L’Oreal just announced that Freida Pinto, Evangeline Lilly, and Elizabeth Banks will now be representing their brand. The president of L’Oreal says, “L’Oreal is delighted that these great stars of world cinema have agreed to represent our brand.”

The girls are excited too. Freida Pinto says “I am very moved to be joining the great L’Oreal Paris family and all these personalities: a family I am now proud to be a part of.”

Lost’s Evangeline Lilly says, “It is a source of great pride for me to represent a brand whose ambition is to respond to every person’s aspirations to beauty, and contribute to the fulfilment and well-being of everyone.”

Elizabeth Banks agrees and says, “I am so honoured to be one of the newest L’Oreal Paris Spokespeople and to join such a distinguished group of women who proudly say the iconic phrase ‘Because you’re worth it.”

According to several credible sources, Nicole Kidman has dropped out of Woody Allen’s next, untitled film. It was announced in March that she was set to star in the film, but she has now withdrawn for as-yet unspecified reasons.

The rest of the cast includes Antonio Banderas, Anthony Hopkins, Josh Brolin, Naomi Watts and Freida Pinto, and given that everyone seems to want to work with Woody Allen, he isn’t expected to be lacking a leading lady for very long. Only problem is that, with Naomi Watts already on the cast list, the most obvious candidate to replace Kidman’s already accounted for.

We’ll keep you updated on this matter. Stay tuned!

I have added the scan of Freida Pinto’s feature in FHM (UK)’s May issue, where she was named the tenth sexiest woman of 2009! Huge thanks to the great Mahdi of JessicaAlba.net for the scan. Check it out in the gallery (by clicking on the preview to the left), and read what they said about Freida below. Enjoy!

Freida Pinto – Bombay Sapphire

This year’s highest new entry, the Mumbai model made her film debut in Danny Boyle’s Slumdog Millionaire last year and rocketed straight into number two on everyone’s list of favourite Indians (Sachin Tendulkar remains strong in first position, but she nudged Gandhi down to third, who can only expect to drop further if he continues his stubborn refusal to contemporise his image like Madonna does). Now BAFTA-nominated, the 24-year-old had previously been presenting a television travel show and appearing in Skoda adverts.

Last week, PETA (People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals) made news as they approached Anoop Desai, the American Idol contestant for their new campaign ABC – Animal Birth Control. But this week they have also written to Freida Pinto asking her to join the campaign.

Anuradha Sawhney, chief functionary – PETA, says, “We have written to Freida Pinto as we want her to support the cause. We are hoping to hear from her soon. We have also written to Anoop Desai, reason being he is called ‘Noop Dog’ and is of Indian origin.”

So will the two of them – Anoop and Freida be endorsing PETA together? Anuradha leaves it open-ended, saying, “We still have to decide as to what we want Freida and Anoop to do. Till now, we have just started speaking to them to shoot for the cause. If they are willing to do something more, we would be glad.”

Source: DNA India

Contrary to what we posted a couple of weeks ago, the nominations for this year’s MTV Movie Awards hasn’t been released until now. The previous was just contenders for the nomination-spots. However, Freida Pinto and Slumdog Millionaire are still up for some major awards! Be sure to head on over to the offical site and vote, vote, vote!

• Best Movie: Slumdog Millionaire
• Breakthrough Performance Female: Freida Pinto
• Breakthrough Performance Male: Dev Patel
• Best Kiss: Freida Pinto and Dev Patel
• Best Song from a Movie: Jai Ho

Nine new outtakes from the photoshoot Freida Pinto did for Venice magazine in 2008 have been added to the gallery. Freida truly looks fantastic in this photoshoot, so be sure to check it out right away!

I have added eight new outtakes from the photoshoot Freida did for Giant magazine’s March issue. Miss Pinto looks gorgeous in these black & white shots. Unfortunately, they’re tagged. I will try to replace them with untagged versions as soon as I can. But for now, check them out in the gallery. Enjoy!

Great news! Freida Pinto has made the annual list of the World’s Most Beautiful People! While it doesn’t come as a surprise that she’s selected as one of the most beautiful celebrities, it’s still a great honor to be on it. Other celebs on the list include Christina Applegate, Halle Berry, Angelina Jolie, Channing Tatum and more. Read what they said about Freida Pinto below.

An overnight sensation thanks to her turn in the Oscar-winning Slumdog Millionaire, the former model, 24, says she’s taking it all in stride. “The beauty of life is that it takes turns that are sometimes bigger than your wildest dreams,” she told Blackbook.

See a sneak peek on the list at People.com

To prove her acting skills, Freida Pinto wants it to be perfect. So while interpreting the character for her next movie Miral, she decided to take Arabic classes to get her dialogues right, reports ApunKaChoice.com. Continue reading for more information. I’m so frickin’ excited to see this movie!

The Slumdog Millionaire actress took two-week-long tuitions to learn Arabic language. It’s heard that Freida’s role requires her to speak Arabic in some parts of the movie, as she plays a woman who speaks English with Arabic accent.

When Freida heard about her character, she insisted Julian Schnabel, the Oscar-nominated director, to get a private tutor so that she can learn the language and perfect her dialogue delivery. The actress is now in Jerusalem, shooting for the movie.

Miral is based on a book written by Rula Jebreal about the account of Hind Husseini’s effort to establish an orphanage in Jerusalem after the 1948 partition of Palestine when Israel was re-created.

According to reports, the role of Freida in the movie is very challenging and the lady wanted to add perfection to her character and hence prepared herself prior to the shoot by learning Arabic.

Frequent visitors of this site know that I’m not usually reporting gossip or rumors surrounding Freida. But since this piece of news has been confirmed by Dev Patel’s mother, I guess it’s okay to post. And I must say, I’m really happy for Freida. And Dev, that lucky bastard!

Slumdog Millionaire star Dev Patel’s mum last night spoke of her son’s off-screen love with his co-star, saying: “Life can’t get better for him”.

The actor and Freida Pinto have always denied their movie romance spilled over into real life. But pictures from last week showed the pair enjoying an intimate lunch date in Israel, where Freida, 24, is filming on location.

And Dev’s mum Anita, 45, can barely contain her excitement. The care worker told the Daily Mirror: “First it was the film and now everything else seems to have slotted into place. Life can’t get any better for him. Freida is really beautiful and I am really happy for them. Yes, we knew he was flying to Israel to see her.”

The couple are said to have started a relationship on the set of Danny Boyle’s multi-Oscar-winning film, and they have become increasingly close since travelling the world together to promote the movie.

Dev, 18, is so besotted with the Indian actress that he flew to Jerusalem for a quick date. They gazed adoringly at each other over lunch as Freida took a break from filming director Julian Schnabel’s latest project Miral.

The pictures follow comments made by their Slumdog co-star Anil Kapoor, who said earlier this year that the young couple had a “magical chemistry”.