tabloid! The weekly wrap #6

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Hollywood stars Colin Firth and Freida Pinto sell their clothes for charity and Egyptian actor Amr Waked wins at the Dubai International Film Festival. Meanwhile Sami Yusuf releases a new album, Kanye West books a ticket to Dubai and Justin Bieber manages to annoy boxer Manny Pacquiao. Throw in the release of Dabang 2 at cinemas and it's quite a show as tabloid! brings you this week's highlights in entertainment from the UAE and abroad. See more at: http://gulfnews.com/gntv

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00:00This week we had stars stripping off for charity, rain-threatened gala dinners, gossip sessions

00:10with kind-hearted Aamir Waqid, feisty Frida Pinto and savvy Sami Youssef, as well as cash

00:16prizes handed out to the lucky winners at the Dubai International Film Festival.

00:21We confirm Kanye West has booked his flight, Nicki Minaj is busy packing and the Bollywood

00:25movie fans gear up to see the year out with a da-bang.

00:292.

00:30This is your weekly wrap with tabloid.

00:32After a celeb-filled week on the various red carpets at the 9th Dubai International Film

00:36Festival, the final curtain fell this week with the closing awards ceremony a big hit.

00:41More than US$570,000 was handed over to winners for the documentary, feature and short films

00:47under the broad Emirati, Asia, Africa and Arab categories.

00:52Saudi eye-opener Wajidah took top honours in both the Best Film and Actress categories

00:57while Aamir Waqid scooped Best Actor, much to the joy of an enthusiastic audience in

01:02the Arab segment.

01:03We caught up with Waqid earlier in the week at the Oxfam charity dinner, One Night to

01:07Save Lives.

01:08I never imagined that there are so many children that are deprived of their education and I

01:16think it's very easy to solve it.

01:19There are 6 billion people in the world, if everyone pays $1 I think this problem will

01:27be behind our backs.

01:29The rain-threatened night also saw actor Colin Firth whip off his jacket as a last-minute

01:33auction bid.

01:34Frida Pinto matched Firth and offered up the red Valentino gown she was wearing on

01:39the night, luckily adding she'd hand it over after the celebrations and not right

01:43here, right now, much to the disappointment of the men attending.

01:47The big music news this week is the sneaky release of info a certain Mr. Kanye West has

01:52booked his flight to Abu Dhabi, or his manager has, and we're not talking about the missus

01:57Kim Kardashian or her mother.

01:59The hip-hop superstar West returns to the capital in January, three years after his

02:03performance at Yes Salaam in 2010.

02:06Tickets are on sale now and the concert's expected to be a pretty popular one.

02:11He's often referred to as the Robbie Williams of the Middle East, which is weird, but singer

02:16Sami Youssef proved it's all about him this week as he jetted in for a quick album launch.

02:22I would say that Salaam has a perennial message, a timeless message, because everyone wants

02:29peace.

02:30I try, in a humble way, to do something that will ultimately bring people closer to the

02:41world of the spirit.

02:42Those were the intentions behind the album.

02:46Salaam is now available at all Virgin Megastores in the region, we advise you to get yourself

02:51a copy.

02:52It's been a busy week for the Biebster.

02:55An imprisoned man whose infatuation with the teenager pushed him to hatch a plot to kill

02:59the singer.

03:00And the Canadian could be banned from the Philippines if he refuses to apologise to

03:04Manny Pacquiao over comments he made following the December 9th defeat of the Filipino boxer

03:10to Mexican rival Juan Manuel Marquez in Las Vegas, Nevada.

03:15Everything else aside, for all those who don't believe the Mayan calendar prediction that

03:19the world will end tomorrow, why not snap up Nicki Minaj tickets for December 28th at

03:24Maydan, not Mayan.

03:26For those who have been sucked in, don't bother and enjoy your last few hours on planet

03:31earth.

03:32Over to Manju for this week's Bollywood news.

03:34She may be deemed as the biggest fluke in Hollywood history, but Frida Pinto hit out

03:38against that tag in an exclusive interview with Tabloid.

03:41The word luck is so unfortunately misunderstood by people.

03:45You can't just have luck all your life, said Pinto.

03:47She was in town as a jury member of the recently concluded Dubai International Film Festival.

03:52In Mumbai, Bollywood stars expressed their outrage at the shocking gang rape of a 23-year-old

03:57girl in Delhi.

03:58While Amitabh Bachchan wrote extensively on social networking sites condemning the rape

04:02as atrocious and unforgivable and calling for every Indian to become a vigilante, actor

04:07Farhan Akhtar tweeted that the guilty should be treated as terrorists.

04:11Right here in Dubai, the finals of Sookshetra, the musical talent hunt show that sees a face-off

04:15between India and Pakistani singer hopefuls, will be held this weekend.

04:20Actress Asha Bosele, who continues to mourn her daughter's death, Pakistani pop icon Atif

04:24Aslam, Bollywood hitmaker Himesh Reshmiya and the iconic Abida Parveen are in town to

04:29choose the best among the lot.

04:31Your wait is over.

04:32Tonight, Salman Khan is back on the big screen as the comic cop Chulbul Robin Hood Pandey

04:37in the much-anticipated Dabangg 2.

04:40The sequel will see Bollywood's beefy hero romance his on-screen wife Rajjo in our very

04:44own Dubai.

04:45And that's your weekly wrap.

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