Red Carpets Saturated with Celebrities

The entertainment world was filled with buzz as the Cannes Film Festival continued to delight and the Billboard Music Awards kept celebrities on their toes.

Events & Awards

We begin this week with the Cannes Film Festival and the red carpet where we saw the lovely Emma Stone in Oscar de la Renta and Charlize Theron in leather at the Mad Max: Fury Road screening along with a bevy of other beauties all groomed especially for the spotlight. The beautiful Natalie Portman had tongues wagging in a sheer dress along with Cate Blanchett in one of Giles Deacon's designs. But even with so many glamorous celebrities there has been some controversy of the fashion kind after some women were told they couldn't wear flat shoes on the red carpet annoying many. Onto the movies themselves, Woody Allen found success with his "Irrational Man" while Natalie Portman made her directorial debut with "A Tale of Love and Darkness" and though most films were well received Oscar winner Matthew McConaughey was booed at the screening of his film "Sea of Trees". Elsewhere in France the 22nd amfAR Cinema Against Aids Gala held in France presenting another opportunity to dazzle on the red carpet as most did.

Over in the States the Billboard Music Awards were held at the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas with performances by Simple Minds and Estelle along with Meghan Trainor and John Legend performing a duet. On the awards front winners included Sam Smith for top new artist saying thanks via cue cards and Taylor Swift who was the biggest winner of the night also releasing her highly anticipated new music video for bad blood.

Farewells, Sad and Soon to Be

This week also saw the end of an era when the Late Show with David Letterman came to an end with much fanfare and with many celebrity appearances from a celebrity filled top 10 list to Bill Murray covered in cake and more. TV land lost another great in the form of the Mad Men finale which also aired this week and closed on the famous ad jingle "I'd like to buy the world a coke".

Finally we end this week with careers in jeopardy as controversy surrounded George Stephanopoulos with his $105 million contract and Bill Cosby met his match with model Janice Dickinson suing him for defamation.