Here's the red carpet at the Elle Style Awards at The Westway in London and I can't tell if this is some unapologetic lighting or what, but Keira Knightley is looking gaunt as hell. Someone get a bounce on this woman! In the thumbnail below, Kate Hudson looks like the spitting image of her mother. I love her sassy smile and her bangs, even if I'm not a big fan of her inane romantic comedies. Her eclectic, bohemian style won her an Elle Style Icon and I have to say that I usually enjoy whatever she's wearing. According to Elle, she's "distinctive and kooky." Love it.
And in the pictures after the jump, you can seem more pictures of Keira, who seriously looks like a starving Goth kid. I really do think that at least some of it is weird lighting, but still, I'd check her neck for fang marks, just to be safe. She went home with the best actress prize, while her "Atonement" co-star, James McAvoy nabbed best actor.
Kylie Minogue took home the honor of Woman of the Year and I couldn't agree more.
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12 more photos from the Elle Style Awards 2008 in London featuring Kylie Minogue, James McAvoy, Keira Knightley, Sophie Ellis Bextor, Kate Hudson, Stella McCartney, Will Young and Roisin Murphy are after the jump.
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Loob says:
Lisa, speaking of Goldie Hawn (well you were for a fraction of a moment), have you seen the movie Foul Play? It is AWESOME and one of the best things Goldie ever did. I think I even like it better than Cactus Flower.
Anyway, everybody rent Foul Play, you'll love it.
gerard Vandenberg says:
I'll tell you better.
THERE ISN'T A SINGLE MIRROR INSIDE HER HOME!!
jen says:
I don't think its lighting. I know this will not be a popular opinion, but I do NOT see the attraction to Knightly. She looks like a boy. She's VERY unattractive and she's a mediocre actress. Are we that hard-up for actresses anymore that they consider HER one of the best? Ick...
Zekers says:
Loob-I love that movie! I really liked her in Butterflies Are Free and First Wives Club too...
Loob says:
Zekers - Yay! I loved her in First Wives Club, and I have to see Butterflies Are Free which I've always heard good things about it.
Also, Seems Like Old Times is a good one, where she is once again paired up with Chevy Chase.
Zekers says:
She stars with Edward Albert (the Green Acres dude's son) in Butterflies...I had the biggest crush on him. Sadly, he died young, a couple of years ago. Better have tissues on hand for this one though... :)
Anni says:
Kylie Obi One Minogie woman of the year? In the name of all that is holy, for what? For having an illness that strikes millions of women all over the world and who also fight their disease bravely?
Let's not forget that Kylie was able to afford the best treatment which began almost the next day to being diagnosed, unlike those who have to rely on normal medical systems and who may wait weeks for diagnosis and then further weeks for an appointment for treatment.
People keep rattling on about her being some sort of inspiration for people battling cancer. Please, do tell the women in my local oncology clinic that when they are told that two months further on from diagnosis they still have to wait for the treatment that might heal them. All the while their cancer gets worse. I can assure you that none of them hold Kylie Minogue up as some sort of inspiration. Most are too terrified and too exhausted to even consider someone as insignificant as she is.
I am happy when ANYONE survives this horrible illness, but this continuing deification of Kylie Minogue is far beyond realistic. She had cancer, had treatment and survived, that's about it. We don't need to hear about it ad nauseam, nor does she need any other reward than her continuing existence. Let's hear it instead for the other unsung heroines of the hour, those who did not survive but fought like hell and those who did after fighting like hell.
Woman of the year, my arse. Over publicised woman of the century perhaps. Maybe she'd seem better to me if she didn't sound like a gerbil on helium.