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Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair has spoken candidly about Princess Diana’s death in a new TV interview, revealing he was "worried for her" when she started dating multi-millionaire playboy Dodi Fayed after splitting from Prince Charles.

Blair took office months before the princess died in a car crash in a Paris, France tunnel in 1997 and admits it was one of the first major tragedies he had to face as Prime Minister.

But, in an interview with newswoman Christiane Amanpour on Good Morning America on Thursday (02Sep10), the politician revealed he was worried something terrible would happen.

He said, “I was worried because it (her relationship with Fayed) was obviously going to be extremely difficult. And I wanted her to know what the implications and consequences of all of it was going to be.”

Blair admits that, like most of Britain, he struggled to come to terms with the tragedy, adding, “Partly because of the loss, but partly because of the circumstances in which she died, there was also a sense of anger.

“Some of that anger was directed at the paparazzi, but some of it, I think, was directed at the establishment that people felt had let her down in some way.”

Lost creator J.J. Abrams is returning to the small screen with a TV drama series set in San Francisco’s macabre Alcatraz Prison.

Abrams has teamed up with former Lost producer Elizabeth Sarnoff for the series, which is currently shrouded in secrecy, reports Deadline.com.

The movie and TV mogul has already written a script for the pilot episode and will produce it through his Bad Robot production company.

Alcatraz housed some of America’s notorious criminals, including Al Capone, before it was closed as a prison in 1963. It reopened as a tourist attraction in 1973 and is now visited by millions of intrigued tourists every year.

Ben Affleck is still embarrassed by the first short film he directed, insisting it looks as if it was made by someone with "no promise".

The movie star shot I Killed My Lesbian Wife, Hung Her on a Meat Hook, and Now I Have a Three-Picture Deal With Disney way back in 1993 – years before he struck Best Screenplay gold at the Oscars with Good Will Hunting – and he’s still haunted by the awful 13-minute film.

He tells Entertainment Weekly magazine, “It’s horrible. It’s atrocious. I knew I wanted to be a director, and I did a couple of short films, and this is the only one that haunts me. I’m not proud of it.

“It looks like it was made by someone who has no prospects, no promise.”

Affleck has since made his feature film directorial debut with Gone Baby Gone, and is preparing for the release of his follow-up, The Town.

Transformers director Michael Bay has offered a $50,000 reward for information leading to the arrest of a girl who was filmed throwing puppies into a river.

The video, which shows a young girl scooping the dogs out of a bucket and hurling them into the water to drown, spread across the internet this week (beg30Aug10) and sparked outrage.

Little is known about the nameless young woman in the video, and Hollywood director Bay is offering a huge sum of money to assist officials in tracking her down.

A post on Bay’s official website reads, “There is a disturbing video going around the news outlets. It’s a video of a blonde young woman in a red sweatshirt casually tossing squealing puppies into the fast-moving river one by one.

“Michael Bay has informed me that he is offering a $50,000 reward for information leading to the arrest and successful prosecution of the woman in the red sweatshirt and the person who shot this act of cruelty.”

An apology purportedly from the girl in the video was posted on YouTube.com on Wednesday (01Sep10).

A 24-year-old female extra is in critical condition after suffering injuries in a stunt gone wrong on the Indiana set of Michael Bay’s action film Transformers 3, according to reports.

Local news station WLS-TV reports the victim was airlifted to a local hospital on Wednesday (01Sep10) after a car stunt went awry.

Witnesses told reporters the accident occurred during a driving scene, when an object went through the windshield of a car, hitting the driver.

An extra on the set described the incident: “The vehicle was being towed by another vehicle… the cable between the two vehicles broke. It whipped around and sliced through the woman’s car and sliced through her skull, apparently.”

Local police have confirmed “The equipment pertaining to the stunt was impounded by the Indiana State Police”.

The alleged victim, whose identity had not been released, was reportedly in critical condition as WENN went to press.

Actress Annalynne Mccord has thanked her Twitter.com fans for their support after her favored charity won a $250,000 grant to help the victims of Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans.

The 90210 star is a longterm supporter of the St. Bernard Project, which provides relief for survivors of the 2005 natural disaster.

They desperately needed funds to build a wellbeing center in the Louisiana city, and McCord entered them into a Pepsi Refresh Celebrity Challenge for a $250,000 prize.

And she was delighted to discover on Thursday (02Sep10) that they had triumphed in the vote.

In a post on her Twitter page, she writes, “WE WON!!!! WE WON!! THANK YOU PEPSI REFRESH!!! @SIMONHUCK I LOVE YOU!! @stbernardproj Won $250k thks to all of you amazing ppl (people) voting!”