Celebrity Mound

Do the words music, cocktails, and charity all tickle your fancy? Then you’re in luck with the latest Gilt City Los Angeles offering featuring all three!

Nearly 30 years ago, Hopefield Animal Sanctuary was founded to save horses abandoned in the freezing English countryside. Today, in addition to horses, the nonprofit animal organization has expanded to give more than 200 rabbits, pigs, cows, goats, cats and more a safe, warm and loving home. Acting as ambassador, spokesperson and trustee for the foundation is singer Leona Lewis, who rose to fame after she won “The X Factor” in 2006.

Lewis is currently leading a charge to help Hopefield raise urgent lifesaving funds by Christmas, and Gilt City members are invited to help by attending a West Hollywood cocktail soirée where Lewis, Natasha Bedingfield, Kelly Clarkson and other pro songbirds will be entertaining the crowd. One hundred percent of the evening’s proceeds will go to the Hopefield Animal Sanctuary.

Your general admission ticket includes cocktails, passed appetizers, access to the auction, complimentary parking and shuttle service to and from the event. High rollers can opt for a VIP experience that features a pre-reception with Lewis in addition to the general admission perks. Guests must be 21+. The event takes place at a private home in the Hollywood Hills from 7:30pm-11:00pm. A shuttle will pick guests up at 9255 Sunset Blvd. VIP ticket holders will be picked up from the same address at 6:30pm.

General Admission Ticket to Cocktail Party – $250
VIP Ticket to Cocktail Party – $450

Gilt City Los Angeles this week!

In pop star terms, X Factor winner Leona Lewis was once considered to be as dull as dishwater.

But lately the singer has decided to sex up her once rather tame image, and what better route than via a tried and tested method – a tattoo.

Leona unveiled her first – a Hebrew inking on her wrist – last year.

And last night at the glamorous charity fundraiser, the Love Ball, she showed off her second, a poetic inking and tribute to her favourite animal, the horse.

The tattoo which runs from the nape of her neck to her back reads: ‘Their beauty captures every eye, a gift from God for all mankind, they lend us wings so we may fly, to ride a horse is to ride the sky.’

It appears to be Leona’s second tattoo, although the undercover rebel may well be hiding more.

Leona has taken her cue from celebrities such as Victoria Beckham, and Christina Aguilera, who also have tattoos in the same area.

The diva from Hackney has of late been channelling a more high fashion look.

She arrived at charity event last night at the Roundhouse in North London in a bronze metallic one shouldered gown with corseted bodice.

And wearing her hair in a fashionable fat braided side-plait, a look hot off the catwalks.

Leona’s clothing choices appear to have got more daring after she slimmed down from a size 14 to a size 10 following a strict month-long detox regime.

The 24-year-old singer, who has always flown the flag for ‘normal’, curvy women, decided to change her diet after a lengthy spell in the recording studio.

She said: ‘I only did the detox for a little while, but it must have kick-started something in me because everyone keeps saying: “Wow, you’ve lost weight!” and I’m like: “Cool!”‘

A schizophrenic man who admitted punching British pop star Leona Lewis as she signed copies of her autobiography in a London bookstore was ordered by a court on Monday to be detained indefinitely under mental health regulations.

Peter Kowalczyk, 29, hit the singer, who won the British TV talent show “The X Factor” and whose single “Bleeding Love” was a worldwide hit, in October.

London’s City of Westminster magistrates’ court was told that Kowalczyk said “gotcha” as he landed the punch.

Prosecutor Melanie Lee said Lewis, whose debut album “Spirit” has sold more than 6.5 million copies worldwide, was left with redness and swelling to the face, and whiplash symptoms.

“I feel completely devastated by this attack,” Lewis said in a witness statement read to the court.

“Now I am very frightened about going out in public and I don’t know where the next attack will come from and if this will be more serious than what has just happened.”

Judge Howard Riddle ordered Kowalczyk, who suffers from schizophrenia and who pleaded guilty to assault, to remain in hospital for an indeterminate period.

“This is what happens when you don’t take your medication. A woman is now devastated,” the judge said.

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The 24-year-old former X Factor winner had been meeting members of the public at Waterstone’s Piccadilly in London for around an hour-and-a half on Wednesday afternoon when a man who had been waiting in the queue suddenly lashed out, he said.

Lewis was bruised, upset and shaken after the incident and was checked over by a doctor.

The singer’s spokesman, who witnessed the attack, said: “She was doing a signing to launch her new book. Hundreds of fans had been queuing since last night.”

He said she had been happily signing autographs for around an 90 minutes when “a guy came up and punched her to the side of the head”.

He did not hear the man say anything to Lewis during the “unprovoked” incident and security officers swooped.

Lewis sustained bruising to the side of the head and was left “shaken”, he said, adding that she had gone to see the doctor. “She is absolutely gutted she did not get the signings finished,” he said.

The spokesman said that to hit a woman was “beyond cowardly”.

The former X Factor winner was signing copies of her autobiography, Dreams.

Police said officers were called to Waterstone’s and a man has been arrested “following reports of an assault against a female”.