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Magazine botches Bouchard photos

 

Someone at Elle Québec has received a very cranky note from the boss, after the magazine used photos of Maria Sharapova to illustrate a story about Eugenie Bouchard in the August issue.

They’ve got the right blond tennis star on the cover, but the on-court action shots inside are of Maria. It was my former Montreal Gazette colleague Stephanie Myles, now with Yahoo Canada, who spotted the boo-boo.

Elle Québec issued an apology online and posted the photos that should have appeared.

Inspiration for Orange character to pen memoirs

 

Fans of Orange is the New Black may know Alex Vause, the character played by Laura Prepon, is based on a real person. That real person, Cleary Wolters, has just signed on to write her memoirs. HarperOne will publish Out of Orange in May.

The Netflix series is based on prison memoirs by Piper Kerman, who was Wolters’ friend and lover. Taylor Schilling’s character, Piper Chapman, is based on Kerman.

 

Beyoncé ready to banish Jay Z?

 

FOR months I’ve been shielding you from unproven, low-level rumours, but now Us Weekly says it’s true, so it must be: Beyoncé, fed up with stories about her husband Jay Z cheating on her, is ready to unload him.

“She’ll file for divorce in New York,” an anonymous source told Us Weekly. “Lawyers are already involved, and a joint statement has been drafted.”

No comment from Beyoncé, nor from Jay Z (a.k.a. J Zee, and known in Canada as J Zed).

Lively wants little ones

 

Blake Lively tells Marie Claire she wants lots of children, soon.

“I gotta get started,” she says. “If I could spit out a litter of kids, I would.”

It’s fortunate she’s happy with husband, Canadian actor Ryan Reynolds.

“We’ve never gone a week without seeing each other,” she went on. “There’s no major decision that I make without him.

“The best part is when we turn off our phones and just talk and hang out. He’s my best, best friend. What do you do with your best friend? You do nothing.”

Prolonged price of beauty

 

Here’s how Sofia Vergara explains her daily regimen to Redbook magazine:

“I don’t always curl my hair or wear false eyelashes, but I do full makeup every day, and I always have. It takes me about an hour and 15 minutes to get ready. I take my time — I like showering, scrubbing, bubbling.”

Pussy Riot members to appear on House of Cards

 

Waiting impatiently for Season 3 three of House of Cards? Me, too. Even more now that we know members of Russian feminist punk band Pussy Riot will appear in it.

The show is filming in Baltimore, where the weekly City Paper says Nadezhda Tolokonnikova and Maria Alyokhina have been spotted on the show’s set. The producers confirm the two will appear in the Kevin Spacey drama.

Both women were released last December after serving nearly two years for their part in a protest against KGB-man-turned-president Vladimir Putin.

 

Carey cans longtime producer

 

Mariah Carey’s latest album, released in May, is now cluttering remainder bins everywhere, which might be the main reason she dumped her producer, Jermaine Dupri. She’ll now work with another experienced producer, Kevin Liles.

Carey was with Dupri for nearly 20 years, but left after the poor sales of this year’s album. It’s called Me. I Am Mariah… The Elusive Chanteuse (a title so annoying it explains, to me at least, why the record died).