Melbourne, Feb. 1 : Sylvester Stallone has said that he was so desperate for cash in the early days of his career that he sold his beloved pooch for 50 dollars - only to reacquire the hound for 3,000 dollars, after selling the script to his breakthrough film `Rocky' just a week later.

He said that he tied his dog up at a store with a sign that said a hundred bucks but only got 50 dollars from a guy called Little Jimmy, News. com. au reported.

Melbourne, December 27 : Shane Warne, who abandoned his Melbourne Stars T20 cricket team on Christmas eve in the middle of the Big Bash competition to be with his fiancee, ended up watching the very same cricket competition on TV from England.

This got weirder when it was revealed that the 43-year-old former Australian cricketer was watching the cricket in bed with Hurley - the woman who once appeared as the love interest in `The Spy Who Shagged Me'.

In fact, he watched two cricket games while in bed with Liz and had eyes only for the small screen.

Melbourne, Nov 1 : Miley Cyrus, who has continuously distanced herself from her squeaky clean Disney past with her haircuts, sideboobs and smoking, has added yet another act of wildness to it - working with porn stars.

According to TMZ, the 19-year-old `Hannah Montana' star and her DJ friend Borgore hired Borgore's former girlfriend and award winning actress Jessie Andrews for Cyrus's new music video.

The video features "little people, a unicorn, a goat and a woman with watermelon-smashing boobs", the Courier Mail reported.

Melbourne, July 14 : Keira Knightley has said that working with her fiance will not be end of the world but would rather be "lovely."

The `Bend It Like Beckham' star who got engaged to Klaxons rocker James Righton in May, enjoyed seeing her `Seeking A Friend For The End of the World' co-star Steve Carrell and his wife Nancy together on the set of the film and believed that she would enjoy working on a project with her partner too.

"I've never worked with a significant other but I should imagine it would be lovely, News. com. au quoted her as telling the Daily Mirror.

Melbourne, June 1 : Lara Bingle and her BFF Hermione Underwood, whose relationship has withstood a series of setbacks, are said to be parting ways professionally.

Underwood, who stepped in as Bingle's manager a year ago, confirmed to Confidential on Thursday that she no longer acted on behalf of the swimsuit model turned reality star, handing the reins over to Sally Brown and Chrissy Biasotto at Tailor Made Management in Surry Hills.

Melbourne, May 30: Lara Bingle has been thrown into the heat of the TV ratings war after her reality show was shifted from Thursdays to the prime-time slot of 8pm on Tuesdays.

Thanks to "very encouraging" advertising support, `Being Lara Bingle' will replace `Modern Family' and go up against Nine's ratings powerhouse `The Big Bang Theory' and Seven's US drama `Once Upon A Time' on Channel
10.

The scheduling decision, which was made on Tuesday, comes on the back of a series of positive test screenings and huge public interest in the show, which will launch on June 12.

Melbourne, May 29 : Singer Delta Goodrem has revealed she felt trapped in her seven-year relationship with Brian Mcfadden and was desperate to break free.

Goodrem called off her engagement to the former Westlife singer in April last year, and she has now confessed to feeling suffocated by the union, reports contactmusic. com.

"There is so much I'd like to say. I was really unhappy and I didn't know how to get out. I learnt. I got there in the end," she told Australia's Vogue magazine.(IANS)