London, November 16 : Despite having a successful acting career, Kevin Costner has revealed that it is playing music with his band that lets the ‘steam off’ for him.

The Academy award-winning director, who recently released his band ‘Modern West’s debut album, said that it was while he was on stage that he could shed all characters and be himself.

“When I''m making a movie I''m playing whoever I''m playing. But my personality comes out on stage when I play live. That''s when you see me the clearest,” the Telegraph quoted him as saying.

"This is as close to my personality as I ever get, playing live. There''s something about playing music that lets steam off for me,” he added.

London, November 16 : ‘X-Factor’ judge Simon Cowell wants to buy globally successful show ‘Strictly Come Dancing’, claims pal-judge Bruno Tonioli.

Both reality shows have had a cut-throat competition to top the ratings chart in the UK as they are screened every Saturday night.

Tonioli, a judge on BBC 1''s Strictly that topped the ratings over Cowell''s X Factor on ITV1, claimed Cowell was eyeing the rival show and would love to pocket it.

"Simon wants to buy it. He loves it," the Telegraph quoted him as saying. 

" You can''t knock the show that is the biggest seller and is actually beating his shows all over the world. It sells, you know. It''s a fact. 

London, Nov 16 : Sir Paul McCartney has revealed that his new album is inspired by the Beatles landmark record, Sgt Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band. 

During the recording of the 1967 album, Macca , John Lennon, George Harrison and Ringo Starr created alter egos so they could be even more creative.

Now, McCartney has returned to the formula for his new project, ‘Electrical Arguments’.

He will release the CD, his third project with dance producer Youth, as “The Fireman”. 

The 66-year-old legendary rocker said that an alter ego “gives you the feeling anything is possible and stops you being too serious”. 

London, Nov 16 : English actress Jennifer Ellison has been on cloud nine ever since she got engaged to her man Robbie Tickle.

Ellison, 25, was seen lapping up the sun in her white teeny bikini and looking happy as she showed off her sparkling new diamond ring in the Maldives. 

The actress had earlier admitted that she wanted to marry 29-year-old Tickle, who she has been dating for seven months and he popped the question while they were there. 

“Jen is over the moon. Robbie hadn’t told her he was going to propose, so when he did she was crying tears of joy — she immediately said yes,” News of the World quoted a source as saying.

London, Nov 16 : Madonna’s best friend American actress Gwyneth Paltrow was spotted having a heart to heart talk with baseball ace Alexander Rodriguez or A-Rod.

London, Nov 16 : Sir Paul McCartney is set to release a 14-minute Beatles track, 41 years after its only public performance, it has emerged.

‘Carnival of Light’, recorded in January 1967, features distorted guitars and drum-beats, gargling, church organs, and Sir Paul and John Lennon yelling: "Are you all right?" and "Barcelona!" 

The song was performed at an electronic music festival that year and the audience was ignorant that it was a Beatles track.

However, the band never released it, thinking the song was too adventurous. 

McCartney said that George Harrison had called such experimentation "avant-garde a clue".