February 17, 2011
By Staff Reporter
In his second pronouncement, the singer said that he will dedicate his life to helping the poor and disenfranchised around the world.
“[We can be] the first generation to eradicate extreme poverty,” he told the BBC. “I want to spend the rest of my life doing that.”
But don’t panic, kids – the singer isn’t giving up his day job anytime soon. He says it still feels great to be a member of U2. He also noted that, when he started mixing it up with political leaders, they looked at him as though he were “some sort of exotic plant.”
But it’s all good.
“I’ve found them to be very respectful,” he said. “When I met [Bill] Clinton, I looked like our road crew and he burst out laughing.”
Wherefore art thou Romeo, too?
It’s said that imitation is the sincerest form of flattery – except among celebrities. That’s why Jersey rocker Jon Bon Jovi is tripping over his fringed cowboy boots to apologize to David and Victoria Beckham for having the temerity to name his son Romeo.
As anyone who reads the supermarket tabloids is aware, the soccer star and his Spice Girl missus thought up that name all by themselves a couple of years ago. Which seems to give them permanent dibs on the moniker. Which is not necessarily a bad thing – after all, how many Romeos can you have running around backstage at the Grammys, or in a celebrity creche?
Jon was quite abashed when he heard that he’d inadvertently copied the Beckhams when naming his newborn son a few months back.
“We actually called him Romeo thinking it was the most beautiful, original name in the world,” he told a British entertainment Web site. (Obviously, you don’t get to be a rock star by spending all your time reading Shakespeare.) “[Then we found] out that David Beckham had already chosen it. So we apologize to the Beckhams for that.”
Louis Walsh’s current pop band, Girls Aloud, will have a chance to combine two of their favorite activities – posing for pictures and shopping – thanks to a lucrative business deal.
The teen singers recently signed up to represent the British clothing chain New Look, a deal that will earn them plenty of shopping money (