Maybe it was the year without rain or the fact that he is no longer merely a half a dozen Billboard Music Awards baby-faced teen pop star, which prompted Canadian singer Justin Bieber (17) to tattoo the name Yeshua, alias Jesus, in Hebrew on his felt. Hungarian catholics have allegedly condemned his actions calling it [...]
World famous Hungarian-born Hollywood Film Producer Andrew G. Vajna granted this exclusive interview with XpatLoop.com in Budapest. He shared insights with us about his childhood in Hungary, his love for cooking with fresh Hungarian ingredients, and his dream of experiencing life in the time of the Pharaohs. Mr. Vajna was open, witty, and friendly in [...]
The organizers of ABBA World, an interactive multimedia exhibition (music, video, photographs, memorabilia, etc contributed by the former Swedish pop group ABBA), are planning to bring their exhibition to Hungary after having already displayed it in London, promoters said. The show, called ABBA World, is expected to hit the Hungarian cultural scene in December 2010. [...]
Hollywood superstar Brad Pitt (who played Achilles in the Hollywood bock-buster Troy, and his twins have allegedly joined Angelina Jolie Voight and their other children in Budapest, reports said. The Troy star had reportedly flown all the way from the walking city to the Hungarian capital in their private jet. Pitt was said to have [...]
The Hungarian Language Museum, located in the tiny village of Szephalom (NE Hungary) has recently opened a permanent exhibition to showcase what it calls the “Secrets of secrets – The past, present and future of the Hungarian language.” Organizers of the exhibit said that their aim was to utilize the achievements of the 21st Century [...]
Phil Collins has released a brand new CD “Going Back”, concentrating his music on Motown and the 1960s soul classics. The cover of the album has a picture of Collins playing the drums when he was 15-years-old. All proceeds from the album sales in South Africa will be going to the charity, Topsy Foundation. “I [...]
Former Wham pop group singer George Michael is reportedly doing four weeks in jail after crashing his car into a shop window in England. Reports said that the singer was allegedly under the influence of Canabis, when he dozed off at the wheel of his car and smashed the vehicle into a small photo shop [...]
There’s a possible new movie on the rise as Hollywood script writers gear up to the update on poor innocent dear, Naomi Campbell who received diamonds from perhaps hundreds of men during her lifetime so far. But according to her former agent Carol White and actress Mia Farrow, who both testified against Campbell and former [...]
Wedding bells are ringing and Hollywood stars are flocking to the wedding of big-screen movie star George Clooney who is said to be tying the knot with Italian cocaine addict model Elisabetta Canalis. The male star has allegedly set the stage for his wedding at a garden gazebo on his Lake Como home. Canalis is [...]
Hotel heiress Paris Hilton was reportedly paid USD 1.8 million to spend the night with a mysterious fat spectacled Malaysian playboy billionaire Taek Jho Low (25), who is allegedly financial advisor for the Kuala Lampur-based investment group UBG Berhad, invited the diva to entertain him at the flashy Byblos nightclub in Southern France. Naturally her [...]
The South African sea-faring haven Simon’s Town was turned into a Hollywood production studio overnight with Oscar awards winner Halle Berry (43) and hot stud Olivier Martinez dressed half naked during the shooting of the shark-attack thriller movie Dark Tide, due to hit the silver-screen next year. Berry, who is believed to have brought her [...]
Fashion is always bringing new trends. The cosmetic world never ceases to surprise the masses. A British business is allegedly raking in a fortune in London, where clients pay a pretty sum to soak their feet in fish tanks as they sit back and read magazines or discuss the latest gossip. The owner has imported [...]
Los Angeles real estate agents reportedly claim that a villa, in which the King of Pop rented until his death in June 2009, is now up for sale. The owner of the Holmby Hills villa has asked for a mere USD 29-mil for the edifice in which Michael Jackson lived, and let’s also be honest [...]
German researchers have allegedly discovered why women are more attracted to the ever popular Christmas daddy than they generally are to other men. It reportedly turns out that the color red has a special effect triggering the sexuality of males towards females. In an independent survey almost 300 female university students were allegedly to point [...]
The Pokerface lady is expected steal the show at the 2010 MTV Video Music Awards (VMA) after she was allegedly nominated in 13 categories, But Lady Gaga will have to keep her panties on until September 12, 2010 when she will have the chance to personally receive at least one at the awards ceremony in [...]
British pop star Robbie Williams has reportedly promised to marry American actress Ayda Field on Saturday (August 7, 2010). The wedding is said to be hosted at a small chapel on Santa Catalina Island, off the coast of California. The pop stars mother is reportedly not satisfied with her new daughter-in-law to be, but then [...]
British Black Beauty Naomi Campbell reportedly claims she had received one larger polished diamond and a pouch of “dirty stones.” She claims that she didn’t know what they were (silly girl – ed) , but admitted receiving the blood diamonds from Liberia’s ex-warlord and dictator Charles Taylor, but (like Eve in the garden of Eden [...]
Former Baywatch star Pamela Anderson has turned into an animal rights activist and is currently appealing to residents along the Gulf of Mexico to help save the natural wildlife. The blond bombshell is also helping 50 displaced dogs to find homes in the area. She was reportedly disgusted by the lack of responsibility shown by [...]
Supermodel Naomi Campbell has reportedly requested heightened security during her hearing as a court witness at a human rights tribunal in Sierra Leone. Photographers have been banned from the establishment. Prosecutors allegedly want the supermodel to defend herself in the witness stand that she had not received any so-called blood-diamonds (stones illegally mined in war [...]
It weighs 20kg and eats about GBP 80 worth of green groceries each month, but Ralph the rabbit from Uckfield, East Sussex in Great Britain is not your ordinary pet. It’s owners have made headlines for the past six months as their “British Continental Giant” rabbit is constantly posing for cameras and television crews from [...]
Portland, Oregon -USA, has been world-renowned for its cement, now Portland police are to put former Vice President Al Gore’s feet in cement, to solidify his alleged sex abuse case, that has been shelved, collecting dust for several years. Portland District Attorney Michael Schrunk has reopened the case that was initially dismissed on the grounds [...]
One of the world’s most famous socialites, Budapest-born Zsa Zsa Gabor, has gone into a coma, doctors said, according to reports. The Queen of Outer Space is said to have been rushed to hospital after falling and fracturing her hip at the ripe old age of 93. Gabor underwent surgery, but quickly lapsed into a [...]
In a recent interview British model Elle Macpherson was confronted but laughed that she had been joking about consuming rhino horn. In a recent on-line interview on the social network, twitter it was revealed that although news may be a load of bull, but like a stupid cow the model surely should have known that [...]
One of the most exciting multicultural festivals in Central Europe, four days long, with 15 stages and approximately 200 programs: concerts, DJs, theater shows and performances. The festival is characterized by its wide variety of musical styles: rock, pop, jazz, hip-hop, electro, world music… Sopron, the town hosting VOLT Festival lies on the Austrian-Hungarian border, [...]
It was red-carpet night as Twilight series actors Kristen Stewart (20), Robert Pattinson (24) and Taylor Lautner (18) paraded onto the North American premier of Eclipse, the third of the series in the vampire movie saga Twilight. The screening was at the Nokia Theatre in Los Angeles, California. Thousands of fans were cordoned off and [...]
Hungary commemorated the 1st anniversary of the death of the king of pop, Michael Jackson. Magyar fans have dubbed Michael, “Budapest’s black son,” as he was instantly adopted by the Hungarian capital during his filming of the album History in 1994. The game black jack in Hungary has also sometimes referred to by young Michael-lovers [...]
Two gorgeous Dutch models, accused of ambush marketing at a recent FIFA football event were released on Tuesday (June 22, 2010) after FIFA allegedly received millions of Euros in an out of court settlement, reports suggested. Two blond bombshells arrested for so-called ‘ambush marketing’ during a 2010 FIFA Football World Cup match have now been [...]
John Travolta (56) and wife Kelly Preston (47) have arrived to the host nation of the 2010 FIFA Football World Cup to promote Quantas, Australia and the Socceroos and last, but not last – her pregnant tummy. Everywhere they travel in the Republic of South Africa the couple and their daughter Ella (10) were widely [...]
The toxic fat cow’s 29-year-old body guard Fernando Flores, claims he has quit his job as her bodyguard after his master had allegedly approached him for intimate services in her bedroom. Perhaps if she were still 18, a virgin and no the mother of two, the bodyguard would not have thought twice, but the years [...]
In Hungary the Scots are renowned as the most stingiest people, but that can’t be said for one Scots woman who had reportedly held onto her Louis Vuitton handbag not caring about her life. She was walking with her handbag when reportedly she was approached by a car whose driver had allegedly asked her for [...]
The embarrassment of the British royal family continues as Fergie, the Duchess of York has revealed in the latest Oprah Winfey show that she was pissed drunk when she had made an offer to an undercover journalist selling access to her ex-husband Prince Andrew for a mere GBP 500,000. She admitted to have had “too [...]
The Duchess of York believes that charity does not start at home, according to international media reports. Sarah Ferguson (commonly referred to as Fergie) has allegedly shamefully apologizes for selling access to ex-husband Prince Andrew for GBP 500,000. Foolishly her offer was caught on video allegedly by an undercover journalist, who posed as a entrepreneur [...]
It is the end of the world as we knew it in the tiny US town of Riverdale, where white supremacy and old-school morals ruled in the Archie Comics series, founded during the conservative era in 1939, when even stealing a kiss was suicidal with parents around. In modern times, while the forever young Archie [...]
Fashion house Calvin Klein has pledged to drop its starving teenager image and switch to the more built middle age ladies’ image, according to reports citing Calvin Klein creative director Francisco Costa. The size ‘0’models will allegedly be stepping aside on the catwalk, giving way to at least size ‘4’ peers. The ‘fatter’ Dutch supermodel [...]
The big screen’s former teen-queen Lindsay Lohan (23) has been sacked from her role as an alleged “artistic designer” for French fashion House of Haute Couture ‘Ungaro’, which was as a matter of fact founded by Emanuel Ungaro, of ethnic Hungarian origin, based on international media reports. Lohan had been given the role in 2009 [...]
Hungarian teenager Ferenc Vizi is a look alike for Twilight’s Edward (Robert Pattinson) according to mother Gail Vizi. She says he has been stopped several occasions to be told so. “It makes him so embarrassed,” she said. One look alike in the family is enough for any mother, but she has two. Her other son [...]
“Please say it’s not true!,” is probably what millions of fans are pleading as their adoration for Robert Pattinson and his no-secret girlfriend Kristen Stewart is at an all-time high. Pattinson has become just about every teenager girl’s dream-bloke, but rumors, whispering that the Twilight hottie is head over heals about his longtime male friend [...]
Shrek the friendly ogre (based on the children’s book by William Steig) has Hungarian descendants, according to literature reports. The word ogre allegedly comes from the old German language word Ungre, referring to the plundering Huns (or Hungarians) led by their bloodthirsty chieftain Attila the Hun. Mothers of yore would scare their children saying ïf [...]
The world is in vampire fever, thanks to the role of British model, musician and actor Robert Pattinson, who plays Edward Cullen in the Twilight Saga, inspired by the novels by Stephanie Meyers. However, few teenagers bitten by the epic, know that the first “Pattinson” was actually Hungarian. In the twilight of Hollywood filmmaking, the [...]
Hungarian fans of Jennifer Aniston and Gerard Bulter have expressed their joy in Budapest on April 19, over the news that Aniston has agreed to launch her “own” perfume this year. Budapest fans also welcomed the couple’s whirlwind tour of Europe to attend the premiers of their new movie The Bounty Hunter. After months of [...]
Twilight heart throb Robert Pattinson is due to return to the Hungarian capital city in May with his Twilight sweetheart Kristen Stewart, according to a hotel executive in Budapest. He said that Pattinson plans to celebrate his 24th birthday in Budapest, after experiencing the romantic weekend celebrating the alleged engagement and birthday of Kristen Stewart [...]
The 17th International Book Festival of Budapest is to due to open its doors between April 22-25. This year’s guest of honour will be Israel. Annually the event has about 50,000 titles, hundreds of new publications and attracts some 60,000 visitors. Parallel to the exhibition is the 10th European First Novel Festival introducing new young [...]
Hungary’s most famous conductor Ivan Fischer and his Budapest festival Orchestra have been invited to perform at a prestigious event hosted by the Lincoln Center between March 25-28. The Budapest Festival Orchestra, of which Fischer is also a founding member, was established 25 years ago in the Hungarian capital. According to the ‘Gramaphone’ magazine the [...]
2009. december 1 – 2010. március 15. Museum of Fine Arts Parmigianino’s career spanning barely two decades made a deep impression on Italian art. Although he created only around fifty paintings and most of his frescoes are found in his native Parma and its vicinity, nevertheless few other artists exerted such a great influence. Parmigianino [...]
Metallica, the world’s most influential heavy metal band will play in Budapest on May 14 in Budapest’s Puskas Ferenc Stadium. Fans’ dreams will now come true after 11 years of waiting for James Hetfield, Lars Ulrich, Kirk Hammett and Robert Trujillo. The ‘World Magnetic Tour ‘, was launched this year and has already been seen [...]
