Daniel Radcliffe routinely gets an “Atta Boy” on the celebrity circuit for being one of the least screwed-up former child stars in the business. So imagine how many jaws dropped when the distinguished gentleman revealed this week that he suffered silently with a crippling addiction to alcohol while filming the final two installments of the Harry Potter franchise. It’s true — our beloved boy wizard had to quit drinking and turn his back on hard-partying after becoming “reliant” on downing whiskey.
“I became so reliant on [alcohol] to enjoy stuff,” Daniel, now 21, reveals to GQ Magazine Britain. “There were a few years there when I was just so enamoured with the idea of living some sort of famous person’s lifestyle that really isn’t suited to me.”
Stylista Emma Watson practically grew up on the set of the Harry Potter movies – so it’s no surprise that the former child star was shot by Cupid for the first time on set!
Guess we haven’t seen the last of the suspenders: CNN will air A Larry King Special – Harry Potter: The Final Chapter – an one hour television event, hosted by the bespectacled man himself — on July 10.
Previously unpublished Harry Potter material will be released on a new website, British novelist JK Rowling said during a press conference at the Victoria and Albert Museum in Central London on Thursday. The seven Harry Potter novels will be available in ebook form this fall, thanks to the launch of new interactive online website Pottermore.com, that will allow readers to navigate through Rowling’s blockbuster series about a boy wizard and his pals.
Hermione who? Vogue’s July cover model looks stunning in Prada on the front of the magazine shot by Mario Testino. There’s little trace of the frizzy-haired girl wizard in Emma Watson’s new, glammed-up shots for The Fashion Bible — although Emma says she has a lot in common with her Harry Potter alter ego.
