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Eliza Doolittle: I love fun fancy dress
Pop star Eliza Doolittle has revealed she loves wearing fun fancy dress to have a bit of a laugh. The Skinny Genes singer told the Guardian that she has been a fan of costumes since she was little, when she used to emulate the groups in the charts. "As kids, my friends and I would dress up as the Spice Girls - Posh Spice was my favourite … I enjoy the element of theatre when it comes to fancy dress," she commented. Doolittle added that she likes to keep an... Read more...
Gwen Stefani: I love wearing fun fancy dress
Gwen Stefani has said she loves getting the opportunity to wear fun fancy dress as part of her career. The former No Doubt frontwoman was signed up this week as a new face for L'Oreal Paris, joining the likes of Eva Longoria and Beyonce Knowles to promote the brand's beauty products. She said she can't wait to begin and is especially looking forward to the costumes. "I can't believe I get to be one of the L'Oreal Paris girls. I love playing dress up, on stage or shooting videos, it's... Read more...
Children's fancy dress livens up 'boring' holidays for youngsters
Two youngsters in Australia have come up with a way of livening up boring school holidays using children's fancy dress and other fun activities. Anna O'Donnell, 12, and Tessa Wilson, 13, found they were fed up during a recent break from lessons and didn't want to take the suggestions of their parents, which mainly involved tidying up their bedrooms, the Mosman Daily reports. So they sat down and wrote a list of 101 fun ideas for themselves and their friends to do, which was so good that it has been... Read more...
Gwyneth Paltrow expresses herself in fun fancy dress
While some stars may create a name for themselves by wearing fun fancy dress all the time - we're looking at you, Lady Gaga - others simply use it as a way of expressing themselves every so often. Naomi Attwood of Grazia magazine said she has noticed this of Gwyneth Paltrow, who usually looks practically perfect in every way at red carpet events. However, she occasionally lets her hair down and becomes someone else entirely. Last night (January 6th 2011) for example, she became a musician from the 1980s on... Read more...
Fun fancy dress leaves Bath man red-faced
A misguided choice of fun fancy dress left a man from Bath red-faced recently after the police and army were called in. The unnamed reveller had decided to go to a Christmas party on December 21st 2010 dressed as a terrorist, the Bath Chronicle reports. He had the bright idea of constructing a fake bomb from putty and an old alarm clock to go with his Taliban fancy dress, but the plan backfired when he misplaced the device on his way there. A woman found it on the street Read more...
Fun fancy dress helps to spread truth about cats and dogs
Fun fancy dress was used this week in the US to spread a serious message about neutering cats and dogs. Representatives from the Washington DC branch of the People for Ethical Treatment of Animals greeted visitors to Harrisburg's Strawberry Square to hand out leaflets about unwanted pets, PennLive.com reported. However, to ensure they attracted plenty of attention to their cause, they sported brightly-coloured condom fancy dress costumes. Leandria Campbell, one of the Read more...
Fancy winning some fun fancy dress in 2011?
Customers at Escapade have the opportunity of winning some fun fancy dress during next year thanks to a brilliant new promotion. One free outfit a month will be given away to people who have shopped on the website or in-store before, meaning you could have even more fun at your summer 2011 parties. All you have to do is send in a picture of yourself in the costume you last bought, or submit a review for it. You will then be entered in for a prize draw and the lucky... Read more...
Couple get married in fun fancy dress
A couple livened up their nuptials recently by getting married in fun fancy dress. Hazel Edmondson and Rodney Elphick had been together 12 years and knew they didn't want a big white wedding. So, they sent out invitations to their friends and family and pretended they were having a costumed birthday bash, Tweed News reports. Everyone was told to dress up in something from the 1970s or 1980s and it was only when they got to the Kingscliff Beach Bowls Club on Saturday (December 11th 2010) that the real plan... Read more...
Minister in fun fancy dress upsets Catholics
A Church of Scotland minister has inadvertently upset some of the Catholics in his parish by putting photographs of himself in fun fancy dress on the internet. Reverend Gary Caldwell had the snaps taken at a costume party which he attended wearing nun fancy dress, the Daily Express reports. Thinking he looked quite funny, he posted them as the profile picture on his Facebook page, but sparked controversy in Airdrie. Someone complained and he had to remove Read more...
Fun fancy dress the theme for Man City's festive party
It may have been a Christmas party, but the players at Manchester City opted to wear fun fancy dress for their team bash over the weekend. The players turned up on Saturday (December 4th 2010) looking bright and cheerful in polka-dot outfits to go clubbing in Hale, Cheshire. We're not entirely sure what the theme was, but the costumes did look a little bit like clown fancy dress, although the Mirror speculated they could all have been children's TV Read more...
Protesters sport fun fancy dress to raise awareness of Aids
Fun fancy dress has been helping protesters get a serious message across in New York this week. A gang of people dressed as bagels turned out in Brooklyn to criticise cuts in funding for Aids sufferers in the New York area. Mayor Bloomberg was going to meet city officials to discuss the issue on December 1st - World Aids Day - as part of the annual Bagel Breakfast, but residents said he never meets his promises to deliver help to the 45,000 New Yorkers with the disease. They chanted: "Cream... Read more...
Dom Joly plays trick in fun fancy dress
Dom Joly played a trick on Gillian McKeith by sporting fun fancy dress for a practical joke. The former Trigger Happy TV star crept up on his fellow I'm a Celebrity … Get Me Out of Here contestant, who did little but moan and scream since she got to the jungle. However, the prank was made even better by the fact that he was wearing cockroach fancy dress, Unreality TV reports. As expected, Gillian squealed before bursting into slightly hysterical laughter. Read more...