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Tuesday 23 August 2011

Good on yer, Kate.

This is definitely NOT a celeb-blog, but I must extend some kudos to Kate Winslet for being a fine actress, a babe, and a real person (as I suspected) after all.

The Associated Press

Date: Tuesday Aug. 23, 2011 9:46 AM ET


LONDON — Academy Award-winning actress Kate Winslet helped rescue Richard Branson's elderly mother from a fire that destroyed his Caribbean home.


The Virgin Group boss said in his blog that he wanted to offer "many thanks to Kate Winslet for helping to carry my 90 year (old) mum out of the main house to safety." He joked that Winslet "was wondering when a director was going to shout 'CUT!'


In a separate statement Tuesday, Branson praised Winslet's two children, 10-year-old Mia and 7-year-old Joe, who were also staying in the house when it caught fire. He called them "two of the bravest kids I've ever come across."


Good children are most often the result of good parents, so more evidence (if it were needed) that she's no vacuous starlet. As for Sir Richard's house, he can afford to build another one, and I'm certain Ms Winslet and her family will have a standing invitation to stay over.

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