Tag: Simple Kind of Life

20 questions for Gwen

Don’t let the coy pose fool you – there’s nothing this superstar won’t reveal. When we asked Gwen Stefani to give it up about life, love, work and mommyhood, she most certainly did. By Liza Ghorbani

The Polo Lounge in the Beverly Hills Hotel has played host to the likes of Elizabeth Taylor and Jean Harlow, so when Gwen Stefani walks in on a sunny afternoon with her Old Hollywood glamour — dark oversize sunglasses, scarlet lips, and platinum tresses swept into a polished updo — she certainly looks the part.

“Sorry I’m late,” says Stefani, sliding into a green velvet banquette amid a fragrant whirl of cocoabutter. “I was getting my color done, and now I feel like a different person. So much better.” Read the rest of this article »

Gwen Stefani

Whether with No Doubt or solo, pop’s blonde bombshell is hardly “just a girl”

Do you remember what you were doing in 1985?
I remember exactly what I was doing. I was in high school and in love with this guy named Matt. He was on the drum line. I had a bob haircut and wore black-and-white tights and little mod-style outfits, listening to Madness or the Specials. I was hard-core into ska and thrift-store shopping, and making my own shit – trying not to be like everyone else. Read the rest of this article »

“Music is Sexy”

Gwen Stefani: “I love this headline so much, I’m going to kiss it.”

So says Gwen Stefani, and who is Blender to argue? But what else does this ska-singing, rock star-dating, Eve-supporting California mega-blond find sexy? And what does she think of our list of the 50 sexist artist of all time? Blender turned up on the doorstep of her Los Angeles home to find out… Read the rest of this article »

A Wife Less Ordinary

No Doubt’s Gwen Stefani tells us about her affair with Gavin Rossdale, her marriage obsession and why her hair went pink by Mark Beaumont

On the third day of the celebrations, the bells of the old church strike out a storm of glitter and confetti sweeps from the sky and the bride emerges. Bouquet trembling, mile-long train borne behind her by a legion of pink-haired bridesmaids, she makes a circuit of the piazza on the arm of the venerable old Signor Stefani, treading a trail of rose petals under glass slippers. A cheer rises from the hoardes of villagers lining the square, the church doors swing open, the organ pipes a rusty wedding march and, lips now beginning to quiver, the bride plunges into the aisle, stumbling and scrambling towards… towards…

Well…towards whom exactly? Read the rest of this article »

Happy Returns

No Doubt are back on pop by Linda Laban

“If I could pick one word that would be the theme for this album,” says No Doubt’s singer and frontwoman, Gwen Stefani, “it would be confusion.”

Stefani is talking about the Southern California band’s fourth album, Return of Saturn, which will be released by Interscope on April 11. Although it’s still weeks away from store shelves, No Doubt have already put in considerable promotional legwork. By the time their US tour (which benefits the band’s favorite charities) brings them to Boston’s Avalon for a sold-out show this Wednesday, Stefani and company will have already spent three weeks whizzing around Europe, chatting up the press and TV. “It’s a little harder doing European press because of all the translation,” Stefani says. “You gotta be a little bit straighter instead of being real silly. But everyone has been really huggy and cuddling each other, welcoming us back in a way. It felt really good.” Read the rest of this article »