Down and dirty

"As soon as you start to try and sell people stuff, then surely you contravene some contract with the film-going public? Even if they know the type of clothes you like to wear — then it becomes funny for them watching you wearing a tux."

"I know those are tiny little things, but I do think that makes a difference." So says James McAvoy, Angelina Jolie's new co-star in the upcoming sex-and-violence fiesta 'Wanted'.

Just how many newly-famous leading men get their big break and then... turn down the chance to make scad-loads of money from product endorsements because it's kind of a crappy thing to do?

Seriously — as if it's not enough that McAvoy is brain-meltingly hot, he has to go and be a truly decent human being as well. Plus, he comes across as nothing but charming and gorgeous in interviews. And, to add insult to injury, the man's also happily married.

Wonder if his wife had any sleepless nights at the thought of her man having to kiss Angelina? Perhaps she was put a little at ease by James' confession that he preferred getting beaten up by Angie to kissing her.

"I'm always nervous about doing the kissing scenes — they're never comfortable, they're always kind of weird, they're not enjoyable. Do you know what I mean?" admits McAvoy.

"But the fight scenes — getting beaten up by her all the time is fine; that was fun. That's one of the reasons I did the job, is to do all those scenes."

Nothing so rough and distasteful for ons se Charlize, though. So afraid of grubby sheets is the former Benoni girl turned A-lister that she actually takes a pashmina along wherever she goes to sleep on!

"I am spoiled," says Charlize Theron. "I get to stay in nice hotels. So when I have time to myself I like to get down and dirty. But I won't sleep on dirty sheets. I take a pashmina with me, to sleep on."

"I'd rather sleep in dirt than sleep in dirty sheets, because little things live there." Things that, uh, are entirely incapable of working their way through a pashmina? I'm just saying...

I guess we'll have to stop referring to her as ons se Charlize — now that she's ditching her SA citizenship in favour of becoming an egte American.

SA, she says, "wasn't like other countries, where you're loved all over the world. When you have a South African passport, you have to get a visa for every country and it's a bit of a nightmare... it's nice to feel like I'm actually really home here [in the US]."

Uh, Charlize, you do realise that American citizenship isn't, um, exactly a passport to boundless love from all the peoples of the world, don't you? There is the odd person out there who is perhaps a little ticked off at, you know, the US having invaded their country / bombed them / funded their anti-democratic dictator / forced economy-destroying trade agreements on them.

But, still, you can definitely be assured of a warm welcome in, er... hey, just focus on those easy, visa-free travel arrangements!

Speaking of easy — just how easy is it to be in a relationship with a guy for years and then discover that, say, he'd actually been pretending to be a representative for the Vatican in order to defraud investors of many tens of millions of dollars? Pretty easy, apparently.

I mean, you know how it is — you're busy, you don't have time to uncover the fact that his unspecified business dealings are allegedly totally illegal. Turns out his fantastically expensive Manhattan apartment — not to mention all those lavish dinners and private jetting you guys enjoyed — were kind of funded by massive international fraud. Or so the police say...

Yup, 'The Devil Wears Prada' star Anne Hathaway's very-recently-ex boyfriend, Raffaello Follieri, may be a big ol' conman.