Celebrate (Belated) Mardi Gras With Signed Twi-Goodies by Helping Kellan Lutz & St Bernard Project!

Kellan and fellow Twi-cast have been working with the St Bernards project helping to build homes down in New Orleans.

Now, in advance of his 26th birthday on March 15th, Kellan is asking people to donate $26 to the St Bernard Project for the chance to win autographed Twilight goodies with his Get On A Float campaign:

Want a chance to win free, autographed Twilight memorabilia? Want me to send you a shout-out on twitter? Will you help a great cause?

It's Mardi Gras season in New Orleans and there are still many families whose homes were flooded by Katrina 5 1/2 years ago and have not been able to rebuild and move home. So I'm doing something about it. I'm the Grand Marshal of the St. Bernard Project’s Get on the Float campaign and am funding a family's home by donating personally and raising money from the cast and crew of Twilight.

Now I need my fans to join me too. Donate any amount to St. Bernard Project and you’ll be entered in the drawing. Grand Prize winners will get autographed Twilight memorabilia signed by me and other members of the Twilight cast.

But that’s not the only prize! Each day, I’ll send a shout-out to one donor on twitter. Just leave your twitter address in the comment section and I’ll make sure my followers know about your generous contribution.

It’s easy to donate and you’ll be contributing to a great cause. This Mardi Gras Season, Get on the Float for St. Bernard Project. We want to get at least two families back home and we can do that by raising $40,000.

Until I was in New Orleans and saw the devastation first hand I had no idea about the extent of the enduring needs. I met families who were still living in FEMA trailers or their gutted homes over five years after Katrina. The good news is that there's a solution: the St. Bernard Project can rebuild a family's home in 12 weeks for about $15,000-$20,000. They've done over 350 so far!

Many thanks for your support -- and don't forget to forward this to anyone who you think might want to donate too!

- Lorabell

Robert Pattinson Plays The Blues *le sigh* just kill me why don't ya?!

Gaaaah - pleeeeeeease tell me someone shot video of this?!

During Rob's recent April issue Vanity Fair shoot with Annie Leibovitz, things took a detour to New Orlean's Preservation Hall.

Rob helped wish the legendary landmark a happy 50th anniversary by using those fascinating fingers on the piano as part of the jazz band :)

Via Vanity Fair:

Sing us a song, piano man—let’s start with “Happy Birthday.” New Orleans’s Preservation Hall—where Annie Leibovitz shot young Robert Pattinson, shown tickling the ol’ 88 with the world-famous Preservation Hall band—celebrates its 50th anniversary this year. Situated in the French Quarter, the music venue is one of the country’s most hallowed: it was founded in 1961 for the purpose of preserving New Orleans–style jazz, and indigenous American music. On his first-ever visit to the Quarter, Pattinson jammed with the house band and thoroughly held his own—his celebrity perhaps subsumed by that of the musicians, whose legendary status awed everyone on set. “When we first started, none of us knew that Robert really does play piano,” says Ben Jaffe, the tuba player (center, above), the band’s director, and the son of the venue’s founders. “But when he got up there, he started ticking out these notes, and it was obvious he wasn’t just tinkling—he really knew how to play.” Though the musicians were expecting the actor to just pose, Pattinson gamely jammed along with their tunes. After finishing a song, he leaned over to Jaffe “and said, ‘That’s the first time I’ve played with a group of guys like that,’” Jaffe recalls. Not a shabby gig—especially with Jaffe’s homemade red beans and rice waiting as reward.

On the landmark birthday, Jaffe says he and the rest of the band are humbled: “It’s really momentous for us to reach this moment in our history, considering everything New Orleans has been through in the last five years,” he says. “It’s really a testament to the strength of the people of this city.” Preservation Hall endured a several-month hiatus post-Katrina and reopened in May 2006, structure miraculously intact. We say miraculously, because the hall’s charm is that it looks as though it might collapse at any moment—it’s one big happy jalopy of a 350-year-old structure, with all the glorious paint-peel-y, rusty-hinged patina of a Clementine Hunter painting. It strains at the seams with ambiance. And we hope, lack of air conditioning and all, that it never changes.

- Lorabell

Taylor & Kellan With Football Fans, A Looot Of Cheerleaders &... The Newest Member Of The WolfPack!

I've never been so jealous of a little boy :/

Grrr!

Cuuute!

Back of the line, ladies!

Taylor enjoyed a day off from Breaking Dawn filming down at the Superdome on Sunday.

He took time out from cheering the New Orleans Saints and St. Louis Rams to take photos with fans (awww), cheerleaders (natch) and mascots (tee hee).

Meanwhile, Kellan was getting cozy with what appears to be the same fan (plus his sister?) and a newly single Zac Efron - upgrade!

Via source

- Lorabell

P.s. When did Zac get so buff? His arms are bigger than Kellans O_o

Family Vamp Filming - Rob & Kristen Shoot Pregnancy & Mackenzie Scenes

It's all go down in Baton Rouge!

Apparently Mackenzie has been filming all sorts of Cullen family bonding with Rob & Kristen as well as rumoured pregnancy scenes keeping everyone busy over at Celtic Studios

Exciting times - I can not WAIT to see what vampire Bella looks like :D

- Lorabell

Are These Breaking Dawn Baton Rouge Set Pics?!

Rob?!

Vampire flashes to the middle-east?

Street scene?

Swimming pool perhaps?

Big ol' lights - no clue!

Palm trees?

Twi-Hard @CatPrintsDesign has been doing some set-stalking down in Baton Rouge and managed to get a few photos of potential Breaking Dawn goings on down in Nawlins!

There's no guarantee that these are the studios being used for the Breaking Dawn set - and my mind boggles at one of the apparent Moroccan looking set.

Via source

- Lorabell

More Twi-Cast Arrive in Louisiana for Breaking Dawn - Kellan, Nikki & Ashley... plus pupsters!

*Warning - Pap pics!* - click to see below the cut

Aw, there are just pets a'plenty on the Breaking Dawn set - with Kristen and Taylor petting a pooch on Friday and now Nikki and Ashley bringing pooches to set - cute!

See more pics at SocialiteLife

- Lorabell

Kristen Arrives in Louisiana for Breaking Dawn!

According to Scene Louisiana, Kristen is now in Louisiana to begin principle photography on Breaking Dawn.

She apparently flew into New Orleans on the same flight as Welcome To The Riley's director, Jake Scott.

No word on Rob yet but rumour has it that Mackenzie Foy - aka Renesmee - is also in town!

- Lorabell

P.s. I wonder if she's going to make it back to LA in time for the Scream Awards tomorrow night?