Gerard Butler has been named the best British actor in Hollywood.

The Scottish hunk - who is best known for playing King Leonidas in '300' - beat a host of stars, including Christian Bale and double-Oscar winner Daniel Day Lewis to win the title in a poll of more than 1,000 UK film fans by the DVD rental service LoveFilm.

Kate Winslet is worth £60 million to Britain.

'The Reader' actress was the first celebrity to be "audited" by the UK Film Council, which looked to put a specific value on the country's creative industries and chose the English star as the first example for her success abroad and public profile.

Gwyneth Paltrow is creating a 33-room mansion. The "Two Lovers" actress and her Coldplay rocker husband Chris Martin are knocking two London properties together to create one large house, worth around £7 million [$11.5 million].

A neighbor said: "It will be a massive house. What they have already is a substantial family home, but to double and add a bit on will make it a real mansion."

Kate Winslet is taking a break from films. The Oscar-winning actress thinks she is so overexposed she has no choice but to take some time off.

The 33-year-old star said: "I think I have to take a holiday. I'm sick of me and I'm sure everybody else is too!"

Kate Winslet wore a pubic wig for "The Reader." The Oscar-winning actress had to bare all for the Holocaust movie and producers took measures to ensure her body was consistent with the era.

She told Allure magazine: "I had to grow the hair down there. But because of years of waxing, as all of us girls know, it doesn't come back quite the way it used to. They even made me a merkin - a wig - because they were so concerned that I might not be able to grow enough."

Kate Winslet still wears a ring Leonardo DiCaprio gave her. The happily married actress cherishes the engraved gold band presented to her by Leonardo when they starred as doomed lovers in the 1997 box office hit "Titanic."

Kate, who wears the band alongside her wedding ring, told Flare magazine: "Yes, Leo's ring is engraved on the inside, but I'm not going to tell you what it says."