Frankie Avalon at American Idol Top 8 Results

Last night, American Idol had a big surprise for its viewers. No, it was not the elimination of Scott Mactintyre. It was Frankie Avalon! joining Kellie Pickler and Flo Rida on stage for performances.

After an introduction of what was going on in 1959, the year Simon was born, American Idol host Ryan played a clipping of the number one song from that year. The song was ´Venus´ by Frankie Avalon. And then, there was the man himself! The surprise guest came on stage singing ´Venus´ and looking as good as ever.

Born in 1939, Frankie Avalon is an actor/singer, and more importantly, was a teen icon of his times. He joined the US television at the young age of 12. His roles in ´Beach Party´ film genre made him hugely popular and he became a sex-symbol. On television, he starred in approximately two-dozen episodes. Despite taking up marketing in 1980s, Avalon did not resign from his acting/singing career. He appeared in the stage productions of ´Grease´ and in 2007, he performed the song ¨Beauty School Dropout.¨

Frankie Avalon´s ¨Venus¨ was released in 1959 and it became an instant hit. The song hit the charts acquiring number one position on Billboard Hot 100 chart where it remained for five consecutive weeks. When Avalon gave a live performance of the song last night on American Idol Top 8 Results, it was awesome to see the iconic figure on stage with his old hit.

Apart from Avalon, Kellie Pickler performed and Flo Rida sang ¨Right Round.¨ There was a group performance song, which was “Can’t Get You Out of My Head” by Kylie Minogue. But after Frankie Avalon´s surprise visit to the ´Idol´ stage, all seemed a blur.

Kate Winslet

Kate Winslet is joyous of the fact that she has wrinkles. She says she simply “loves” her wrinkles. Kate is popular for making candid statements and is also very open about her life and surroundings.

The 33-year-old actress insists she would never have Botox done on her.  She could not bear Botox smoothing out her facial lines.

She would simply hate being injected in the forehead because she enjoys seeing her face change as she gets older.

She said: “I just love seeing those things. I am enjoying my face changing, as well as realising that at the same time, as you get older, the machine isn’t as well-oiled as it was.”

Kate who reunites with ‘Titanic’ co-star Leonardo DiCaprio in new movie ‘Revolutionary Road’ also revealed that she was excited to see how much she and Leonardo have aged since appearing in the 1997 Hit movie.

kate has been a part of many good movies. The numbers are not huge but the quality sure is. She has a come a long way since her growing days with director, James Cameron of “Titanic”. Her British stature and beauty has made her stand up in several classic movies like Sense and Sensibility (1995). Winslet played the character of Clementine Kruczynski in Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004) to perfection. She has matured as an actor and as a person.

She said: “I was very, very thrown by the fact that I had to make some big changes in my life in order to be myself, but under this kind of movie-star banner ”

She added to Parade magazine: “I’m like, ‘Yes, damn it! Look at those foreheads move!’ I mean, he has this amazing furrow between his eyebrows, which wasn’t as prominent then and this one on my forehead is much more prominent in me now.”

Kate says her husband Sam Mendes, who directs ‘Revolutionary Road’, has helped put her life in perspective.

She said: “I was very, very thrown by the fact that I had to make some big changes in my life in order to be myself, but under this kind of movie-star banner it was a difficult balance to find. Now I feel I’ve got that. I’ve actually had it for a while, I think. That’s mainly to do with my incredible husband.”

“We were having lunch, and I was having a glass of wine and eating bread and putting butter on the bread, and I turned to Sam and said, ‘I am just so happy!’ “