Nelly Furtado wants to pose for Playboy at 40

October 10th, 2009 LONDON - Nelly Furtado has confessed that she would not mind dropping her layers for Playboy on her 40th birthday. The Canadian-Portuguese singer revealed the magazine's boss Hugh Hefner had offered her a huge deal nine years ago when she was 22.

October 7th, 2009 LONDON - Lady Gaga, Brandon Flowers and Nelly Furtado have all posed with stuffed elephant toys to raise money for a charity working with Alzheimer's patients. Stars like Anne Hathaway, Jennifer Garner and Sienna Miller have also joined the cause and helped The Elephant Project, in collecting more funds for the Alzheimer's Association.

September 18th, 2009 LONDON - Canadian singer Nelly Furtado returns after three years with a Spanish album and says she had writer's block in English, so she decided to make an album in Spanish. "I had English writer's block so I decided to make an album in Spanish.

September 18th, 2009 LONDON - Singer Nelly Furtado rewrote her album to please her daughter. She axed several ballads from the album after her five-year-old daughter urged her to put "more fast songs" on the record.

September 6th, 2009 LONDON - Former Spice Girl Melanie Brown has revealed that Playboy has asked her five times to pose nude for the magazine but she has declined it. "They're offering me a ridiculous amount of money but I'm just not ready to do it," the News of the World quoted her as saying.

September 2nd, 2009 LONDON - Playboy bosses want Lindsay Lohan to pose nude for the men's magazine and have offered her over $850,000 for it. The magazine has offered the huge amount to her for baring it all and this time they have nearly doubled their previous offer, reports thesun.co.uk.

August 23rd, 2009 LONDON - Kimberly Conrad, ex-wife of Playboy boss Hugh Hefner, is suing the porn mogul after he reportedly went back on their pre-nuptial agreement. They split in 1998, but never formally divorced - their relationship remained amicable with Conrad residing near Hefner's Playboy Mansion in Beverly Hills.

August 20th, 2009 LONDON - Playboy bunnies Bridget Marquardt, Holly Madison, and Kendra Wilkinson were seen in the buff during the filming of 'The Girls of the Playboy Mansion'. The three were seen sun bathing on a lilo while filming a scene for the uncensored version of the film, with their derrieres bared for the world to see, reports the Sun.

August 3rd, 2009 LONDON - N-Dubz front-girl Tulisa, real name Tula Contostavlos, is the latest celeb to turn down a large sum of money to strip for Playboy magazine. Tulisa, 22, is said to have refused a 250,000-pound deal to strip for the magazine on moral grounds.

July 30th, 2009 LONDON - Playboy girls Holly Madison, Kendra Wilkinson and Bridget Marquardt dropped their layers for a kinky shower during the uncensored "Girls Next Door" shows. The trio was said to have cleaned-up as showers of water poured down on them in the grotto at the Playboy mansion, reports The Sun.

July 16th, 2009 LONDON - Former "Baywatch" star Pamela Anderson posed with a copy of the Playboy magazine that was published 20 years ago and featured her on the cover. Dailymail.co.uk reports that Anderson posed with the Serbian edition of the magazine when she was handed the magazine while on a trip to Montenegro.

July 8th, 2009 LONDON - American model Holly Madison was photographed naked with chain wrapped round her body, as she posed at the bottom of the sea. Madison, 29, looked quite the mermaid as she displayed her twin assets during the underwater pose, reports the Sun.

June 17th, 2009 LONDON - Pop star Nelly Furtado and producer Timbaland have been sued by a record label in Finland for plagiarism. The music label claims that the two borrowed segments of someone else's song to create the track "Do it".

June 4th, 2009 LONDON - Singer Nelly Furtado is to release her first album recorded completely in Spanish, it has emerged. According to US music magazine Billboard, the 30-year-old has already been heard singing in Spanish on duets with Colombian rock star Juanes, and on her 2006 Latin American single, No Hay Igual, reports The BBC.

May 26th, 2009 LONDON - Hugh Hefner is planning to sell Playboy for some 200 million pounds, it has emerged. The 83-year-old founded the empire more than 56 years ago and gained instant popularity.