The 19-year-old ‘Harry Potter’ star loves the freedom of living alone, but is relieved to live close enough to his family for them to do his chores.
He said: “I’m living in south west London. It’s lovely. It’s a slightly rude awakening, like, ‘Oh my God! I’ve got to do so much more for myself.’ Got to do the washing. But I still live close to my parents and take it round there sometimes.”
The actor also branded the attention he gets from girls “ridiculous”, insisting his fans are interested in his …

While governments around the world are working on supplying effective vaccines, there are sadly no magical potions or fictional Latin incantations capable of quashing the advance of swine flu.
Just ask Harry Potter actor Rupert Grint, who has conventional Muggle medicine to thank as he progresses along the road to recovery after being struck down by the potentially deadly H1N1 virus.
According to Grint’s female publicist, the actor succumbed to the virus while shooting the seventh and final movie in the hugely popular Harry Potter series – in which he plays bumbling, …

The death of Michael Jackson on Thursday has caused an increase in demand for his songs and for memorabilia.
The top nine selling items at Apple’s iTunes Store were albums by Jackson, with first and second being a “hits” album and the 1982 album Thriller.
Amazon.com similarly reported selling more Jackson merchandise in the 24 hours following his death than it had sold in the preceding 11 years, and that sales of Jackson CDs accounted for 60% of its total business on Thursday. Yesterday morning the top seller in the album chart …

Lawrence Pfohl, better known as the wrestler Lex Luger, was charged with possession of an illegal substance in May 2003. While investigating the death of Pfohl’s live-in girlfriend, wresting personality Miss Elizabeth (Elizabeth Hulette), Cobb County, Georgia, police found illegal bodybuilding drugs in his home. This arrest came on the heels of another arrest; a few weeks earlier Pfohl had been charged with misdemeanor battery after allegedly striking Hulette during a domestic dispute.

Activist Jesse Jackson was arrested in December 1999 and charged with criminal trespass when he walked onto the grounds of an Illinois high school where a debate was raging around the penalization of several students expelled for fighting. Jackson was recently arrested and charged again for the same crime in connection with a demonstration at a gun shop in Riverdale, Illinois, when he refused to leave the store as ordered by police.

Actress and activist Jane Fonda was arrested in November 1970 for allegedly kicking a police officer who was trying to arrest her on drug charges. Fonda was in possession of numerous bottles of pills, later proven to be vitamins and legally-prescribed medication. All charges were subsequently dropped.

New Jersey crooner Frank Sinatra was arrested by police in Bergen County, New Jersey in 1938 on charges of adultery and seduction. The charges were later dismissed. Sinatra remained under surveillance by the FBI through the course of his life under suspicion of Mafia-related activity. Despite over two thousand pages of allegations, Sinatra was never charged.

Eminem (whose legal name is Marshall Mathers, III) faced two arrests in Michigan in June 2000. Warren authorities charged the rapper with carrying a concealed weapon and assault, stemming from a fight with a man who kissed Eminem’s estranged wife, Kim. Meanwhile, Royal Oak authorities charged him with brandishing a weapon during a fight in a parking lot with members of Insane Clown Posse, a rival rap group. He received probation in both cases.

A February 1998 incident at Phoenix’s Sky Harbor Airport in Arizona led Guns N’ Roses lead singer Axl Rose to plead guilty to a misdemeanor charge of disturbing the peace. Rose cursed and shook his fist at an airport supervisor, who wanted to look through the singer’s bags at a security checkpoint.

Miami Beach police arrested Tara Patrick (better known as Carmen Electra) in November 1999 on battery charges after a fight in her hotel room with former NBA-star Dennis Rodman, her husband. However, police later dropped the charges against the Baywatch star after both she and Rodman refused to press charges. A judge did, however, order the pair to stay at least 500 feet away from each other.