To the engagement of the week ...
... may well congratulate Katy Perry and Orlando Bloom. How else to interpret an Instagram post Perry, on which the singer holds a large ring in front of a background of heart balloons next to Bloom's head into the camera? And how else could one understand a post blooms that only wrote "for a lifetime" to the same photo?
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The singer and the actor were once a couple, then separated. Now they are together again - apparently preparing their wedding.
In love, disconnected - and now engaged?
Orlando Bloom and Katy Perry at a gala event last September: The actor and the singer have provided clear indications via Instagram that they have become engaged.
Perry posted a photo on which she wears a large ring.
Bloom also posted the picture and put it with the words "for a lifetime".
The two have a moving story. For the first time, they became a couple in January 2016. In November of the same year, they were guests at a Unicef ball in New York.
In early March 2017, Perry's spokesman announced that they had split up. Apparently, they did not last long without each other: In April 2018, the two showed up together at the visit to the Vatican - and shook hands with the pope.
Show business meets politics: Perry and Bloom on 9th February at a gala. There they met Nancy Pelosi, spokeswoman for the US House of Representatives, and her husband Paul.
The tattoo of the week ...
... showed Lady Gaga. She had a rose stung on her back - in reference to Edith Piaf's famous song "La vie en rose". The body jewelry reaches from the neck to the waist. The song plays an important role in Lady Gaga's movie "A Star is Born", in which her character Ally performs the song in a bar - and thus arouses the attention of a country star, played by Bradley Cooper.
"La vie en rose" tattoo on the back
US-singer Lada Gaga got a big tattoo based on the famous Edith Piaf song "La vie en rose".
"My spinal cord is now a rose," wrote the 32-year-old with a greeting for Valentine's Day to an Instagram photo of her bare back with a graceful tattoo. A rose petal adorns her neck, the long stem with the words "La vie en rose" reaches to her waist.
The song plays an important role in Lady Gaga's movie "A Star is Born".
The singer played in the musical romance her first film lead role. The premiere took place in September 2018 in Los Angeles.
She plays in it an aspiring singer, who falls in love with an alcoholic country star, played by Bradley Cooper.
At the Golden Globes the film already won the award for the best movie song. The award was shared by Lady Gaga with Anthony Rossomando, Andrew Wyatt and Mark Ronson (from left to right).
Lada Gaga recently won two Grammy trophies for her song "Shallow" from the movie "A Star is Born".
At this year's Academy Awards she has chances for the Oscar as the best song.
The singer was also nominated as best actress for her role in the music drama.
Here she is on the New York City Pride March in June 2018, together with her fiancé Christian Carino.
At a gala in Los Angeles last October, the singer announced her engagement with 49-year-old talent manager Carino.
The engagement of the two has been speculated for some time. Carino had been on the side of Lady Gaga when she played in Houston in 2017, the halftime show at the Super Bowl, the final of the football professional league NFL.
The animal lover of the week ...
... is just that Bradley Cooper - at least, if it goes after the animal rights organization Peta. She has awarded the 43-year-old with an "Oscat" because he let his dog participate in a film. Cooper received the "Oscar" for Best Director for "A Star is Born". Petas justification for the award: The Hollywood star had his Labradoodle Charlie play instead of using an animal that would have been delivered by "abusing training facilities".
Rock'n'roll romance
Animal rights organization Peta has honored Bradley Cooper with his "Oscar" award for Best Director for his debut film "A Star is Born".
The reason: The Hollywood star had let play in the love drama his own dog Charlie, instead of using an animal that would have been delivered by "abusing training facilities".
Charlie is a family member and not just a movie prop, Peta says. Cooper's Dog is a Labradoodle the actor named after his father died in 2011 as "People" reported.
"A Star is Born" has several chances to win at the Oscars on February 24, including Best Picture, Screenplay and the cast of Cooper and Lady Gaga. Cooper, however, is not nominated in the category director.
Rohdiamant: Ally (Lady Gaga, l.) Can write songs and is a great performer - but she thinks she is ugly and untalented and works together with her buddy Ramon (Anthony Ramos) in a catering business.
Heart and soul: The aging rock star Jackson Maine (Bradley Cooper) discovers Ally (Lady Gaga) in one of her performances in a queer bar - and instantly falls in love.
Family Demons: Jackson (Bradley Cooper, l.) Clashes with his older brother Bobby (Sam Ellliott, r.). Both were suffering from an alcoholic father. Jackson also drinks - and destroys himself.
Family ties: Ally also has daddy issues; her father Lorenzo (Andrew Dice Clay, r.) desperately wants his daughter to become a star.
Birth of a star: Jackson brings Ally on stage at one of his concerts and sings together with her song "In The Shallows" - the audience rages.
Dream Couple: The chemistry between Bradley Cooper and Lady Gaga is true - and carries the joint power ballad very far. Both combine personal experiences with the story of the film.
Mucker and Girl: Director Bradley Cooper taught himself guitar, piano and vocals - and found Lady Gaga a committed partner. For him, it's the first directing work, for her the first big movie appearance as an actress.
Emotional and powerful: "A Star Is Born" does not necessarily recount an old story - but its emotional power can turn the film into an Oscar.
The happiness of the week ...
... provided footballer André Schürrle and his wife Anna Scharypowa. At Instagram, the 28-year-old announced that he and the model will become parents. "Words can not describe how happy we are," wrote Schürrle. The couple is married since December.
The footballer and the model
In December André Schürrle and Anna Scharypowa got married. Now there are the next good news: The couple expects new generation. "Words can not describe how happy we are," wrote 28-year-old Schürrle on Instagram.
Schürrle had won the 2014 World Cup with the German national team. He is currently on loan at FC Fulham in the English Premier League.
His contract with Borussia Dortmund runs until June 2021. He lives with his wife in London.
The accompaniment of the week ...
... introduced Richard "Mortar" Lugner. The entrepreneur comes this year with model and actress Elle Macpherson, 54, to the Vienna Opera Ball. Whether there will be a common waltz may be doubted. "Unfortunately, I'm not big on dancing," said Lugner.
The ladies at "mortar" side
Model Elle Macpherson will accompany the entrepreneur "Mörtel" Lugner to this year's Vienna Opera Ball.
Last year, the entrepreneur appeared with ("The Weapons of Women") Melanie Griffith, the daughter of Hitchcock's muse Tippi Hedren.
Lugner has been hiring a celebrity for around 25 years to accompany him to the opera ball for a fee.
Goldie Hawn, here on a visit to New York's Carnegie Hall 2015: The 71-year-old US actress appeared in 2017 alongside the builder in Vienna.
Previously, US actress Brooke Shields was Lugner's star guest. The 85-year-old Lugner has been paying celebrity women for a quarter of a century to accompany him on the red carpet at the Opera Ball.
Shields was known in 1980 with the movie "The Blue Lagoon". In the late nineties, she was married to tennis star Andre Agassi.
In 2015, Lugner had invited the model Elisabetta Canalis. The Italian presenter is the ex-girlfriend of Hollywood star George Clooney.
"Mortar" Lugner divorced in November 2016 from his German wife Cathy Schmitz. Both had married in August 2014, the photo is from the then celebration on Lake Wörthersee.
In 2014, Lugner had invited US starlet Kim Kardashian. The appearance with the reality TV size was disappointing for "mortar" however.
After barely two hours at Austria's most important social event Kardashian left the ball annoyed.
In Austria, the Vienna Opera Ball is one of the major social events every year.
Gina Lollobrigida: The Italian film diva, here in Moscow in 2003, was Lugner's star guest in 2013.
In 2013, the contractor also took Oscar winner Mira Sorvino to the company show.
Sorvino - photographed here in France in 2009 - was an "insanely clever and interested woman" and "very, very nice", Lugner said back then.
Every year, Lugner makes regular headlines with his more or less famous accompaniments, which he usually pays for participation: in 2012 he was accompanied by Brigitte Nielsen.
In 2011 he sparked a scandal with Karima el-Marough aka Ruby, who became famous in the sex scandal surrounding Italy's ex-Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi.
He put a lively dance on the floor with Ruby.
Lugner whirled Ruby neatly around.
The contractor seemed to have a great time. The opera ball organizers, however, are not always enthusiastic about his company.
Paris Hilton was guest in Lugners Lodge in 2007.
In 2003 "Mortar" with Pamela Anderson appeared at the Opera Ball.
Since 1992 he has been engaged by one or more stars every year as accompanist for the opera ball. Sophia Loren, Pamela Anderson, Geri Halliwell, Paris Hilton and Kim Kardashian were among the guests. In the previous year, Melanie Griffith, 61, accompanied the former contractor.
The assistance of the week ...
... George Clooney offered Duchess Meghan. "They just follow Meghan Markle everywhere," Clooney told the Australian "Who" magazine. "She is a woman, seven months pregnant, and she was hunted and vilified and persecuted in the same way as Diana," said the 57-year-old actor. "History repeats itself."
George Clonney defends Duchess Meghan
There are a lot of rumors about Duchess Meghan since the wedding with Prince Harry. The relationship with her family is considered tense.
Among the numerous guests of the wedding ceremony last summer - here is a picture from the St. Georges Chapel at Windsor Castle - the father was absent.
George Clooney (here with his wife Amal at the wedding party of Prince Harry and Duchess Meghan) has now criticized the fact that the gossip press has the former actress on the quay - and drawn parallels to Princess Diana.
"They just follow Meghan Markle everywhere," George Clooney told the Australian "Who" magazine. "She is a woman, seven months pregnant, and she was hunted and vilified and persecuted in the same way as Diana," said the 57-year-old actor. "History repeats itself."
Clooney now said he knew how frustrating it would be if the private sphere were publicized in public. "She gets treated badly and I think that's irresponsible," he quotes "Who." He was surprised about this approach.
The fact that Clooney is also the godfather of the baby, the Duchess of Sussex and the 34 -year-old Prince Harry betrayed in the spring, however, seems less likely after the conversation with "Who". "I'm the father of twins, I literally have to take care of enough sh ..."
Princess Diana had married in 1981 the British heir apparent Prince Charles. 15 years later she died at the age of 36 years in a car accident in Paris. Paparazzi had followed them in their car before.
The lovebirds of the week ...
... are Matthias Schweighöfer and his new partner Ruby O. Fee. At a Berlinale party they posed for photographers, Schweighöfer gave the actress a kiss on the cheek. In the days before, both of them had boosted the relationship rumors with a photo - via Instagram.
"Back to normal Instagram life"
Obviously it's official: Matthias Schweighöfer and Ruby O. Fee appeared together on Monday evening at a Berlinale party.
Fee was born in Costa Rica and has appeared in movies like "Bibi and Tina" and "When We Dreamed". Most recently, she starred for the Netflix thriller "Polar" starring Mads Mikkelsen.
The "Bild" newspaper quoted Schweighöfer with the words: "Now everyone knows, now it's back to normal Instagram life." There have been rumors for some time that the two actors could be a couple.
The two had the relationship rumors last added. They released a photo on Instagram on Thursday, which shows them together in the back seat of a car: The 23-year-old fairy lies in Schweighöfer's arms, both posted a heart-Emoji.
Schweighöfer it was now apparently important to make the relationship public: The 37-year-old gave Fee before the reporters a kiss on the cheek.
At the end of January Schweighöfer had publicized the separation from his longtime partner. They have been separated for more than a year, there is a new love in his life, Schweighöfer wrote on Instagram.
Schweighöfer is one of the most famous German actors, he has also made a name as a musician.
Here he is on the side of his colleagues Jessica Schwarz (l.) And Alexandra Maria Lara on the premiere of the second season of thriller series "You Are Wanted" in May 2018 in Berlin.
In the series Schweighöfer plays a man who is targeted by hackers and secret services, because he is in possession of an omnipotent surveillance software.
When he's not spinning or playing, Schweighöfer is singing. His latest album is called Laugh Weep Dancing.
The decision of the week ...
... met the Federal Court. The BGH decided in the last instance that supermodel Naomi Campbell gets no fee for a short appearance at the Dresden Semperopernball 2015. The dispute involved a payment of 55,930 euros, which Campbells artist agency had demanded.
The model had shown herself on the ball for only a few minutes, accepted a medal and disappeared again. Ball impresario Hans-Joachim Frey stated that he had canceled his engagement the day before. Campbell's agent, however, took the view that there had been an oral contract - and went to court.
No money for a short appearance in Dresden
Supermodel Naomi Campbell gets no pay for a short appearance at the Dresden Semperopernball 2015. This was decided by the Federal Court of Justice (BGH) in the last resort.
The dispute involved a payment of € 55,930, which Campbell's artist agency had demanded for an appearance at the Semperoper ball in 2015.
The now 48-year-old British model had shown himself only a few minutes on the ball, received a medal and was gone again.
Ball impresario Hans-Joachim Frey stated that he had canceled the involvement of the supermodel (here 2017 in Cannes) the day before.
Campbell's agent, however, took the view that there had been an oral contract - and went to court.
With the decision of the Federal Supreme Court a verdict of the Dresden district court is final, which gave the Semperopernball right.
Naomi Campbell during the 2016 MTV Video Music Awards in New York.
In the 1980s and 1990s Naomi Campbell dominated the modeling business like no other.
The tongue confession of the week ...
... gave in to Cardi B. and Offset. Only in December, the 26-year-old rapper had announced the separation from her husband. At the Grammy Awards in Los Angeles, however, they both showed a close embrace again. However, the two did not give an official statement on their relationship status.
After the kiss is before the kiss
Cardi B and Offset do not reveal much about their relationship status, but the two deeds make this possible. At the Grammy Awards, the rapper accompanied his wife.
For the photographers, the spouses posed together ...
... and came very close.
So close that touched her tongue tips.
After the kiss is before the kiss: Even on the stage Offset did not move from the side of the rapper.
After receiving the award for Best Rap Album, Cardi B received a kiss from her husband.
The 26-year-old also rocked the stage musically at the Grammy Awards.
In November, the couple still performed together at the Jingle Ball.
In early December Cardi B had separated from her husband. Previously, there were rumors in US tabloid media that offset had betrayed the singer.
In early February, the rapper had last publicly commented on their relationship. Cardi B told People magazine that she continues to meet Offset on a regular basis.
"I hang out with him, I talk to him every day, and we do our thing," said Cardi B.
Still, their relationship needs time. They would take things slowly, said Cardi B. "We have a baby now, that's our real big focus."
Cardi B had announced the separation of Offset 2018 via Instagram.
The couple got married in September 2017. In July her daughter Kulture Kiari Cephus was born.