RANBIR Kapoor

Sonam to Deepika to Katrina to Nargis to.... Kapoor scion Ranbir has been as much in the news for his wild ways with women as for his powerhouse performances. Diplomacy be damned, the Raajneeti actor knows how to have his cake and eat it too as he hops from one girl to another. If only the rest of our B-town heroes were as colourful. Shah Rukh Khan, you reading this?

CHARLIE SHEEN

He’s made more news in the last two months than he has in the last 25 years of his career. Platoon star Charlie Sheen has done it all — from orgies with porn stars to overdosing on cocaine to physically abusing his wives to being fired from his hit TV show Two and a Half Men. With every passing day, the Charlie circus assumes dizzying proportions, crowning him the undisputed bad boy of Hollywood. The colourful ways of the father of five have made him a huge hit — on Twitter (where he amassed a million followers in just a day) to Torpedo of Truth (his upcoming live acts across the US, a sell-out within days).

vijay mallya

The king of good times sure knows how to live life kingsize. With a lifestyle as colourful as the shirts he sports, few can match up to Kingfisher man Vijay Mallya. Palatial villas, extravagant parties, the swankiest wheels in town, an IPL and a Formula One team, an airline... the beer baron’s life is clearly neighbour’s envy, owner’s pride. Son Sidhartha — with girlfriend Deepika Padukone on his arm — seems to be following in Daddy’s footsteps, but VM is still the baap of good times!

VEENA MALIK

If the reaction a year ago was: “Veena who?”, the reaction today is: “Veena now what?” The Pakistani hottie — who came into the limelight as the whistleblower in the matchfixing scandal that gripped her country’s top cricketers — invaded our living rooms as a contestant on Bigg Boss 4. And set the small screen sizzling, with or without Ashmit Patel. Canoodling in corners to shaking her hips to Sheila ki jawaani, Veena did it all on the Colors reality show. She continues to attract attention with her colourful life — whether it is breaking off her year-long engagement or getting cosy in public with Bigg Boss co-contestants Ashmit and Hrishant Goswami.

lindsay lohan

Drug rehab. Serving time for alcohol addiction. Facing trial for shoplifting. An ugly split with girlfriend Samantha Ronson. Life has been way too colourful and controversial for the Mean Girls star over the last year. The latest from the Hollywood wild child? She plans to produce a film on her life! Haven’t we already seen quite a bit of that LiLo?

 

MALLIKA SHERAWAT

The most-in-your face Bolly heroine, motormouth Mallika Sherawat manages to keep the gossip mills constantly buzzing. Unending Twitter updates or controversial films like Hisss, the Haryanvi hurricane says and does what she feels like. Her red carpet dresses say it all.

 

shane warne

The Australian spin legend’s life — even after retirement — is as colourful as it was in his heydays. Whether it is cosying up with British actress Elizabeth Hurley in an elevator or juggling several women at the same time, Warnie can teach a thing or two to today’s Casanovas. And then of course is his colourful on-field persona as the skipper of Rajasthan Royals.

 

tiger woods

The man who went from stoic and almost boring to the most colourful sportsperson of our times. Tiger Woods’s 18-hole list of sexual encounters with bar girls, porn stars and prostitutes shocked the world when it first birdied into the spotlight a year ago. While soccer stars Wayne Rooney and David Beckham and cricketer Shane Warne also belong to the Tiger club, what makes the golf champ the most colourful of ’em all is the claim that he has had affairs with 120 women. Boy, oh boy!

 

SALMAN KHAN

When it comes to being colourful and controversial, few can hold a candle to Bollywood’s original I-don’t-give-a-damn boy. Bar brawls to court cases to juggling girlfriends, Salman Khan’s motto in life is dabangg (fearless). And though the enfant terrible may give many sleepless nights, his tireless charity work shows that his heart is in the right place.

 

LADY GAGA

Everything she says or does makes news. Unconventional and unabashed, Lady Gaga is colourful with a capital C. Her songs and lifestyle reveal a quirky, no-holds-barred personality. Her clothes — from a meat dress to a porcelain ensemble to an egg costume — reveal a lot more.

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