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Heather Mills Insists Dancing With The Stars Money Went To Viva!

Written by Vegetarian Star on Thursday, June 11th, 2009 in Chefs, Models.

**EXCLUSIVE**Heather Mills hosts a healthy cooking day for families at the Bronx in New York

Heather Mills has just called out Huffington Post writer Roger Friedman who claims the former model and ex wife of Paul McCartney failed to donate her earnings from Dancing with the Stars to charitable organization Viva!, Vegetarians International Voice for Animals.

Heather wrote on her Twitter page:

“Dear Huffington post Roger freedman please take your lies off Wiki. All my fees from Dancing with the stars went to Viva after taxes not me.”

The Wikipedia quote read:

“Heather was eliminated from the show in the sixth week of the competition on 24 April 2007, donating £50,000 of her £110,000 fee for appearing on the show to Viva!, although she had previously said that she would donate her entire fee to animal rights groups.”

Other allegations of charities not receiving promised money from Heather have surfaced in the past, including one from Adopt-A-Minefield.

via monstersandcritics.com

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Show At UK Music Hall Of Fame 2005

When we heard Chrissie Hynde and The Pretenders were doing a show at the Minnesota Zoo, we did a double take.

The zoo is the last place a staunch animal rights supporter like Chrissie would hang out at, right?

Turns out, she did write a letter after learning animals in the family petting zoo area are eventually sent off to the slaughterhouse.

“How can a zoo invite children to touch and play with and express joy over animals for their uniqueness, only to turn around and sell those very animals to slaughter?” she wrote.

The Pretenders show at the zoo has been rescheduled, but another venue has yet to be chosen.

Sue McLean, the concert’s promoter, cited several factors for the change in venue, including size of the crowd and the zoo’s curfew at 10:30 PM.

The latest tour is to promote The Pretenders’ album, Break Up The Concrete.

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American Idol Season 8 Finale - Press Room

Jason Mraz likes it raw. And ever since he opened up about his chocolate avocado dessert, he’s never stopped talking to the media about his raw vegan diet.

So it comes as no surprise that Jason’s named his latest tour after a chain of raw foods restaurants in San Fransisco, California, Cafe Gratitude.

Cafe Gratitude, the tour, kicks off in July in Hershey, Pennsylvania.

Cafe Gratitude, the menu, offers elixirs, juices, and smoothies, appetizers like raw nachos, and raw soups, salads, pizzas, and veggie burgers.

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Contestants from the new NBC show Im a celebrity get me out of here give an interview about the upcoming show

“I wanted to smack John for talking trash to the other cast members during the challenge. Just because he is a vegetarian doesn’t mean he can call people names that aren’t. Everyone was aware of what they were eating. They did not need him reminding them every ten seconds, and saying how disgusting it is.”

—-Gina, writer for Realitywanted.com, on John Salley’s attitude about the food on a I’m a Celebrity, Get Me Out of Here challenge. Salley has had his share of comments bleeped out from television. But when you’re looking at your options of cow tongue or bull testicles, it’s hard to keep your opinion to yourself.

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Russell Simmons Trades Vegan Lobster For Pasta At Teatro Goldini

Written by Vegetarian Star on Wednesday, June 10th, 2009 in Business, Food & Drink, Restaurants.

Children Uniting Nations 4th Annual National Conference

If school officials need to do anything about the curriculum, they should include more nutrition classes!

Specifically, students should spend an entire semester learning what constitutes vegetarian, vegan, and whatever else in between. Because not knowing is just as bad as not picking out the largest continent on the map!

Russell Simmons recently attended a dinner while taking care of business for his Children Uniting Nations (CUN), a nonprofit for at-risk and foster youth in partnership with his Hip Hop Summit Action Network.

When a publicist found out Simmons was vegan, she stated, “Well, he can eat the lobster.”

Uh, heck no, those lobsters don’t grow in the ground!

It’s understandable not to expect non vegs to know how to make nacho cheese with nutritional yeast, but if it moves in a tank and pinches you when you tick it off, how can you not know that’s not vegan?

Simmons eventually got a vegetable pasta entree prepared for him at Teatro Goldini, but he still had to bend his veganism a little to keep from starving.

“I don’t normally eat pasta because it comes from eggs, but sometimes you have to.”

Yeah, especially when the only other vegan option is lobster.

via washingtontimes.com

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Ellen DeGeneres Is One Of Top 5 Vegan Celebrities

Written by Vegetarian Star on Tuesday, June 9th, 2009 in TV Hosts.

35th Annual Peoples Choice Awards - Press Room

The folks at green gossip site, Ecorazzi.com, came up with their list of top 5 vegan celebrities for the year 2009.

Ellen DeGeneres took the #1 spot!

“If I could, I’d write a book called Why Ellen DeGeneres Is Cooler Than PB&J. You see, Ellen has perhaps the most attractive trait any celebrity could posses: the ability to speak-up for the causes she believes in without turning people off. …To thank her for all your compassion and coolness, we offer Ellen the biggest slice of vegan cake we can find and the title of our NUMBER ONE Vegan Celebrity of 2009.”

It’s easy to see why Ellen can’t be beat. She and wife Portia de Rossi received the Humane Society’s Wyler Award for their animal activism. She was a staunch supporter of Proposition 2. She even gives away free vegan goodies on her show.

Hats off to Ellen. Check out the other vegan celebrities to see if your fave made the cut.

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Superbad’s Martha MacIsaac Loves Vegan Coconut Ice Cream

Written by Vegetarian Star on Tuesday, June 9th, 2009 in Actresses, Food & Drink.

The Last House on the Left premiere held in Los Angles

If vegan ice cream is the baddest, then coconut vegan ice cream is superbad!

Martha MacIsaac, who played the love interest of Michael Cera in Superbad, has confessed to some serious love for vegan coconut ice cream.

“The most delicious ice cream of all time,” she said.

Could Martha’s spoon be permanently stuck in a carton of Purely Decadent Vegan Ice Cream made with coconut milk?

There are numerous flavors to choose from, including Chocolate, Chocolate Peanut Butter Swirl, Coconut, Cookie Dough, Mint Chip, Mocha Almond Fudge, Passionate Mango, and Vanilla Bean.

Martha would love to have a night alone with British celebrity chef Jamie Oliver.

“I would want to invite a really great cook. So, maybe I would have Jamie Oliver to cook a nice vegetarian meal and teach me as he cooked.”

Read Martha’s entire interview at brilliantmagazine.com.

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So we’re tracking John Salley‘s dietary habits on I’m a Celebrity, Get Me Out of Here, to see how well he sticks to his vegan regime in the jungle.

An early episode had John and Heidi Pratt duking it out in an eating contest that involved a rat’s tail. No points for staying vegan that week, John.

However, on last night’s episode, John was set to compete in yet another contest, jungle worm eating, but quit.

Did the bad press get to him? Or did he just decide it wasn’t worth giving up his principles to be able to smoke Sanjaya?

John lost the lovely privilege of getting to eat leaf cutter ants, bull’s testicle, and cow tongue in the next rounds.

In case you care, Heidi and Spencer quit the show again

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