From the most recent Bloom Cosmetics Newsletter:

Isabel Lucas

Isabel Lucas might have come a long way from Summer Bay, but one thing that has remained steadfast is her commitment to an organic lifestyle. Whether it’s volunteering in Namibia with an agricultural charity organization or climbing Mount Kilimanjaro to raise awareness about the global clean water crisis, Isabel is also a passionate, eco-conscious campaigner who is doing more than simply talking the talk.

When asked to share her beauty advice,
Isabel responded, "Nurture mind, body, spirit, appreciate your body by eating fresh and when you can organic food. Drink lots of water. Much true beauty comes from within, through self-appreciation."

 

- Thanks to Eirryn

PETA Asia-Pacific have launched their annual Sexiest Vegetarian Celebrity contest on their web site PETAAsiaPacific.com and Isabel Lucas is in the running for the title of Australia’s Sexiest Vegetarian. You can view the contest (and vote!) RIGHT HERE.

Fads are a dime a dozen among red carpet regulars, but being vegetarian is one Tinseltown trend that won’t be fading away any time soon! More and more stars are taking on a new role—as models for a compassionate, healthy, and Earth-friendly lifestyle.

– Thanks to Ashley for this information.

Emile mentioned Isabel a few times in this new interview with Vanity Fair about the Mt Kilimanjaro climb. The mentions of Isabel are below, and you can read the full interview with him here.

Mike Ryan: After the initial adrenaline rush of the idea of climbing Mount Kilimanjaro wore off, was there ever a moment in the weeks leading up where you thought, “Holy shit, I actually have to climb Mount Kilimanjaro”?

Emile Hirsch: Yeah. The way I got involved is that I was friends with Isabel Lucas, and I called her when she was working on a movie in Michigan. She told me all about this climb. I said, “Wow, that sounds amazing.” Isabel’s very sweet: she didn’t make climbing Kilimanjaro sound very scary or hard. And I didn’t actually know that much about Kilimanjaro up to that point. So it sounded like this almost glorified hippie hike. It could have been a hill to me for all I knew at that exact moment.

So Kenna called me and talked to me about it. I had a series of conversations with him. Each time I asked him more about it, is started to sound like a much harder endeavor. When I found out it is 19,340 feet and that Mount McKinley was just a couple of hundred feet higher, that really blew my mind. I’d seen Mount McKinley when I was in Alaska shooting Into the Wild. You could see McKinley from about 100 miles away, and it was huge. And I always wanted to climb McKinley. We’d be going to set and I’d be looking at it, wanting to run over there and climb it. This was an opportunity to make up for missing out on McKinley.

In doing research for this interview, I spoke to a friend who climbed Kilimanjaro a couple of years ago. I now know the definition of “scree” [broken rock fragments on mountain cliffs]…

Yeah! I “screed” all the way down. Once I actually got to the summit, I had this realization that I was running pretty low on water because I had given Isabel a good amount of my water—she was really in bad shape and really thirsty and had already finished all of hers. She ended up drinking quite a bit of it. So I had a near empty water supply and realizing I had about four miles of really, really steep terrain and scree. And I had to just kind of scree down the mountain really fast. It became fun, it became like skiing.

IN part 2 of our 2009 Choicies Awards, we reveal the results of our celebrity Sacndal of the Year and Celebrity Export of the Year. – news.com.au.

Celebrity Export of the Year

Sam Worthington 16.41 per cent
He played a Terminator, a God and, of course, an Avatar all in one year, so it was pretty certain Sam Worthington was the best Australian celeb dispatched in 2009. The former brickie and Russell Crowe look-a-like is now Hollywood’s newest – and hottest – action hero, who will next appear in Clash Of The Titans.

The Veronicas 12.91 per cent
Don’t let their height fool you – The Veronicas reached and found the stars this year, topping the US charts and cracking the UK pop market. The single Untouched hit number one in the US where the twins spent most of the year touring and their sophomore album Hook Me Up hit the shelves in Britain for the first time.

Isabel Lucas 12.89 per cent
Sure she landed a part in Tranformers: Revenge Of The Fallen, which made squillions at the box office, but boho babe Isabel Lucas is first and foremost a tree-hugging hippy – the former Home and Away starlet attached to more environmental initiatives than Al Gore. Next month she will trek to the top of Mount Kilimanjaro for the clean water crisis. Then there’s the boys. Entourage lothario Adrian Grenier and aspiring rock star Jared Leto helped ensure she is on the Hollywood radar. Smooth.

Love Isabel Lucas? Of course you do! A few days ago I finished the thefanlistings.org approved fanlisting for Isabel and it is now open for you to join! The absolutely gorgeous layout was designed by Natalie of Elements-Inc.net and I think it is perfect for Isabel. So if you’re a fan of Izzy, then go and fill in the join form, and if you have a website then grab a code and link back to our fanlisting after joining. Remember, this is the only fanlisting for Isabel Lucas that is approved by thefanlistings.org, so it is the place to get your love for Isabel ‘officially’ recognised!

As for site news, my internet connection is extremely slow/unstable at the moment so I am unable to update or be online much. However, I am working on tons of screencaps to add when my connection is fixed, and I also have some other plans for new pages here. Remember to follow us on Twitter to keep up-to-date with what’s going on and what’s coming up!

• Top 10: Megan Fox Replacements
With the “Official Megan Fox Media Blackout Day” upon us, we here at AM are forced to pose the question: What would the world be like without her? Just in case Megan Fox does indeed disappears into the bottomless pit of over-exposure, we’ve compiled a list of her heir apparents. And we did it for you, Brian, because we of all people know life just ain’t worth living without a shockingly gorgeous A-list actress to obsess over.

No.3 – Isabel Lucas
She appeared in Transformers: Revenge Of The Fallen. She’s been spotted palling around with Shia Labeouf, and she’s widely regarded as one of the most beautiful women on the face of this earth. No, her name isn’t Megan Fox. Isabel Lucas is Megan Fox’s Australian counterpart. Don’t worry, we’re a little weirded out too.

- Askmen.com

MIA has come from nowhere to be Australia’s most popular girls’ name, possibly thanks to tennis ace Lleyton Hewitt and his wife Bec.

A McCrindle Research survey found traditional names dominated, but some parents chose the unusual, such as Mickayla, Jaedyn, Me-a, Thai-son, Ty’Ana and Al’Bert, the Herald Sun reports.

McCrindle looked at birth records nationally and found Jack, William and Lachlan were the most popular boys’ names registered last year. Mia, Chloe and Isabella topped the girls.

Some star-struck parents added a celebrity angle. They included: Sienna (Miller), Lily (Allen), Ruby (Rose), Imogen (Bailey), Eva (Mendes/Longoria Parker), Scarlett (Johansson), Isla (Fisher), Charli (Delaney), Keira (Knightley), Isabel (Lucas), Angelina (Jolie), Jack (Black), (Prince) William, Harrison (Ford), (Prince) Harry, Seth (Green) Ashton (Kutcher) and (Prince) Charles.

Q: What about your work with the Whaleman Foundation and Isabel Lucas? Have you kept in touch with Isabel?

HAYDEN PANETTIERE: I haven’t seen her in a while but she’s doing great.

Q: (joking) She’s in a very low budget movie that’s coming out this week.

HAYDEN PANETTIERE: (Laughs) Oh yeah. It’s called Transformers or something like that?

– From an interview with MoviesOnline.ca

Move over, Megan Fox. Isabel Lucas is the unsung hottie of this weekend’s stupendous box-office smash, Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen.

But the Melbourne native, 24, tells Details for its June/July issue that she’s more than just a pretty face. The actress describes herself as “quirky” and a big-time nature buff, who likes to hike in Los Angeles’s Griffith Park – she’s a fan of the “energy of the trees and air” – and spent a year of her youth in an Aboriginal community.

Then there’s that open warrant for her arrest in Japan, for her participation in an anti-whaling protest. (Even though her Transformers premiere tour will take her to Tokyo, she surmises, “It’s quite unlikely I’ll be arrested.”

While the up-and-comer seems to take life in stride, she’s already earned some fairly serious credentials. She spent two years back home on the long-running Aussie soap Home and Away and hit Transformers director Michael Bay’s radar after a recommendation from Steven Spielberg, who cast her in his WWII miniseries The Pacific.

Still, she isn’t afraid to write her own story, even if it’s all over her body: In a further quirk, she says she scribbles daily “with a word I pull out of a basket my roommate has. Just as a reminder.”