Jackman's day out!

Hugh Jackman rides his scooter around New York with his son and daughter

He might have millions in the bank from movies such as The Wolverine, but Hugh Jackman prefers to stay in touch with his inner child and ride around town in a scooter instead of a fancy car.
The 45-year-old Australian actor was spotted with his children and wife on a family outing in New York City on Sunday.
Jackman, his son Oscar, 13, and daughter Ava, eight, all had their own scooters but his wife Deborra-Lee Furness, 58, was happy so go without and let the trio scoot around the Big Apple without her.

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He's a dad and a big kid: Hugh Jackman took his son Oscar and daughter Ava out on their scooters in New York on Sunday

Ricky Whittle goes shirtless as he puts Louisa Lytton through her paces on a gruelling hike

From the small screen to the Hollywood hills! Buff Ricky Whittle goes shirtless as he puts Louisa Lytton through her paces on a gruelling hike

They're both best-known for their roles on the small screen after appearing in EastEnders and Hollyoaks.
But Louisa Lytton and Ricky Whittle swapped the soap world for the Hollywood Hills as they joined forces for a gruelling hike up Los Angeles landmark, Runyon Canyon, on Thursday.
Putting his actress pal well and truly through her paces, the fitness-mad Mistresses star showed off his buff bod to perfection by going shirtless to bask in the Californian sunshine. 

Why can’t he just be like everyone else?'

Chimamanda Adichie writes on the anti-gay law

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What split?

 Ryan Gosling proves it's still on with Eva Mendes as he appears from behind the gate of her Hollywood Hills home

Their high-profile relationship has been plagued with rumours of a split.

But on Wednesday Ryan Gosling appeared to show that things are back on between him and girlfriend Eva Mendes, as peered over her fence at her Hollywood Hills home.

Ryan emerged from behind a gate at the actress's pad, and smiled to onlookers.
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Crazy Stupid Love? Ryan Gosling peers over from behind girlfriend Eva Mendes' fence at her Hollywood home on Wednesday

The sighting puts an end to speculation that the pair are no longer together.

Meanwhile a source tells E! that Ryan has been staying at Eva's house recently and stayed the night on Wednesday this week.

Eva certainly didn't do much to dispel rumours when she told Ellen DeGeneres recently that she wasn't 'big' on Valentine's Day.

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Blue Valentine? Eva recently admitted that she didn't have any 'big' plans for February 14th with Ryan

The 39-year-old actress insisted she and boyfriend Ryan had no plans to celebrate the romantic holiday on February 14, joking she would just watch the hunky actor's weepy movie The Notebook at home alone.

She told TV talk show host Ellen DeGeneres: 'I'm not a big Valentine's Day person. I'll probably just order a deep dish and watch The Notebook or something.'

The Place Beyond the Pines actress also laughed off recent reports she is pregnant after refusing to go through airport security scanners.

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Sparking rumours: The couple - seen here in May 2012 - have not been pictured together recently

Eva Mendes pokes fun at Ryan Gosling breakup

Eva insisted it was a decision she always makes because she finds the security checks 'creepy'.

She said: 'It's so ridiculous. Because it all started because I was didn't want to go through the scanners at the airport.'
'You know those x-ray scanners, which are really creepy. They basically see you naked, right. And not only that, but there's a radiation aspect to it, so I always opt out. I always ask for a personal pat down.'

Ellen then joked: 'Alright, do you want to say is it a boy or a girl you're pregnant with?'

Eva replied: 'Oh god, no no no! No!'

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Red carpet couple: Eva and Ryan also attended The Place Beyond The Pines premiere in September 2012

Apologists for paedophilia: As the Mail exposes more links between senior Labour figures and a vile paedophile group, one man who was abused as a child asks them: why won't you admit you were wrong?

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Demetrious Panton suffered terrible abuse at a children's home in Islington in the late 1970s

The childhood of Demetrious Panton ended one night in July 1978, a few days before his 11th birthday. That was when a man called Bernie Bain, who ran a care home in North London where Panton lived, knocked on the door of his dormitory.
‘Hey, little fella — can’t you sleep again?’ whispered Bain. ‘Why don’t you come and watch telly in my room?’
Panton, now a 46-year-old successful lawyer who once advised John Prescott on race relations, will never forget how Bain, then 29, grabbed his tiny hand, pressed a finger to his lips to ensure that he kept quiet and led him to a dimly-lit bedroom, with beige soft furnishings, piles of filthy clothes on the floor and ashtrays overflowing with Marlboro cigarettes.
He will never forget the studied nonchalance with which this man pulled back the duvet, patted his mattress and told him to join him in bed to keep warm while they watched a cowboy movie together on his black-and-white TV set.
And, of course, Panton will never forget how Bain then slowly put an arm around his shoulder, stroked his hair and told him that he had a tummy ache.
‘He asked me to rub his tummy,’ Panton has recalled. ‘I started rubbing it, and he kept pushing me further down the bed.’
An appalling sexual assault ensued. Immediately afterwards, Bain told the child never to talk about the events that had taken place that night.
‘We have a secret,’ Demetrious remembers thinking. ‘He’ll get me; he’ll hurt me if I ever tell anyone.’
So began an appalling cycle of abuse. Within weeks, the assaults had escalated to rape. And they continued for more than a year.
‘He moved me into a bedroom of my own and would come in whenever he could,’ Panton has recalled. ‘I began to hate him.’
Demetrious Panton was just one of hundreds of vulnerable children who were systematically raped and sexually abused in care homes run by the London borough of Islington in the Seventies and Eighties.

'I thought: "He'll hurt me if I ever tell anyone'- Demetrious Panton

He was targeted by a now notorious paedophile ring, whose members at some point ran every one of the council’s 12 care homes.
For more than a decade, the group was able to prey on children with virtual impunity, convincing Labour-run Islington’s political elite that anyone who attempted to blow the whistle on their crimes was motivated by homophobia.
Complaints were systematically brushed under the carpet by officials who appeared to give more weight to the so-called human rights of paedophiles than those of children.
Though many of Bain’s co-workers were aware of the abuse, they turned a blind eye, Mr Panton says today. It wasn’t until he confided in his health worker in 1979 that any steps were taken to investigate.
Even then, Bain was allowed to simply resign from the care home — without facing prosecution — and continue with his life.
He told Islington Social Services that his sexual activity with the child was ‘consensual’, and they chose to believe him. Panton was never interviewed and the police were not contacted.
Bain later moved to Morocco, where he was subsequently jailed for child pornography offences in the Nineties. He killed himself in Thailand in 2000.

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Demetrious Panton, pictured as a child, endured a year of horrific abuse at the hands of Bernie Bain, who ran the home

Appallingly, Bain’s departure from the home was not the end of Demetrious Panton’s ordeal. Not long afterwards, Islington appointed another predatory paedophile to run the care home at 1 Elwood Street.
His name was Martin Ashley Saville. And for six months from January 1981, he conducted a series of sexual assaults against Panton.
This time police were called and Saville confessed to the abuse. But in court, he argued that the then 13-year-old Panton had led him on — and escaped with a three-month suspended prison sentence.
Even after that second crime, Islington Council appears to have taken a disturbingly relaxed view of Panton’s ordeal.

‘In a letter to my dad, on my file, they wrote that I’d had a relationship with a man,’ Panton has recalled. ‘How can a 13-year-old have a “relationship” with a grown-up? Why didn’t they do anything?’
It would take more than 20 years for the scandal to be properly recognised and apologised for.

'How can they now talk about children's rights?'
- Mr Panton

Today, Mr Panton and the hundreds of other survivors (he does not like to call himself a ‘victim’) of the Islington scandal are rightly recognised as having suffered terrible injustice.
There have been a string of public inquiries, and formal apologies, for the systematic abuse that took place in the borough’s care homes and the subsequent cover-ups. Many of those who were abused have received compensation payments.
But there has been no proper police inquiry into several of the men involved.
Mr Panton, an intelligent, highly-articulate man with an IQ of 137, is today a respected professional with a PhD in philosophy. But he continues to live under the shadow of abuse. He has never married, and for most of his adult life has struggled to form romantic relationships.
And, with the clarity of a true survivor, he now knows exactly who to blame.
For Mr Panton believes that the events that tarnished his childhood, and hurt so many young children in Islington, were the inevitable fall-out from a PR and lobbying campaign waged by a sinister organisation called the Paedophile Information Exchange (PIE).
Formed in the early Seventies and boasting almost 1,000 members at its height, it waged a long-running campaign for paedophiles to be seen as ‘child lovers’ and abolish the age of consent.
It cynically allied itself to the gay rights movement to gain credibility in Left-wing political circles, arguing that paedophiles were an oppressed minority whose human rights were threatened by child protection laws.

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MP Jack Dromey (left), Labour deputy leader Harriet Harman (right) and former Cabinet minister Patricia Hewitt (below), ran the National Council for Civil Liberties

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The organisation’s crowning achievement was to secure formal ‘affiliate’ status, from 1975 until the mid-Eighties, with the National Council for Civil Liberties (NCCL) — now the respected lobby group Liberty.
At the time, the NCCL was run by a trio of future Labour grandees.
From 1978-82, Harriet Harman, now Labour deputy leader, was its legal officer. Her husband Jack Dromey, now a shadow Home Office spokesman, served on the NCCL’s ruling executive from 1970 to 79. And Blair government Health Secretary Patricia Hewitt was General Secretary from 1974 to 83.
This week, the Mail published an investigation into the full extent of links between the trio’s work for the NCCL and the paedophile lobby. We revealed that Hewitt described the paedophile lobby organisation in glowing terms as a ‘campaigning/counselling group for adults attracted to children’.
We further told how the NCCL lobbied Parliament for the age of sexual consent to be cut to ten — if the child consented and ‘understood the nature of the act’.
Our exposé also revealed how it called for incest to be legalised, in what one MP described as a ‘Lolita’s charter’. What’s more, in 1975, NCCL lawyers attempted to muzzle hostile Press coverage of PIE and helped its members under investigation by the police.
We also uncovered documents in the NCCL’s archives that showed how, in 1978, Harriet Harman wrote an NCCL submission to MPs attempting to water down child pornography laws.
Pressure is mounting on these senior Labour Party politicians to explain their actions after it emerged that police are investigating PIE in the wake of the Jimmy Savile scandal, following claims there was evidence that its members were abusing children ‘on an industrial scale’.

'It shouldn't be too hard for them to say sorry'- Mr Panton

Looking back to those days, Mr Panton believes the NCCL played a crucial role in helping the paedophile lobby influence social values and the Establishment.
Indeed, by the late Seventies, it’s no exaggeration to say that PIE, and its twisted philosophy, had come to dominate the way that many radical Left-wing councils — such as Islington — ran their social services.

By the mid-Eighties, when Mr Panton bravely decided to try to get an explanation from Islington Council, the Labour borough was being run Margaret Hodge.
Of course, she was one of that coterie of Labour friends who included Harman, Hewitt and Dromey. What’s more, Hodge (who like the others also went on to become a Labour MP) was married to the man who was chairman of the NCCL during the Seventies.
Henry Hodge, a Left-wing solicitor who went on to become a High Court judge, presided over the NCCL during its affiliation with PIE when the latter published an ‘information’ leaflet, Paedophilia: Some Questions And Answers, which showed how it was allying its cause to the gay rights movement.
It read: ‘Homosexuals are now widely regarded as ordinary, healthy people — a minority, but no more “ill” than the minority who are left-handed. There is no reason why paedophilia should not win similar acceptance.’
Many were shocked years later when, despite what publicly emerged about the mistreatment of children in Islington care homes and her failure to acknowledge or address the matter, Tony Blair appointed Mrs Hodge, who was previously the council leader, as his Children’s Minister.
Meanwhile, in places such as Islington, the endorsement by these Labour figures of the vile PIE continued to have its malign effects during subsequent years.

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The letter from Margaret Hodge to Demetrious Panton

PIE’s founder Peter Righton — a prominent social worker later prosecuted for importing child pornography from Holland — was, for example, put in charge of training courses on which council staff learned how to care for vulnerable children. Righton, who had a flat in the borough (as did PIE’s one-time key member, his friend Morris Fraser) once boasted: ‘Every Islington care home manager I know likes boys from 12.’
Under Islington Council’s then trendy equal opportunities rules, employees who declared themselves gay were exempted from intrusive background checks that were supposed to prevent paedophiles working with children.

That explains how Michael Taylor, an Islington care home manager exposed in a 2000 court case as a PIE member, was put in charge of several homes in which abuse occurred. He was later jailed for four years for abusing vulnerable children.
Today, no one knows exactly how many Islington officials actually belonged to PIE, and Mr Panton will never be able to establish whether his abusers, Bain and Saville, were among their number, since its membership lists have never been published.
But he has little doubt that what he calls the ‘tentacles of the organisation PIE’ and the ‘extreme political succour to paedophilia’ from figures who later became senior Labour politicians lay behind the abuse he suffered.

QUESTIONS THEY WON'T ANSWER

The Mail has posed a series of vital questions that Harriet Harman, Particia Hewitt and Jack Dromey refuse to answer. They include:
To Harman, Hewitt and Dromey:

• During your time with the National Council for Civil Liberties (NCCL), it gave significant support to the Paedophile Information Exchange (PIE). Do you regret this support or feel inclined to apologise to the many victims who suffered appalling abuse at the hands of this vile organisation you helped legitimise?

To Hewitt and Dromey:

• The NCCL granted formal ‘affiliate’ status to PIE. Why did you allow your organisation to be associated with an outfit that advocated the legalisation of paedophilia?

• PIE submitted a report to MPs claiming that ‘girls as young as four months can achieve orgasm’, and that four-year-old children can ‘communicate verbally their consent to sex’.Given these utterly repellent views, why did you let the organisation remain affiliated to your NCCL?

• The NCCL made a written submission to Parliament’s Criminal Law Commission, arguing: ‘Childhood sexual experiences, willingly engaged in, with an adult result in no identifiable damage.’ On what basis, scientific or otherwise, did you make this extraordinary claim?

• The submission also called for the crime of incest to be abolished, arguing that the suggestion that genetic damage may result from children born of incestuous unions ‘is in direct contradiction to the practices of successful animal breeders’. Do you still take this view?

To Harriet Harman:

• The NCCL’s affiliation with PIE, its support for lowering (or even abolishing) the age of consent, and its demand for the legalisation of incest were all widely reported throughout the Seventies. Why, given these morally offensive views, did you then take a job as legal adviser to the NCCL?

He says: ‘The culture which PIE articulated, and for which these politicians were standard-bearer, was certainly something I came across.
‘The view of PIE — that children can consent to sex, and that paedophiles have rights — was exactly what I encountered when I tried to complain. The tentacles of PIE’s philosophy had infiltrated the psyche of Islington’s senior managers and politicians.’
Although Harman, Hewitt and Dromey have refused to apologise for their links to the paedophile organisation, many victims’ rights organisations have called for them to do so for their ‘inexcusable’ support for the group.
Demetrious Panton agrees, saying the trio ought to publicly ‘acknowledge their mistakes’.
He says: ‘Of course I don’t hold these politicians individually responsible for the men who abused me. But I do believe they have a responsibility to reflect and make comment about their actions during that era.’
If Harman, Hewitt and Dromey fail to address the issue, Panton believes they have no moral justification to comment on any issue involving children.
‘There are serious credibility issues here,’ he says.
Panton goes further — arguing that the NCCL’s support of paedophiles should be considered as morally reprehensible as that of U.S. politicians who opposed the cause of civil rights in the Sixties.
‘I’d be lying if I said I was waiting for Patricia Hewitt to say sorry to me. But I do feel that it would help bring a really shadowy part of British public life to a close.’
Bitter experience, though, has taught Mr Panton not to be too hopeful of a speedy response from those in authority.
In 1985, when he was 18, he began writing letters to Islington Council seeking an explanation as to why he had been abused.
At the time, the Council was run by Margaret Hodge. It took four years for Islington to respond. And even then, it insisted that correct procedures had been followed.
‘The barriers I came across when I tried to report what had happened to me was part of a culture where the rights of children were not taken seriously,’ he recalls. ‘It was a culture where the viewpoints of PIE on consent, and the rights of paedophiles, were given authority.’
The full scale of the Islington scandal didn’t emerge until 1992, when the London Evening Standard exposed the systematic abuse of children and the failure of Margaret Hodge and colleagues to acknowledge or address the matter.
It prompted a major inquiry into the affair, which reported a string of failures by the council to prevent abuse. But even then, Mr Panton did not receive an adequate apology. Quite the reverse, in fact.
In 2003, Hodge, who was by then Children’s Minister in the Blair government, learned that he was helping the BBC make a radio documentary about the affair.
She wrote to the BBC’s Labour-supporting chairman, Gavyn Davies, calling Mr Panton an ‘extremely disturbed person’ and saying the programme should be scrapped.
Not surprisingly, Mr Panton sued. In November 2003, Ms Hodge agreed to issue a formal apology, pay his legal costs, and contribute £10,000 to a charity of his choice.
By then, it was more than 25 years since the night that Panton’s innocence had been first stolen.
For him and other victims of the Paedophile Information Exchange, it is now almost 40 years since Harman, Hewitt and Dromey worked to advance its objectionable agenda.
‘Our politicians have apologised about slavery,’ says Mr Panton.
‘They have said sorry for countless events, on a whole range of issues, for which they weren’t personally responsible.
‘So on their one-time support for paedophiles, it shouldn’t be too hard for them to say sorry now

Rochelle Humes and husband Marvin get mixed reviews from fans

They are beige personified': Rochelle Humes and husband Marvin get mixed reviews from fans as they take charge of This Morning

It may have been their third guest presenting slot on This Morning, but that didn't stop Rochelle and Marvin Humes getting a mixed reaction from viewers on Twitter.
Stepping out in a stunning figure-hugging dress, The Saturdays star wowed as she interviewed guests for the ITV1 show on Friday alongside her husband of 18 months.
The couple, who were standing in for regular hosts Philip Schofield and Holly Willoughby, appeared to be having a great time as they caught up with the TOWIE cast.

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They're back! Rochelle Humes wowed in midnight blue when she guest presented This Morning with husband Marvin on Friday

The 24-year-old's cowl-neck, midnight blue number made the most of her slim frame, while her long hair was styled straight and worn down over her shoulders.

 

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She teamed her knee-length outfit with a pair of peach-coloured stilettos as she kept the rest of her accessories to a minimum apart from a few bracelets and tiny necklace.
Despite tweeting: 'Up and at em' at 5.50am, Rochelle looked far from tired as she arrived at the studios where she spent time greeting fans.

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What she saying now? The Saturdays singer showed off her trim figure in the slim-fitting dress while Marvin opted for a black T-Shirt and grey trousers

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It's all fun and games: The 24-year-old finished off her look with pale peach-coloured stilettos while her hair was worn down over her shoudlers

  

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The mother-of-one had opted for an eye-catching stripey black and white coat which she teamed with a matching dress, complete with leather side panels.
Clutching her Givenchy handbag, the brunette waved to those waiting outside the studios after opting for bare legs despite the chilly temperatures.
Viewers meanwhile had plenty to say about the guest presenters, with one commenting: 'Rochelle and Marv are brilliant on #thismorning, they need to be regular weekly presenters! #abreathoffreshair'.

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Never work with children or animals: The pair looked confident as they chatted to some youngsters during a clothing segment of the show

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'Can't wait': The 28-year-old former JLS star tweeted on Thursday to say: 'So @RochelleTheSats and I will be back on @ITVThisMorning tomorrow 10.30am hosting for a third time'

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Full house: The young stars were joined on the famous sofa by TOWIE stars Nanny Pat, Lauren Pope, Elliott Wright, Ricky Raymond, Jessica Wright and Fearne McCann ahead of the start of the new series on Sunday

While others wrote: 'This Morning's viewers must shoot up when marv and rochelle present', and: 'Only watching this morning for Marvin and Rochelle #toocute #thismorning'.
Another commented: 'Marvin and Rochelle are a breath of fresh air on this morning, such a sweet couple #thismorning'.
However some fans were far from complimentary. 'Rochelle & Marvin seem like the couple you'd hate to be stuck talking to at a dinner party. They are beige personified', said one viewer.

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'Up and at em': It might be their third time on the show, but the pair still caused a mixed reaction from viewers on Twitter

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Monochrome mummy: Rochelle arrived at the studios earlier in the day in an eye-catching stripey coat while waving to fans

One wasn't convinced they were right for the role: 'One Safe to say Marvin and Rochelle should stick to singing and not presenting' and 'Marvin & Rochelle are lovely on This Morning, but its obvious that they lack that journalistic instinct when interviewing'.
'It's been on two minutes and I already want to smash the tv to smithereens thanks to the horrendousness that is Marvin and Rochelle', said one viewer.
Another tweeted: 'Did anybody see This Morning this morning? Rochelle was very awkward and stuttery.'

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Coordinated cuties: Marvin looked dapper in a grey blazer and patterned shirt, which he teamed with jeans and tan shoes

A further person added: 'Marvin and Rochelle are so cringey I had to turn this morning off after about five minutes.'
Another tweeted: 'Rochelle is a terrible presenter on This Morning, she's just shouting.'
The former JLS star had looked particularly dapper as he arrived at ITV in a grey blazer, patterned shirt and tan shoes.
Marvin had later changed into a black T-Shirt and grey trousers as the pair took time off from looking after their eight-month-old daughter Alaia-Mai.

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It's never too early for a selfie: Rochelle spent time meetings fans that had gathered outside before posing for a snap

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Hi there! The couple looked relaxed as they got into their car clutching notes in their hands

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Radiant: Rochelle teamed her coat with a black dress, complete with leather panels, and a matching Givenchy handbag

Jeremiah Brent and fiance Nate Berkus star in new Banana Republic campaign

Rachel Zoe's former assistant Jeremiah Brent and fiance Nate Berkus star in new Banana Republic campaign celebrating 'life's precious moments'

Former Rachel Zoe employee Jeremiah Brent is the star of Banana Republic's newest campaign, along with his fiance, celebrity interior designer Nate Berkus.
The new spring campaign, tilted 'True Outfitters', aims to illustrate 'life's most precious and authentic moments shared between loved ones,' the company said in a statement.
Other real-life couples and families were cast in the campaign, Argentinian model and Tulum hotelier Nicolas Malleville and his family, Nashville natives and longtime sweethearts Cory Bond and Bekah Jenkins, and up and coming European models Sara Blomqvist and Jeremy Young.
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Former Rachel Zoe employee Jeremiah Brent is the star of Banana Republic's newest campaign, along with his fiance, celebrity interior designer Nate Berkus

Nate Berkus and fiancé Jeremiah Brent in Banana Republic campaign

Mr Brent won hearts as the sweet interior designer in the fourth season of Bravo series The Rachel Zoe Project.
Last year Mr Berkus, 41, abandoned his Manhattan home for Hollywood to be closer his fiance. The couple, who also announced plans last year to have a baby via a surrogate, have been dating since mid 2012.
Banana Republic global chief marketing officer, Catherine Sadler, said of the choice to cast the couple: 'Banana Republic represents an approach to style, living and a state of mind that continues to define the modern wardrobe.
'The True Outfitters campaign delivers authenticity and cultural awareness which is the currency of choice for the modern customer,' she added.

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Last year Mr Berkus, 41, abandoned his Manhattan home for Hollywood to be closer his fiance. The couple, who also announced plans last year to have a baby via a surrogate, have been dating since mid 2012

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Banana Republic global chief marketing officer, Catherine Sadler, said of the choice to cast the couple: 'Banana Republic represents an approach to style, living and a state of mind that defines the modern wardrobe'

Jack Calhoun, Banana Republic global president, said that the campaign champions the brand's San Francisco roots, as well as true relationships and emotions.
'We've been outfitters since our days on safari, and today we outfit people for their modern lives -- for all those things that make up day to day life, and especially those big and small moments that matter most,' he said.
'True Outfitters represents Banana Republic at our best -- helping us stand out in a crowded marketplace -- and reflects our roots in our hometown of San Francisco.'

Adam Brody confirms wedding to Leighton Meester following secret ceremony

Yes I'm married!' Adam Brody confirms wedding to Leighton Meester following secret ceremony

Adam Brody has confirmed he and Leighton Meester are married.
The 34-year-old actor replied with a brief 'yes' when asked if it was 'true if he really got married' on  Wednesday.
The former OC star again flashed his wedding ring as he ran errands in Los Angeles.

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Wedding bling: Adam Brody flashed his silver ring as he headed out in Los Angeles on Wednesday as he confirmed he is married

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Silver lining: The actor showed off his ring again on Wednesday

Adam was without his 27-year-old new wife, who is currently rehearsing for her new Broadway revival of play Mice & Men, co-starring James Franco and Chris O’Dowd.
He looked happy and relaxed, broadly smiling in a red tracksuit top and jeans.

The happy couple tied the knot only three months after news of their engagement surfaced.
The stars - who worked together on the 2011 film The Oranges - only went public with their romance last February.

Adam and Leighton were originally thought to be planning to get married this summer.

A source said at the time of their engagement: 'Leighton and Adam are crazy about each other and have talked about getting married eventually.

'But she had no idea when he would propose so soon! It was the surprise of her life and she's ecstatic!'

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So happy: Adam smiled broadly, days after his wedding to Leighton Meester

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So casual: The actor looked like he had just come from a workout with a  red tracksuit top. black shorts and trainers

Leighton Meester talks about her desire to have kids

'Right now their plan is to get married next summer. They are still deciding if they want a destination wedding or if they'll marry in southern California somewhere."

Adam was previously romantically linked to Rachel Bilson and 34-year-old director Lorene Scafaria - who helmed Steve Carell and Keira Knightley's comedy drama movie Seeking a Friend for the End of the World.

Leighton has previously dated Austin Powers actor Aaron Himelstein.

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Did they wed?: Adam Brody and Leighton Meester, seen here in 2012, tied the knot over the weekend, according to a Tuesday report from UsWeekly