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Good morning everyone,

We are still alive, pretty much. I believe it’s safe to say that all of us are kind of busy with the Christmas festivities approaching and a million and one papers to hand in before the end of the semester. We hope you understand!

A few days ago I woke up to the awesome news that Ben is friends with none  other than Rpattz!

The actor is also friends with another uber-hunk (?!) Prince Caspian’s Ben Barnes. Ben used to groove to soul music in high school with Rob’s older sister. Source

I’m sure the two lads can share hair tips.

However, much to my chagrin in a new interview with TeenHollywood Ben says he wanted the role of the dazzling 107 year old virgin vampire who sparks like a diamond in the sun, Edward Cullen:

I wanted to be in that Twilight film but I was too old. There’s no way I could look seventeen for the next three years.

I bet the real reason behind this is that he really wanted to drive the shiny Volvo. I give it a day until the Twilightmoms start a petition to have Ben be one of the Volturi (Italian vampires) in the Twilight sequel “New Moon”… Oh wait, there’s one already.
Anyway, make sure to read the whole interview here!

Moving on to something else…

Here’s a new picture of Ben’s four and a half minutes pop career.

Ben’s become patron of Make-A-Wish!

27 year old Ben is best known for his role as Prince Caspian in The Chronicles of Narnia and his latest film, Easy Virtue, premiered in London recently. Ben has become the latest celebrity to join Make-A-Wish’s list of VIP Patrons.

Neil Jones, CEO of Make-A-Wish, commented: “Make-A-Wish is extremely proud to have Ben Barnes as a Patron. His dedication and commitment will be a huge asset to the charity, and we are very honoured to welcome this popular rising film star to our team.” Source

Ben is in Yahoo’s list of Breakout Stars of 2008, see here.

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From Digitalspy.co.uk:

Ben Barnes has said that he finds it awkward shooting romantic sex scenes when he’s not completely naked. The actor said he would prefer to strip off nude rather than wear a “contraption” over his genitalia.

“Do you know why it’s impossible to have any dignity [in sex scenes]?” he told Absolute Radio. “Because usually you’re wearing some sort of ridiculous contraption to protect your modesty. It would just be so much better if it wasn’t there at all.”

Explaining further the instrument used to cover him up, Barnes said: “[It’s] a sort of beige… cod-piece that’s sort of taped to you and there’s absolutely no way of maintaining your dignity under those circumstances.”

When asked about kissing Jessica Biel in his new film Easy Virtue, he commented: “Do you know what? People always say to you sex scenes are not sexy because everyone’s watching and blah, blah blah… [but] you can’t pretend that kissing Jessica Biel is a bad thing. You just can’t.”

I’ll make sure to add these to our “Ben’s quotes” section later…

There is a video that goes along with the article of their interview with him. Definitely interesting, you can watch it here!

And last but not least. Magical Menagerie has chosen BBF as their “Site of the Month“. It is very much appreciated, thanks!

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Good day everyone,

As many of you asked me to post a more “readable” version of yesterday’s Evening Standard with Ben, I have uploaded the .pdf file!

» Read the PDF file (No hotlinking, please).

And here are the pictures in HQ thanks to the lovely flame_eternel from our LJ Community! Enjoy:

Have a nice day!

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I have been sent this very interesting article on Ben from today’s Evening Standard and I couldn’t just not upload the scans for you all. Enjoy:

Among other things, he talks about his family, his school years, Hyrise and his career. Definitely worth a read.

Have a lovely weekend!

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