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Happy holidays!
The super duper January issue of Girl Power is on sale now! We’ve packed the pages with school holiday boredom busters – quizzes, puzzles, D.I.Y. and an A-Z of summer fun ideas! Plus, find out how to make 2012 your best year EVER!
Are you excited about all the fabulous flicks hitting cinemas this summer? We sure are! We’ve got an uber-spesh pull out movie mini-mag in this issue and it’s filled with behind-the-scenes goss! Yay! Just so you know, the GP team had a BLAST reviewing all the movies (and ate our way through a LOT of popcorn!)
Of course, the Jan issue has a bucketload of celeb news too – we profile tomorrow’s top stars, plus get the latest on Elle Fanning and Hugo star Chloe Moretz! We also got chatting to Victoria Justice this month (and we were TOTALLY starstruck!)
So buckle up and get ready for a summer of fun, inspired by GIRL POWER MAG! Hooray!
Wishing you a happy holiday season!
Tags: Chloe Moretz, Elle Fanning, Girl Power Magazine, January, Movies, Summer, Victoria Justice
The GP girls were so lucky to get a sneak peek at the fabulous new flick Arrietty. It. Was. Amazing!
Arrietty is a beautiful animated movie about a teeny, tiny 14-year-old girl called Arrietty who lives under the floorboards of a mansion. She lives with her family and they survive by “borrowing” things from the people who live in the house. When a 12-year-old human boy comes to stay at the house, Arrietty’s life changes forever. You can catch it in cinemas from January 12.
This movie is based on the much-loved book The Borrowers by Mary Norton and it’s seriously sweet. The best way to find out all about it is to watch the trailer below!
Isn’t the animation amazing? Fun fact: It’s made by the Japanese animation house Studio Ghibli – they did Spirited Away and Ponyo! It screens in both an English language version and a subtitled Japanese version. Cool!
Thanks to Madman Entertainment, we’ve got 5 family passes to the movie to give away! Yay! To enter, email us at girlpower@nextmedia.com.au and tell us, if you could live under the floorboards of anyone’s house, whose house would it be and why? Don’t forget to include your name, age, postal address and phone number, too!
The competition closes at 9am on Monday, Jan 9, 2012. Good luck!
- This competition is now CLOSED. Thanks for your amazing entries! –
Tags: Arrietty, Competition, Madman Entertainment, Movie
This week, we caught up with Ricki-Lee Coulter to find out how she’s helping others this Chrissie! A singer and a sweetie – Ricki-Lee is all kinds of awesome!!! Read on to find out where Ricki-Lee and other music stars are performing next week…
On Monday you’ll be taking part in the Optus Celebrity Carols for charity. What will you be doing?
Myself, Shannon Noll and Johnny Ruffo will be taking to the streets in different states. So I’ll be doing Sydney at Pitt Street Mall, Shannon Noll will be doing Brisbane and Johnny Ruffo will be doing Melbourne.We’ll each be busking in the street which is fun!
The great thing about it is it’s all about raising money for charity, so we’ll be taking donations and the money will go toward our selected charity. Mine is The Smith Family and Optus will match dollar for dollar every donation made, so hopefully we can make a great amount of money. For my charity The Smith Family it’s really important because it’s all about helping disadvantaged children and educating those kids and I guess at Christmas time they don’t always get to wake up with a present under the tree. So if we can help get them a present under the tree it’s worth it in my eyes.
Image: Cybele Malinowski
Yeah I’ve done some work with them before and it really is amazing to see what they do. They really do focus on educating these children who are disadvantaged and you know education is so important, they’ve seen so many success stories come out of the Smith Family and become successful in their own right and it really is an incredible charity.
Do you have a favourite Christmas carol?
I’m such a big Mariah Carey Christmas album fan, like every girl it gets played to death at Christmas! So I’m going to be doing ‘All I want for Christmas is You’ which is like my favourite Christmas song and then I’m going to be doing my other favourite which is the ballad ‘Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas’, as well as a few of my own songs. I’ve also got a bit of a busking band going on which will be fun and I’m looking forward to it.
So you’ve never busked before?
No, so I’m kind of nervous and scared! I hope people stop and donate some money to charity.
I’m sure the hat will fill up very quickly. It might have to be a tub!
I hope so! Maybe a suitcase!
So is performing in the street scarier than on stage?
It’s going to be so different because you’re out in the open and people are just walking past. Usually when you’re doing a show, a gig or on tour people have come specifically to see you, but when you’re just busking in the street it’s just people walking past and if they’re interested they will stop and if they’re not then they’ll keep walking. Hopefully more people stop and watch than keep walking.
Image: Cybele Malinowski
I warm up my voice so I don’t do any damage and other than that I don’t have any other rituals. I just drink lots of water and if I’m performing with dancers I’ll do a bit of a run-through with my choreographer and my dancers so we’re in the zone. I’ll check over the songs and make sure I’m doing them in the right order. I’m quite relaxed! I’ve heard of people who wont talk for 8 hours and only drink room temperature water and won’t eat, people can get very over the top but I’m easygoing.
So you’re not a diva then!?
No, no!
Do you have any nice Christmas traditions?
I just like spending it with my family. I’m starting a tradition this year though. I do Carols by Candlelight every year on Christmas Eve in Melbourne and because I’m from Queensland, waking up in Melbourne on Christmas morning in a hotel room with no Christmas tree, it’s kind of like ‘oh’… So I’ll go over to my friends house and cook a big Christmas brunch so I’ll feel at home and I get to put some presents under their Christmas tree. Then I’ll fly up to Queensland to see my family!
Ricki-Lee Coulter, Johnny Ruffo and Shannon Noll will all be busking next week as part of the Optus Celebrity Carols.
Ricki-Lee will be busking on Monday December 19 at 11am in Pitt Street Mall, Sydney for The Smith Family.
Johnny Ruffo will be busking on Tuesday December 20 at 11 am at the State Library of Victoria Forecourt, Swanston Street, Melbourne for World Vision.
Shannon Noll will be busking on Wednesday December 21 at 11am at Queen Street Mall, Brisbane for Kids Helpline.
Tags: charity, Christmas, Interview, Kids Helpline, Optus, Optus Celebrity Carols, Ricki-Lee Coulter, The Smith Family, world vision
The GP Girls just LOVE the uber-freaky and fabulous Monster High! All their crazy and creepy adventures spook us out but also make us SMILE! Have you read the book series yet? All the novels are total page-turners and the dolls are creepily cute too! We’ve got them on our Christmas list!
You can check out fun webisodes and find out more about Monster High at www.monsterhigh.com.au.
So because we love Monster High so much, we’ve got 5 great prize packs up for grabs! Each one includes:
To enter, email us at girlpower@nextmedia.com.au and tell us about your freakiest, creepiest moment EVER! Include your name, age, postal address and phone number. The competition closes Jan 5, 2012. Good Luck girls and have a very creepy Christmas!
- This Competition has now CLOSED – Thank you for your entries! –
Tags: Christmas, Competition, girl power, Monster High
So, you’ve already got Justin Bieber’s Christmas album, but you still want a bit more Bieber Christmas cheer? Well we’ve got good news for you!
From Saturday, December 17, Justin Bieber will be on the Disney Channel in the ‘So Random Christmas Special’. Hooray!
Merry Christmas girls! PIC: DISNEY CHANNEL/DEAN HENDLER
JB will perform his hit ‘Mistletoe’ on this special ep which is packed to the brim with lots of sketches and festive fun! So tune in girls, we sure will be!
Tags: Christmas, disney, Disney Channel, Justin Bieber, Mistletoe
OMG! Today we’ve got something really special for you on the GP website! An sneak peek at one of the clips that comes on the Dragons: Gift of the Night Fury DVD! Dragons is the follow up to How to Train Your Dragon, which we L-O-V-E!
In this clip, Astrid (America Ferrera) serves up her own Christmas creation – Yaknog! Think eggnog… but totally gross! Get ready to LOL girls!
Dragons: Gift of the Night Fury is out now! Yay! We think it’d make a kinda awesome Christmas pressie. Just sayin’ 
Tags: America Ferrera, Dragons: Gift of the Night Fury, DVD, girl power, How to Train Your Dragon
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