Zac Efron gets crowd going at 17 Again premiere

SHRIEKING fans have filled London's Leicester Square for the arrival of heartthrob Zac Effron at the UK premiere of his new movie 17 Again.

The High School Musical and Hairspray star, 21, said of his welcome: "It's insane. This is the biggest one yet.

"It's crazy."

Efron plays the younger self of Mike O'Donnell, a frustrated and unfulfilled 37-year-old, played by Friends star Matthew Perry.

The character seemingly has it all as a star athlete heading straight for a college scholarship until he decides to give it up and settle down with his high school sweetheart.

Now at 37 Mike has become a miserable and unhappy businessman who wishes he could go back and become the teenager he once was to correct all the mistakes he made.

His wish soon becomes reality as he turns 17 again and gets the chance to relive his life.

Robin Williams recovering from heart surgery

COMEDIAN Robin Williams' heart surgery has been "successful" and the star is recovering in a clinic in Ohio.

A spokesman for the 57-year-old actor said that the star of 'Good Will Hunting,' 'Good Morning, Vietnam,' and 'Mork & Mindy' had an operation to replace his aortic valve, repair his mitral valve, and correct an irregular heart beat.

"Williams' operation went extremely well and we expect him to make a full recovery," said Marc Gillinov, a cardiothoracic surgeon at the Cleveland Clinic where the Oscar winning actor was being treated.

After the three-hour-plus procedure Gillinov said Williams was expected to make a full recovery in the next eight weeks.

"His heart is strong and he will have normal heart function in the coming weeks with no limitations on what he'll be able to do," Gillinov said.

Geri Halliwell's ex-citing love life

IT’S RAINING MEN for Geri Halliwell...

After shocking us all by announcing her sudden engagement to Italian tycoon Fabrizio Politi – and then less surprisingly breaking it off – the 36-year-old Spice Girl is back in the arms of a former squeeze, Mahiki club owner Nick House.

One of theBuzz’s spies spotted the two together after she attended the premiere of The Boat That Rocked last night.  “Nick picked her up in his Aston Martin and drove her the Punch Bowl pub in Mayfair, where he introduced her to his pal Guy Ritchie,” he said.

“The pair got cosy in a corner of the pub and Geri asked friends to take ‘coupley’ pictures of them together.”

When the pub shut, Nick took Geri to his latest venture, the Tini bar in Chelsea, where they partied until 1am.

Jennifer Aniston 'dumps John over Twitter'

JENNIFER Aniston's boyfriend has Twittered his way out of their relationship, according to reports.

The Friends star has dumped musician John Mayer because he spent too much time on the social networking website despite claiming he was too busy to get in touch with her, people claiming to be close to the pair have said.

A source said: "John suddenly stopped calling her or returning her emails and when she would finally catch up with him, he'd say: 'I've been so busy with work. I'm sorry I haven't had time to call you back.'"

The source added: "Jen was fuming. There he was, telling her he didn't have time for her and yet his page was filled with Twitter updates.

Bruce Willis gets hitched

BRUCE Willis has married British-born model Emma Heming in an island ceremony in the Caribbean.

The couple got hitched at the movie star's home in the Turks and Caicos islands, his spokesman told a magazine.

 

 Willis, 54, has been in a relationship with Heming - who, with her long brown hair, has provoked comment over her resemblance to his previous wife Demi Moore - for more than a year.

The 30-year-old, raised in north London and California, has modelled for lingerie brand La Senza and made a handful of acting appearances.

The couple's wedding ceremony took place at the Die Hard star's house on the private island Parrot Cay, according to US Weekly.

Willis' spokesman told the magazine: "The couple will be having a civil ceremony when they return to California."

Orlando Bloom's big night out

It’s a tough life being Orlando Bloom.

After crawling the Mummy Rocks party and Maddox nightclub with Kate Moss, he hit the road on his motorbike and rolled to Mayfair’s Cuckoo club with some gorgeous girls.

Our spy said: “Orlando was surrounded by an army of pretty girls when he hit the dancefloor. He dirty-danced with a brunette and embraced a pretty blonde, before leaving in a taxi with another two ladies at 3.30am.”

And not only did Orlando, who was sat next to Avril Lavigne for much of the night, get girls and glamour – the actor got someone to look after his wheels, too.

Our spy continued: “Orlando’s bike got a parking ticket while he was partying, so security wheeled it into the club for safe keeping overnight.” Lucky him.

Michael Jackson 'stroked' Peaches

PEACHES Geldof has told  how she was "stroked" by Michael Jackson  while on a trip to Disneyland with her family  aged eight.
 
Speaking on ITV2 television show Celebrity Juice the 19-year-old daughter of Sir Bob Geldof said she even had “photos to prove it”.
 
Host Keith Lemon  - aka comic Leigh Francis  -  had asked the party girl, who was standing in for regular team captain Fearne Cotton, if she had ever met the 50-year-old King of Pop.
 
The student socialite and broadcaster said she met him on while visiting Disneyland 11 years ago.

She said: "I was eight years old. We were all hanging out there, and somehow, for some reason, Michael Jackson was there doing some sort of promotional thing and he invited a load of kids who were staying in the Disney hotel, to come meet him.

"He was in this one room, and we went in and I was really excited and he was sitting on a huge throne at the end of the hall, flanked by Mickey and Goofy.

"The image is burned in my mind of him there, just like 'come closer', and I went and I sat on his lap and then he proceeded to stroke me and whisper in my ear a little bit.

"I've got photos to prove it. I've been stroked by Michael Jackson."

The story shocked guests, including opposing team captain Holly Willoughby, into silence.

Comic Andrew Maxwell came to the rescue, saying: “I don’t think there’s a joke I can make about that!”

Clive Owen bunks off premiere for football

CLIVE Owen bunked off from the London premiere of his own film - to go and watch his beloved Liverpool on the telly. 

Football-mad Clive and his co-star Julia Roberts were at the world premiere of steamy corporate spy story Duplicity in Leicester Square.

But the red-carpet bash clashed with the Reds' Champions League meeting with Spanish giants Real Madrid.

He admitted he openly planned to sneak off a bit early from the premiere, joking: "I've seen this film before".

Happily for Clive, Rafael Benitez's men didn't disappoint, humbling the La Liga champions in a 4-0 rout.

The movie Duplicity reunites the two actors for the first time since 2004 in the Oscar-nominated Closer.

Jennifer Aniston braves the cold

Jennifer Aniston and Owen Wilson signed autographs for shrieking fans at the UK premiere of Marley and Me.

Aniston braved the cold in Leicester Square wearing a floor-length strapless gown with a long gold chain.

The movie concerns newlyweds John (Wilson) and Jenny Grogan (Aniston) who abandon the harsh winters of Michigan and head south to begin new lives in West Palm Beach, Florida.

They obtain jobs as journalists at local newspapers and buy their first home as they start a new life together.

In a bid to postpone starting a family John gets his wife a puppy named Marley for her birthday which turns into "the world's worst dog".

Oscars: Film editor Stuart McGurk looks back at the frocks and shocks

In pictures: Who was ravishing and who looked rubbish?

So, on the night, it was all about Slumdog, Slumdog, Slumdog. 

It came as a shock to precisely no-one that Slumdog Millionaire bagged both best picture and best director. But even Danny Boyle might not have expected it to dominate so thoroughly - triumphing in eight categories from original script and film editing to sound mixing and cinematography.   

In fact, it was an entire awards night that went according to plan - unless, that is, your name was Mickey Rourke.

Having triumphed at both the Baftas and the Golden Globes, Rourke could have expected to be confident, but in the night’s only surprise Sean Penn collected best actor for his role in Milk.

Leaping to the stage to accept his award, Penn jokingly thanked the “commie, homo-loving sons of guns” who had voted for him  - and ended by scotching rumours of a rift with Rourke, insisting: "Mickey Rourke rises again. And he is my brother."

The rest - from Heath Ledger’s never-in-doubt supporting actor to Kate Winslet’s whodathunkit? best actress - was a case of as-you-were. 

Ledger’s family (father Kim, mother Sally, sister Kate) accepted his award, dedicating it to Heath's three-year-old daughter - a tear-jerker moment that saw the likes of Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie welling up.

"Heath, we both knew what you had created in the Joker was extraordinarily special and had even talked about being here on this very day," said sister Kate. "We really wish you were, but we proudly accept this award on behalf of your beautiful Matilda."

Winslet, meanwhile, managed to keep her hyperventilating to a minimum, admitting: “I'd be lying if I haven't made a version of this speech before. I think I was probably eight years old and staring into the bathroom mirror and this would have been a shampoo bottle. Well it's not a shampoo bottle now.”