Strictly business.... or is Kara Tointon falling for her handsome Russian dance partner?

By DAILY MAIL REPORTER

Hands on: Kara Tointon and Artem Chigvintsev looked very close as they took a break between training


Strictly Come Dancing is as famous for romances as it is for its rumbas and it seems love is on the cards again this season.

Kara Tointon, 27, is rumoured to be 'smitten' with her Russian dance partner Artem Chigvintsev, whom she has been training with ahead of tomorrow night's show.

The pair certainly seemed close as they visited a shopping centre during a break from training this week.

Artem, 28, was spotted tenderly stroking the former EastEnders star's shoulders as they made their way down an escalator.


Budding romance? The former EastEnders star is said to be 'smitten' with her dance partner


Proving himself to be quite the gentleman, he was even carrying her handbag on the outing.

He has even been seen visiting the actress at her North London flat after hours, according to reports.

'It was obvious to everyone from the first rehearsal there was a huge spark between them,' a source is quoted as telling the Mirror.

Kara split from her former EastEnders co-star Joe Swash in June after a two year romance.


Ready to rumba: The pair will compete together for the first time on tomorrow's show


Artem, who got his break as a contestant on the US TV show So You Think You Can Dance in 2005, has also appeared as a professional on America's Dancing With The Stars.

He dated one of the show's judges Carrie Ann Inaba, who is 15 years his senior, however their romance ended in 2008.

A spokesperson for Kara says: 'Of course Kara and Artem are spending lots of time together. They are training every day. But they are just good friends.'

Kara and Artem will join Gavin Henson and Kataya Kirshilas, who were also spotted in London today, on Strictly Come Dancing tomorrow night on BBC at 9pm.


Gavin Henson and Kataya Kirshilas




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What a difference four years makes for ex Mrs Woods...but nothing changes for Tiger

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Pale and gaunt: Elin Nordegren visiting her doctor near her Florida home


Immaculately turned out, she beamed proudly as her man took centre stage in the Ryder Cup four years ago.

Yesterday Elin Nordegren cut a much less glamorous figure while her ex-husband Tiger Woods was preparing for the golfing clash between the U.S.A. and Europe in Wales.

The 30-year-old Swedish ex-model, appeared gaunt but relaxed as she visited her doctor in Florida.

She won a divorce payout of at least £60million from Woods, 34, after it emerged that he had had a string of affairs.

Under the deal, Woods, who is worth around £630million, is allowed to share parenting of their children – daughter Sam, three, and 19-month-old son Charlie.

Woods’ roving eye was back in play again yesterday when he was spotted closely examining the performance of Katherine Jenkins while she sang at the opening ceremony at Celtic Manor.


Smart: Miss Nordegren, circled, and the U.S.A. team wives at the 2006 Ryder Cup in Ireland


The Ryder Cup, which takes place every two years, begins this morning after two days of build-up.

Events included a dinner with Prince Charles and a concert at the Millennium Stadium in Cardiff.

It is the first time the cup has been held in Wales.



Song: Tiger Woods watches Katherine Jenkins


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Watch out Katherine, there's a Tiger on your tail: Golfer Woods caught ogling Miss Jenkins at the Ryder Cup opening ceremony

By GEORGINA LITTLEJOHN

Sneaky peek: Tiger Woods can't help looking at Katherine Jenkins's derriere as she performs at the Ryder Cup opening ceremony


You'd have thought that Tiger Woods would be on his best behaviour at the Ryder Cup this week, especially after the headlines he made this year.

But it would seem that the golfer just can't keep that roving eye still in his head, as this picture taken at the Ryder Cup opening ceremony proves.

Woods, 34, was caught staring at Katherine Jenkins's bottom as she performed at the opening ceremony of the tournament, which is taking place in her native Wales for the very first time.

Thankfully, the singer, who was wearing a Victoria Beckham creation, seemed completely oblivous to his cheeky gaze as she walked past the U.S Ryder Cup team at the event at at Celtic Manor in Newport today.

It was day two of the tournament, but as yet, no clubs have been swung and not one ball has been holed.


Admiring glances: Tiger wasn't the only one watching Katherine as she sang to the crowd at Celtic Manor in Newport


Instead, the pomp and pageantry surrounding the world's biggest golf tournament continued with a flourish, and - apart from Woods's - all eyes were on the glamorous wives and girlfriends of the European and American competitors.

One in particular stood head-and-shoulders above the rest - quite literally - as Angie Watson, wife of US Ryder Cup plater Bubba, joined her fellow WAGs at today's opening ceremony.


Flying the flag: Angie Watson (third from front in red) towers above her fellow Ryder Cup WAGs as they step out at today's opening ceremony



United: Flashing beaming smiles, the golfers' other halves enter the opening ceremony


The former basketball player, who stands at 6ft 4ins, towered over the ladies as they walked out side by side.

Leading the American ladies, who were dressed in black trousers and stylish red macs, was Lisa Pavin, wife of U.S. Ryder Cup captain Corey, and was closely followed by former cheerleader Kandi Harris, Hunter Mahan's fiancee, and then Watson.


The girls are all white: The European team WAGs smile and wave their Flags of Europe as they go to take their seats


Standing tall: Angie Watson has the best view in the house as she and the other US team WAGs watch the opening


Next to them were the European birdies, who were all dresed in white, some with royal blue scarves round their next, and some waving the Flag of Europe.

The ladies have been the centre of attention since the all jetted into Wales on Monday for the tournament, which takes place every two years.


Here come the boys: Captain Corey Pavin leads out his US team


This is the first time that it has been played on these green lands, although not a single game has been started yet.

Today was all about greeting the teams to the course, with Jenkins, wh performed at the Millennium Stadium last night, kicking off proceedings with a rousing rendition of the Welsh national anthem.

Corey Pavin then gave a speech in which he paid tribute to European team member Colin Montgomerie.


Ready for the off: The pairings for tomorrow's opening day are announced


The US teams then stood for the American national anthem, Star Spangled Banner, while the European team got out their seats for the Anthem of Europe.

The opening pairings were then announced for tomorrow morning as the tournament finally tees off after two days of build-up which has included a formal dinner with Prince Charles and a Welcome To Wales concert at the Millennium Stadium.



How green is my valley? The luscious course of the Celtic Manor Resort

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Miss England 2010, Jessica Linley (latest photos )

Jessica Linley was crowned Miss England 2010 on September 1st at the Hilton Birmingham Metropole in Birmingham. Jessica Linley of Nottingham is 21 year old and stands 5’11”. She will represent England in Miss World 2010 pageant.






Jessica Linley was crowned Miss England 2010 on September 1st at the Hilton Birmingham Metropole in Birmingham. Jessica Linley of Nottingham is 21 year old and stands 5’11”. She will represent England in Miss World 2010 pageant.






Jessica Linley was crowned Miss England 2010 on September 1st at the Hilton Birmingham Metropole in Birmingham. Jessica Linley of Nottingham is 21 year old and stands 5’11”. She will represent England in Miss World 2010 pageant.






Jessica Linley was crowned Miss England 2010 on September 1st at the Hilton Birmingham Metropole in Birmingham. Jessica Linley of Nottingham is 21 year old and stands 5’11”. She will represent England in Miss World 2010 pageant.





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RYDER CUP 2010: Colin Montgomerie insists Europe are one up already after US captain Corey Pavin's incredible gaffes

By DEREK LAWRENSON Golf Correspondent

Up for grabs: Colin Montgomerie and Corey Pavin (R) hold the Ryder Cup trophy on Thursday


Ryder Cup captain Colin Montgomerie believes Europe are already one-up after his opposite number Corey Pavin made an incredible gaffe at the opening ceremony.

When reading out the names of his team, Pavin forgot to mention last year's Open champion Stewart Cink until it was pointed out to him as he made his way back to his seat.

It was all food and drink to Monty, who places great store in the impression the two captains make at their big showpiece on the eve of the contest.

'I remember coming away from Sam Torrance's brilliant speech at the opening ceremony in 2002 feeling Europe were one up, and again in 2004 with Bernhard Langer, and I hope my team feel that way now,' said Monty. 'It certainly felt very similar to me.'
On both those occasions, Europe came flying out of the blocks the next morning and went on to win by large margins.

Monty has been buoyed by a text message sent to him by Manchester United manager, Sir Alex Ferguson, and no wonder, since he clearly shares the latter's fondness for mind games.

'He pointed out to me that we're both Scots, we're both very competitive, and he wished the team well,' said Monty. 'It meant a lot.'

Tiger Woods covered his eyes with his hand as Pavin tried to recover his composure after a gaffe that rivalled Hal Sutton's effort in 2004, when he managed to forget how many kids he had.


Oh dear: Tiger Woods reacts after captain Corey Pavin forgets to announce former Open champion Stewart Cink (R) in the USA team


But Pavin did come up with a good self-deprecatory line afterwards. 'I only screwed up once - and I only forgot one player. It might have been two,' he said.
Nevertheless, Monty wiped the floor with his US counterpart.

While one delivered his speech in a flat monotone, Monty was passion personified. He didn't need to say it was the proudest moment of his career - everyone could see it in his eyes.

The first pairings didn't bring the match-up Woods wanted against Rory McIlroy but he will play English pair Ross Fisher and Ian Poulter instead in a game that will electrify the 40,000 sell-out crowd.

Poulter could hardly contain his excitement.


Fired up: Ian Poulter cannot wait to get started at Celtic Manor


'It's going to be noisy and it needs to be,' he said.

'It's up to me and Ross to give the crowd what they want.'

Lee Westwood will lead off for Europe with Martin Kaymer after pursuading the captain to go against his hunch of handing the task to McIlroy and Graeme McDowell.
'The first match is always going to be difficult but we are quietly confident,' said Westwood.


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25-year-old Mourhrna Anetha Reddy is Miss Fiji World 2010 - She will represent in Miss World 2010 pageant

25-year-old Mourhrna Anetha Reddy stands 5'8'' and will represent Fiji in Miss World 2010 pageant





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RYDER CUP 2010: Europe's big beasts lead the charge... Sportsmail's guide to Friday's fourballs and the teams at Celtic Manor

By DEREK LAWRENSON Golf Correspondent at Celtic Manor

Those with a taste for blood and gore wanted this Ryder Cup to begin with Tiger against Rory. The European captain wanted it to begin with Rory McIlroy and Graeme McDowell.

But for the past six weeks Lee Westwood has nursed his ailing body with one purpose in mind, and that was to stand on the first tee and lead off Europe's quest to regain Samuel Ryder's gold cup.

Such is the esteem in which the finest English golfer since Nick Faldo is held by his captain, there was no way Colin Montgomerie was going to deny him.


And so this 38th edition will begin not with a grudge match or the flags of Northern Ireland flying high, but with a gesture of profound respect for Europe's No 1 and Europe's most recent major champion, as Westwood (below) and Martin Kaymer are charged with the honour and responsibility of setting the tone for getting the trophy back.

Waiting for them will be the formidable American pairing of Phil Mickelson and Dustin Johnson. Talk about meeting firepower with firepower.

Do sports fans with satellite television need any more incentive to set the alarm clock early? Do those privileged enough to have a ticket need any more excuse to pack their waterproofs and their singing voices?

There's plenty more following the announcement of an opening series that left Europe feeling supremely confident and Americans shaking their heads in puzzlement.

Europe's four pairings were exactly those predicted in Sportsmail a week ago, but who could have guessed America's line-up?
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Keeping dry in the clubhouse on the first morning will be the man who has just won $11million at the FedEx Cup and another who went five matches unbeaten at the last Ryder Cup. In place of Jim Furyk and Hunter Mahan will be rookies in Bubba Watson and Jeff Overton. Who could have predicted that?

Certainly not the opposition captain.

'It's safe to say Padraig Harrington and Luke Donald did not expect to play two rookies in the anchor match,' said Montgomerie.

'Any scenario you think of piles a lot of pressure on two inexperienced players. We could be trying to make it 2-2 or go 3-1 ahead. Giving that task to Bubba and Jeff is, well, a bit strange really.'

While one captain is playing a blinder the other really ought to be hauled off the pitch. After all that military nonsense from Corey Pavin on Wednesday, how unfortunate that he should look around the stage at the opening ceremony and find one of his team had gone missing in action.

'An Open champion, too!' chortled Montgomerie.

Honestly, when you're charged with the task of announcing your team, how can you forget to mention one of them? Stewart Cink could have been forgiven for feeling neglected when he won The Open last year and all the plaudits went to Tom Watson, but this was something else again. Just as well for Pavin that Cink is one of life's good guys. If it had happened to Tiger, he would have probably caught the next flight out of town.

Here's more strangeness from Pavin. This will be the first Ryder Cup Tiger Woods has played in since 1999 in which he will not be the lead hitter on the opening morning.

Did Pavin go looking for Rory in putting Tiger off in the third match? Well, you wouldn't expect him to answer that one, would you? Anyway, instead of Rory, Tiger and Steve Stricker have found Ian Poulter and Ross Fisher instead.


Poulter was the European star of the last Ryder Cup and what a chance he and Fisher now have to be the stars of the opening series. No-one will expect them to win, not against an American pairing who went unbeaten in four matches at the last Presidents Cup. Well, no-one bar Montgomerie, the thousands who will follow their every shot and, most importantly, the two players themselves.

Fisher might not make the same headlines as Poulter but he doesn't fall short when it comes to self-belief.

'Tonight we will have a few inspired speeches, get a good night's kip and then go out there and give it to them,' he said. Poulter added: 'It's going to be just incredible, isn't it?'

Splitting the top match and this one will the fulfillment for McIlroy and McDowell of a dream they have cherished from the moment the former left the amateur world and joined the paid ranks three years ago. They will play Matt Kuchar and, er, what's his name again - oh yes, Stewart Cink.

This couldn't have worked out better for the home pair, for while Kuchar has had a wonderful year, he looked exhausted at the Tour Championship last week.


Europe, therefore, will be bitterly disappointed if they don't come out of the opening series with at least a one-point lead. It might not sound anything with 24 points still to play for and it isn't in real terms. But past experience has shown the team leading after round one have a massive psychological advantage.

Indeed, in the 15 Ryder Cups to have been staged since the continentals were invited to the party in 1979, only twice has the team that lost the opening series come back to win.

No wonder Westwood wanted to bat first, then. Anybody else and it would have been a difficult decision for Montgomerie. He was fully aware how good McDowell and McIlroy were when playing first at the Seve Trophy last year.

But, in a team as good from top to bottom as Europe's, Westwood is still Montgomerie's main man. It took guts to ask to play first, 11 weeks since he last played competitively, safe in the knowledge that a star pair would provide the opposition. A lesser man would have wanted to hide. But Westwood is desperate to get rid of the sour taste from last time, when Sir Nick Faldo took all the wind from his sails. Now he has a captain who will believe in him to the end, and by his side will be the brilliant German who Montgomerie believes is a future world No 1.


No-one from Europe will be too unhappy that the weather is predicted to be bad at the start. It certainly won't dampen the spirits of those who will gather at first light for what is truly among the best this sport has to offer - the opening shots on the opening day of the Ryder Cup.

Europe begin with the captain resplendent and the opposition worrying whether in Pavin they have another Faldo, a cold fish who tries to reinvent the wheel with his strange selections.

Pavin could do with Tiger motivated and Mickelson and Johnson at their best. He could do with a couple of rookies turning convention on its head.

Anything else, and the knives will be out. Win this opening series, and one-up for Europe will start to feel more like one hand on the trophy.




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Photos of Miss Vietnam World 2010 Ngoc Kieu Khanh NGUYEN in swimsuit

Miss Vietnam World 2010 Ngoc Kieu Khanh NGUYEN in swimsuit.













19-year-old Khanh Kieu stands 1.78 m. (5'10") and will represent Vietnam in Miss World 2010 on October 30 in Sanya, China.


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Miss Vietnam World 2010 Ngoc Kieu Khanh NGUYEN at International Tourism Exhibition in Ho Chi Minh City 30/09/2010.









19-year-old Khanh Kieu stands 1.78 m. (5'10") and will represent Vietnam in Miss World 2010 on October 30 in Sanya, China.

She will go to China tomorrow.

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Miss Philippines World 2010 - New Photos Binibining Pilipinas World 2010 Czarina Gatbonton

New Photos Binibining Pilipinas World 2010 Czarina Gatbonton.
















19-year-old Czarina stands 1.77 m. (5'10") and will represent the Philippines in Miss World 2010 on October 30 in Sanya, China.

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