Twin joy for Sarah Jessica Parker, Matthew Broderick

Sarah Jessica Parker and husband Matthew Broderick are expecting twin girls born to a surrogate, according to People magazine. It quoted a representative as saying the couple were "happily anticipating the birth of their twin daughters later this summer with the generous help of a surrogate. The entire family is overjoyed. (AFP Photo)

Matthew Broderick receives a kiss from his wife Sarah Jessica Parker in a file photo. (Reuters Photo)

Matthew Broderick and Sarah Jessica Parker at 55th Annual Emmy Awards. (Wireimage Photo)

Sarah Jessica Parker and husband Matthew Broderick are expecting twin girls born to a surrogate, according to People magazine.

"Sex and the City" star Parker, 44, and actor husband Broderick, 47, already have a six-year-old son together, James Wilkie.

People quoted a representative as saying the couple were "happily anticipating the birth of their twin daughters later this summer with the generous help of a surrogate. The entire family is overjoyed."

Broderick and Parker married in 1997.

(Agencies)

Kate Winslet: I still feel like fat kid

Inside Kate Winslet still feels like the fat kid at school

The full interview with Kate is in the June issue of Marie Claire, on sale on Thursday

She's the holder of this year's Oscar for Best Actress and an acknowledged beauty.

But inside Kate Winslet says she still feels like the fat schoolgirl who was nicknamed Blubber and locked in the art cupboard.

‘I was bullied for being chubby. Where are they now!’ she tells this month's Marie Claire.

‘I had, “No one will ever fancy me!"... well into my teens. Even now I do not consider myself to be some kind of great, sexy beauty. Absolutely not.'

But mother-of-two Kate says she has come to terms with her body as she has grown older: 'I don’t mind the way I’m ageing.... I think I look my age, and that’s fine.

'I don’t think I look younger than 33 and I don’t think I look particularly older than 33. I think I’m sort of holding it together.’

Kate, who reclines on a bed in a figure-hugging black dress, also admits that she sometimes has a little help getting camera-ready.

'I do think it’s important for young women to know that magazine covers are retouched. People don’t really look like that.

'In films I might look glamorous, but I’ve been in hair and make-up for two hours; someone’s been lighting a scene for three hours.

'With the nudity in The Reader, for example, even I was like, “Damn, I look good.” And that was the lighting – it was a bit of body make-up. I don’t believe in pretending those things don’t go on.’

Kate is married to director Sam Mendes, and lives with their son Joe, five, and Winslet’s daughter Mia, eight, in homes in New York and Windsor.

But the Reading-born star says they have been considering moving their families back to Britain on a more permanent basis - in order to be nearer their families.

‘Mum would hate this if she read it, but our parents are getting on now,' she said.

Speaking about her childhood, Kate described how she was raised with three siblings in a small terraced house - and insists she is working class.

But she said the general public do not refer to her as a working class hero 'because I speak nice.'

'People think I'm lying,' she added.

She also recalled a teenage audition in which a director refused to believe she was from Reading due to her accent.

She said: 'He went, "I hope you are not as dishonest in your work as you are about your own life." I was shocked.'

In the past Kate has insisted that she 'didn't have a privileged upbringing' and that their daily life was 'very hand to mouth'.

Her grandparents ran the Reading Repertory Theatre, and her uncle, Robert Bridges, appeared in the original West End production of Oliver!. Her sisters, Beth Winslet and Anna Winslet, are also actresses.

Mail Online reported.

Robert Pattinson's proposal

Robert Pattinson and Kristen Stewart

Robert Pattinson proposed to 'Twilight' co-star Kristen Stewart.

The 18-year-old actress - who is dating 'Will and Grace' star Michael Angarano - said Pattinson was so "into" his character while filming the vampire movie he convinced himself he was in love with her.

She said: "Rob is very mysterious and very intense - and totally crazy. He proposed to me one day! Pattinson added: "I can't believe I did that! That's really getting into character. It's pretty extreme."

Most girls would kill to be in Stewart's position, but she insists there is nothing "going on" between her and Pattinson, 22. Stewart said: "I'm sure he's proposed to loads of girls before. He's a complete jokester!"

Pattinson agrees: "My favourite chat-up line when I was younger was to go straight up to a girl and say, 'Will you marry me? I don't want to mess around'. These days, Pattinson is less outrageous, but claims he will never be as clean-cut as 'High School Musical' star Zac Efron.

He said: "I don't think I could be the new Zac. I've met him and he's really good at not offending anyone. He's a really cool guy in reality. "He'll never do anything that'll be misconstrued. No one will ever say, 'Oh that guy is an idiot.' There's nothing bad you can say about him, whereas I'm told I'm an idiot - frequently!"

Hoaxing in Hollywood

Sacha Baron Cohen is a genius.

Celebrities make a good living making fools out of us–-and themselves.

Actor Joaquin Phoenix was supposed to appear on the Late Show With David Letterman in February. Instead, the man who sat down on Letterman's couch was a disheveled character with a hobo's beard and dark glasses, mumbling incoherent answers to the host's questions.

It was the twice-Oscar nominated Phoenix, alright. He had suddenly taken on a new, bizarre identity unrelated to his role opposite Gwyneth Paltrow in his latest film, Two Lovers. A befuddled Letterman closed the 10-minute encounter with an apology. "Joaquin, I'm so sorry you couldn't be here tonight."

The interview caused an uproar in entertainment circles and enraged James Gray, Two Lovers' director, who called his star actor "a crazy person with a beard making a fool of himself." Had Letterman been "punk'd" or was Phoenix really embarking on a new career?

"From a business perspective, it doesn't matter," says Robert Thompson, director of the Bleier Center for Television and Popular Culture at Syracuse University. "The ambiguity of these pranks draws chatter. People want to watch them."

True enough: In the week following Phoenix's Feb. 11 appearance on Letterman, CBS.com clocked 7.5 million views, a record for any Late Show video clip. On YouTube, the interview has been watched 3.9 million times. A documentary is in the works about Phoenix's hijinks, produced by Casey Affleck, Phoenix's brother-in-law.

One of MTV's top performers is Punk'd, which ran for eight seasons beginning in 2003. Ashton Kutcher conceived the show and promised to "make superstars suffer for your pleasure." The show's cameras were there to record celebrity freak-outs, like the time Halle Berry was denied entrance to her own movie premiere or the phony IRS agents who swarmed Justin Timberlake's new home to tell him he owed $900,000 in back taxes and all of his possessions would be seized.

Sacha Baron Cohen set the gold standard for pranksterism with his on-screen persona Borat, which grossed $130 million when the movie was released in 2006. In Cohen's newest film, Bruno, coming this summer, he impersonates a gay Austrian fashion journalist. Wearing a Velcro suit, Cohen causes mayhem by sneaking onto the catwalk of a Milan fashion show, sticking to everything. In Alabama, "Bruno" and his crew enter a gun store, pretend to confuse firearms with sex toys and get a salesman to tell them they must keep weapons away from one's "poopinschaft."

To fool his victims, Cohen reportedly set up 31 dummy companies and Web sites. The movie's working title is probably a prank, too: Bruno: Delicious Journeys Through America for the Purpose of Making Heterosexual Males Visibly Uncomfortable in the Presence of a Gay Foreigner in a Mesh T-Shirt. Hollywood is banking the movie's payday will be no hoax: Universal reportedly paid $43 million for the rights to Bruno.

Literary hoaxers haven't done as well. J.T. Leroy won instant fame after writing two novels based on a horrific childhood: Leroy claimed to be a former cross-dressing teenage prostitute from Appalachia who had worked truck stops in West Virginia. Fellow celebrity authors supported Leroy, among them Dave Eggers, Lou Reed and Suzanne Vega.

The author turned out not to be a man but the half-sister of Laura Albert, a San Francisco woman who had created "J.T. Leroy" with her boyfriend. Albert was later sued by a film distribution company to whom she had sold Leroy's movie rights.

Things worked out better in the early 1980s for comedian Andy Kaufman. A frequent guest on Saturday Night Live, Kaufman pulled off one of the biggest entertainment hoaxes in years. After his career waned, he began staging outlandish wrestling matches with women to compete for the "Intergender Wrestling Championship." He offered $1,000 to any gal who could pin him. Kaufman made a small fortune televising these smack downs until he accepted a challenge from professional wrestler Jerry Lawler. The pro gave Kaufman a broken collar bone after executing a "piledriver" on him. It was probably the only real wrestling move during Kaufman's career in the ring.

Expect more fakery from Hollywood. Wasn't it P.T. Barnum who quipped, "There's a sucker born every minute"? It turns out, no. The expression itself is something of a prank--historians say he never said it.

China Int'l Animation Festival opens

Visitors step around a weird cartoonic figure exhibited at the cartoon & animation industry fair, at the World Leisure Expo Garden, in Hangzhou, east China's Zhejiang Province, April 29, 2009. A total of 322 exhibitors at home and abroad take part in the cartoon & animation industry fair of the 5th China International Cartoon & Animation Festival. (Xinhua/Zhu Yinwei)

Visitors step around a giant cartoon figure of the Transformer, exhibited at the cartoon & animation industry fair, at the World Leisure Expo Garden, in Hangzhou, east China's Zhejiang Province, April 29, 2009. A total of 322 exhibitors at home and abroad take part in the cartoon & animation industry fair of the 5th China International Cartoon & Animation Festival. (Xinhua/Zhu Yinwei)

A cosplay show is staged at the cartoon & animation industry fair, at the World Leisure Expo Garden, in Hangzhou, east China's Zhejiang Province, April 29, 2009. A total of 322 exhibitors at home and abroad take part in the cartoon & animation industry fair of the 5th China International Cartoon & Animation Festival.(Xinhua/Zhu Yinwei)

Visitors look around a giant cartoon figure of the Transformer, exhibited at the cartoon & animation industry fair, at the World Leisure Expo Garden, in Hangzhou, east China's Zhejiang Province, April 29, 2009. A total of 322 exhibitors at home and abroad take part in the cartoon & animation industry fair of the 5th China International Cartoon & Animation Festival.(Xinhua/Zhu Yinwei)

A total of 322 exhibitors at home and abroad take part in the cartoon & animation industry fair of the 5th China International Cartoon & Animation Festival.

Women enjoy mud wrestling in Wuhan

Two females are entangled in dogfight during a distinctive Women's Mud Wrestling Match, as some 40 female contestants from both China and overseas take part in this very amusing sport with the skin-friendly slurry and mud from the deep sea, in Wuhan, central China's Hubei Province, May 3, 2009. (Xinhua/Dong Yushan)

Two females are entangled in dogfight during a distinctive Women's Mud Wrestling Match, as some 40 female contestants from both China and overseas take part in this very amusing sport with the skin-friendly slurry and mud from the deep sea, in Wuhan, central China's Hubei Province, May 3, 2009. (Xinhua/Dong Yushan)

Two females are entangled in dogfight during a distinctive Women's Mud Wrestling Match, as some 40 female contestants from both China and overseas take part in this very amusing sport with the skin-friendly slurry and mud from the deep sea, in Wuhan, central China's Hubei Province, May 3, 2009.

Swine flu epidemic enters dangerous new phase

Karya Lustig, center, training manager at La Clinica de la Raza, trains clerks Mayra Torres, left, and Angelina Galvan in the use of a respiratory protection mask, which may be used for protection from the possible infection of the swine flu Monday, April 27, 2009, in Oakland, Calif. (AP Photo)

A Mexican doctor and a tourist wear surgical masks at Mexico City's international airport to ward off the new multi-strain swine flu virus. Washington on Monday issued a travel alert warning against non-essential travel to Mexico and stepped up monitoring of travelers entering the United States amid the deadly swine flu outbreak. (AP Photo)

Pigs on a farm in Northern Ireland. A Canadian tourist has became the fourth person in Britain to be tested for swine flu in the last two days as health officials around the world try to monitor the spread of the deadly respiratory virus. (AP Photo)

The swine flu epidemic entered a dangerous new phase Monday as the death toll climbed in Mexico and the number of suspected cases there and in the United States nearly doubled. The World Health Organization raised its alert level but stopped short of declaring a global emergency.

The United States advised Americans against most travel to Mexico and ordered stepped up border checks in neighboring states. The European Union health commissioner advised Europeans to avoid nonessential travel both to Mexico and parts of the United States.

The virus poses a potentially grave new threat to the U.S. economy, which was showing tentative early signs of a recovery. A widespread outbreak could batter tourism, food and transportation industries, deepening the recession in the U.S. and possibly worldwide.

The suspected number of deaths rose to 149 in Mexico, the epicenter of the outbreak with nearly 2,000 people believed to be infected.

The number of U.S. cases rose to 48, the result of further testing at a New York City school, although none was fatal. Other U.S. cases have been reported in Ohio, Kansas, Texas and California. Worldwide there were 73 cases, including six in Canada, one in Spain and two in Scotland.

While the total cases were still measured in hundreds, not thousands, Mexican Health Secretary Jose Angel Cordova said the epidemic was entering an extremely dangerous phase, with the number of people infected mushrooming even as authorities desperately ramped up defenses.

"We are in the most critical moment of the epidemic. The number of cases will keep rising, so we have to reinforce preventative measures," Cordova said at a news conference.

The WHO raised the alert level to Phase 4, meaning there is sustained human-to-human transmission of the virus causing outbreaks in at least one country.

Its alert system was revised after bird flu in Asia began to spread in 2004, and Monday was the first time it was raised above Phase 3.

"At this time, containment is not a feasible option," as the virus has already spread to several other countries, said WHO Assistant Director-General Keiji Fukuda.

Putting an alert at Phases 4 or 5 signals that the virus is becoming increasingly adept at spreading among humans. That move could lead governments to set trade, travel and other restrictions aimed at limiting its spread.

Phase 6 is for a full-blown pandemic, characterized by outbreaks in at least two regions of the world.

It could take 4-6 months before the first batch of vaccines are available to fight the virus, WHO officials said.

Russia, Hong Kong and Taiwan said they would quarantine visitors showing symptoms of the virus amid global fears of a pandemic, an epidemic spread over a large area, either a region or worldwide.

Quarantined passengers from Mexico flight show no flu symptoms

Xu Jianguang, head of Shanghai municipal health bureau, speaks at a press conference in Shanghai, east China, May 3, 2009. Sixty-eight people who were on the same Mexico City-Shanghai flight with a Mexican national later diagnosed with influenza A/H1N1 in Hong Kong, have been located and are in quarantine in Shanghai, health officials told reporters Sunday. None have displayed any flu symptoms, according to Xu Jianguang. (Xinhua/Liu Ying)

Some patients are seen at the fever diagnosis ward of Shanghai East Hospital in Shanghai, east China, May 3, 2009. Shanghai East Hospital opened fever diagnosis ward and express way for the fever patients for preventing influenza A/H1N1.(Xinhua/Chen Fei)

BEIJING/SHANGHAI, May 3 (Xinhua) -- None of the passengers quarantined in China who took the same flight with a Mexican national later diagnosed with influenza A/H1N1 in Hong Kong had shown flu symptoms as of Sunday noon, China's health ministry said.

All the passengers aboard Thursday's Mexican flight Aeromexico 098 from Mexico City to Shanghai have been located and those who remained in China were quarantined, the ministry said.

The Mexican, a 25-year-old male, arrived in Shanghai Thursday aboard the flight, which carried 176 passengers and 13 crew. Hourslater, he and some other passengers left for Hong Kong on China Eastern Airlines flight MU505.

He was confirmed on Friday in Hong Kong to be infected with influenza A/H1N1. It was also the first such case in Asia.

Mao Qun'an, an official with the ministry, said China had "redoubled its prevention and control efforts" following the notification from Hong Kong, including tracing the passengers and putting them under medical observation, suspending flights from Mexico starting Saturday, and stepping up communication with Hong Kong and the World Health Organization.

STRICT QUARANTINE

The week-long quarantine in Shanghai affects 68 people, including 48 passengers whose destination was Shanghai, seven who intended to go on to other destinations, and 13 crew members.

They were divided into two groups in two hotels, one in Nanhui district, the other in Pudong district.

Fifty-nine relatives of the 48 Shanghai passengers were asked to stay at home for observation.

Mexican boy, world's first patient infected by A/H1N1 flu, recovered

Four-year-old Edgar Hernandez (L) who has recovered from the A/H1N1 flu influenza recently, and his mother rest in a free dining room at his hometown in Veracruz state in Mexico May 2, 2009. Hernandez is the first patient who was infected by the A/H1N1 flu influenza in Mexico. (Xinhua Photo)

Four-year-old Edgar Hernandez (L), who has recovered from the A/H1N1 flu influenza recently, walks outside a free dining room with his mother at his hometown in Veracruz state in Mexico May 2, 2009. Hernandez is the first patient who was infected by the A/H1N1 flu influenza in Mexico. (Xinhua Photo)

Four-year-old Edgar Hernandez who has recovered from the A/H1N1 flu influenza recently, and his mother rest in a free dining room at his hometown in Veracruz state in Mexico May 2, 2009. Hernandez is the first patient who was infected by the A/H1N1 flu influenza in Mexico.