Vogue cover girl and Oscar winner Kate Winslet is lending her support to a campaign for People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (Peta) – appealing to some of Britain’s top chefs to banish foie gras from their menus.

“Foie gras is sold as an expensive delicacy in some restaurants and shops. But no one pays a higher price for foie gras than the ducks and geese who are abused and killed to make it,” Winslet tells today’s Daily Telegraph.

The actress has narrated a video featuring footage Peta claims was filmed undercover on a foie gras farm – in which geese and ducks are shown to be in cramped and apparently filthy conditions.

Urging consumers to boycott foie gras in restaurants, Winslet described the production of it as being a “terrifying and painful” experience for the ducks and geese.

Source: Vogue UK

The Titanic star, who recently split from husband Sam Mendes, has a daughter Mia, nine, and a six-year-old son Joe.

But the actress insists she came under scrutiny from the press when she left her kids at home to continue working in the film industry, and the negative portrayal of her parenting left her in despair.

She tells Britain’s The Times, “I don’t feel guilty about working now. When Mia was younger I did, but that was largely to do with the press. You know, ‘She’s off and the child gets left behind.’ You just want to kill yourself when you read those things.

“Mia and Joe are not onset movie kids. I don’t ever have them hang out in the trailer, because I don’t like the notion that they are sort of beholden to my schedule, not knowing when they’re going to see me. I’d rather, you know, give them a big kiss in the morning before I go off to work.”

Source: FOX 8 Live

Kate Winslet wants to move out of the New York apartment she shared with estranged husband Sam Mendes.

The 34-year-old actress is reportedly desperate to leave the $6 million property in the Chelsea district of the city because of all the memories it holds. Since Kate and Sam announced they were splitting after almost seven years of marriage, the director has been living in the same converted warehouse building as his office is based there.

“Kate really wants to leave the apartment,” a source told the New York Post newspaper. “She sees it as a house of horrors because of the fights she and Sam had there. She feels it is tainted.”

However, Kate looks set to spend several more months living in the apartment because she is due to begin filming new TV mini-series Mildred Pierce, which is based on a novel by James M. Cain in New York.

It has been claimed Kate and Sam are keen to avoid a high-profile court battle to agree on custody arrangements for the two children they raise together — six-year-old son Joe and Mia Honey, Kate’s daughter with ex-husband Jim Threapleton — and to split their shared fortune, worth an estimated $45 million.

Kate and Sam married in May 2003 on the Caribbean island of Anguilla. After announcing the split earlier this month, it emerged they had parted ways earlier in the year and had reportedly grown apart following a series of arguments.

Source: Stuff.co.nz