October 7, 2010
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Melissa's dark side | I'd like to put my shrimp on her barbie | Perth Now
DARK STAR: WA born Hollywood star Melissa George is sporting a new dark-haired look. Picture: Jeff Rayner Source: The Sunday Times
MELISSA George has unveiled a striking new look, with the Perth-raised Hollywood star going from chic blonde bob to brunette.
She made the drastic change this week for her starring role in new television drama series In Treatment, which is due to begin shooting in Los Angeles tomorrow.
"When we filmed the pilot, I was in the middle of a movie and they really wanted my hair chocolate brown so I wore a wig,'' she told The Sunday Times.
"So now that they have picked it up, I decided to just do it (change the colour) permanently.
"It's like a mountain of hair with all the (hair) extensions.''
George, who walked the red carpet as the face of Australian make-up range Napoleon at its Hollywood flagship store opening on Wednesday night, said she preferred being brunette to her natural blonde.
"People look at you like you are kind of mysterious,`` she said.
"I look like my mother because she's got long, dark hair -- and I just love it.''
George, who has three new films coming out this year, will be back in Perth in August for a break with parents Pamela and Glenn, brother Brett and sisters Marnie and Kate.
"I'm counting down the days,'' she said.
"I am taking them all up to Broome.''
The Perth-raised starlet graduated from Australian soapie Home & Away to roles in US television show Alias and on the big screen.
She had to bare her body in a bikini in the film Turistas, but said she steered away from the Hollywood regime of strict training.
First-night sex, then marriage, for Kate | Perth Now
FIRST-NIGHT FLING: Katie Price bedded now-hubby Alex Reid the night they met. Pic/Getty Source: Getty Images
Source: AFP
Katie Price slept with her husband Alex Reid the first night they met.
The former glamour model - who wed the cage-fighter in February - was so attracted to the hunky sportsman, she instantly succumbed to his charm and had sex with him on their first meeting.
She revealed in her forthcoming autobiography 'You Only Live Once': "I got it off him the first night. I'd been looking at pictures of him and texting him before that, though. Then I met Alex, slept with him and have stayed with him since. How could I resist the power of Alex?"
The couple, who met shortly after Katie split from her ex-husband Peter Andre - father of her second child, Princess, 3 - quickly became engaged and and are now planning to start a family together.
She said: "I love a whirlwind - I'm an all or nothing girl. When something feels right, I believe in getting married and having kids, why wait around? I get on so well with Alex's family and he gets on with mine. We're all very similar.
"All Alex wants is to be good at what he does, have a family and settle down. I've always said I want a big family. I can be myself 100 per cent with Alex."
Katie - who also has son Harvey, eight, from a previous relationship - is so determined to make their relationship work, she is treating it differently to her previous romances in a bid to keep their union equal.
She said: "I said to Alex, forget my house, we should buy a house together. I'm going to downsize so we can both afford it. Whatever we earn together will go in one pot and everything will be paid out of that. I've never done that with a guy. Alex is perfect in every way. "
