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Enjoying a relaxing evening, Emma Watson was spotted arriving at a family member’s house last night (April 15) to celebrate her 19th birthday.

The “Harry Potter” hottie looked cool and casual as she toted a couple shopping bags, sporting a pink screenprinted sweatshirt, black yoga pants, and a pair of tan sneakers.

In related news, it seems Miss Watson has caught the eye of the folks over at Burberry, as she’s been named the face of Burberry Prorsum Autumn/Winter 2009.

But a rep from the company was hesitant to confirm any details. “The campaign is not yet finalized and once it is we don’t release any information until the official launch time, which would be around June of this year.”

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Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince will come to life a bit sooner than expected.

Warner Bros. has decided to make a long weekend of it, bumping the long-awaited film’s release date up two days to July 15, a Wednesday.

Well, every little bit helps after they postponed the big day by eight months.

The studio rationalized that opening the sixth installment of the mega-hit franchise on a Wednesday is like giving it two consecutive debut weekends.

“Every day the kids are out of school in summer is just like an extra Saturday,” said Dan Fellman, Warner Bros.’ head of distribution.

Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince will greet the world alone on July 15 and have little to no major competition come Friday-through-Sunday.

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She’s a well-known soccer fan, and yesterday (March 15) Emma Watson was spotted braving some dreary weather to check out an EPL match.

The “Harry Potter” hottie enjoyed box seats at the Chelsea v Manchester City game, doing her best to hide from the paparazzi behind her fellow spectators.

In a recent interview, Miss Watson revealed that she’s been struggling to find a boyfriend as of late, and that her fame has actually made the search even harder.

She confessed, “Finding someone that you like, or who likes you, is always difficult at my age. But being famous complicates things much more.”

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After a retail romp in Hampstead earlier in the day, Emma Watson enjoyed a rare night out on the town at Mahiki Nightclub in Mayfair on Wednesday (February 11).

The “Harry Potter” hottie was accompanied by her banker boyfriend, Jay Barrymore, also bringing along her brother, Alex, for a fun-filled evening.

Aside from spending quality time with her loved ones, Miss Watson is also putting in work during test shoots for “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part I”.

Her hit movie series also has a new installment finished up and ready for theaters – although it’s not scheduled to be released until July 17th.

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Ever the BAFTA beauty, Emma Watson braved the rain as she attended the 2009 Orange British Academy Film Awards at the Royal Opera House in London on Sunday (February 8).

Wearing a lovely black Alice Temperley gown with intricate silver flower detail topped off with an embroidered black overcoat, the “Harry Potter” starlet happily posed for pictures and spoke with press on-hand.

On the red carpet, Emma said: “I love the Baftas. It’s amazing. It’s like a celebration of what I do so it’s incredible. It’s been fun getting ready, I’ve had my hair and make-up done and I got my dress.”

“The Baftas are very important. For us here, we don’t often have the support we need to get small British films off the ground so anything that promotes us, I think it’s wonderful,” she added.

When asked about her future plans, Miss Watson replied: “Obviously I’m looking at universities and reading lots of scripts and meeting with producers and trying to make a good decision about what my next move should be. I might be going to America – I’m looking at schools over there – but obviously I’m waiting to hear, to find out where I’ve been accepted and if I’ve been offered a place. So nothing’s been decided yet.”

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Actress Emma Watson vaulted to fame as the whip-smart, wizard Hermione Granger in the Harry Potter film series. The character embodies many of Watson’s own traits. She is studious, serious and confides in new wide ranging interview that she is having trouble coming to grips with her own budding sexuality.

The 18-year-old says stylists put her in mini-skirts and she has been deluged with offers to do films with nude scenes, but vowed: “I’m not just getting my kit off for anyone.” Yet she was photographed on her 18th birthday party in provocative crotch-exposing poses. She explains for the first time how that came about.

“Let’s be honest, I have enough money to never have to work again. It’s only just recently that I’ve really come round to the idea of carrying on with acting at all. I knew I was the perfect nine-year-old to play Hermione. But I was concerned that all would come out after that was Hermione. And if that had happened – well, I would know I couldn’t act. And then that would be it,” she says in interviews in the UK’s Sunday Mail and Telegraph newspapers.

Watson says she has little interest in fame or recognition. She was born of Oxbridge parents and now she’s considering an Oxbridge place herself, with a bright mind, bright looks and $18 million in the bank. She prefers academic diversions like English and Philosophy at a Cambridge college when she gives her perspective on her notorious coming-of-age 18th birthday party in Hollywood last year.

“It was pretty tough turning 18,’ she says. ‘I realized that overnight I’d become fair game. I had a party in town and the pavements were just knee-deep with photographers trying to get a shot of me looking drunk, which wasn’t going to happen. I don’t have to drink to have a good time. The sickest part was when one photographer lay down on the floor to get a shot up my skirt.

“The night it was legal for them to do it, they did it. I woke up the next day and felt completely violated by it all. That’s not something I want in my life. I just kept thinking that if it had happened a day earlier people would have sued their a***s off.”

‘I find this whole thing about being 18 and everyone expecting me to be this object… I find the whole concept of being ‘sexy’ embarrassing and confusing. If I do a photo-shoot people desperately want to change me – dye my hair blonder, pluck my eyebrows, give me a fringe.

“Then there’s the choice of clothes. I know everyone wants a picture of me in a mini-skirt. But that’s not me. I feel uncomfortable. I’d never go out in a mini-skirt. It’s nothing to do with protecting the Hermione image. I wouldn’t do that,” she says.

Of course on the night she was photographed, Watson was wearing the shortest of skirts and see-through panties that clearly exposed her private parts. But she hasn’t repeated the scene since, although if she hopes to transition to adult film roles, she will be have to consider how to go up against Hollywood’s sexiest bad girls, like Sienna Miller, Kirsten Dunst and Lindsay Lohan, all of whom have had repeated episodes of paparazzi-teasing flashes of nudity in public.

And, her male Harry Potter stars, Daniel Radcliffe and Peter Grint have already done nude scenes, either in movies on in Radcliffe’s case on the Broadway stage.

In an earlier interview, however, Watson told the Times of London she would not have a problem doing film nude scenes if the role is right. Like many child actresses, Watson must deal with perceptions of her as a child in her movies while dealing with the fact that she has become a grown woman, who now must find grown-up roles.

“I’m at a strange age… I’m not a woman yet, but I’m not a girl anymore,” she told the Times of London in an interview. “[Film companies] say, ‘Oh, in a couple of years you’ll be perfect for this.’ I’ll be like, yeah, but I want to be studying English then, so it’s going to be quite tough to choose between the two.”

Part six of the Warner Bros series, “Harry Potter And The Half-Blood Prince,” will be released this July and the final two-part installment, “Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows,” is filming now.

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It appears Emma Watson wants to change her image. The teen actress, who rose to prominence playing Hermione Granger in the “Harry Potter” film franchise, has posed in her underwear for a sexy new photo shoot.

The pictures were taken by German-born photographer Ellen von Unwerth. Some of the shots show the 18-year-old girl getting busy putting make-up on her face. Emma is also seen dancing with a guy in another photo.

Emma Watson previously told Britain’s Sunday Times that she would shed her clothes for the right filmmaker, saying, “Yes. For Bernardo Bertolucci. It… depends. I’m not getting my kit off any time soon, but it is part of my job.” The actress also thinks she is “at a strange age”. “I’m not a woman yet, but I’m not a girl any more,” she admitted. Celebrity-Mania.

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Growing up on screen is proving to be a challenge for Rupert Grint, who tells Mandrake that he is dreading filming romantic scenes with Emma Watson, his co-star in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows.

“As I’ve known Emma for so long, I reckon it will be 10 times worse,” says the 20-year-old actor, who plays Ron Weasley.

“I really love the seventh book, but there is no way it will be tame with the Hermione stuff.”

The kiss, which is due to be filmed next month, should have been a walk in the park for Grint after his graphic performance opposite Kimberley Nixon, a 23-year-old Welsh actress, in the forthcoming film Cherrybomb. The actor compares them with the nude scenes that Daniel Radcliffe is currently performing on stage in New York.

“I don’t think it’s quite up there with Dan’s Equus, but it was quite a surreal experience, especially as we were sharing the bed with half a dozen camera crew,” he says. “But, yeah, I was quite nervous, I think we both were.

“It was a new thing for the two of us – though, weirdly, I remember Kim and I doing a crossword in between takes. That definitely took our minds off the deed.”

He now hopes that Emma, 18, who plays the brainy Hermione Granger, will be similarly distracted. “I’ll have a stack of crosswords at the ready,” he says.

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‘Harry Potter’ star Emma Watson, who is worth £2.8 million, says her friends never let her treat them when they go out and hate it when she gets recognised in public.

Emma Watson, who is worth £2.8 million, says her friends never let her treat them when they go out.

The ‘Harry Potter’ star – who has become one of Britain’s richest teenagers thanks to her role as Hermione Granger in the hit wizard film franchise – admits her fortune can sometimes cause problems among her pals.

She said: “My friends are very proud like that, that’s why I love them. They would be embarrassed if I paid for stuff, and if I ever try, they always say, ‘What are you doing? I want to pay half.’ ”

Emma, 18, also revealed her friends find it difficult when fans approach her in public.

She added to website Movies.ie: “It’s weird for them, especially when people recognise me and come up to me. It’s awkward for them but they are very good about it.

“My friends are very protective, which is sweet.”

The talented star – who recently voiced a character for animated movie ‘The Tale of Despereaux’ – also revealed there are positive and negatives to her worldwide fame.

She said: “The best thing about being involved in ‘Harry Potter’, is that you can make a six year old girl or boy’s day by giving them a handshake and it’s so easy. It costs me so little to make someone incredibly happy so that’s amazing and I’ve walked away and thought, ‘God I’m so lucky to be in a position that people are that excited to meet me.’

“The downside is that the level of curiosity into your life means that it becomes quite intrusive and the level of criticism is hard to deal with sometimes. It can make you really insecure.”

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Muggles know her as Hermione Granger, the outspoken witch from the Harry Potter movies.

But the petite, polite Emma Watson seems shockingly normal. Her entourage consists of an unobtrusive security guard and her father, who, his daughter proudly says, dressed up as King Triton from “The Little Mermaid” for her fifth birthday.

“I’m a massive animated film fan,” she said. “And now I have my own.”

That is “The Tale of Despereaux,” the animated story of a mouse (Matthew Broderick) who wakens the lonely Princess Pea (Watson) from the isolation of her life.

“I felt really sorry for (her). She says that ‘One day, my prince will come,’ and it was really sweet that her prince came in the form of this goofy mouse,” Watson says.

At home in London, Watson takes the subway, plays tennis and field hockey, and shops with friends.

“I can’t imagine … being trapped and locked in hotel rooms and cars,” says Watson.

In fact, most of Watson’s time is spent shooting the “Potter” films.

The sixth film, “Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince,” opens in July.

“Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows,” the final installment, starts shooting in February and will be released in two parts. “And then I’ll be done,” she says. “It’s so much a part of my life, and it’s going to be so strange when it’s over. It’s strange being 18 and thinking … that probably I will never be part of something this big again in my lifetime.”

Watson’s personal fortune is estimated to be $20 million, so she might never have to work again. She is applying to colleges, mostly in the United States, plans to start next fall and hopes to study English literature.

“The wealth side of it hasn’t hit me yet because I have no need for money in my life. I still live at home. I eat meals with my family every night. I don’t go out a huge amount. I don’t really travel a lot,” she says.

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