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WHEN it comes to motorbikes our hottest stars just can’t get enough of sleek, powerful action. Fast, feisty and glamorous …and that’s just the motorbikes, celebrities’ love of the motorbike shows no sign of abating. This week Motorbike Insurance takes a look at some of the hottest stars riding some of the hottest bikes..

NICOLE KIDMAN
The Hollywood star and husband Keith Urban are set to launch their own fashion label. The label will be named 'Hank Evie', the couple's nicknames for one another when they first started their relationship. Until now Urban – who is recovering from a recent motorbike crash - has sold Hank Evie t-shirts online, but the brand is now trademarked in Australia and the US.

The couple also aim to expand their collection to include clothing, belt buckles, shoes, bags, boxer shorts and pyjamas. Kidman is just one of a host of glittering Aussie females to launch a business in the fashion world, including Elle Macpherson and Kylie Minogue.

HEATHER MILLS
Sir Paul McCartney and his estranged wife Heather Mills are still battling over their divorce settlement. Mills is reportedly preparing to make her own defence speech and cross-examine Sir Paul when he stands in the witness box.

"She is going to say that before they met, people liked her and admired her, she was successful, she had her own career and her own income," says a source:

"She is going to say that when they got together, he stopped her from having a career… now they have split, she is a hate figure and as such unemployable."

A High Court judge will also rule how much of Sir Paul’s estimated £825m fortune Mills is entitled to. Her estranged husband is believed to have offered £25 million, increasing the figure from an initial £3 million.

The former model, who lost her leg when a motorbike rider smashed into her crossing a road in Kensington, will also be fighting for custody of their four-year-old daughter Beatrice.

JENNIFER LOPEZ
The Hollywood star is leaving no stone unturned in preparation for impending motherhood. Instead of putting her feet up she has been spotted doing some last minute shopping in New York, with sister Linda in tow.

Concealing her baby bump under a chic, black coat the only indication of her condition was her choice of shoes. Sensible black ballet pumps replaced her trademark high heels and sexy motorbike boots.

KATIE PRICE
The motorbike model formerly known as Jordan is unhappy with the results of her recent plastic surgery. "When I saw my boobs I was disappointed because they looked big and I wanted them to be a lot smaller, admits Price: “My words to the doctor beforehand were: 'I want to go a lot smaller. More pert. More stuck-on looking. But I still want people to think I've got big boobs." "I'm really disappointed. In fact I'm going back to the States to get them re-done. They look fine in bra but they hang too low when I'm standing up and it's really bad when I'm lying down. There's about a four-inch gap.

"I've had three boob jobs done before and I've seen enough other ones to know what they should look like and they're not right. "I've also got indents so you can see where the implant is sitting and there's excess skin so the doctor either hasn't filled the skin up enough or he hasn't removed enough skin." But the surgery, which has been booked for six months time, means she will have to delay plans for another baby with singer husband Peter Andre.

"This is the other annoying thing, adds Price: “He said he will re-do it in six months and then there's the recovery time after that and it means I won't be able to have another baby for 18-months, so it's set that back as well."

Price is so devastated by the £43,000 cosmetic surgery price tag that she warns others to stay natural. "I can't believe this is the first time I've paid for surgery and this is the first time it went wrong. My boobs and nose were £18,000 and my gnashers were £25,000. But they are [botched] as well.

“Mine are so sensitive now it's like they've filed them down too much and have hit all my nerve endings. It hurts constantly. It feels like I've got electricity going through my teeth." "I tell you what - anyone reading this, just stay natural because I've been through all this and look at the state of me. "They [botched] up my boobs and they [botched] up my teeth and I've been in pain for six weeks.

"I don't want any more surgery, though. I've had enough! I've had enough of anaesthetics and I've had enough of recovering. "I don't want to look 18 when I'm 60."

SCARLETT JOHANSSON
The Hollywood star reportedly told Irish actor Jonathan Rhys-Meyers to stop ogling at her curves while they filmed sex scenes for the film Match Point – but the actor says he took a good look anyway.

“I remember Scarlett telling me not to look at her t**s. And I was trying to be a gentleman and sort of asking for a glimpse, admits Rhys-Meyers. “But I did sneak a peek – I couldn’t help it, they were in my face.”

The motorbike crazy Irish star also confessed he loved filming the steamy scenes with the stunning blonde. “It was easy work doing the sex scenes, I’d be lying if I said it wasn’t.”

Johansson also complained that the actor kissed her with such force he cut her lips while filming. "We were really rammed together and he cut my lip, says the stunning actress: “ He sent roses the next day to make up for it. He was so sweet. It damn hurt though, I deserved my flowers."

JESSICA ALBA
The Hollywood star claimed she wrestled with a ghost in bed when she was a teenager. Albe says her mum and dad called in experts when a "presence" pulled the covers off her bed and lay on top of her.

"I had no idea what it was, says the actress: “I felt this pressure and I couldn't get up, I couldn't scream, I couldn't talk, I couldn't do anything. "Something definitely took the covers off me and I definitely couldn't get off the bed, and then, once I did, I screamed, ran to my parents' room and I don't think I spent many nights in that house ever again."

"There's something in my parents' old house, I don't know what it was. I can't really explain it... They got it blessed and they burned sage and stuff since then."

WHEN it comes to motorbikes our hottest stars just can’t get enough of sleek, powerful action. Fast, feisty and glamorous …and that’s just the motorbikes, celebrities’ love of the motorbike shows no sign of abating. This week Motorbike Insurance takes a look at some of the biggest names behind the coolest bikes.

MARC ALMOND
The Soft Cell singer is in legal proceedings against a motorist over the motorbike smash four years ago that almost killed him. The singer was hospitalised for five months and close to death after the collision with Chandan Kumar Paul’s car in London. Lawyers say Almond could be in line for a mega payout if his legal team is successful.

The singer suffered extensive head injuries and has only recently returned to the recording studio where he has promised to cover Gene Pitney’s hit Backstage as a mark of respect for the late singer.

CARL BARAT
The Dirty Pretty Things front man has broken his collarbone in an alcohol fuelled motorbike accident in Taiwan. "I went to karaoke and drunk a lot of sake, says Barat:

“I came outside, and people were stood out on their motorbikes, they were driving Triumphs which was a surprise to me, I asked to have a go and I did, and I fell off.

"I revved it up, and flew off the handle bars, only in a car-park, I didn't endanger anyone but myself."

HEATH LEDGER
The tragic Hollywood star was so frightened of fame that he deliberately sabotaged his career to avoid becoming too commercialised. The motorbike mad actor rose to fame in a Knights Tale and Brokeback Mountain but didn’t enjoy life under the spotlight.

“It was a time when I had not really chosen my career path - it had been chosen for me. I didn't audition for A Knight's Take; I was given it, said the late star in an interview.

"And then the studio put my face on a poster and wrote, 'He Will Rock You,' and if I didn't, my career would have been over. That was the first lead I'd had in anything, and there were all these new pressures, which freaked me out.

"I felt like my career was out of my hands. I wasn't making any decisions; they were being made for me. And so to a certain degree, I had to go out and destroy my career somewhat in order to rebuild it. At the time, I had studios telling me I was crazy. I had agents on my back, publicists, family members, everyone saying, 'what are you doing? You should be this. You should be that. You should follow the dollar. Follow the gloss.'

"My life is together, both professionally and socially. But it's been a big learning process, and there is no YODA - there's no one who points you in the right direction. You've got to figure that out by yourself."

BRIAN MCKNIGHT
The soul superstar has lost his taste for high speed motor biking after witnessing a terrifying smash. McKnight, who owns half a dozen powerful motorbikes, says it is something that haunts him every time he puts on his biking gear. "I seen a guy run into a telephone pole and lose his leg, says McKnight:” We watched him crawl around and look for it.

"Before the helicopters could get up in the canyon to rescue him, he bled to death." McKnight has also been involved in scrapes. He once hosted an awards show still suffering from concussion after a fall. "The day I was supposed to host an awards I got in a bad wreck and suffered an awful concussion.

"I was really light-headed throughout the whole show.”

JEAN-LOUIS TRINTIGNAN
The veteran French actor has not lost his penchant for powerful motorbikes in spite of his age. The 76-year-old star of And God Created Woman star was recently admitted into hospital after losing control of his motorbike while travelling in a forest near Pont Saint Esprit in the south west of France.

Trintignant suffered a fractured shinbone and bruising and was taken to hospital by a witness, where he is recovering from minor injuries.

TOM CRUISE
The Hollywood A-lister narrowly avoided serious injury after coming a cropper on his turbo-charged Ducati in Beverly Hills when he skidded on a patch of oil.

In spite of lying flat out on the road, Cruise was able to give concerned onlookers autographs before re-mounting his motorbike and heading for home.

EWAN McGREGOR
The motorbike mad star was delighted when Steriophonics front man, Kelly Jones penned the theme turn to his round the world motorbike odyssey.

“Ewan played the song to his wife Eve and she phoned me and said that she loved it. I feel I captured what they felt being apart from one another and the feelings that they went through during the ride, says Jones.

CARRIE ANNE MOSS The Hollywood actress was terrified while filming a scene for Matrix Reloaded, because the part required her to ride a motorbike. Thankfully the gorgeous star had motorbike enthusiast Keanu Reeves on had to offer advice. "I have a real fear of motorcycles, but Keanu really encouraged me - it's like candy to him, says Moss:

“I was on a motorcycle without a helmet, going 60 miles per hour with an actor on the back. "I wouldn't do it again - it's dangerous. I understand loving the wind in your hair and the freedom and all that, but I prefer to drive a fast car!"

LAUREN HUTTON
The worlds’ first supermodel still loves her motorbike despite a serious crash eight years ago and has even taken up hand gliding as a hobby.

The American Gigolo star was injured riding from Los Angeles to Las Vegas and had to suffer intensive physical rehabilitation. But when she recovered, celebrity friends from her motorclub club asked her to join them in a hang gliding adventure and she leapt at the opportunity.

"I just came back from hang gliding because I'm going to glide over Saudi Arabia, says Hutton: “It's a big country! "I've been asked by the Guggenheim motorcycle gang. I'm president of the gang!

"Dennis Hopper is the vice president and Jeremy Irons and Laurence Fishburne are members. It's a lot of great guys. It's going to be fun!"