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Zsa Zsa Gabor's husband wants to mummify wife's body

By Myrddin Gwynedd
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2 Sep, 2010 09:30 PM5 mins to read

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Zsa Zsa Gabor's husband Prince Frederic von Anhalt says he wants to preserve his ailing wife's body after she dies.

Gabor's ninth husband has told German newspaper Bild that he wants to plastinate his wife's body after she's slipped off the mortal coil. Which is probably best, seeing
as it's not something you'd want done while you've still got a pulse.

"My wife has always dreamt that her beauty would be immortal.

"I would like to show the plastinated body of Zsa Zsa Gabor in the context of a scene in one of her films."

Von Anhalt said German anatomist Gunther von Hagens should carry out the procedure. Hagens gained worldwide notoriety for his controversial exhibitions showing plastinated bodies with just muscles and tendons still intact.

I see dead people...

Crikey, I know 93-year-old Zsa Zsa Gabor is well preserved, but that's more than just a little bit creepy. How very Norman Bates. Wouldn't he be better off preserving her memory by turning her ashes into whopping finger bling, or a nice wee ornament? It's what she would have wanted.

So not only would poor Zsa Zsa be plucked, sucked and dipped in Hagens' secret concoction, hubby would undoubtedly mount her on a plinth and stick her in the lounge of their Bel Air mansion - right next to the stuffed leopard.

Meanwhile, Gabor, who has been hospitalised several times in the past months, was rushed back to a hospital in Los Angeles this week after von Anhalt had found her unconscious.

Latest word on her condition is that she's since returned home, but is in a great deal of pain and needs to be moved every two hours.

A rep for the star tells website ContactMusic.com: "She's returned home, and she's taking medication. But she now needs to be moved every two hours to avoid getting too sore - it's painful for her - she just wants to be at home".

Her wish is granted. She'll certainly be there... for all eternity!

Guns N' Woe-ses

Oh dear, Axl Rose's comeback is not exactly going to plan.

The rocker and his merry band halted a gig in Dublin yesterday and walked off stage, twenty minutes into their set.

Word is the band rocked up an hour late for the gig, and several angry fans began throwing bottles on stage.

When Rose finally fronted, he warned the crowd that if any more bottles were tossed at the band, they'd walk off. Which is exactly what happened.

Check out the video below (Warning, contains swearing):

Move on, Paris

Rod Stewart

has some fatherly advice for perpetual party girl,

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Paris Hilton

: No more drugs!

Stewart, whose daughter

Kim Stewart

used to be friends with the socialite, is urging Hilton to put her party girl ways behind her following news of her arrest in Las Vegas on a cocaine possession charge.

"She is a lovely girl," Stewart tells

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Britain's Telegraph

.

"I've always found her tremendously polite and very respectful, but, you know, it's time to move on perhaps, give up the drugs."

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Oh, and hang on...that purse did belong to her in the end?

Hilton

tweeted a photo

of her Chanel purse back in July, captioned, "Love My New Chanel Purse I got Today". It transpires that said purse is identical to the one she had when she was arrested last weekend.

Oops!

Less is Moore

If you've got it, flaunt it. Not that

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Demi Moore

needs reminding.

The 47-year-old actress has

posted snaps

of herself clad in a skimpy bikini on Twitter.

Yes love, we know you look amazing with your age/gravity-defying hot bod, but give it a rest.

She wrote on Twitter: "Finally a day off. Maybe this is more like summer!"

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See the snaps

here

.

No Dion drama

Celine Dion

's rep has trashed escalating reports that the pregnant singer was hospitalised and forced to undergo emergency surgery last week.

A French tabloid claimed yesterday that Dion, who is six months pregnant with twins, was rushed to a Miami hospital following pregnancy complications.

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The report claimed Dion had supposedly undergone a cervical cerclage - to tighten or completely close the cervix to prevent an early delivery.

Nonsense says the Canadian singer's rep tells

People

, adding that the reports are "completely fabricated".

"She's happy and healthy and never had a procedure. She's never been in the hospital - her pregnancy continues to be healthy and she feels fantastic.

"They've gotten calls from friends worried that something is wrong. To be so happy and then to get these calls, it's been upsetting for them when they are in such a good place," says her rep.

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Blogger's Briefs

Something for the weekend...

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Rapper

T.I.

and wife

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arrested

on drug charges.

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Kristen Stewart

's

Breaking Dawn

birth scene will be 'intense'.

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Can't wait

.

*

David Letterman

's extortionist

is out of the slammer

.

*

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Anne Hathaway

puckers up

in Paris.

*

Jen Aniston

goes on a date

with

Lindsay Lohan

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's ex. There will be tears.

*

Kelly Osbourne

morphs

into a Pussycat Doll.

And finally this...

Probably one of the most disturbing videos ever created.

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Yoko Ono

fake-orgasms at the 'unveiling' of her conceptual artwork Voice Piece for Soprano at the Museum of Modern Art.

What the...?

But is it art?

I won't have what she's having.

Blogger Bites Back

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