Blog Posts by Soraya Roberts

It's no secret that Hollywood prizes actresses who are slim, but Amanda Seyfried thinks being thin is overrated.

During an interview on "The Ellen DeGeneres Show" Wednesday, the 27-year-old "Les Misérables" star became nostalgic for the curvier body she had as a teen.

"I looked way better when I was 15," Seyfried said. "I had beautiful huge breasts and then I came to Hollywood and I was like, 'I got to lose weight.' I got to look thin and fit, and I lost them a little bit."

Seyfried in 2004, and today. (Getty Images)

Seyfried's fans may remember her fuller figure from when she first started acting on the soap "As the World Turns" in 1999. Since then, the actress has lost "like 10 pounds," and along with the weight, she also lost her D-cup chest (she claimed she lost around 3 pounds off her breasts).

"That's what happens when you try to lose weight — it all comes out of the wrong place," she

Avril Lavigne on the cover of Nylon.

What's the "best damn thing" about Chad Kroeger? According to his fiancée, it's his romantic side.

In a new interview with Nylon, Avril Lavigne, the magazine's June/July cover star, opens up on what she loves so much about the 38-year-old Nickelback frontman.

“He’s nice, and real, and kind. For me, it’s about having a connection on a deeper level. Be romantic!” said Lavigne, according to Just Jared.

The 28-year-old "What the Hell" singer has previously talked about her fellow Canadian's knack for romantic gestures — for instance, Kroeger's proposal in summer 2012.

"I had been making this scrapbook of my time in the studio," Lavigne told Ryan Seacrest on his KIIS-FM radio show last year. "I walk over and he had taken a photo of himself holding the ring box and put the Polaroid in my scrapbook. Because I had stickers everywhere, he put in 'Will you marry me?' It was really romantic."

The duo has a date set for their wedding but they

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Move over, Genevieve Sabourin! Canada has another alleged celebrity stalker on its hands. But this time Jennifer Lawrence is the target, not Alec Baldwin.

Han Cong Zhao, a 23-year-old Vancouver resident, is reportedly being held at a Louisville, Kentucky corrections facility after being charged with stalking and harassing the "Hunger Games" star's family.

According to USA Today, the former university student contacted Lawrence's brother, Blaine, more than 200 times from Canada. Louisville's WKL reports that Zhao found Blaine through a summer camp the actress's family runs in Jefferson County.

Police said that when Blaine didn't reply, the B.C. resident hopped on a plane and flew to Louisville on April 18. That same day, he reportedly visited the local police department, where he asked how he could contact Lawrence's parents.

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Will Ryan Gosling's fans forgive him for skipping Cannes? They should, because he has a perfectly good reason.

On Wednesday, the 32-year-old Canadian actor missed the international premiere of "Only God Forgives," his latest collaboration with director Nicolas Winding Refn. In the film, Gosling plays a boxing club owner whose mother (Kristin Scott Thomas) urges him to take action after his brother is killed.

The Ontario native did send his regrets to France and gave a good excuse for his absence: his directorial debut, "How to Catch a Monster," is currently shooting in Detroit.

At the "Only God Forgives" press conference Wednesday, as Scott Thomas and Winding Refn looked on, Cannes film festival director Thierry Frémaux reportedly read in French the letter Gosling sent in his place.

"I can't believe that I'm not in Cannes with you. I was hoping to be coming but I am in the third week of shooting my movie. I miss you all," he wrote. "Nicolas, my friend, we really are the same, simply in different worlds and I am sending you good vibrations. I am with you all."

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Drake stayed classy this weekend with the rest of the "Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues" cast.

On the the heels of "Anchorman 2's" most recent teaser, the 26-year-old "Crew Love" singer was photographed on the set of Will Ferrell's upcoming sequel. Though little has been revealed about the follow-up to 2004's "Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy," the film reunites the eponymous San Diego newsman (Ferrell), his lady love Veronica Conringstone (Christina Applegate) and the rest of his newsroom posse as they travel from California to New York in the '70s.

Production has been in full swing since March, and on May 18, Drake was seen sporting an era-appropriate afro, some serious muttonchops and a leather Members Only jacket -- not to mention some natty acid-wash jeans. He was snapped checking out Ferrell and co-star Applegate as they strolled by him outside Radio City Music Hall.

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On Monday, the Toronto musician posted an Instagram photo from the set, with producer Judd Apatow. "Me and one of my heroes," he captioned it after what appeared to be a quick one-day shoot for the busy musician (he appeared to jump on a jet a day later to fly to Barcelona).

Drake joins a growing list of cameos for the Dec. 20 release. Fellow Canadian Jim Carrey will reportedly have a small role, as will Kanye West, Sacha Baron Cohen, Tina Fey, Nicole Kidman and Kirsten Dunst, among others.

Check out more photos from the "Anchorman 2" set:

Johnny Depp and Winona Ryder in "Edward Scissorhands." (20th Century Fox)

What do Johnny Depp and a 505-million-year-old B.C. lobster have in common? Not much — except their name.

After discovering an extinct spider ancestor with "scissor hand-like claws," a British scientist has named the fossil Kooteninchela deppi to "honour" the "Edward Scissorhands" star. The scientist admitted to being a "Depp fan."

For those of you who may not remember the 1990 Tim Burton fantasy, Depp played an artificial man who had sharp blades in place of his hands.

"When I first saw the pair of isolated claws in the fossil records of this species, I could not help but think of Edward Scissorhands," said Imperial College London researcher David Legg in a news release. "Even the genus name, Kooteninchela, includes the reference to this film, as ‘chela’ is Latin for claws or scissors."

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Who knew Diddy was such a big fan of "Downton Abbey"? On Wednesday, the 43-year-old rapper's fans were taken aback when he announced he would be joining the cast of the hit British period drama.

"So happy to announce that Im a series regular on DOWNTON ABBEY-my favorite show," Diddy tweeted on Wednesday afternoon. He even changed his Twitter background and profile photo to the show's logo.

Despite the resounding surprise online, it wasn't completely implausible that the "Coming Home" singer would be joining the show. Back in February, ITV reported that they were looking to cast a character named Jack Ross, "male, 25-30. A musician (singer) at an exclusive club in the 20s. He’s black and very handsome. A real man (not a boy) with charm and charisma."

A British actor named Gary Carr was eventually cast in the role, but Diddy has been building a bit of an acting career for himself. In 2011, he appeared in "Hawaii Five-O" as an undercover cop, and last year he turned up in an episode of "It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia" as a healer named Dr. Jinx.

But Diddy himself put the speculation to rest yesterday when he posted a "sneak peek" of his "Downton Abbey," -- which turned out to be a Funny or Die spoof of the popular series titled, "Downton Diddy." In it, the musician is digitally added to various scenes of the show in the role of Lord Willcocks, the new owner of "Downtown Abbey."

"Last week it was reported they cast the first black cast member on 'Downtown Abbey,'" Diddy says in the introduction to the scenes. "The only problem with this is [that] I already broke down that barrier."

Digitally shoehorned into the various scenes, Diddy calls Lady Grantham "bitchy," tells Thomas

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Poor Martin Short has to write a memoir ... Just kidding! (Sort of.) The 63-year-old Canadian comedian has announced he is set to write a book about his life and career for Harper. In his statement about the book, Short quipped that he is doing so because he is broke.

“I haven’t named my book yet, but I’m toying with the title ‘If I’d Saved, I Wouldn’t Be Writing This,’ ” Short said in a statement released by Harper on Sunday.

According to the New York Times, the book will drop in fall 2014 and will cover Short's career, from "SCTV" to "Saturday Night Live" to his film roles, as well as his three-decade marriage. “Although I’ve never read a book all the way through, I’m sure excited to write one,” he joked.