Charlize Theron wants to have a baby. The 36-year-old actress is keen to start a family and doesn't want to wait any longer to become a mother. Charlize – who is currently single after separating from actor Ryan Reynolds in August after a brief two-month romance - told Germany's In Touch magazine: "I want a baby. If it would happen tomorrow I would still be very happy about it." ...

Ryan Reynolds is reportedly enjoying a secret romance with Charlize Theron. The 34-year-old actor – who split from wife Scarlett Johansson last December – is said to have been dating the 35-year-old actress "for months" but the pair have been deliberately keeping the romance under wraps. A source told Us Weekly magazine: "They have been dating -- for months! They're exclusive, and it's very hush-hush." The pair have not yet been photographed together, but the magazine reports that witnesses saw the 'Green Lantern' actor's motorcycle parked outside Charlize's house all morning one day last month, before Ryan eventually emerged from the property at 3pm and she left just minutes later. ...

Charlize Theron had "diarrhoea" for seven days during a charity trip to South Africa. The Oscar-winning actress set up her own organisation, the Africa Outreach Project, which focuses on sex education and HIV/AIDS prevention in her native South Africa, and while she admits the work is not glamorous, it is very rewarding and grounding. She said: "I'm sitting on a toilet for seven days with diarrhoea. But it's the thing that puts everything into perspective. There's a part of me that will always be the South African who knows and realises how unbelievably fortunate I have been." ...

Charlize Theron hates watching her own films. The 35-year-old actress admits she finds it difficult to watch herself on the big screen – but she did enjoy seeing her Oscar-winning performance in 2003’s ‘Monster’. She told German TV station TELE 5: “I hate to see myself on screen. When I did ‘Monster’ it wasn’t too bad, because I didn’t look like Charlize Theron.” ...

Charlize Theron is dating a farmer. The Oscar-winning actress – who has been single since splitting from long-term love Stuart Townsend in January 2010 – has reportedly started dating model-and-actor Eric Thal who owns a farm in New York. A friend of Eric told Life and Style magazine: "The two have a lot in common. He's a farmer who grows all his own vegetables and Charlize grew up on a farm in South Africa. The two like to escape Hollywood and go to his farm in upstate New York." ...

Marilyn Monroe has been named the greatest blonde of all time. The late screen legend beat off stiff competition from a host of modern beauties, including Cameron Diaz, Madonna and Scarlett Johansson, to be awarded the title in a new poll. In second place was actress Grace Kelly - who famously married Prince Rainier III of Monaco - French beauty Brigitte Bardot was third, while Cameron came fourth. ...