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Sad! So not the type of thing you want to come home to after the most romantic moment of your life.
Sources report that while Michael Buble was getting ready to marry his now beautiful wife, Luisana Loreley Lopilato de la Torre, thieves broke into their house in
It has yet to be reported what exactly the thieves made off with or if the police have any leads.
But don't feel too bad for Michael and Luisana. As she told reporters following the robbery, "I will not let this ruin the happiest day of my life."
by Greig Box-Turnbull, Daily Mirror
MICHAEL Buble’s home was ransacked while the crooner celebrated his wedding 50 miles away.
The gang stole cash and three flatscreen TVs shortly after the 35-year-old had got hitched to actress Luisana Lopilato, 23, on Saturday.
Police said the “experienced” thieves had turned off the alarm and covered up CCTV cameras before breaking into the house in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
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Luisana’s dad Eduardo, who lives next door, said yesterday: “They forced a gate to get in and turned the place upside-down. They even threw a video in the swimming pool.”
But Buble’s new wife is determined not to let the break-in destroy her memory of the big day. She tweeted: “This won’t ruin our incredible moment.”
The couple met in 2008 after one of Buble’s concerts and got engaged last November.
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"If I passed away and 20 years later a kid was still listening to [my Christmas album], that would be really cool," singer Michael Buble says.
Oct 24, 2011 – 7:00 PM ET | Last Updated: Oct 24, 2011 5:35 PM ET
Michael Bublé is kicking back on a couch in downtown Toronto and answering questions as if he was sitting opposite Barbara Walters.
“I was insecure and I didn’t trust myself, so how could I trust her? I was controlling and jealous and stupid,” says Bublé, arguably the most popular Canadian artist of the past decade, talking about his breakup from the British actress Emily Blunt. “I started to do therapy and read self-help books like The Power of Now because I wasn’t a kid anymore, I was 34, and realized that if I don’t face what I don’t like about myself, I’m never going to change.”
The crooner, who’s sold 27 million albums by combining the singing style of Tony Bennett with the pop appeal of Justin Bieber, credits sincerity for his widespread success. However, even until very recently — culminating in his marriage this March to Argentinean actress Luisana Lopilato — Bublé’s been a public work-in-progress. A lack of confidence, he says, affected everything from his voice to his stage presence to his relationship with his family.
“It’s easy to know there are things about you that you don’t like and pack it away in the back of your mind, but after that breakup, I decided I was going to finally be present,” he says. “I started to become more self-aware, wake up and live in the moment. It changed me, and my work.”
Bublé wrote the Grammy Award-winning album Crazy Love after meeting Lopilato, and it sold more than seven million copies. He toured it all over the world and, in 2010, became one of North America’s five highest-grossing acts on the road. And then, when it was all over, he returned to his long-held idea for a Christmas album, which even he admits sounds a little cheesy at first.
“People laugh when I say that I want this to be the most important record of my life, but if I do it right, it could be a huge part of whatever legacy I may or may not have,” says Bublé, who’s releasing the album Christmas on Oct. 24. Recorded live off the floor with a full orchestra by Canadian super-producer Bob Rock in Vancouver and Los Angeles, it’s the musician’s attempt at channelling Bing Crosby.
“If I passed away and 20 years later a kid was still listening to this, that would be really cool,” says Bublé, who cracks chestnuts like Silent Night and I’ll Be Home for Christmason the album, and duets on White Christmas with Shania Twain. “I’m sentimental about the holidays and always have been, but at 36 years old, dude, I’m only getting worse.”
That sentimentality also goes under a microscope in Onstage, Offstage, a new coffee table book of photographs and autobiographical passages that Bublé insists isn’t a memoir.
“I haven’t even closely established myself enough to write a memoir. I’ve only been famous for 10 years,” says the B.C.-born singer, who writes charmingly in the book with his ghost writer Kerry Gold about meeting Lopilato, but steers clear of dishing any Keith Richards-level dirt. “Maybe in another five or 10 years Kerry and I can take a real look at who I am.”
Buble’s currently gearing up for a whole new slew of appearances, ranging from a profile on 60 Minutes to an NBC Christmas special to a performance in December on Saturday Night Live. The singer leans back on the couch and says it feels good to be married, and that he’s happier now than he’s ever been.
“I love making people laugh and I try to be as self-deprecating as I can,” he says. “It helps with the guys. They realize I’m not the wanker that they probably thought that I was.”
Onstage, Offstage by Michael Bublé ($37) is available from Random House. Christmas is out Oct. 24 on Warner Music Canada.
