Emma Watson is sure to have cast a spell on her male audience members after she stepped out in a purple leather dress with a slit in the middle on The Jonathan Ross Show.
The Harry Potter actress, 22, stars in risque new movie The Perks Of Being A Wallflower, and she admits on Saturday night's ITV1 episode that she finds it hard living up to Hermione's squeaky clean image.
However, she's sure to rid herself of any innocent tag after showing off her racy leather outfit.

 

 

 

All grown up: Emma Watson sheds her innocent image after appearing on Saturday's The Jonathan Ross show wearing a purple leather slit dress

After Jonathan asked her to describe her outfit, she said: 'It's a purple leather dress, with slits.

 

Watson added about her famous Potter character: 'She's  so innocent, she’s so good, that anything in contrast to her looks like crazy. I wear a pair of ripped jeans and they are like, "Emma Watson wearing ripped jeans, what would Hermione say?" it’s like so scandalous.'

 

New look: Watson admitted on the show she found it hard to rid herself of her innocent Harry Potter reputation

 

Tough girl: The actress sheds her good girl image with new risqué film The Perks Of Being A Wallflower

The actress also admitted she found playing another character daunting.
She explained: 'I didn’t know if I believed in myself yet as an actress, outside the role of Hermione, which I knew I could do, and I did for a long time.  I didn’t know if I had other people in me or not.
;I did doubt myself a little bit.  I think I’d just played one person, who in many ways was similar to my own personality, and I played her for ten years and I got so comfortable doing that, that the idea of coming out and playing somebody else was terrifying.'

 

Sidesplitting: Watson struggles to hold it together during her chat with the funnyman Ross

 

Glass half full: Watson admits she was scared of acting in films outwith the Harry Potter universe

 

Young crush: Watson admits she had a crush on Harry Potter star Tom Felton

While the screen beauty has a legion of male fans, Watson revealed she had a crush on her Harry Potter co-star Tom Felton while filming the earlier movies, and was left heartbroken when he didn't share the same feelings.
She said: 'Between the ages of ten and twelve I had a really terrible crush on Tom Felton, to the extent that I would go into work in the morning and look down the numbers on the call sheet to see if he was going to be in.

 

Star studded: Emma was joined on the show by Gwen Stefani, Jack Dee and magician Dynamo

'We love a bad guy, he was a few years older and he had a skateboard - and that just did it really. He totally knew (she had a crush on him) and the thing is that he’d tell everyone, ‘I see her in a younger, sisterly way,’ and it just broke my heart.  It still does.'
Emma is joined on the show by magician Dynamo, comedian Jack Dee and Gwen Stefani.
The singer, who also wore a revealing dress, performed on the show with her band No Doubt.

Gunman wearing camouflage jacket fires at Czech President Vaclav Klaus… but weapon was only loaded with plastic pellets

A young man wielding a plastic gun shot Czech President Vaclav Klaus in the arm today - but the plastic pelletsleft him totally unharmed.
Pavel Vondrous was wearing military camouflage when he approached Klaus during a ceremony to open a bridge in Chrastava, a village 60 miles north of Prague.
He opened fire on the President at close range with a handgun that is often used in a game called airsoft, similar to paintball, Nova TV said on its website.

 

 

Shot but unhurt: Czech Republic's President Vaclav Klaus, left, was shot in the arm at close range by Pavel Vondrous in the city of Chrastava - but the plastic gun pellets didn't cause any injuries

 

Arrested: Pavel Vondrous, second right, is detained by police after shooting at Czech President Vaclav Klauswith plastic pellets from a replica gun in the city of Chrastava

The attacker managed to get within a metre of the leader and then walk away after the attack before he was detained by police.
The assailant told a Nova reporter the government was 'blind and deaf to the laments of the people' before he was arrested.

 

'You really did not manage this well,' Nova quoted Klaus as telling his bodyguards.
Klaus, 71, whose second and final term ends next March, is a popular figure in the central European EU country.
But his sharp criticism of the euro, EU integration and efforts to halt global warming as well as his friendly stance towards Russia have won him some enemies. 

 

Gaming gun: A police officer holds the plastic gun shot by the assailant. This type of weapon is often used in a game called airsoft

 

 

Popular: Czech President Vaclav Klaus, centre, has a drink with the Governor of Liberec district Stanislav Eichler, second left, during the opening ceremony of a new bridge in the village of Chrastava

Austerity? What austerity? Rising Tory MP says Osborne hasn't done enough to bring down public spending

An outspoken Tory MP risks a backlash from families in financial crisis and the Government after suggesting the Chancellor has done little to bring down public spending.
Douglas Carswell, MP for Clacton, claimed: 'There has been no austerity at all! No austerity,' during an interview.
The MP, who was educated at the £30,000-a-year Charterhouse School, added: 'George Osborne has talked about austerity, what austerity?
'In the second and third quarter of this year, the deficit has gone up by 20 per cent. We’re due to reduce it by 5 per cent this year, that figure is for the birds!'
Mr Carswell, 41, made the comments during an interview with business website London Loves Business, to promote his new book ‘The End of Politics and the birth of iDemocracy’ in which he claims that ‘big government’ is becoming outdated with the rise of technology.

Making enemies in high places? Mr Carswell risks a backlash after suggesting George Osborne has done little to bring down public spending

In the interview he criticised the Government saying: 'They just don’t get it' and made a swipe at the Prime Minister’s ‘Big Society’ project, calling it a 'passing fad.'
Asked whether his personal economic manifesto amounted to a version of the Big Society he replied: 'I’m glad you know what the Big Society was all about, I didn’t. I hope this book, unlike the big society, is thought through. I hope it’s coherent.'
The interview is likely to be seen as further evidence of a major rift within the Conservative party following several reports of plots to oust the Prime Minister.
Outlining his theory about economic recovery, Mr Carswell said: 'I don’t think this government is even on the right page when it comes to this.'
He added: 'If we leave it to politicians and officialdom to improve our lives
and fix our country’s problems, we’re going to sink deeper into debt
and deeper into the mire.'
Mr Carswell, a leading eurosceptic, was first elected MP for Harwich in
2005 before winning a second term in the new seat of Clacton in the
2010 election.
It is not the first time the outspoken backbencher has risked embarrassing his own party.
Earlier this year he came to blows with David Cameron during Question
Time in the Commons. Mr Cameron told him to get a 'sense of humour' after he asked whether Downing Street was like the TV show Yes Minister.

You say tomato, I say APPLE: Rare red-fleshed fruit that looks and tastes like a Raspberry Ripple hits supermarket shelves

It has been a strange year for fruit, with the long wet summer and the subsequent detrimental effect on our bees.
While some varieties of apples seem few and far between this season, one unusual harvest is making a inaugural appearance in the supermarkets.
The rare variety of red-fleshed apple is to go on sale to UK shoppers for the first time next week.

 

The rare, red-fleshed Raspberry Ripple apple is to go on sale to UK shoppers for the first time next week in Tesco

Cultivated by a Worcestershire fruit tree specialist, the apples, named Raspberry Ripple to reflect their unusual appearance, will hit the shelves at three branches of Tesco on Monday.
The supermarket giant hopes trial sales of the 'stunning' apple at three sites in London - including its Kensington Superstore - will pave the way for its introduction across a wider area next year.
The naturally-occurring variety was discovered by chance growing in an orchard near Hereford nine years ago and has been developed by Tenbury Wells-based fruit tree nursery Frank Matthews Ltd.
The nursery was contacted almost a decade ago by a local grower who informed them he had an extremely rare red-fleshed apple, and cuttings were then grafted on to rootstock to create an initial batch of 100 trees.

 

Growers are now satisfied the red flesh is consistent in apples from each of the trees, which are said to produce fruit with a hint of the flavour of raspberries.
Although trees yielding a different variety of red-fleshed apple have been available in the UK since 2010 from a Devon-based seed company, no red-fleshed varieties have previously been available through supermarkets.

 

The unusual variety is likely to be a big hit during its inaugural supermarket season in a nation of apple-loving consumers

Frank Matthews' owner, Nick Dunne, said: 'When I first saw the red flesh I thought right away that this could be big news in the apple industry and that has been borne out by the interest we are now getting from growers around the country.
'Tesco will have the first batch to ever go on sale in the UK and we hope that if they are well received by shoppers that we could establish the variety as a top-seller very soon.'
Hailing Raspberry Ripple as a fantastic addition to Tesco's existing range of 21 British apple varieties, the supermarket's apple buyer, Gill Getty, said: 'Not only do they look amazing but, as the name implies, they have a hint of a raspberry flavour to add to their generally tangy, sweet flavour.
'There are very limited amounts of these apples as this is the first year that they have been commercially grown, but if shoppers like them then we will have plenty for next year.'

Nigella's taking the pizza! What Italy's mammas think of the TV chef's chocolate pasta and lashings of double cream

Every weekend, in millions of homes across Italy, millions of women get down to cooking the family meals.
Fresh pasta is kneaded and then hung up to dry; sauces are simmered; flesh and fowl are put to roast, fragrant with the holy trinity of rosemary, garlic and lemon.
In a country where people take great pride in their culinary traditions, lunch can be more important than life itself.
However, in this particular kitchen, in a large house in the rolling countryside near Orvieto, this weekend is different. Very different.
I’ve flown out to Italy to meet two knowledgeable Italian cooks, Simona Fabrizio and Mariella Serranti, who have thrown tradition into the Magimix and are groping their way into unchartered celebrity territory. They are cooking lunch using recipes from Nigella Lawson’s new Italian-inspired cookbook, Nigellissima.
In the glossy hardback, already a bestseller, the two women have already discovered myriad Nigella inventions and crazy Italo-Brit confections that no Italian has ever heard of — let alone cooked, served or eaten.
Would they ever want to? Despite Nigella’s plaintive insistence that the recipes are only ‘inspired’ by Italy, that is what we wanted to find out.
And all is not going very well. ‘No, no, no! I cannot do it Nigella’s way,’ cries Simona.
Why not? ‘Because Nigella’s way is wrong!’
‘Who is this Nigella? I have never heard of her!’ says Mariella, shaking her head over something called ‘Italian breakfast banana bread’ and an instruction to use four sachets of squid ink in a pasta dish for two. ‘Is she mad?’
Both of these women know their way around an Italian kitchen. Simona, 40, lives with her husband Nick and dog Lui, a former stray who took up residence some years ago.
She is a professional cook who runs courses from her kitchen, caters for weddings and villa guests and writes a cooking blog, Sagraincasa. She presses her own olive oil, often cooks on a wood fire and snips herbs from her own garden. 
Her friend Mariella, 64, has been cooking all her life; for her husband, her daughters and her extended family. She’s a typical nonna.
Like Simona, she makes her own pasta. She also kills and plucks her own chickens, butchers her own rabbits and thinks nothing of regularly rustling up lunch for 30 people or more.
Taught to cook by her mother, she doesn’t use scales or timers; all is done by experience and intuition.

 

Taking Nigella to task: Simona Fabrizio (left) and Mariella Serpanti make their way through recipes from Nigella's new book in Simona's Umbrian home

Simona reads cookbooks for fun. Mariella has never read a cookbook in her life. Until now. And now both wish they hadn’t, especially when Nigella’s now infamous meatzza — a ‘pizza’ with meat for a base — is slipped on to the table, a hideous greasy frisbee of cheesy mince.
What do they think of the meatzza? ‘It is an insult to Italy!’ they cry.

 

There is one other problem, which Simona points out. ‘Nigella uses so much double cream, but double cream does not exist in Italy. We do not have it. I don’t know what I am going to do.’
As it turned out, that was the least of their worries . . .
The meatzza
Of all the recipes in Nigellisima, the meatzza surely has to be the worst. Nigella, who invented the dish, claims her doughless meat pizza is ‘seriously delicious’ and that teenagers love it — as if that was a recommendation for anything.
Simona and Mariella are completely perplexed by the meatzza.
‘She says to use breadcrumbs or oats, like in meatballs, but we don‘t put those things in meatballs,’ says Simona.
‘If she wants to make a meatball-type dish, why not just make meatballs?’ wonders Mariella, with the unerring logic of a seasoned cook who does not have nearly 300 pages of a cook book to fill.
As instructed, the women make a big cake of seasoned mince, flavour it with garlic and bake it in the oven with a mozzarella cheese topping.
‘It‘s too solid,’ says Mariella.
Simona disapproves of Nigella’s instruction to drain the can of tomatoes (‘what a waste’) before adding to the mix, and both women feel there is too much garlic in the meatzza.
‘And Nigella says to splash garlic oil over it at the end. Again, we have no such thing in this country!’ says Simona. ‘It’s already too greasy and garlicky, so I am not going to do it.’
Nigella says: ‘The perfect children’s tea.’
Simona says: ‘Awful. Oh, so bad. Too much garlic. I don’t think Italian children will go for it. Adults, no.’
Mariella says: ‘My teenage nephews would never eat this. Oh no, stop, stop! It keeps coming back on me! I need a digestif.’
In the end, we feed the meatzza to Lui the dog, and even he doesn’t like it much.

 

Italian themed: The celebrity TV chef shows off some of her Italian inspired foods in a new programme entitled Nigellissima

Chocolate pasta with pecans and caramel
What in the name of dolci is the point of this recipe? Nigella even advises using shop-bought chocolate pasta, an ingredient so uncommon that you can only ‘buy it online’. From where, a joke shop?
Still, it fills up another page, doesn’t it?
With the casual expertise of the Italian housewife, our ladies quickly whip up their own pasta and add 400g of cocoa powder to make it chocolatey or, as Mariella puts it, ‘to make it a ruin’.
Simona makes Nigella’s caramel sauce, an artery-bustin’ brew of unsalted pecans, butter, dark brown sugar and double cream.
They cook the pasta, pile it into martini glasses and pour the sauce on top.
‘And then Nigella says to use more double cream to serve!’ cries Simona, who uses the thinner cream available in Italy.
‘Do you eat this hot or cold?’ wonders Mariella.
‘Do you eat it at all?’ says Simona
Nigella says: ‘An unconventional but intriguing sweet treat.’
Mariella says: ‘It’s too sweet.’
Simona says: ‘It’s disgusting.’
Renaissance salad
This is Nigella’s ‘signature salad’. But is it any good?
‘Bitter, bitter, bitter!’ cries Simona, summing up the character of the primary ingredients; radicchio and tardivo lettuces, balsamic vinegar and pomegranate seeds.
‘Why would anyone put three bitter things together? This does not make sense.’
Still, the assembly certainly looks beautiful or, as Nigella puts it in her book: ‘...the deep, garnet tones of the ivory-veined radicchio have something of the glorious colours in the paintings that line the walls of the Uffizi; though, really, I should have called this Late Renaissance Salad as the glowing dark reds bring to my mind even more vividly the Caravaggio paintings I remember seeing in Rome.’
Pretentious? Mio?
Nigella says: ‘Glorious.’
Mariella says: ‘Yes, I like it.’ Although she nibbles only on a leaf and ignores the pomegranate and the balsamic.
Simona says: ‘It looks pretty, but has no taste.’

Criticism: The Italian cooks were not impressed that Nigella had decided to make foods unfamiliar in Italy

Yellow spaghetti
Nigella points out that although this recipe does not itself ‘issue from Italy’, the inspiration is entirely Italian. She has taken the ingredients normally used to make a risotto Milanese and used them to make pasta.
‘Why?’ asks Simona.
Basically, saffron, marsala, cream, butter and cheese are used to make a spaghetti sauce.
Nigella says: ‘A bowful of golden heaven!’
Mariella says: ‘I want to be honest — the spaghetti is nicer without the sauce.’
Simona says: ‘I think it’s an interesting idea, but it is too rich for Italian tastes. It would work if you omitted the cream and the butter and, maybe, just emulsified the saffron and cheese with a bit of the pasta cooking water.’
Turkey with Italian sausage and cranberries
Nigella says she makes this as part of a seasonal buffet table. She specifies a 5kg double-breast turkey joint, boned and butterflied with the skin left on. We had to settle for one half that size, and adjusted down accordingly. It was still a monster and half.
The ingredients — including cranberries, cloves and allspice — had to be brought from London.
Cranberries are soaked in Marsala and mixed with cooked Italian sausage meat, shallots, spices, sage, eggs, parmesan and breadcrumbs.
The mixture is then spread on to the turkey, speared with a skewer, covered in goose fat and roasted.
‘She has to be joking!’ says Simona.
‘A turkey? It’s going to be more like a bomb!’ says Mariella.
The women set to work.
This is the recipe they have most trouble with, technically and emotionally.
Simona objects to Nigella’s instructions on how to cook the sausage meat ‘until it loses its pinkness — about five minutes’.   ‘No! You have to cook until all the liquid is gone. Otherwise a big mess,’ she says.
Mariella goes off-piste and carves two fillets from the inside of the turkey — ‘otherwise it will never cook’. They slap in the stuffing and spend about an hour trying to wrestle the turkey into a shape that will hold in the oven — otherwise it will look like road-kill.
They find it impossible to secure it with only a skewer, so Simona expertly trusses the turkey with string, instead.
She refuses to ‘smear it all over with goose fat’.
‘Disgusting.’
Eventually, they slam it in the oven and close the door with the relish of food cops locking a fowl felon behind bars.
Nigella says: ‘It is nothing short of a show-stopper.’
Mariella says: ‘It’s lovely. I love it. Turkey can be quite boring, but Nigella actually makes it very interesting.’
Simona says: ‘I think we made it work. The stuffing has a really intriguing flavour, something that is quite unfamiliar to Italians. I really like it.’

Italian roots: Umbria in Italy, where the two cooks have honed their own cooking styles

Tuscan tuna tartare
Eh? Tuna is not native to Tuscany — it doesn’t even go there on its holidays. Nigella really stretches the Italian angle here, claiming the recipe was inspired by an online recipe for Tuscan steak tartare posted on her blog.
Yeah, whatever. We’re on page 87 now, wing it baby, only 200 more to go.
Although, like most of the savoury recipes in Nigellissima, this is for two people, Nigella specifies using 300g of tuna — a huge amount.
The ladies follow the instructions, which involve making a basic tartare with spring onions and capers, before dumping it on a pile of rocket. Easio peasio.
Or is it?
Nigella says: ‘What happiness just the idea of this brings!’
Mariella says: ‘I am not going to eat that!’
Simona says: ‘I love tuna tartare, but this needs more lemon.’
Liquorice pudding
‘Liquorice,’ says Nigella, ‘is one of the signature tastes of Italy!’
Simona and Mariella are puzzled by this, especially as I had to bring the liquorice from London. They love fennel and aniseed, but not the bits from the black stuff.
This is a kind of liquorice panna cotta, although it does not need gelatine as a setting agent.
First, Mariella struggled to get the liquorice to melt in the cream and she pulled a face at the thought of sprinkling salt on it afterwards.
Despite Nigella’s promises of solidity, ours did not set. It wiggled almost as much as Nigella in one of her Italian-inspired L’Wren Scott dresses.

New Glee heartthrob Dean Geyer stocks up on treats as he heads to the grocery store with leggy girlfriend

As the latest addition to the ever-popular TV series Glee, he is set to rise to new heights of fame as he plays the love interest of Lea Michele’s character Rachel Berry.
But Dean Geyer enjoyed a moment of normality on Thursday when he fetched some essentials on a trip to the shops with his girlfriend.
The 26-year-old was out and about in Hollywood running a few errands with his partner of two years Jillian Murray.

 

Running errands: Dean Geyer from Glee was out with his girlfriend Jillian Murray in Hollywood on Thursday

Geyer seemed very relaxed as she traipsed the streets of Hollywood, lapping up the sun in combat shorts and a V-neck navy blue T-shirt.

 

He and Murray could be seen carrying paper towels, potato chips and carbonated drinks as they made their way home for a relaxing evening. 
But earlier in the day he was in full panic mode when he feared having to attend a work commitment with a black eye.

 

 

Hair and make-up time: Geyer earlier tweeted that he had to face a press conference with a black eye

 

Night in: The couple were carrying home essentials for a relaxing evening in

 

He tweeted: ‘Another black eye with the worst timing, really? Iv had 4 in my 20 yrs of doing martial arts and it has to happen before a press Conference!’

But the hair and make-up people for the show where he plays Brody Weston had clearly worked wonders on his bruised and battered looked.
Geyer appeared to be wearing a good concealer on his face, but it was seemingly still painful as his eyes looked slightly puffed up when his dark sunglasses were not on.

 

Down time: The pair dressed casually in shorts and flip flops

 

 

Set for stardom: They don't appear to drawing in second glaces quite yet

 

Heartthrob status: But the Glee actor has been with his partner for two years

Also sporting Band Aids on the back of his feet, he was sporting the injuries courtesy of his black belt in Brazilian jiu jitsu.
His 28-year-old girlfriend and Never Back Down 2 co-star seemed excited to be spending time with her beau whose work schedule is only set to get increasingly more demanding.
Jillian will next appear in the horror flick Cabin Fever: Patient Zero, out next year, alongside Sean Astin and Lydia Hearst.

 

 

Martial arts enthusiast: Dean is currently suffering a black eye and injured ankles

 

Healing: Band Aids were visible on the back of his feet

 

New addition: Geyer with Glee co-star Lea Michele

Well money is no object! Roman Abramovich's partner Dasha Zhukova sports fashion forward look for Dior show

She's the partner of billionaire Roman Abramovich so when it comes to parting with cash for clothes, the sky really is the limit.
And Dasha Zhukova proved just how she can afford to sport the latest and most fashion forward styles as she arrived at the Dior Spring/ Summer 2013 fashion show in Paris earlier today.
The 31-year-old socialite opted for a dual hemline smock which she teamed with a pale blue shirt underneath for a striking look.

 

When money is no option: Dasha Zhukov, partner of Roman Abramovich, looked rather fashion forward as she arrived at the Dior show in Paris today

The navy garment boasted a short skirt and a longer layer of the same fabric which draped down around her calves.

The neckline of the ensemble boasted embellishment and there was a band that nipped her in just under her chest.

Dasha teamed the dress with white pointed heels and a chestnut studded clutch.

 

Of course she made the FROW: Dasha Zhukova, Natalia Vodianova, her boyfriend Antoine Arnault and Victoire de Castellane all got great seats for the show

 

 

Upping the ante: Eva Herzigova and Olivia Palermo looked chic in all-black outfits for the show

There was plenty of competition for the cameras, with many glamorous guests arriving to attend the show.
Eva Herzigova and Olivia Palermo also attended the bash
Dasha has been dating Ambramovich for a number of the years and the couple have a son together.
The businessman, who owns Chelsea Football Club, is said to be worth $19.6billion.