London – The nominees had barely been posted when two stars from the critically acclaimed romantic comedy Forgetting Sarah Marshall – Kristen Bell and Russell Brand – surged to an early lead in the annual “World’s Sexiest Vegetarian” contest at PETA.org.uk. Bell – perhaps best known for her title role on the long-running TV series Veronica Mars and who currently stars as a sultry vixen on the hit series Heroes – is a long-time vegetarian and has said, “I have always been an animal lover. I had a hard time disassociating the animals I cuddled with – dogs and cats, for example – from the animals on my plate, and I never really cared for the taste of meat. I always loved my Brussel sprouts!”
Brand gained fame as the host of his own show on BBC Radio and is currently filming a movie with Adam Sandler. In his 2007 memoir, My Booky Wook, Brand wrote, “I became vegetarian at 14. – I’ve never regretted it. – It’s the only opportunity I get to occupy the moral high ground. ‘You’re vegetarian?’ comes the enquiry. ‘Yes.’ Then the inevitable, ‘Do you eat fish?’ – I have to stifle a smug grin when I reply, ‘No. No, I don’t eat fish because it’s cruel to them, the lovely little things’”.
Other celebrities who’ve gone vegetarian to protect animals, the environment and their own health – and who are in hot pursuit of Bell and Brand in the PETA poll – include actors Hayden Panettiere, Emily Deschanel, Milo Ventimiglia, Anthony Kiedis, Abbie Cornish, Casey Affleck, Lake Bell, Leona Lewis and Jason Schwartzman; rapper Mos Def; and pro basketball player Raja Bell of the Phoenix Suns. Past winners include Carrie Underwood, Chris Martin, Natalie Portman, Andre 3000, Tobey Maguire, Prince, Alicia Silverstone, Kevin Eubanks and Shania Twain.
The poll runs through 16 June. For more information and to cast your votes, please visit PETA.org.uk.
Hey everyone! I just found this skit that John Mayer did directed by Judd Apatow that has a cameo by Kristen that I thought I would post here until I can get it archived in the media center. Enjoy!
Kristin Bell is hot, hot, hot right now � as the mischievous narrator on the hit TV series, “Gossip Girl,” which made its long-awaited comeback this Monday to her hit movie “Forgetting Sarah Marshall” which stole the #2 spot at the box office this weekend pulling in over $17 million. Just in time, Kristin opened up to Women’s Health in the May issue which hit newsstands this week.
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On being the mischievous narrator of the CW’s “Gossip Girl”:
“I channel that voice everybody’s had in their head since grade school. It’s the critical voice that pops up when you see somebody who’s wearing mom jeans, you know what I mean? It’s a defense mechanism�that’s what cattiness and gossip are. You’re worried that someone is thinking something bad about you, so you think it about them first.”
On her co-stars of “Forgetting Sarah Marshall”:
“They’re a very welcoming and warm group, but definitely intimidating because they do a lot of improve. I head to be ready for anyone to throw anything at me.”
On her role as the one and only “Sarah Marshall”:
“Sarah was written in a beautiful way: She’s not just the antagonist or the victim. Typically in romantic comedies one person is demonized the other isn’t. But this is like Knocked Up; all the lines are blurred. Nobody’s really at fault and that’s how reality is. Sarah is probably 25 percent bitch, 25 percent airhead, and 50 percent real.”
On dating Dax Shepard and dealing with the paparazzi:
“It amplifies the feeling that everything I do is looked at, and it makes me hyper-aware and insecure. You’re on display when you really don’t want to be. That’s why I’ve become more reclusive. At my house with my friends, I don’t need to deal with that stuff.”
“…I really like [the video game] Mario Kart, and I have to remind myself, ‘You are in real traffic!’ It’s scary because the photographers run red lights. So by making them chase me, I could cause an accident, and nothing is worth risking that. I could complain about this all day, but everybody’s job has downfalls. Some people are in an office and their butts fall asleep in their chairs; this is just what I have to deal with.”
On her personal security and living a low-key life:
“I’m more of a homebody. I’m constantly asked: ‘Why don’t we see you out?’ But that’s not what drives me. I prefer to have people over�which I do a lot…
I’m not going to become anybody I don’t want to become. But I’ve been followed by photographers a lot lately, and it makes me insecure.”
