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From Now Magazine - February 18, 2007

ALEX ZANE: I FARTED IN FRONT
OF JENNIFER LOVE HEWITT

by Anna Taylor

Popworld presenter passed wind in front of the Hollywood beauty.

Alex Zane was left red-faced after an interview with a beautiful actress for Channel 4's Popworld show. The zaney presenter just couldn't stop himself from letting rip.

'I silently passed wind in front of Jennifer Love Hewitt,' says 27-year-old Alex. 'She kept smiling. To this day, I don't know whether she smelt it.'

The Leeds lad and self-confessed geek doesn't have much shame when it comes to embarrassing himself in front of his celeb guests.

'I've been naked in a sauna with McFly. Once you've done that, there's no going back,' he tells Celebs on Sunday magazine.

Sounds like nice work if you can get it…

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TV DANCER WINNER PLANS AUSSIE TRIP

His own TV series and a feature film await Benji Schwimmer, the swing dancing Mormon who took out the second series of American reality contest So You Think You Can Dance.

Schwimmer, 23, won the popular TV dance-off last year before Network Ten aired the series over Australia's non-ratings period.

The grand final aired on Ten.

The show pits dancers from all genres against each other before the best all-rounder is named the winner.

After his victory, Californian Schwimmer turned down part of the main prize - a year-long contract on Celine Dion's multi-million dollar Las Vegas show.

"I decided I'd rather do other things to establish my career a bit more," he told AAP.

However, he gladly accepted the car and US$100,000 ($127,370) cash prize that also came with the win.

Schwimmer said he'd prefer to strike while the iron was hot rather than be pinned down to a single show for a year.

"I'm not hiding the fact that I only have about an 18 month gap to establish myself before this whole thing wears off, so I have to make the most of it."

A full-time dance teacher across a range of genres, Schwimmer entered the show after he returned from an evangelical mission to Mexico and found his fiancee had become engaged to another man.

"I was dumped by my fiancee and won the US Swing Championships for the third year running, but when I took a good look at myself, I wasn't fulfilled," he said.

"I was gutted, but then I found out about this show and just immersed myself in my dancing, and started training in a whole range of disciplines. I decided 'I'm going to win this thing'."

Schwimmer's success on the show has brought him far more than just a car and a wad of cash.

He said shooting would soon start on an unnamed new drama - "like if you took The OC and added a bunch of dancers from Hollywood" - and a feature film with Jennifer Love Hewitt called For Love and Dance.

He also has plans to visit Australia and hinted that he may be involved in an Australian version of the dance competition show.

However, it's unlikely this will happen with Ten's program committed to Australian Idol and Big Brother after this series of The Biggest Loser wraps.

"I have lots of students from Australia who come over for intensive programs and I think I'm coming out there some time around July and August," he said.

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Jerry and his son Ben ('Stiller', that is) worked with Jennifer Love Hewitt in THE SUBURBANS (1999)

Actors Jerry Stiller, far left, and Anne Meara, second from right, pose with their children, Ben Stiller and Amy Stiller Friday, Feb. 9, 2007, as they are honored with a star of the Hollywood Walk of Fame in Los Angeles. Stiller and Meara are the fourth married couple to receive a joint star on the Walk of Fame, joining Sonny and Cher, television's Ozzie and Harriet Nelson and radio's Fibber McGee and Molly (Jim and Marian Jordan). Honorary Mayor of Hollywood, Johnny Grant is shown in background at right.

Photo by Damian Dovarganes

STILLER & MEARA RECEIVES A STAR ON THE HOLLYWOOD WALK OF FAME

LOS ANGELES, CA - Comedic actors Jerry Stiller and Anne Meara (Ahem---Mrs. Stiller) , who have been married for more than 50 years, each received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame on Friday for their respective careers.

Their children - actors Ben Stiller and Amy Stiller - and actor Jason Alexander joined the couple as they were presented with the Walk of Fame's 2,328th star.

Jerry Stiller portrayed the father of Alexander's character, George Costanza, on the long-running TV comedy "Seinfeld." He plays a cantankerous father-in-law on CBS television's comedy "The King of Queens."

Meara has been nominated four times for an Emmy, including for outstanding lead actress for a drama for her title role in the short-lived 1975 TV legal drama "Kate McShane."

Stiller and Meara were members of the improvisational company The Compass Players, then started an act which led to 36 appearances on television's "The Ed Sullivan Show" and countless nightclub and theater appearances.

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