Here’s an interesting bit of news. Great Briton is staring at a potential “boob tax” as the government is trying to find places where they can raise more revenues. The plan involves raising up to £500 million by enacting a Value Added Tax on cosmetic surgery procedures like breast enhancement. This would increase the cost of operations like facelifts, tummy tucks and liposuction by 20 per cent. Until now, only minor procedures like Botox got this treatment.
Naturally, this is HUGE news for celebrities. Beauty is everything in the entertainment world, and many attractive celebrities need to rely on plastic surgery to keep their careers going. Naturally, breast enlargement is one of the most popular procedures. This is often more about enhancement that maintenance, but there’s nothing like an impressive rack to garner attention for a young actress, or an actress hoping to stay on top.
It doesn’t of course only apply to women. Famous men don’t want to go bald or lose their hair, unless they happen to look great with the shaved look. So hair transplant procedures are also very popular with the celebrity crowd.
Places like the Nu Cosmetic Clinic have a ton of business from regular people and celebrities, so it will be very interesting to see how this development is received by the public. Plastic surgery has become much more popular, so this will affect regular people as well.
Niraj Manglam, the owner of The Cosmetic Clinic, explains:
Cosmetic surgery industry should be classified as Healthcare. This is being regulated by Care Quality Commission as healthcare. As economy is bleeding and this has been one industry which has been giving employment to mainly female in 100 thousands.
You can create the success story on Nu Cosmetic Clinic which is a new company opened only a year ago has created employment opportunities in this though economic Climate . Nu Cosmetic Clinic employees 95 % female employee because of very nature of the product.
This Knee jerk reaction by Treasury will prove disastrous for industry as a whole and will ultimately affect working class women.
If at all this proposal has to be implemented this should be done in a phased manner over 5-10 years so that industry can make reasonable adjustment without affecting top line.
Treasury strategy is to rob working class to feed White Elephants (BANKERS)!!
We can combine this positive success story of Nu Cosmetic Clinic and also bashing of proposed Govt. VAT plan for this industry.
White Elephants CRUSHING DREAM of working class women!!
American actress/ model Stacy Keibler attends the premiere of “The Descendants” at BFI London Film Festival at Odeon, Leicester Square in London on October 20, 2011. UPI/Rune Hellestad
Stacy Keibler looks stunning on the red carpet and her push-up dress highlights her assets!
She was with George Clooney, and see a pick of both of them together after the fold.
Actress Lindsay Lohan listens as a judge revokes her probation for failing to appear at a series of community service appointments at the Los Angeles Superior Court Airport Branch Courthouse during a progress report hearing in Los Angeles on October 19, 2011. UPI/Mark Boster/pool
Lindsay Lohan was handcuffed and taken away after a judge revoked her probation. What a train wreck.
The show featured Minka Kelly, Annie Ilonzeh and Rachael Taylor as the three new angels. Minka Kelly is beautiful and she seemed like the perfect new version of the Jaclyn Smith character, but the show didn’t have anyone to fill the blonde bombshell role occupied by Farrah Fawcett and then Cheryl Ladd.
The show was mostly filmed in the city of Miami so this is a blow to that area. The concept was a good one, and Miami Beach offered an ideal setting, but it just didn’t come together.
Minka Kelly looks like a star, so I expect to see her get many more chances to carry a series. The other two actresses did a fine job as well, but perhaps the expectations here were too high.
Ann Summers has launched a new campaign in collaboration with ITV2 to find the sexiest women in the UK for a TV-based competition.
Entrants will take part in the competition in a bid to become the new face of the kinky retailer with lingerie from Ann Summers on show throughout the campaign. ITV2 will air short teasers in the run up to the final advert, which will hand the vote over to the public to pick the sexiest model. The results of the poll at www.sexyuncovered.com will determine which model will grace screens in Ann Summers’ advertising campaign next year.
The new cast for Dancing with the Stars has been leaked, and the hottie for this season will be Elisabetta Canalis, George Clooney’s ex.
Elisabetta Canalis arriving at amfAR’s Cinema Against AIDS Gala at the 64th Annual Cannes Film Festival at Hotel Du Cap on May 19, 2011 in Cannes, France.
The trailer for the new Conan movie looks cool. So how will it do at the box office?
Who do you think will win at the MTV VMAs?
All of these questions are fun, and that’s why entertainment betting is becoming more popular. You’ve heard that The Oscars are the Super Bowl of entertainment, and that’s because so many people enjoy predicting the winners and entering pools to test their predictions. So give it a shot if you think your celebrity and entertainment knowledge is superior to the oddsmakers.
Howard Stern is a genius when it comes to celebrity interviews, because he asks what everyone wants to know.
In this clip, Playmate Crystal Harris, Hef’s ex-fiance, gives a detailed and unflattering account of live with Hugh Hefner. She claims she only had intercourse with him once, and she stopped after a couple of minutes. Check out her facial expressions. It’s pretty stunning how disrespectful she is towards Hef given the circumstances.
Jenny McCarthy tweeted an incredible photo of when she weighed 211 pounds back in 2002 while she was pregnant. Instead of sharing that, we dug up a clip of Jenny looking hot in a bikini on My Name is Earl.
