Tag: Gwen Stefani

For Gwen Stefani, never a doubt

The singer-songwriter always knew No Doubt would rise again. No matter how long it took. By Randy Lewis

Gwen Stefani may be a superstar pop singer, hit songwriter, fashion maven and role model for millions of girls and young women, but on a brutally hot afternoon late last week, on a loading dock outside a largely empty sports arena in Ontario, she was just a mom, trying to keep her 3-year-old son entertained while she took on an impromptu decorating project.

“I don’t have time to do this, but you know me — once I get obsessed with something . . .,” Stefani said while splattering globs of sky blue, neon orange and electric pink paint across three large squares of white fabric. She and a couple of friends were creating tapestries that will hang in the backstage dressing rooms during the first full-scale concert tour in seven years by No Doubt, the once-scrappy ska-rock group that emerged from Anaheim to become one of the biggest-selling pop music acts of the 1990s and early 2000s.

Nearby, Kingston James McGregor Rossdale, the first of Stefani’s two kids with rock star hubby Gavin Rossdale, frolicked over a separate sheet of material reserved for him. Eager to include his 8-month-old brother, Zuma, in the fun, James (as Stefani usually calls him) plopped his hands on his young sibling’s head. Read the rest of this article »

Back in the saddle

No album, no game plan, no problem!

But as No Doubt embark on their first tour in five years, Gwen Stefani and her droogs face the biggest challenge of their career: uncertainty. By David Marchese. Photographs by Marc Hom

“We need this so badly,” says Gwen Stefani in the perpetually questioning accent of a native Cali girl. “We’ve been in a drought for, like, years.” She’s talking about the rain currently pelting the greater Los Angeles area. Presumably.

On an early March afternoon, the platinum blond singer, her hair tied back in a loose ponytail, is looking through the kitchen window of the recording studio where she and bandmates Tony Kanal, Tom Dumont, and Adrian Young have been working on a cover of Adam and the Ants’ “Stand and Deliver.” It’s the first music they’ve recorded together in half a decade. Read the rest of this article »

Gwen, Gavin and Kingston are featured in the latest copy of OK! Weekly magazine USA from March 16th, 2009 with a few pics of Kingston having fun in the park and a little story about the Rossdales sharing their bathwater… but are we really surprised about that one?? Gwen told us that back in 2000! Big thanks to iamanodoubtfreak4ever for the scans.

Update: thanks once more for the donated scan from iamanodoubtfreak4ever

Gwen and family are featured all over this week’s Us weekly magazine USA (March 9th, 2009). Unfortunately I can’t scan it yet but here’s a few snippets of what you can find:

Behind the scenes!

Oscars 2009

Saturday, February 21

10:59pm At the Vanity Fair party, a kid-free Gwen Stefani and Gavin Rossdale steal a smooch and toast each other with champagne.

No blankie for baby Zuma!

“He has a great sense of humor and giggles!” proud pop Gavin Rossdale, 41, says of Zuma, 6 months, with wife Gwen Stefani, 39. (Big brother Kingston is 2.) The rocker tells one of his parenting secrets: Just say no to security blankets for the kids. “If you have one thing they latch on to and they lose it, it’s a drag,” he tells Us. “We’re trying to avoid that burden.”

Gavin and Kingston were featured in the February 23rd 2009 issue of OK! Weekly USA.

Gwen, Kingston and Zuma are also featured in the March 8th issue of OK! Weekly USA.

Thanks to iamanodoubtfreak4ever for the scans

‘Gwen Stefani: style queen’ is featured on the cover of the April issue of Shout magazine UK. Thanks to Harajuku Jane for the tip off

Full scans and article here very soon!

Thanks to Jenny at BSO and Heather for the scan – No Doubt are featured in the latest edition of Entertainment Weekly USA with a full page promotional advert for their upcoming amphitheater tour with Paramore.

On a side note; I’m going to be travelling from the UK to the Cleveland, OH show which is on my birthday (June 29th) and also spending a few days in NYC so anyone who is also planning to go Cleveland make sure you say hi!

Gwen, Gavin and Kingston are featured in the current issue of OK! magazine in the UK.

Doing it for the kids

Jennifer, Seal and Gwen enjoy some family time

Back on this side of the Atlantic, it was nice to see Gwen Stefani and Gavin Rossdale taking son Kingston for a stylish, springtime stroll in London’s Primrose Hill.

Gwen is also featured on the cover of Hot Stars which is an OK! supplement under ‘New mums slim down!’.

New mums lose their baby weight – in just weeks!

Gwen Stefani

How long she took: 6 weeks

How much she lost: An estimated two stone in six weeks

How she did it: The singer says she has been eating a healthy diet while breastfeeding, and has been burning off those extra pounds by doing regular exercise. She said: “There aren’t any tricks, it’s simple maths.”

Please note: those pictures of Gwen were actually taken 7 months apart, not six weeks! The pic of Gwen in the grey top was taken on July 7th 2008 and the pic with the black jacket was taken on January 9th 2009.

Finally! Some decent UK coverage… it seems like it’s been an age! Haha

Gwen and baby Zuma are featured in the latest copy of OK! Weekly USA from February 16th. Thanks once more to iamanodoubtfreak4ever for the scan!

Looks like Gwen and her beautiful family have been all over the celebrity magazine in the USA this month. Big thanks to iamanodoubtfreak4ever for sending over these fab scans!