By Chloe Schneider
Are celebrities the new super heroes? Yesterday two crazy stories emerged, one involving Kate Winslet, Richard Branson, a $70 million home and a fire and the other Ryan Gosling, a street fight and New York City! Read on for all the incredible details.
And in celeb baby news, Jennifer Garner and Ben Affleck have just announced they’re expecting.
Kate Winslet Comes to the Rescue
We already knew Kate Winslet was talented, beautiful and kind but a hero? It seems so!
When Richard Branson’s $70 million home on the private paradise Necker Island was hit by lightening, it burst into flames, destroying photographs and note books from a second autobiography he was working on.
Luckily, the twenty guests who were staying in the house escaped unharmed, one of whom has Kate Winslet to thank. Branson told CBS, “My mother’s 90 years old and, in order — although she can walk — in order to speed the process up, (Winslet) picked my mother up and carried her, carried her out of the house, and so Kate helped rescue my mother.”
Branson’s 29-year-old daughter, Holly, was planning to marry on Necker island, where celeb couple Nick Lachey and Vanessa Manillo married just last month. But business tycoon Branson isn’t letting a little fire get in the way of his positivity saying, “We’ll make sure that Necker Island is back and ready for her wedding so we’ve got something to aim for at 
Christmas-time this year”, going on, “We have a wonderful staff here and we want them to stay in work. We’ll all stay here. There’s a lot of damage but we’ll create something even more special out of the ruins.”
Ryan Gosling Breaks Up Street Fight in NYC
As if we didn’t swoon over Ryan Gosling enough, he’s now proved himself an everyday hero after stopping a street fight in New York!
It all happened on 8th Street where two arguing men were getting increasingly aggressive and a gathering crowd were trying to tear them apart. In comes 30-year-old Gosling who drops his belongings, jumps in the middle, restrains one of the men, helps to diffuse the situation and calmly escort him away.
Looking seriously buff in a baseball cap, shorts and tank top with his tattoo of ‘The Giving Tree’ book cover exposed, Ryan kept his cool during the whole ordeal and proved himself a peaceful man.
Gosling’s latest film Crazy, Stupid Love is set to be released in Australia on the 29th of September.
Jennifer Garner and Ben Affleck
Expecting Is it just us or does it feel like there’s a new celebrity baby announcement almost every second day?
We’re super excited to announce this one, the very cool couple Jennifer Garner and Ben Aflleck have just announced they are expecting another baby, their third.
The couple’s daughters Violet, 5, and Seraphina, 2, and the couple have confirmed the rumours, saying they are ‘thrilled’ over the news but have released no further details.
Congrats to Jennifer and Ben!
