The Great Gatsby
First look: The Great Gatsby trailer

The first trailer for Baz Luhrmann's lavish 3D production of The Great Gatsby, starring Leonardo DiCaprio, has been released.

MasterChef SA's Sam out of season

Samantha Nolan has fallen out of the top ten in M-Net's reality cooking show after once again failing to season her dishes correctly.

Kate Middleton makes solo debut

2012-02-09 09:00
 
kate middleton
 

London - Prince William's wife Catherine made her first solo public engagement on Wednesday while her husband is away in the Falkland Islands on a Royal Air Force mission.

The former Kate Middleton, 30, visited a major exhibition of paintings by the late British artist Lucian Freud at the National Portrait Gallery in London, on the eve of its opening.

Catherine, a patron of the gallery and a former art history student at St Andrew's University in Scotland where she met Prince William, wore a grey tweed coat-dress as she visited the exhibition.

William is on a six-week tour of duty as a search and rescue helicopter pilot in the Falkland Islands - a deployment that Argentina, which claims the British-ruled archipelago as its own, has slammed as "a provocation".

Pose for a portrait

The visit of the woman whose official title is Duchess of Cambridge came as St James's Palace confirmed she is to pose for a portrait by an artist who is yet to be chosen.

"The Duchess is happy to do it some time in the future," a palace spokesperson said. "There haven't been any decisions about who the artist will be, this is being discussed."

The duchess wed William at a lavish ceremony last April which was watched by an estimated two billion people around the world.

The Freud exhibition, which opens to the public on Thursday, includes Benefits Supervisor Sleeping, a 1995 canvas which sold for $33.6m in New York in 2008 - a world record for a living artist.

Freud died in July at the age of 88.

- AFP

Comment on this story
1 comment
Add your comment
Comment 0 characters remaining
 

Recent Gossip

Recent false reports about the death of afro-soul singer Camagwini have led to her grandmother's collapse. Read More »

Leonardo Dicaprio's ex-girlfriend Bar Refaeli has topped the Maxim Hot 100 list and has said she is "honoured" to receive the accolade. Read More »

inside channel 24

There are new stories on the homepage. Click here to see them.