Kellie Pickler has shaved her head for the most important of causes: to show solidarity with good friend Summer Holt Miller, who was diagnosed with breast cancer in June. Was she afraid to take this step? Does she have any regrets? The former American Idol favorite opened up to Ellen DeGeneres on the latter’s talk show Friday. “It’s just hair!” Pickler said. “I will be honest with you, I was a little nervous and she was too. [We thought], ‘I hope we don’t have some crazy birthmark or wart or mole or something… but we had fun.” Pickler, who lost her grandmother to this disease, said she simply wanted to be there through chemotherapy with Miller. “I think it’s important to have a cancer buddy,” Pickler said the experience, adding that her pal is “doing good” despite the obvious difficulties: “It’s hard on your body, it’s hard on your mind. It’s not an easy thing to go through. But she’s a strong woman and she’s handled it with such grace.”
They took the words right out of our mouths. In an interview that hits home for many of us, Kim K explains her branding and gives us a lesson in Hip-Hop. Love or Hate Kim and her ‘brand’, is it wrong to accept that she’s not going away any time soon? For those few who haven’t yet had the pleasure, Kardashian is a 31-year-old US reality TV star, lately prominent in Britain, who has, since becoming famous in 2007, ascended to the level of a symptom in the culture. Keeping Up With The Kardashians, currently in its seventh season, is contrived, sensationalist, repetitive and witless, but no more so than a lot of things one enjoys without accusing them of spiritual corruption. The difference in this case is reach. Twitter is an unreliable measure of influence, but Kardashian has nearly 16 million followers, putting her ninth in the world, three places behind President Obama. (Lady Gaga is number one; Taylor Swift number eight.) With her two sisters, Khloé and Kourtney, she runs a chain of clothing stores called Dash, has a Las Vegas-based outlet called Kardashian Khaos, promotes makeup and fashion lines under the label Kardashian Kollection, all of which act as window dressing for the business, merely, of being Kim Kardashian: a woman of above average looks, seemingly rather nice, who along with the rest of her family – emotionally speaking – strips on TV for tips. After the shoot, we sit in a courtyard at the back of the studio and Kardashian tries to explain what the fuss is about. “When I hear people say [what are you famous for?], I want to say, what are you talking about?” she says slowly, her eyes wide as a bushbaby’s. “I have a hit TV show. We’ve shot more episodes than I Love Lucy! We’ve been on the air longer than The Andy Griffith Show! I mean, these are iconic shows, so it blows my mind when people say that.” But you’re not performing; you’re just being followed around by cameras… “But to be able to open up your life like that and to be so… if everyone could do it, everyone would. It doesn’t make sense to me.” The day before the interview, I go to Dash in Beverly Hills, the flagship store aimed at Kardashian’s teen fan base. A bouncer stands outside letting teenagers in one by one, although the store is almost empty. “There’s a line!” he calls out to baffled passers-by, and the teenagers snigger. Inside, the clothes are very nice; soft T-shirts, cute shorts and dresses, but that isn’t why people are here. Kardashian says that since the show started airing, the store has become a “tourist attraction” and the stock is angled accordingly. After taking photos of themselves in front of a giant Kardashian family montage, the adolescents buy one of several items within their price-range; a $20 compact mirror; pencils for a few dollars; or a $10 bottle of water with the Kardashian sisters’ photo on one side. “Our water sells out all the time,” Kardashian says. “People collect them because each store has a different picture on the bottle.” That’s amazing. “It’s really crazy,” she says. “I mean, a water bottle? It’s crazy.” She blinks slowly at the wonder of effortless profiteering. Kardashian characterizes her typical fan as “a younger girl, like 15 or 16, who loves fashion, loves to be a girly girl, loves beauty, glam”, and whom she respects as a backwards projection of herself. If you can overlook the vacant materialism, she is in some ways not a bad role model. She points out that she is not “your stick-skinny typical model”; that she doesn’t go out on benders; that she tries not to swear too much. “I remember this one time when I used the F-word – and everyone was like, I can’t believe you said that! You never say that! I am really cautious about what I say and do. If I look at the message I’m portraying, I think it definitely is be who you are, but be your best you.” And yet she makes people incredibly angry. “Yeah. I have no idea why. I work really hard – I have seven appointments tomorrow before 10am. I’m constantly on the go. I have a successful clothing line. A fragrance. I mean, acting and singing aren’t the only ways to be talented. It’s a skill to get people to really like you for you, instead of a character written for you by somebody else.” She is currently dating Kanye West, who might have had a hand in the following analogy. “When rap music first started,” Kardashian says, “rappers were not respected and people thought it was just a fad. And people thought reality shows were going to come and go. They have taken over the soap operas. So it’s a modern version of a soap opera.” For the record then, what is Kardashian’s talent? “What is my talent?” She cocks her head to one side. “Well, a bear can juggle and stand on a ball and he’s talented, but he’s not famous. Do you know what I mean?” Yeah Kim…we know what you mean. Source Images via WENN/Twitter
They took the words right out of our mouths. In an interview that hits home for many of us, Kim K explains her branding and gives us a lesson in Hip-Hop. Love or Hate Kim and her ‘brand’, is it wrong to accept that she’s not going away any time soon? For those few who haven’t yet had the pleasure, Kardashian is a 31-year-old US reality TV star, lately prominent in Britain, who has, since becoming famous in 2007, ascended to the level of a symptom in the culture. Keeping Up With The Kardashians, currently in its seventh season, is contrived, sensationalist, repetitive and witless, but no more so than a lot of things one enjoys without accusing them of spiritual corruption. The difference in this case is reach. Twitter is an unreliable measure of influence, but Kardashian has nearly 16 million followers, putting her ninth in the world, three places behind President Obama. (Lady Gaga is number one; Taylor Swift number eight.) With her two sisters, Khloé and Kourtney, she runs a chain of clothing stores called Dash, has a Las Vegas-based outlet called Kardashian Khaos, promotes makeup and fashion lines under the label Kardashian Kollection, all of which act as window dressing for the business, merely, of being Kim Kardashian: a woman of above average looks, seemingly rather nice, who along with the rest of her family – emotionally speaking – strips on TV for tips. After the shoot, we sit in a courtyard at the back of the studio and Kardashian tries to explain what the fuss is about. “When I hear people say [what are you famous for?], I want to say, what are you talking about?” she says slowly, her eyes wide as a bushbaby’s. “I have a hit TV show. We’ve shot more episodes than I Love Lucy! We’ve been on the air longer than The Andy Griffith Show! I mean, these are iconic shows, so it blows my mind when people say that.” But you’re not performing; you’re just being followed around by cameras… “But to be able to open up your life like that and to be so… if everyone could do it, everyone would. It doesn’t make sense to me.” The day before the interview, I go to Dash in Beverly Hills, the flagship store aimed at Kardashian’s teen fan base. A bouncer stands outside letting teenagers in one by one, although the store is almost empty. “There’s a line!” he calls out to baffled passers-by, and the teenagers snigger. Inside, the clothes are very nice; soft T-shirts, cute shorts and dresses, but that isn’t why people are here. Kardashian says that since the show started airing, the store has become a “tourist attraction” and the stock is angled accordingly. After taking photos of themselves in front of a giant Kardashian family montage, the adolescents buy one of several items within their price-range; a $20 compact mirror; pencils for a few dollars; or a $10 bottle of water with the Kardashian sisters’ photo on one side. “Our water sells out all the time,” Kardashian says. “People collect them because each store has a different picture on the bottle.” That’s amazing. “It’s really crazy,” she says. “I mean, a water bottle? It’s crazy.” She blinks slowly at the wonder of effortless profiteering. Kardashian characterizes her typical fan as “a younger girl, like 15 or 16, who loves fashion, loves to be a girly girl, loves beauty, glam”, and whom she respects as a backwards projection of herself. If you can overlook the vacant materialism, she is in some ways not a bad role model. She points out that she is not “your stick-skinny typical model”; that she doesn’t go out on benders; that she tries not to swear too much. “I remember this one time when I used the F-word – and everyone was like, I can’t believe you said that! You never say that! I am really cautious about what I say and do. If I look at the message I’m portraying, I think it definitely is be who you are, but be your best you.” And yet she makes people incredibly angry. “Yeah. I have no idea why. I work really hard – I have seven appointments tomorrow before 10am. I’m constantly on the go. I have a successful clothing line. A fragrance. I mean, acting and singing aren’t the only ways to be talented. It’s a skill to get people to really like you for you, instead of a character written for you by somebody else.” She is currently dating Kanye West, who might have had a hand in the following analogy. “When rap music first started,” Kardashian says, “rappers were not respected and people thought it was just a fad. And people thought reality shows were going to come and go. They have taken over the soap operas. So it’s a modern version of a soap opera.” For the record then, what is Kardashian’s talent? “What is my talent?” She cocks her head to one side. “Well, a bear can juggle and stand on a ball and he’s talented, but he’s not famous. Do you know what I mean?” Yeah Kim…we know what you mean. Source Images via WENN/Twitter
Rust and Bone is essential. It’s life and death. It’s like fucking at a funeral. It throws the grit of existence in your face and while you reel at our insubstantiality and balk at our crudity as human beings, it shows you that love is the only transcendent force we possess. What separates man from beast. There is no doubt it will polarize. There is nothing commercial here apart from the pulling power of Marion Cotillard . Cinematographically it is an expressionistic essay; intellectually, a two-hour conversation with its filmmaker. And physically it is a kick in the teeth, a depiction of poverty, sex and violence which crosses most known codes of acceptability. Spoilers follow. I would expect nothing less from director Jacques Audiard . From Read My Lips to The Beat My Heart Skipped to A Prophet , (the latter both also shot by Stephanie Fontaine) this is as ever courageous work. He is skilled at combining grainy realism with something esoteric — beyond romance. He creates criminal heroes within almost apocalyptic fairy tales. The premise of Rust and Bone is unbelievable — risible, even — and sounds more French farce than dramatic arc: A love story between a bare-knuckle street boxer and a woman who trains orca whales and loses her legs after a Seaworld accident. Adapted from a series of short stories by Craig Davidson, Ali (Matthias Schoenaerts), homeless and penniless with his five-year-old son Sam (Armand Cerdue) on his shoulders, turns up at his estranged sister’s in Antibes in the South of France. She houses them in her grimy garage, he gets a job as a bouncer in the local nightclub and rescues Stephanie (Cotillard), bloodied after a brawl. They don’t see each other again until after the accident; until after Stephanie has lost both legs to a killer whale. She calls him. He shows her no pity, and from there a relationship develops. As we move forward the stakes are raised and the scales turn. Audiard uses his common thematic – the juxtaposition of two characters, one the likeable criminal, the other the vulnerable — as Ali, involved in illegal street fighting and surveillance crime, compromises his relationships with Stephanie, his son and his sister. Simultaneously Stephanie begins to find her new identity and gets released back into her life, with or without him. Relative unknown Matthias Schoenaerts ( Bullhead ) is astonishing as Ali. He does nothing and everything, and, looking like a pit-bull, is at once a combination of unhealthy-yet-attractive and physically fit. And the bond between him and child actor Armand Cerdue is also extraordinary, almost symbiotic. This is also the best work I have seen Cotillard do. There are multiple moments in the film which are almost transcendent and indelibly stain the mind’s eye. Your heart leaps when Ali and Stephanie first have sex and you see that she has found renewed hope; a will to live, the will to return to work and confront her assailant. You feel empowered when you see her amputated legs resplendent with fresh tattoos (reading ‘Droite’ and ‘Gauche’). And you reel when she walks, prosthetic limbs on display, into the middle of a fistfight — possibly one of the coolest female character moments I have ever seen. It is all-physical. This is apt because Rust and Bone is corporeal. It tells you this in the opening shot sequence, when a montage of water and feet in sandals is accompanied by the overbearing sound of breathing and footsteps. The film is all about the body, about control and the loss of it. About the dichotomy between unwanted pain and pain sought — the accident and the bare knuckle boxing. The violence, the sex, is thus immediate and visceral. And whether you want to be or not, you are there — you can almost touch it, feel it, reach them with your hands. The fine lines between power and death are visible here too. The metaphors are clear; from the force of the whales leaping in and out of the water to the unseen dangers of ice and snow, we know that nature is bigger than us and in that terrifying reductivity there is love between father and son, man and woman. It is terribly intense, and French. There is no other way to describe it. And whereas I went out and bought the soundtrack (Bon Iver, Lykke Li, with score by Alexandre Desplat) and want to go back and see it again, the ferocity with which I liked it — was moved and haunted by it, and found it real and refreshing — could also be the ferocity with which it is loathed and eschewed for being pretentious and even sentimental. But like Audiard, Cotillard, Schoenaerts and I suspect everyone else who worked on the project, I’m happy to have that argument and suggest that this film is so good, it stands alone. This is not half-baked ennui — whatever anyone else thinks about it. Read more from the Toronto Film Festival. Follow Lorien Haynes on Twitter . Follow Movieline on Twitter .
The Toronto International Film Festival is off and rolling. TIFF’s official opening night is Rian Johnson ‘s Looper with Joseph Gordon-Levitt , Bruce Willis and Emily Blunt… and all kudos to them, but Toronto is sharing the opening spotlight with Walter Salles’ On The Road , a “surprise” event for Dredd , Rust & Bone — starring Gordon-Levitt’s The Dark Knight Rises co-star Marion Cotillard — and others. As TIFFers arrived in town, the tradition of a slow opening night ended. It was full tilt as events, traffic, schmoozing and gossip about what movie is good, what is less so, was well underway. One prognosticator even had the Best Female Actress Oscar noms already lined up (at least in his mind) — and one is Rust and Bone ‘s Cotillard, pictured here with Sony Pictures Classics co-president Tom Bernard Thursday evening at a dinner hosted by Moet & Chandon Champagne at Michael’s in downtown Toronto. Of course no stranger to Oscar, the French actress won the Academy Award for Best Actress in 2007 for La vie en rose . She turns out another stunning performance in Rust & Bone , by French director Jacques Audiard, in which she plays a beautiful — naturally — woman who meets a club bouncer played by Bullhead actor Matthias Schoenaerts. Their chance meeting turns into a stronger bond that takes flight after an accident. “I was very excited after reading the script,” Cotillard said about her role playing Stephanie in Cannes in May . “When a script moves me, I find that I immediately understand a character. Of course not completely, but I do understand.” Read more from the Toronto Film Festival. Follow Brian Brooks on Twitter . Follow Movieline on Twitter .
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Ever since I became a belieber and got a Twitter account in February 2011, I wanted nothing more than to meet the one boy and his incredible crew who have completely changed my life. My positive attitude assured me Justin and his crew would follow me on Twitter, I’d get to see him in person, I’d go to one of his concerts, and I’d meet him and his crew someday. One by one, each of my dreams started coming true. Justin, Kenny, Scrappy, Scooter, and more all followed me…still waiting on Mr. Alfredo Flores, but I know he will someday. Then in November 2011 I drove 11 hours to California and made my dreams of seeing him in person come true outside the AMAs. Then a couple months ago I bought tickets to Believe tour which means I’m one step closer to seeing him in concert, and on September 1 st , I was finally able to meet him. A couple weeks ago I was looking at plane tickets online, trying to find good deals for round trip tickets to California for Labor Day weekend . I found a really great deal and decided to go for it. I knew Justin had been taking pictures with fans outside his rehearsal studio, so I was hoping I hadn’t missed out on all the action. On September 1 st I woke up at 3 a.m. and flew to California. A few hours later I drove to Los Angeles to hopefully meet Justin outside rehearsals. As soon as I got there, my friends told me I’d JUST missed Alfredo coming out and taking pictures with all of them, but he said as long as the group stayed pretty small, Justin would definitely come out. At that point we knew we couldn’t tweet or text anyone or else our chance of meeting Justin could be shattered. I stood there practically hyperventilating because I knew my chance of meeting Justin that day was really big. I eventually calmed down and we all just talked together until we heard a group of guys talking in the parking lot behind the hedge. We all stood up and in my mind I said, “This is it. I’m about to meet Justin Bieber.” As soon as we looked over, Justin walked around the corner holding a big box and said, “I brought you guys cake!” He opened the box and stood there for a few seconds, letting us soak in the fact that he was standing right in front of us holding a big cake for us to dig into. After a few seconds he put the cake on the ground and Kenny tried handing forks and plates out to everyone, but I think we were all in such shock that no one moved. I was the first to reach out and grab a fork from Kenny and then I looked at Justin and said, “So I can just take some?” I took a chunk out of the cake and Justin and Alfredo looked and me and said, “Oh wow just goin’ for it!” since I didn’t even think to take a plate. I mean if Justin Bieber brings you a cake, you don’t waste your time waiting for a plate, right? Before I took the first bite, I looked at Justin and said, “Can I feed YOU a bite?” Unfortunately Justin didn’t hear me the couple times I said it, but how amazing would that picture have been?…Justin and I feeding each other bites of cake. After I took the first bite Justin said, “Let’s take some pictures!” Since we were all in a line he made his way down to each of us. I was fourth in line, so as I was waiting my turn, I couldn’t even comprehend what was happening. The third girl took her picture and as I started walking toward Justin I said, “Am I next?” I felt his arm wrap around me and I put my hand on his back and felt his incredibly soft shirt. My friend took the picture and before I knew it, we were done, and I realized I hadn’t really even talked to him. As I walked away I said, “Thank you so much Justin” and he briefly turned to look at me before moving on to the next fans in line. It was the most surreal and special experience of my life. (To watch the video of me meeting him, click here .) After meeting Justin I realized several members of the crew were standing by, and since I love them all like I love Justin, I wanted to talk and get pictures with them as well. I saw Scrappy first, standing there with Nick DeMoura. Scrappy and I have talked several times over Twitter so he knew who I was, but we’d never met before, so I stood next to him and just put my arm around him to give him a hug and before he recognized me he said, “Hey…” as if I was just some creepy fan who was about to molest him or something. Then I looked at him and said, “It’s me!” and he recognized me and said, “Oh hey!! You made it!” I talked to him the majority of the time and it was so incredible to finally have met him too. After talking to him for a few minutes I saw Alfredo and since I wasn’t able to get a picture with him before, I said, “Fredo I missed my opportunity to get a picture with you earlier!” so he said, “Aw ok let’s take one now!” We posed and after my friend took the picture, Fredo walked over and grabbed my camera and I said, “Is it cute? We have to get a good one!” He looked at it for at least 5 seconds and then said, “It’s so good.” And I said, “You’re just looking at yourself! The whole picture has to be cute!” and he said, “YOU’RE in the picture; it’s beautiful.” As you can probably guess, I practically died. After Alfredo I saw Kenny , so we talked for a second and I held my camera out and just assumed he would reach out and take the picture, but after a few seconds of smiling at my camera I said, “…Can you take the picture?” Haha, so he reached out and pressed the button. A couple seconds later I looked at my pictures with Kenny and noticed they were super bright so I went over to him again and said, “Kenny we have to take another picture! Your pearly whites blew out the other one!” As we were taking another couple pictures, Scrappy snuck behind and photo bombed them, haha! Love Scrappy. After about 15-20 minutes of talking with the crew and Justin taking pictures with every single fan there, they all said bye and started walking back inside. Justin said something like, “Thanks so much for coming! I love you! Bye!” and then turned the corner. A few seconds later we all looked around the corner and saw his security guard standing in front of Justin taking his shirt off and putting on a tank top that my friends gave him that said “I Link: Ever since I became a belieber and got a Twitter account in…
This feels so surreal right now, like me writing my own Bieber Experience . My name is Trina and I’ve been a Belieber all my life. I’ve seen Justin at show tapings so many times that I can’t even keep count, but meeting him face to face was so hard to do. I found out about a year ago where Justin’s rehearsal studios were, but I wasn’t sure if it was true or not. I waited a couple of months, which became a year of waiting . All of a sudden, I found a picture of him coming out of the studio on JustJaredJr’s page. I was the happiest girl because I finally found out where Justin was rehearsing at. It was August 15, 2012, where my friends and I decided to go and check out the place. We go and see that there are a group of girls in line. We asked them, “Are you guys here for Bieber?” and they said, “YES!” No one knows what was going through my mind on that day. We stood in line for 5 hours. While waiting in line, I decided to write a letter to Justin from all the Beliebers with our Twitter names on it. Then all of sudden I see the Moshe park Justin’s swag van on the other side on the studio and Justin just jaywalked across the street to meet us. I was crying under my paper and I heard my best friend say, “Oh my god, Trina don’t cry. Get your act together because Justin will skip your turn.” I got my act together and within a blink of an eye, I see Justin’s right next to me. I was literally on Cloud 9, I didn’t even know what was going on. He came up to me, gave me a tight side hug . He saw me, and said “Hi” and all the words that came out of my mouth were “You are absolutely amazing.” As he was about to leave to go take pictures with other girls, I said “Justin, wait, please pinky promise me you will read this letter.” He looked me in the eyes and said “Sure, of course I will.” He brought his pinky out to mine and gave my pinky the best pinky hug ever . I don’t know what he said back because he was such in a rush. After my turn was over, my friends and I just ran up to each other and gave each other the biggest group hug ever! Even til this day, I still can’t believe I met my idol. On August 21st, my friends and I decided to go back to the studio because our summer was almost going to be over, and we wanted to spend the end of the summer with Justin. We get there around like 3:00 and there were like a few girls. We waited for like an hour all sitting down, waiting and waiting since Justin usually comes out at late noon time. I decided to look up and then all of a sudden I see Justin with Moshe and Alfredo. The guy who worked there said, “Everyone get up, get in a straight line and this will be a fast one.” My heart was throbbing. I didn’t know what to do. He came walking up to everyone and said, “Hi everyone, how are you doing?” Justin decides to start from the back of the line, where me and my friends were standing. I just say “Hi Justin!” and he says “Did you guys all come together as a group or?” and I say “Um no” he goes “We will all just take a group picture.” My friends and I just gather up around him, and he says “Who has a phone that Moshe could use to take a picture?” Let alone did I know my camera app was open and ready to go, and I just yelled out “OMG I DO I DO!” I give my phone to Justin, and he hands it to Moshe. While we are waiting for Moshe to take the picture he goes, “Everyone smile at the camera!” and we all just smile. He decides to leave and I just grab him and I hug him so tight and he goes, “Woah there.” I’m like, “Sorry. I just had too,” and he smiles back. I was so excited. I didn’t know what to do. I saw Alfredo on the other side, and I say “ALFREDO! ALFREDO, CAN WE TAKE A PICTURE?!” he says “Yes” and he gave a thumbs up. He comes up to my group and he goes, “Oh my god, it so hot out here, I’m sweating!” and we all take the picture, and he goes “It was so nice seeing/meeting you all.” At the end of this day, Moshe decided to give us all Gatorades since we were so calm and patient! This day was the second best experience ever; I never thought that he would actually come out since he seemed so tired! I honestly cannot thank Justin and his crew for everything they’ve done for us. Even a thank you doesn’t cut it. After waiting 4 and half years of just sitting behind my phone, crying my eyes out because I always saw other girls with him. Now, my day had finally come! No one can understand how much I love Justin, nor can any words explain it. To the people who told me, I would never ever meet Justin, well look at me now! EVERYONE JUST BELIEVE AND NEVER SAY NEVER, your time will come. I promise you! -@TrinaNazarian Read more: This feels so surreal right now, like me writing my own Bieber…
My name is Hannah and I’m from Manchester in England, UK. I’ve been a huge fan since July 2009 but I never EVER thought that I’d be writing a Bieber experience, but on 06/06/2012 at 2:33pm, my dream really came true. It’s the school holidays so we all have a week off, it was just a normal day and I was sat at home on my own, studying, strangely enough I was wearing a Bieber shirt. About 6 months ago, I entered my details online to Radio One (UK) for a show called ‘Star Caller’ where celebrities call their biggest fans (if you’re lucky) I never thought that I had much of a chance, there was like a 1 in 27 million chance of Justin calling me. SO ANYWAY, my phone started ringing, I pick it up and I was like “Hello?” then I hear “Hannah? ” so I was like “Who is it?” (my phone is really quiet, and he sounds SO different on the phone!) “It’s Justin” so I said “It’s Justin?!” Then when he said “It’s Justin Bieber” MY WHOLE BODY STARTED SHAKING.. was this really him? I freaked out & asked him if he was joking, he said “It’s Justin, can’t you tell by my voice?” Then it really hit me that JUSTIN BIEBER WAS TALKING TO ME ON THE PHONE. I jumped out of my seat and tried to keep calm, I tensed up my whole body because I knew I’d only have a couple of minutes and I couldn’t blow this one opportunity to talk to him. He asked me a couple things and he knew where I was from, and my age, we talked about school, his new songs, Dan Kanter, my mum(lol) ..he asked me what my favourite song was out of ‘All Around The World’ or ‘Die In Your Arms’, I said Die In Your Arms. I told him that I love ‘Turn To You.’ At one point I told him, “I’m so excited to be talking to you,” he was like, “Aww your excited to talk to me?” ..HE SAID AWW TO ME. I’ve always loved how he says aww to other fans. Then he just said it to me, how was I still breathing? And yes Justin, of course I am excited to talk to you! :’) THEN THE BEST PART OF IT WAS WHEN HE SAID TO ME: “I love you!” I replied with “I love you so much!” He said “I love you, thank you for being my Biggest Fan!” The fact that he called me his biggest fan made me feel so special, my 3 years of endless support have been noticed, I told him random things like that I was going to camp out for Believe tickets with my mum haha.. then he had to go. When he put the phone down, I literally collapsed to the ground screaming..it didn’t seem real, all I could hear going through my mind was Justin telling me he loved me. UNREAL. I called my mum to tell her all about it but I couldn’t even speak, I was CRYING hysterically down the phone, I couldn’t stand up straight. She thought something real bad had happened to me then I managed to squeel out what had just happened, she freaked out too. Then the radio station called me back about 30 minutes later, to talk to me about how I was feeling . By now, I was totally freaking out, everything was slowly sinking in. When Justin called me, my whole mind went blank. I’d planned what I’d say to him if I ever met him but I completely forgot everything. It was an amazing experience. I honestly spent the whole day shaking and crying, I felt like I hadn’t slept for days from so much jumping around and crying. I had to run up and down the stairs a couple of times to calm myself down. Imagine answering the phone and it’s your idol. Wow. IT WAS THE BEST DAY OF MY WHOLE ENTIRE LIFE, seriously, NEVER SAY NEVER! Never give up on your dreams. Thank you so so so much to Justin for taking the time to phone me, it’s made my life complete! I wont ever forget this day. -Hannah Go here to read the rest: My name is Hannah and I’m from Manchester in England, UK….
My name is Hannah and I’m from Manchester in England, UK. I’ve been a huge fan since July 2009 but I never EVER thought that I’d be writing a Bieber experience, but on 06/06/2012 at 2:33pm, my dream really came true. It’s the school holidays so we all have a week off, it was just a normal day and I was sat at home on my own, studying, strangely enough I was wearing a Bieber shirt. About 6 months ago, I entered my details online to Radio One (UK) for a show called ‘Star Caller’ where celebrities call their biggest fans (if you’re lucky) I never thought that I had much of a chance, there was like a 1 in 27 million chance of Justin calling me. SO ANYWAY, my phone started ringing, I pick it up and I was like “Hello?” then I hear “Hannah? ” so I was like “Who is it?” (my phone is really quiet, and he sounds SO different on the phone!) “It’s Justin” so I said “It’s Justin?!” Then when he said “It’s Justin Bieber” MY WHOLE BODY STARTED SHAKING.. was this really him? I freaked out & asked him if he was joking, he said “It’s Justin, can’t you tell by my voice?” Then it really hit me that JUSTIN BIEBER WAS TALKING TO ME ON THE PHONE. I jumped out of my seat and tried to keep calm, I tensed up my whole body because I knew I’d only have a couple of minutes and I couldn’t blow this one opportunity to talk to him. He asked me a couple things and he knew where I was from, and my age, we talked about school, his new songs, Dan Kanter, my mum(lol) ..he asked me what my favourite song was out of ‘All Around The World’ or ‘Die In Your Arms’, I said Die In Your Arms. I told him that I love ‘Turn To You.’ At one point I told him, “I’m so excited to be talking to you,” he was like, “Aww your excited to talk to me?” ..HE SAID AWW TO ME. I’ve always loved how he says aww to other fans. Then he just said it to me, how was I still breathing? And yes Justin, of course I am excited to talk to you! :’) THEN THE BEST PART OF IT WAS WHEN HE SAID TO ME: “I love you!” I replied with “I love you so much!” He said “I love you, thank you for being my Biggest Fan!” The fact that he called me his biggest fan made me feel so special, my 3 years of endless support have been noticed, I told him random things like that I was going to camp out for Believe tickets with my mum haha.. then he had to go. When he put the phone down, I literally collapsed to the ground screaming..it didn’t seem real, all I could hear going through my mind was Justin telling me he loved me. UNREAL. I called my mum to tell her all about it but I couldn’t even speak, I was CRYING hysterically down the phone, I couldn’t stand up straight. She thought something real bad had happened to me then I managed to squeel out what had just happened, she freaked out too. Then the radio station called me back about 30 minutes later, to talk to me about how I was feeling . By now, I was totally freaking out, everything was slowly sinking in. When Justin called me, my whole mind went blank. I’d planned what I’d say to him if I ever met him but I completely forgot everything. It was an amazing experience. I honestly spent the whole day shaking and crying, I felt like I hadn’t slept for days from so much jumping around and crying. I had to run up and down the stairs a couple of times to calm myself down. Imagine answering the phone and it’s your idol. Wow. IT WAS THE BEST DAY OF MY WHOLE ENTIRE LIFE, seriously, NEVER SAY NEVER! Never give up on your dreams. Thank you so so so much to Justin for taking the time to phone me, it’s made my life complete! I wont ever forget this day. -Hannah Go here to read the rest: My name is Hannah and I’m from Manchester in England, UK….
