Angelina Jolie (37) has revealed today that she has undergone a double mastectomy. Writing in the The New York Times, in a piece called "My Medical Choice", Jolie said it was a preventative measure. Her doctors had estimated she had an 87% chance risk of breast cancer and 50% risk of ovarian cancer. "Once I knew this was my reality, I decided to be proactive and to minimize the risk as much as I could. I made a decision to have a preventative double mastectomy" Jolie wrote.Jolie lost her mother, actress Marcheline Bertrand to cancer in 2007 - when Bertrand was only 56.... More »

It seemed to me that Jeanne Cooper was just always there. She's always been around - at least for as long as I've lived in North America. So when I heard today that she had died, it was almost as if someone I knew had passed away. I first saw Jeanne Cooper as "Katherine Chancellor" on The Young and The Restless when I was eleven years old. I had not been in Canada long and didn't speak the language particularly well. Home from school, I would count on our TV as a way of passively listening to the English language while trying to absorb all the... More »

"My mothering style? A great pair of New Balance sneakers and a perpetual awareness of my weaknesses. They're gonna bite me in the butt at any given moment!!! It's a minefield out here in parenthood."  says Chantal Kreviazuk (38), a week before celebrating Mother's Day. She is best known as a talented Canadian singer and songwriter with hit albums and Juno Awards under her belt. Yet Kreviazuk is also a mom to three boys: Rowan (9), Lucca (8) and Salvador (5) with husband Raine Maida, the lead singer of Our Lady Peace. Now Kreviazuk is adding the role of "Mom Ambassador" to her list of accomplishments. She is one... More »

Is there anything more spectacular than having Dame Helen Mirren (67) swear at you - while dressed as The Queen? A troupe of drummers outside the John Gielgud Theatre found out firsthand on Saturday when they got a royal telling-off - thanks to Mirren. According to The London Telegraph, the actress was on stage in the award-winning play The Audience portraying Queen Elizabeth II, when a group of drummers made so much noise outside the theatre that it was getting hard to ignore. What's a Dame to do? Address them of course - in full costume, complete with a tiara: "I was so upset from struggling... More »

Reese Witherspoon's arrest video has surfaced on TMZ and what can I say? I enjoyed watching it!  Witherspoon has issued an apology and admitted to having one too many glasses of wine. That's pretty clear, because you'd have to be pretty drunk to mouth off to an officer when he is just doing his job.  Until now, I thought the "Don't you know who I AM?" line was the best. But the Academy-Award winner can be heard saying typical things you'd hear in movies such as: "I'm an American citizen... I'm allowed to stand on American ground!" and  "You're saying I'm obstructing... More »