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  • Nicole Kidman Harbors No Regrets Over Marriage to Tom Cruise

    Nicole Kidman Harbors No Regrets Over Marriage to Tom Cruise

    Nicole Kidman recently dished to The Evening Standard of the importance of living a regret-free life. When asked about how her marriage to husband Keith Urban differs from that of ex-husband Tom Cruise, she even admitted to harboring no regrets of that first marriage.

    “Any time you have a chance at something again is good, but each combination of people is different,” Kidman said. “I was a baby when I married Tom, but I don’t regret any of it. But out of respect for Keith I tend not to discuss any of that now.”

    Nicole Kidman was just 23 when she married Tom Cruise. The two met on the set of 1990’s Days of Thunder. Kidman and Cruise adopted two children–Isabella is 22 and Connor is 20–and divorced in 2001.

    Since Tom Cruise is a member of the Church of Scientology, and Nicole Kidman wasn’t, she lost contact with her children for quite some time. During Leah Remini’s recent defection from Scientology, Kidman served as her “guardian angel.”

    It was five years later that the Photograph 51 star wed Keith Urban. They have two daughters. Sunday Rose is seven and Faith Margaret is four.

    It wasn’t long ago that Nicole Kidman admitted the years following her divorce from Tom Cruise were among her loneliest.

    “To be completely honest, I was running away from my life at that time,” she said. “As an actor, the wonderful thing is you can become something else for a time. Out of that came work that was applauded so that was an interesting thing for me.”

    Very happy in her marriage to Keith Urban, Nicole Kidman thanked him when she received the Natasha Richardson Award for Best Actress for her role in Photograph 51.

    “I will love you until the end of my life,” she told him.

    Even though Nicole Kidman says she has no regrets regarding her marriage to Tom Cruise, most of her fans would likely say she seems much happier since marrying Keith Urban.

    It’s actually wonderful to see the new life the two of them have made together–along with their daughters.

  • Nicole Kidman Dedicates Best Actress Award to Late Father In Emotional Speech

    Nicole Kidman honored her late father Sunday in an emotional speech as she accepted the Best Actress award at the Evening Standard Theatre Awards in London.

    During the speech, she offered a heartfelt dedication to her late father, who died in September 2014.

    The 48-year-old actress was recognized for her performance in Photograph 51, in which she portrayed Rosalind Franklin, one of the scientists who discovered the double-helix structure of DNA.

    Ironically, her real-life father, Dr. Antony Kidman, was also a scientist.

    “This is my way of acknowledging him, but also of acknowledging people in science who quietly go about their work and do things and go unacknowledged a lot of the time,” Kidman said in her speech. “He knew I was going to do it, so I would like to think he is somewhere offering support.”

    Nicole Kidman also shared a little known secret about herself during the speech, revealing that she kneels before a photograph of her late father before every performance.

    “I did this for him,” she said. “He would give me the strength to do this every night.”

    Us Weekly reports that Nicole Kidman’s father was a clinical psychologist at the Royal North Shore Hospital and a director of health psychology at the University of Technology Sydney in Australia. His work focused on the psychosocial implications of breast cancer for patients.

    Dr. Kidman died at the age of 75 after falling in a hotel in Singapore.

  • Nicole Kidman Receives Rave Reviews For Her Performance in ‘Photograph 51’ in London’s West End

    Nicole Kidman has received rave reviews by critics for her portrayal of British scientist Rosalind Franklin in the London’s West End production of Photograph 51.

    Hailed as “luminous” and “compelling,” the Oscar-winning star plays the only woman involved in the discovery of DNA’s double helix in 1953, as reported by the BBC.

    The play, written by Anna Ziegler and directed by Michael Grandame, opened on Monday at the Noel Coward Theatre to several four-star reviews.

    According to The Guardian, Kidman gives “a commanding, intelligent performance” in her return to the West End stage, after a 17-year absence.

    “My only complaint about Anna Ziegler’s intriguing, informative 95-minute play is that it is not longer,” wrote Michael Billington.

    Praising Kidman’s portrayal of the ecstasy of scientific discovery, Billington said her features “acquire a luminous intensity” as she stares at the now-famous photograph that reveals the DNA’s helix pattern.

    “It is a fine performance in which Kidman reminds us that the scientific life can be informed by private passion,” the review continued.

    Other reviews followed suit.

    Kidman has said the play is a way of acknowledging the work of her late biochemist father.

    “Kidman beautifully captures the prickly defensiveness, the lonely dedication and the suppressed emotional longings of the scientist,” wrote Paul Taylor, theater critic for The Independent.

    While Kidman was praised, the Daily Express critic said the production was “let down by Michael Grandage’s spectacularly unimaginative direction.”

    “If ever a production was crying out for some technical flair in the design, this is it,” he continued.

    Nicole Kidman will continue her run in Photograph 51 until Nov. 21.

  • Nicole Kidman Plays Scientist Rosalind Franklin In ‘Photograph 51,’ Honors Her Father

    Nicole Kidman dedicated her come back to London’s West End to her father who was a biochemist and to all other research scientists who were not given proper recognition.

    Kidman portrays Rosalind Franklin, a British scientist, in the play Photograph 51. Franklin who made a great contribution in discovering the structure of DNA in 1953 was never recognized until her death. As a daughter of a research doctor, Kidman said she wants to pay tribute to her father and to “people in science who quietly go about their work and aren’t acknowledged a lot of the time.” Photograph 51 is the name of an x-ray image which Franklin took in 1952 during her research with Maurice Wilkins at King’s College in London. The x-ray image showed the double helix structure of DNA.

    Wilkins showed the image to Francis Crick and james Watson. The three male researchers received the Nobel Peace Prize for physiology for discovering the double helix. Franklin was left out.

    Kidman is well aware that women are not always recognized in the field of science.

    “There is still an enormous amount of inequality for women,” the actress said. “One of the reasons for doing the play was to shine a light on that.”

    The play was directed by Michael Grandage who worked with Kidman on the feature film Genius. Grandage knows the actress is the best choice to play Franklin. According to reports, the 48-year-old actress received a standing ovation for her role in Photograph 51.

    She admitted that she was scared before but her mother encouraged her to do the play.

    Meanwhile, the Photograph 51 team had a photocall at the Noel Cowards Theatre on Monday. Kidman arrived in a classic metallic tweed dress paired with black shoes. The event was also attended by Anna Ziegler and Stephen Campbell Moore.

  • Katie Hopkins Fears She Will Die During Surgery

    Katie Hopkins is a British TV personality and controversial columnist for The Sun, who will undergo brain surgery later this year to hopefully cure her epilepsy. She has said recently she fears she will die during the surgery.

    A former contender on The Apprentice, the 40-year-old explained recently that the surgery involves removing part of her head, and then doctors will bring her back to consciousness so she can speak to them and move her arms and legs.

    “The part they need to take out for me is in deep. This is the fear, it makes me sweat just thinking about it,” Katie Hopkins said in a recent interview with The Sun.

    “There’s a 40% chance I get rid of it all together. But there’s a 20% chance I would lose my left arm or leg–I could end up paralyzed.”

    “There’s also a 1% chance I will die,” she added.

    “I’ve got the letter confirming I’m having the operation, but I haven’t been able to open it yet,” Katie Hopkins also shared.

    A mother of three children–aged 11, 10, and six–Katie Hopkins recently discussed the possibility of dying during surgery with her husband Mark. Living with epilepsy isn’t a viable option either, as she has several seizures every night.

    “We’re trying to ask big questions about life. Is 11, ten and six the right age? If I don’t make it, is that the right age to leave them?” she asked.

    Hopefully doctors will gain new insight into the surgery Katie Hopkins will have later this year. May this insight calm some of her–and her family’s–fears.