Actor Mark Wahlberg wants to move his family out of Hollywood - because he doesn’t want his daughter to grow up emulating her neighbours Paris Hilton and Britney Spears.

The Departed star insists his main priority is providing positive and educational surroundings for his young children - daughter Ella Rae, five, and sons Michael, two, and newborn Brendan Joseph.

And he admits that celebrity-obsessed Hollywood may not be the best place for kids to grow up.

He says: “We won’t stay there forever but it’s very difficult to raise normal kids in an environment like that. And I was thinking there’s no real role models for girls. (Read full story …)

Mark Wahlberg has confessed that he would rather have been a professional athlete than an actor.

The 37-year-old, whose new film Max Payne opened in the UK yesterday, described his status in Hollywood as a “consolation prize”.

He explained: “It’s always been a dream of mine, a childhood fantasy to play a great champion. I would much rather have been an athlete than an actor. It’s a second-placed consolation prize.”

Wahlberg is hoping to channel his sporting prowess into Darren Aronofsky’s The Fighter, a movie charting the rise of junior welterweight boxer Micky Ward. (Read full story …)

Q DID you know the computer game the film is based on?

A NO, but I checked it out and realised they’ve changed quite a bit since my days of going to the arcade playing Pacman.

But I can’t get caught up playing video games. I have an addictive personality and three children so it would be very irresponsible for me to pick up another habit. I have golf which is my one vice.

Q YOU have a five year old daughter, two year old son and a newborn son at four weeks - how’s your sleep?

A I’M getting a little bit more than mommy is. After being on the road I can pretty much sleep through everything. She’s taking care of the newborn because I am terrified of babies until they’re like six months old because they’re fragile looking, but I’m keeping the other kids busy.

Q HOW is it being a father of three?

A IT’S awesome. It’s a little more complicated but I’m the youngest of nine kids so I’ll have as many as mommy can handle.

Q SO another six to go? (Read full story …)

“It was OK. I wasn’t into the waif thing. She kind of looked like my nephew. I mean, she’s beautiful—she’s a very pretty nephew—but I’m more into curvy women.”

—Mark Wahlberg to Nuts magazine, on posing with a topless Kate Moss for those controversial Calvin Klein ads back in 1992
Source: E! Online