A couple of days ago Salma lost jewelry worth $50,000, but it’s been given back to her. The story’s something like this: Salma picked out the rented ornaments to show off at a recent New York benefit, but her assistant by mistake left it on the back seat of a taxi cab.

Fortunately for her, Lorenzo Borghese – the royal star of new US reality series The Bachelor: Rome – was the next person to hail the cab.

“I just took something really simple and they took the rest and the poor girl that brought me the jewelry left it in a taxi”, Contactmusic quoted Salma saying.

“The guy that’s like the prince in The Bachelor gets in the cab right after that girl, somewhere random in New York and sees an envelope that says ‘Salma Hayek’. He called ABC and said, ‘I think Salma Hayek just lost $50,000 worth of jewelry’, and they gave it back. Isn’t that fantastic?” she added.

Sorry for the lack of updates as of lately. There aren’t that much going on with Salma at the moment, and I’ve been working hard on revamping my other site about Courteney Cox. Here’s an article, though, about Salma’s guest appearance in Ugly Betty in the coming episode.

“Salma Hayek, who’s been content to keep a low profile as an executive producer on her new hit series Ugly Betty, steps into the limelight this week when she appears on the ABC comedy.

In a four-episode story arc expertly timed for November sweeps, the stunning Mexican actress plays Sofia Reyes, a beautiful mystery woman who appears in the lobby of the Mode magazine offices. Instantly attracted to her, perpetually randy editor-in-chief Daniel Meade (Eric Mabius) asks for Betty’s (America Ferrera) help in finding her identity.

Hayek has appeared on the show once, as the maid in the telenovela watched religiously by Betty’s dad, Ignacio (Tony Plana).
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It appears that Salma will co-host a reception celebrating LA Fashion Week, benefitting The Art of Elysium tomorrow night. Read more about the event and guests in the quote of a Penélope Cruz-article below.

“Tomorrow night, Penelope will co-host a lavish reception celebrating LA Fashion Week, benefitting The Art of Elysium, a charity for children with serious illnesses, at the Esquire House 360, the mens’ magazine’s 17,000 sq. foot Italian villa billed as the “ultimate bachelor pad.’Her co-hosts are a couple of other Latina hotties, Salma Hayek and Eva Mendes and the guest list includes Casey and Summer Affleck (and probably Ben and Jen too), Hugh Jackman, Brett Ratner, Ben Stiller and Christine Taylor and Lord knows who else.”

Thanks to Riikka of our sister site Penelope Fan for notifying me!

The poll In Touch magazine did where you could vote for Hollywood’s Best Booty is through and a winner is crowned. Lucky number one is singer/actress Beyoncé followed by Jessica Simpson and our Salma. Other celebrities found in the top ten were Halle Berry (#5), Scarlett Johansson (#7) and Jessica Alba (#10).

Salma Hayek stunned her Latin American audience when she left her role on Teresa, a highly rated telenovela, to move to Hollywood 15 years ago. Unfortunately back then, as Salma found out, most Hollywood roles for Latin women were prostitutes, waitresses or maids. Thankfully that’s no longer the case.

With the premiere of Ugly Betty, an American take on the Colombian show Yo Soy Betty, La Fea on Thursday night, it seems Salma may have had the last laugh. As the executive producer of the critically acclaimed show, Salma could have easily have had a cameo as a model or high-powered fashion executive. Instead, she decided to go back to her roots and maybe take a dig at the Hollywood casting agents who typecast her so long ago.

Salma plays a maid on a telenovela that is on constantly in Betty’s house. Hayek’s on tv overacting proves the highly accomplished actress can still poke fun at herself and at the industry.

Source: TMZ.com