Washington, Feb 23 : Singer Dolly Parton has jumped to the defence of Jessica Simpson, who has been ridiculed by the media for her fuller figure and stage blunders. Simpson, 28, was criticised after she appeared looking curvier than her usual self, and after that for breaking down onstage while supporting Rascal Flatts in Michigan, forgetting her lyrics and eventually walking off in tears.

But Patron, who collaborated with Simpson on her country album Do You Know, is defending her fellow superstar, insisting that she has been victimised by the media.

London, Feb 23 : Swedish actress Malin Akerman has revealed that while filming for her new moviem she was left feeling tortured because of the skin-tight latex costume she had to wear.

Akerman, 30, said that the bondage-style get-up was so uncomfortable that she felt like "a wreck" at the end of every scene, and her long hair getting stuck in the zipper did not help much.

London, Feb 23 : Singer Lily Allen insists that she is not ashamed of undergoing therapy to come to terms with the problems she has had to face in her life.

In an interview to Fabulous magazine, the 23-year-old star admits that she doesn't like to hide the fact.

"I''m not ashamed of going to hospital or for therapy," the News of the World quoted her as saying.

"Too many famous people try to hide the fact they''ve needed some help - it shouldn''t be like that.

Hong Kong - Top Hong Kong singer and actress Karen Mok was making plans Monday to fly to Canada to visit colonies of young seals, days before an annual hunt in which 300,000 will be slaughtered.

The trip is being organized by the Hong Kong Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (SPCA) as part of a campaign lobbying for a ban on the trade of seal products in Hong Kong and China.

Mok, 38, will be accompanied on her March visit by a film crew to shoot a mini-documentary of her trip, which the SPCA plans to use in the campaign.

London, Feb 23 : Hollywood is set to enter a new genre of 3-D films, with at least 10 films ready to hit the cinemas this year.

Director Steven Spielberg's Monsters v. Aliens will be the first film to kick off the trend of 3-D movies.

The film staring Brit Hugh Laurie, Kiefer Sutherland and Reese Witherspoon will hit the theatres on April 3.

Moviemaker Pixar has already announced that all its future films will use the hi-tech process.

Titanic director James Cameron's sci-fi epic Avatar - starring Sigourney Weaver - and the Disney/Pixar action comedy Up are also due later in 2009.

Melbourne, February 23: Madonn