Warner Bros has stopped a London single mother from hosting a Harry Potter-themed Hallowe’en dinner at her house.

The Hollywood studio sent the woman, who runs a supper club from her home, a terse letter warning her on copyright infringment of the Potter series, written by JK Rowling.

The woman advertised Harry Potter Night dinners on her blog, selling tickets for £25 each. Her Potter-inspired menu included butterbeer, dandelion wine, pumpkin soup, mint humbugs and cauldron cakes.

The studio informed the woman that it was delighted she was a fan of Harry Potter but that “no one may copy, license, exhibit, reproduce or otherwise trade on the Harry Potter Properties without the prior authorisation and consent of Warner”.

The woman changed the name of her already sold-out dinners on Friday and Saturday nights to Generic Wizard Night.

Singers Miley Cyrus and Kelly Clarkson reveal that family, friends and sleep make them content.

The Since You’ve Been singer has said her life would be rubbish without her family and friends.

As Kelly, 27, had a recent single named My Life Would Suck Without You, US OK! magazine asked her what her life would suck without.

She said: “Probably my family and my friends, I guess.”

“That’s the cheesy answer, but it’s totally true for me. I live in Texas with my family, and they keep me grounded and they’re fun. My little nieces and nephews are killer. I don’t know – I love ‘em.

On the other hand, Miley, 16, thinks her life would suck without sleep.

The Hannah Montana star said: “The best way I think is to just take yourself out and dream for a little while, so I love just laying in my bed and watching movies and eating popcorn and reading all the Harry Potters and whatever, so that’s fun.”

The Climb singer also likes music, meeting her idols and maximising her potential.

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Eva Herzigová swaps mummy tips with Claudia Schiffer, she has revealed.

The supermodels were reunited for an ad campaign and Eva said it was great working together again now they are mums.

She said: “It is nice, we’ve been friends for such a long time and then our lives went in different directions and now again seeing each other and chatting about the kids with Claudia and exchanging contacts for the best doctor and for the best place to go food shopping and this and that so it’s really nice.”

Eva, 36, has a two-year-old son, George, and Claudia, 39, has two children, Caspar, six, and Clementine, four.

She admitted she’d like to have more children, adding: “I’d love to, I think I’d love to and I think I need it because I’m so in love with him it’s not healthy for me.”

Eva was reunited with Claudia and Naomi Campbell for the D&G ad campaign and admitted she wasn’t expecting to strip off. She said: “It was not supposed to be part of the campaign.

“The first thing Mario Testino the photographer tells us is, like, ‘okay, everyone take your clothes off’, like that’s not in the contract but it happens, Mario is amazing and you will take it off for him.”

The model also spoke out about the 90s Wonderbra campaign that catapulted her career.

She said: “I think it was the best campaign that was ever put out there, it was so smart, the whole snapshot feeling of the pictures, you know, it didn’t feel like lingerie it looked like it’s a picture taken out of a movie, then the smart sentences attached to it that were just giving a strength to women, it was not like women being victimised.”

Actress and singer Miley Cyrus has taken some time out to make her own customised milkshake.

The Hannah Montana star made her own milkshake creation with her sister Brandi at Millions of Milkshakes in West Hollywood.

The singer already has a shake named after her at the store, The Miley Shake.

The 16-year-old joins a group of celebrities that have had Millions of Milkshakes drinks named after them.

Included in the list are Lindsay Lohan, Victoria and David Beckham and Paris Hilton.

The Miley Shake contains vanilla ice cream with cookie dough, Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups, and whipped cream.

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Lovebirds Reese Witherspoon and Jake Gyllenhaal enjoyed a romantic summer’s night under the stars with fellow celebs at a popular LA show.

The couple attended a concert Ray LaMontagne/Jenny Lewis/Blitzen Trapper show at the Hollywood Bowl.

Others among the audience included Justin Timberlake, Jessica Biel and Evangeline Lilly.

The couple not long ago were seen holidaying together in Europe.

Witherspoon, 33, will star in Pharm Girl, a movie about a libido pill salesman taken from the real-life story of Viagra.

Witherspoon has two children from her marriage to ex-husband Ryan Phillippe. Phillippe, an actor, has been linked to actress Abbie Cornish.

Bosses at the Center for Great Apes in Wauchula, Florida, allowed TV cameras to film Bubbles to prove he was still alive – and to dispel many of the wild rumours about his fate.

And staff say since Jackson’s death, they feel an even stronger desire to spoil arguably the world’s most famous chimpanzee.

“Probably the best tribute we can pay Michael Jackson here is just to take excellent care of Bubbles because I know he loved Bubbles,” said the center’s director, Patti Ragan.

Bubbles, born in 1983, famously travelled everywhere – and did everything – with his superstar owner. But Jacko eventually had to give him up when he became too big and too strong to safely remain a domestic ‘pet’.

Bubbles has been at the Center for Great Apes for the last four years – but sadly never got a visit from his former owner.

“Most of our chimps recognise their former owners and get excited to see them,” said Ragan, who added that most of the chimps there were also connected to the entertainment industry.

“I’m pretty sure Bubbles would have got excited” had Jacko ever visited, she added.
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Green and Grenier were linked after being spotted getting cosy at a special surfing event in California and then reportedly going on additional dates.

Asked about looking “cute and cuddly” with Grenier, Greene laughed and would only say: “God, that’s what I keep hearing!”

She insisted that their main connection was in fact bonding over concerns for the environment.

“I have only met him once,” Greene insisted.

“He’s very smart. We actually started talking about environmental stuff. He’s a very go-green guy.

“I think he’s a really sweet guy.”

Ashley Greene just finished filming the latest installment of the Twilight saga New Moon and is on a break before the cast reunites to start production on the next movie, Eclipse.

“I feel like I’m never in LA, so … I’m just kind of hanging out, getting my life together,” Greene says, adding that she is enjoying filming the sequels even more.

“I’m a little more comfortable in my skin this go-around,” she says. “The second go-around is nice because I get to enjoy it more and breathe it in.”

Ugly Betty star Becki Newton said she found it hard to speak to David Beckham when he came on set because she was so starstruck.

Becki, 30, plays bitchy receptionist Amanda in the hit TV series and she admitted she was awestruck when David, 34, came on set while wife Victoria, 35, filmed a cameo for the show.

She said: “When Victoria Beckham came on the show it was like royalty visiting. David was so sweet and so good-looking, it was hard for me to even speak in his presence.

“Victoria was classy and well spoken. All the Beckham kids were running around and kicking [co-star] Michael Urie in the backside.”

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