Washington, Mar 3 : Getting candid with her fans at a recent performance, Jessica Simpson said that she was hoping that they `follow whatever career she has', with reference to her films.

Dressed in Daisy Dukes and white platform pumps, the singer was performing at a show in Denver on March 1.

The 28-year-old crooner opened the show at the Pepsi Center with a cover of the Nancy Sinatra classic `These Boots Are Made For Walkin''.

And as the show continued, she got into confessional mode.

Washington, Mar 3 : Penelope Cruz must have won the Oscar for the Best Supporting Actress this year, but she has admitted that she still feels "insecure" while doing a new film.

The `Vicky Cristina Barcelona' star has said that despite so many years of being an actress, she continues to be a "bundle of nerves" when she's on the set.

"I''m always insecure on the set no matter what," Fox News quoted Cruz as saying.

Washington, Mar 03: Pop star Melanie B is auctioning off her ‘Spice Girl’ costumes to raise funds for charity.

The ‘Wannabe’ hitmaker has accumulated large number of costumes from the ‘Spice Girls’ group’s 1990 days and
2008’s farewell tour.

She is also selling her personal items, including shoes from her stint on American reality show ‘Dancing With The Stars’, and more clothes from 1997 movie Spice World.

"100 per cent of what you bid on these clothes is going to two charities,” Contactmusic quoted Mel B as saying in a video posted on perezhilton. com.

"One is L. A. Children''s Hospital and the other one is Meals on Wheels so you get to help the young and the elderly,” she added.

Washington, March 3: Scientists at the University at Buffalo and the University of Trieste, Italy, say that Epstein-Barr virus (EBV), which causes mononucleosis, may also be linked with the progression of multiple sclerosis, an incurable autoimmune disease that can cause major disability.

The researchers say that, in studies they have conducted, EBV appears to play a key role in the neurodegeneration that occurs in persons with multiple sclerosis.

Washington, March 3: In an online vote, the public has voted for a pair of close-knit galaxies that look like they are shaking hands, as the next target for observation by the Hubble Space Telescope.

Out of a total of 139,944 votes cast online by the public since the “Hubble, You Decide” contest opened on January 28, nearly 50 percent favored the interacting pair of spiral galaxies called Arp 274 (from the Arp Atlas of Peculiar Galaxies) over five other celestial candidates.

Washington, Mar 3: For Jennifer Aniston, who turned 40 recently, age is just a number, and she won’t give up her ambitions to take on younger roles.

"I still want to be a Bond girl," Fox News quoted her, as telling Elle Magazine.

Aniston, however, confessed to the magazine that there''s much pressure to stay youthful and fit, according to the Daily Mail.

"I am a realist. I know if I eat nothing but burgers, I''m not going to be hired for parts I normally would," she told Elle.