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Flower gift by fan fails to impress Madonna

Material Girl Madonna suffered a faux pas after she was caught voicing her disgust at a fan,who gave her a hydrangeas flower. Madonna,who was at the Venice Film Festival,seemed less than impressed with the hydrangeas flower. She smiled and said thank you to the fan while accepting the gift but forgot that the cameras caught her expression and the microphone her disgust. The 53-year-old then turned to the person sitting to her right and remarked,I absolutely loathe hydrangeas. He obviously doesnt know that.

Colin Firths sons use Oscar as a toy

British actor Colin Firth says his young sons enjoy playing with the Oscar statuette he won for his performance in The Kings Speech earlier this year. The 50-year-old actor won the Best Actor Academy Award for his performance as the stuttering British monarch George VI but the accolade is lost on his sons Luca,10,and Mateo,8,who just enjoy playing with it,reported Contactmusic.