First of all, I’m sorry for neglecting the site for so long, the regular updates will continue from now on. School’s just around the corner, so if I don’t update the site for a couple of days, it’s because of – you know it – school.

Second, it seems that Salma will be in Ugly Betty (she’s also one of the executive producers). She’ll play a small part as a slap-happy maid in Betty’s fathers’ favorite soap. Here are some tidbits of what Salma’s said about the show and her role.

“…Hayek sees the title as a sarcastic take on a classic fish-out-of-water series. “It’s about how Betty is not ugly, but she is working in an ugly environment full of beautiful people,” she says. “She has a sense of humor about who she is and a self-confidence that a lot of times pretty girls don’t have.”…”

“…Hayek appears in cameos as a slap-happy maid in Betty’s dad’s favorite novela. How much fun is that? “Can you imagine? It was hysterical, it was hilarious,” she says. Let’s just hope she doesn’t upstage Betty.”

Ugly Betty will premiere September 28, 8 PM on ABC.

More pictures from the YouthAIDS Life Project “tour” Salma did earlier this year in Latin America, along with some from a special screening of “The Vagina Monologues”. Click on the links or pictures below to visit the albums.

I’ve added 24 HQ pictures from an old press conference held for the YouthAIDS project. The event was held on May 3 earlier this year in Guatemala City, Guatemala. To view the full set of pictures, click on the thumbnails below.

Salma Hayek has dismissed reports that she has a $100 million fortune, and said if she did, she would retire and use the money to help the poor.

Local media in Mexico and Latin America reported this week that the Oscar-nominated actress had been ranked by Fortune magazine as the second-richest Latin American in Hollywood, with nearly half as much money as singer Jennifer Lopez.

“It’s a huge lie. It’s very, very far from reality. I don’t have that amount of money,” Hayek told Reuters, after reading an article in Mexican daily El Universal about a list of “Latino millionaires” in the United States.

“Somebody sent me it and I laughed. It’s a bit like a joke. Obviously I have never earned $100 million and I wouldn’t even want to,” she said in a telephone interview from her Los Angeles home.
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On July 18, Salma attended the 2006 Summer TCA Press Tour to promote the new ABC series Ugly Betty. Salma won’t act in the show, but she is the executive producer. I’ve added 15 HQ pictures from the event which took place in Ritz-Carlton Huntington Hotel, Pasadena, California. Click on the thumbnails below to view the full set of pictures.