TV host and actor Mario Lopez approached turning 50 with more excitement than dread. “It’s weird, I think I am so thrilled about being 50 that I haven’t absorbed it,” Mario, who celebrated the October 10 event with a family-and-friends trip to Mexico, tells Closer. “It may not hit me that hard until I turn 51. That could be like, ‘Dang, I’m on the other side now!'” Approaching life with a smile has helped Mario go far.

NASHVILLE (CelebrityAccess) – Ahead of returning to Texas for the Academy of Country Music (ACM) awards tonight (May 16), the most-awarded artist in ACM history and passionate animal advocate Miranda Lambert has some good news for her home state, announcing nearly $130,000 in “It Takes Balls” spay and neuter grants awarded by her MuttNation Foundation to 34 organizations throughout Texas, with plans to expand to additional areas in the future.

The sustained contraction of exports, the state’s main source of revenue, also meant a fiscal crunch, while shrinking imports of raw materials and consumer necessities, including food, jeopardised the output of the state manufacturing sector, induced food insecurity and instigated inflation. The resulting depreciation of the domestic currency eroded purchasing power, stimulating the circulation of foreign currencies. The disruption of state manufacturing also contributed to “marketisation from below” and the proliferation of the non-state sector – also known as the shadow economy – which now accounts for an estimated 70 per cent of the economy.

Video of a group of men in China hauling bridesmaids from the boot of a wedding car before tying them to lamp posts and igniting firecrackers beneath their flammable dresses has caused widespread outrage on mainland social media. As fire and thick smoke envelop them, the women can be seen trying to shield their faces while not a single bystander steps forward to help. The person recording the scene also does not appear to intervene.

Of all the things we'd like to do if we met Leonardo DiCaprio, we have to say that slapping him doesn't come up high on the list. However, Margot Robbie did just that in her Wolf of Wall Street audition, even though the move was entirely unscripted and unexpected. Still, it paid off pretty hard. Margot bagged the lead female role in the film, and Leonardo—though stunned—asked her to go ahead and slap him all over again.