It’s Splitsville for Oscar-winning actress Kate Winslet and her director hubby Sam Mendes. The couple are calling it quits after nearly seven years of marriage.

Lawyers for the Oscar-winning actress, 34, confirmed the news Monday, calling the decision “by mutual agreement” and adding that it was “entirely amicable.” Read the rest of this entry »

Lawyers for Kate Winslet say the actress has accepted more than $40,000 in damages after The Daily Mail falsely reported in January she lied about her exercise regime.

Winslet — who won a Golden Globe and an Oscar earlier this year for the 2008 film The Reader –has been an outspoken critic of excessive dieting. In 2007, she won damages against a British magazine which wrongly stated she had visited a diet doctor.

Kate was not in court for this morning’s settlement, but wanted an apology “to demonstrate my commitment to the views that I have always expressed about body issues, including diet and exercise,” her lawyer said.

Hugh Hefner hopes actress Kate Winslet will scrap her vow never to go nude again because the Playboy founder is itching to to get the Oscar-winning British actress onto the pages of his iconic men’s mag. Read the rest of this entry »

Kate Winslet wins an Oscar…finally. The British-born star won an Academy Award for Best Actress for her role in The Reader at The 81st Academy Awards in Hollywood on Sunday.

Kate Winslet stopped by The View on Wednesday to dish on her Best Actress nod at the 2009 Academy Awards.

As you may recall, Kate, who made a splash in the ’90s blockbuster Titanic, walked away with both Best Actress and Best Supporting Actress trophies at last month’s Golden Globes for her work in The Reader and Revoluntionary Road.