's Example covered in silver body paint!

 

Ooh, that Example's a big tease, isn't he? Here he is, with his hair pinned back and body painted a rather tinny silver colour, showing off some chest hair – and it's all in the name of new music.

The singer tweeted the picture after asking his followers what they thought of the body paint idea for a shoot.

He wrote, "Director @rankinphoto wants to paint me entirely in black paint for a video shoot? Any strong oppositions to this?"

But soon after, he added, "We've decided on silver body paint. Quite a few people not into the black paint idea and I don't wanna John Terry myself."

And ta-dah! This is what he looks like covered in silver body paint (in case you were wondering).

 

Example – real name Elliot Gleave – also teased fans with the pre-announcement announcement that he will be releasing details of his new single in the next few days and that he has plans for a brand new headline tour in 2013.

"Will be announcing my next single in a few days... the Feb/March Arena tour will be announced in next two weeks... announcing announcements," he wrote.

Of course being the tough manly fella he is, we're rather impressed that Elliot actually let someone paint him silver. Although judging by the extra hands in the picture, he managed to get a nice girl (with nice nails) involved so we won't be feeling too sorry for him at all.  

Still, the hair-clipped-back look? We're not so sure about it. Let's hope he got rid of the hair pin for the actual video…

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JLS' pals Vida release new video Boombox

New girl group Vida have had quite the start to their career, not only are they about to get some big attention with their new release BoomBox, but they're also being mentored by a rather famous young fella… JLS star Oritse Williams (you may have heard of him). So it's really no wonder that the girls' brand new video has already notched a few thousand views on YouTube when it hasn't even launched properly yet.

The colourful video (see above) shows Vida ladies AJ, V.vee, Jade & Che3kz getting their moves on to the lyrics, "I wanna wanna wanna hear my boombox; from my car to my room to the rooftops". And LOL as you might at the words, we challenge you not to be singing along to the track by the end of the video. Ahem, because we were. It's a really catchy song.

You can also check out the behind-the-scenes clips below, which shows that every man and his baby showed up to the studio that day to watch the girls at work. In fact, there actually was a teeny tiny baby on set (we don't know who the baby belonged to, but the little one is the cutest thing ever). Oritse himself also makes an appearance – so the JLSters out there should be very happy with that!

Ortise told us, "I absolutely love working and writing with AJ, VeeVee, Jade and Che3kz. They are the most exciting, talented and beautiful girls I've ever met and the fact they can sing, rap and dance make the possibilities endless."

Well, if JLS love them, then they're certainly worth a look. So enough of our waffle – check out the Vida video for yourself and let us know what you think. Boombox out on 27 August.

Boombox is released on 27 August.

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Eastenders live episode: Did you see Billy Mitchell wink at the camera?

 

Well, it was quite the special night in Walford yesterday, when Billy Mitchell carried the Olympic Torch through Albert Square. The segment was filmed live – which meant actor Perry Fenwick had a very special evening doing - not only his bit for London 2012 - but also ensuring the live Eastenders broadcast when without a hitch. Not an easy task.

From all your tweets, we know you were watching with us. In fact, the official ratings tell us a staggering 7.32 million of you were watching. And just like us, you were all in absolute hysterics when Billy (well, Perry) casually looked over at the camera and uttered the words, "'Ere we go'," before giving all of us at home a cheeky wink. Then he ran off to accept the torch! Brilliant.

His nod at the camera just showed how real the whole thing was – and that the Torch Relay really was running through London's most famous made-up borough. And we would be lying if we said we didn't get emotional watching Billy run through the square with his flame lit – there was definitely a tear in our eye.

Big props also go to Danielle Harold, who plays Lola, who did her labour scenes live too. The actress, 20, did the best fake birth screaming we've seen in a long while – and she did it in front of pretty much the whole Eastenders cast by the looks of it (she also works a spray tan well too as you can see in the clip). Pretty impressive work, we're sure you'll agree.

So just in case you missed it, you can catch Billy's big moment (and that wink) below.

Team Eastenders, we salute you! That was a mighty fine bit of telly.

 

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Labrinth has BIG collaboration plans and he has shared them with us!

 

We have a massive soft spot for singer-songwriter Labrinth. There's no doubt this man has more talent in his left thumb than most wannabe-artists these days – and what's more, he's embracing his new-found fame in a very modest (and rather hot) way.

So you can imagine how excited we were when he shared his plans for his next album, including the big-named stars he wants to work with. And for the good of our own iPod playlists, we really hope this happens!

"I want to work with Bjork," Lab told us. "I've vowed to myself I'll work with her and it'll be one of the best records I've ever made.

"The other person I'd work with is Dave Grohl [from the Foo Fighters]. He's a proper ledge. I know how to make music his way and I know how to do it my way, so I'd get in the studio and see what happens. I know the moment will come!"

We'd like to see this moment too – Labrinth and Dave Grohl (above) in the same picture frame? Our eyes might explode from seeing too much fit in one place.

Despite his plans to work with the super-famous, Labrinth also told us he makes a conscious effort to stay out of the press, commenting that he's not too good at the showbiz side of the job because he's not a good actor (ooh, burn).

He admitted, "I hate the showbiz side of [the industry], I'm not good acting. Everybody who does that stuff loves to play up to the cameras but I just can't do that, I need to be myself. I say it comes with territory but I'm about the music, it's not my style."

The man makes a good point. And he makes good music. So we're not complaining at all.

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Lonsdale Boys Club release video for new single Ready To Go starring Caggie Dunlop

Lonsdale Boys Club have released the video for their new single Ready To Go.

And take a look who's in the video - it's only Caggie Dunlop from Made In Chelsea, isn't it!?

Ready To Go is taken from the three-piece's self-titled album, due for release 10 September.

The video follows a group of lovely looking people as they have lots of fun on a lovely holiday.

Lovely stuff.

Ready To Go is due for release 3 September.

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Watch: One Direction win big at The Teen Choice Awards

Can these boys do no wrong?

One Direction cleared up at this weekend's Teen Choice Awards, winning the gongs for Choice Summer Music Star Group, Choice Breakout Group and Choice Love Song for their Billboard Hot 100 hit What Makes You Beautiful.

Sadly for the US of A - but not for us - the boys are back in the UK after touring America for months on end, so they couldn't accept the awards personally.

But they made sure the Teen Choice Awards audience knew how much it meant to them, via a cute and funny video message.

To begin with, Louis Tomlinson apologises for not being able to pick the awards up in person.

But things don't stay sensible for long.

In the clip, Louis' bandmates, Harry Styles, Niall Horan, Liam Payne and Zayn Malik, struggle to reassemble their surf board trophy using protective goggles, hammers, glue sticks, string and sticky tape, without much luck.

Handy Andy needn't lose any sleep...

The boys beat mega-groups Maroon 5, Coldplay, Gym Class Heroes and their British boyband rivals The Wanted to the prize for Choice Summer Music Star Group.

Getting on with the acceptance speech, at the end of the video Zayn steps up to thank fans.

"It's a real honor to receive this award because we know it's voted for by the fans so a massive thank you to you guys - thanks for this," he says.

Following on from Zayn's words, all the boys give a big cheer and simultaneously say: "Thank you Teen Choice."

Twitter

The boys also took to Twitter to show their appreciation.

"Thanks Directioners for voting at #TCA12! We're so honored to take home 3 #ChoiceAwards including best love song: #WhatMakesYouBeautiful"

And adding his own personal message on his account, Niall tweeted: "Great weekend of shows, enjoyed it soo much! Couldnt stop smiling, back in london, big day tomorrow! #2yearsOf1D ,love you all ,night night"

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The Dark Knight Rises: All the gossip from last nights Batman premiere in London

Batman swooped into London last night for the European premiere of The Dark Knight Rises.

And by Batman we actually mean Christian Bale (not in his Batsuit), along with his co-stars Tom Hardy, Anne Hathaway and Joseph Gordon-Levitt.

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Celebrity film fans were out in force for the premiere, and the special black carpet was littered with film, music and Reality TV stars including Guy Richie, Mark Wright, Peaches Geldof, Pixie Lott, Lorraine Kelly and members of The Wanted and JLS. Even Prince Harry showed up to the second premiere location, the IMAX in Waterloo.

Dark Night Rises - red carpet gossip

It was the biggest premiere of the year – Batman was back in The Dark Knight Rises and heat was on the red carpet ready to get all the goss from the film's stars (and gaze up close at just how very pretty Tom Hardy and Joseph Gordon-Levitt  are).
 
First to come and have a natter with us was none other than legendary Academy Award winning actor Morgan Freeman, who plays weapons expert Lucius Fox in the film trilogy.
 
The 75-year-old acting legend told us about his recent run in with Britain's Got Talent super-pooch Pudsey the Dog on US chat show The Jay Leno Show.
 
He said: "That dog is really something. I've worked with a lot of dogs before and there are some of them that I could have shot but this a very bright little dog. I'd work with him."
 
When we tweeted Pudsey (yep, that's right he has own account @OfficialPudsey) to let him know Hollywood royalty was singing his praises, the pup replied: "Is Morgan Freeman really producing The Pawshank Redemption for me? #oscarnomplease". He's doing what he can, Pudz.

Tom Hardy and his fat neck

Next to chat to us was the handsome-as-can-be Tom Hardy, The Dark Knight Rises' baddy Bane, who spends most of the film topless but sadly had his lovely face covered by a scary mask.
 
He told us how he packed on 30 pounds of muscle for the flick. He said: "[I did] No cardio, let your liver go, eat as much food as possible and lift heavy weights. Get fat! I have a big, fat neck in the film."

Joseph Gordon-Levitt: Thrilled to join the party

The equally handsome Joseph Gordon Levitt, who plays a cop in the movie, hinted that he'd love to make the step-up to superhero in the next film.
 
He said: "Every kid runs around with a cape when they are kids and dreams of being a superhero so absolutely I'd be interested in something. But my part in this film is great, I was so thrilled to join the cast – even if I was late to the party. I did get jealous of Christian though – he looked so badass in the costume."

Anne Hathaway - under pressure

Then the very beautiful Anne Hathaway, wearing a very beautiful gold Gucci dress, sauntered over for a chat. But despite donning the iconic skin-tight Catwoman costume in the film the newly pixie-cropped actress didn't seem happy when reporters asked her anything to do with her sexy latex look. When one dared to ask if she felt comfortable in the costume, she pursed her lips before replying with a dismissive - "That's such a funny question".
 
She told heat: "I think it speaks to the wonder of Chris Nolan [the director] that I really didn't feel the pressure [of playing such an iconic role]…until I started speaking to the press!

"When I was [on set] I just had to be Chris' Selena not anybody else's [Catwoman]. I just had to get really strong and learn how to fight."
 
Unfortunately Batman himself, Christian Bale, was not in the best mood at the premiere – refusing to do any press except a short televised interview with Alex Zane.

In your face Batman!

So although heat failed to get a chat with Hollywood A-lister Christian we did chat to (maybe not quite as famous) Mark Wright, Oritse from JLS and Keith Lemon. In your face Batman.
 
While eyeing up Marion Cottilard as she stood nearby, Mark told us: "There are a lot of beautiful ladies here tonight. I'm just here to see the film but yes, there are some very lovely ladies I'd love to have a chat with. I can't choose my favourite female superhero – they are super, super sexy."
 
Oritse said: "I love Batman. I had a cape when I was I was little but it wasn't black, it was gold. My superpower would be the obvious, flying.
"Anne Hathaway is so so hot. I can't even look, it's crazy. The Catwoman outfit is probably the best outfit evented for ladies ever. Every woman should own a Catwoman costume. I'm trying to sort it out."
 
Keith Lemon told us: "Anne looks good in her Catwoman suit but she's cut all her hair off [now]. That's a bit shocking innit but she looks nice. For snog, marry, avoid…I'd marry Wonder Woman. Snog Black Widow … so sorry Anne. She's got those claws, hasn't she? Oh wait a minute from the side, she's got side boob! Side boob! I like side boob!"
 

heat's verdict on The Dark Knight Rises

The plot: For his final, trilogy-ending Batman picture, Christopher Nolan pushes events eight years beyond The Dark Knight. Thanks to a major empowerment of law enforcement, organised crime is in abeyance, and both Bruce Wayne (Bale) and his caped alter ego have retired from public life. But when the psychotic Bane (Hardy) unleashes war on Gotham, Batman returns to the fray, meanwhile tangling with cat burglar Selina Kyle (Hathaway), romancing Wayne Industries board member Miranda Tate (Marion Cotillard) and inspiring plucky cop John Blake (Gordon-Levitt), who grew up in an orphanage funded by Wayne's charitable foundation.

What's right with it? The movie starts with a bang via a spectacular aerial segment establishing Bane as a highly resourceful foe, and later hits warp speed again after he takes control of Gotham, blowing up its bridges, blocking its tunnels, and unleashing underclass resentment against the city's pampered elites. It's astonishing to see this cautionary tale about the perils of widening inequality unfold within a mega-budget blockbuster. But it's not all heavy weather: Hathaway is a delight as the ambiguous Catwoman, and Gordon-Levitt gives the franchise some much-needed heart as the orphaned boy who grew up to be a hero.

What's wrong with it? After the whiz-bang curtain raiser, the first hour seems unnecessarily complicated, talky and weighed down by the burden of respecting the trilogy's overall story arc. Following fan complaints at teaser footage, the respirator-masked Bane is now comprehensible, but his voice somehow doesn't feel connected to the actor. And the film sure is long.

Verdict: Hot on the heels of the mind-spinning Inception, Nolan once again proves himself as the writer-director most capable of taking the Hollywood blockbuster into surprising and audacious directions. You'd be crazy to miss it. Four stars - Charles Gant

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