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She’s won an Oscar, a Bafta, a CBE and a Tony award plus popular praise for staunchly supporting her husband through his recent cancer ordeal.

Now Catherine Zeta-Jones is being honoured in New York for promoting Wales around the world.

The St David’s Society of the State of New York is making the 41-year-old star the guest of honour at its 176th annual dinner dance at the plush Yale Club in Manhattan.

She will be given the New York Welsh society’s highest prize, the William R Hopkins medal, at the glitzy evening on March 4.

And at her side will be her Oscar-winning husband Michael Douglas, 66, now recovering after months of chemo and radiotherapy for stage four throat cancer, which doctors have told him has now gone.

Previous recipients of the William R Hopkins medal have included singer Iris Williams and composer Karl Jenkins.

On the guest list will be Professor Peter Stead, the social historian and broadcaster who founded the University of Wales Dylan Thomas Prize, one of the richest literary prizes in the world.

Catherine Zeta-Jones is a patron and international ambassador of the £30,000 prize which was won in 2010 by US writer Elyse Fenton.

Professor Stead said yesterday: “I am absolutely thrilled Catherine is being given this honour by the St David’s Society of the State of New York.

“She has done such a lot to promote Wales and the Welsh around the world through her work.

“But she is also an active supporter of charities and other causes including the arts and her role as a backer of the Dylan Thomas Prize has been a pivotal one. She thoroughly deserves to be honoured by New Yorkers who are either Welsh or have Welsh backgrounds.

“I’m told by the organisers Michael Douglas will be with her and I’m sure everyone will be pleased to see him.

“It promises to be a great night of celebrating Welshness in the heart of one of the most influential cities in the world.”

The Yale Club of New York City, where the annual banquet will take place, commonly called the Yale Club, is a private club in Midtown Manhattan.

Its membership is restricted almost entirely to alumni and faculty members of Ivy League universities such as Yale, which was named after one of its early benefactors, the Welsh merchant Elihu Yale.

The St David’s Society of the State of New York, one of the oldest ex-pat Welsh societies in the world, holds its banquet there annually to celebrate the connection.

With a clubhouse comprising 22 storeys and a worldwide membership of over 11,000, it is the largest private clubhouse in the world.

The chair of the St David’s Society of New York is David Morgan, a Swansea-born banker now living and working in New York.

Just days ago, new photographs appeared to confirm Michael Douglas has put his health problems well behind him.

He was pictured looking fit and healthy with his Welsh wife and their seven-year-old daughter Carys in the stands at Madison Square Garden, watching the Pittsburgh Penguins take on the home side New York Rangers.

And they looked like they were having a great time together as they watched Rangers beat the Penguins 5-3.

Zeta-Jones and Douglas and their two children have now moved to New York after previously living in Bermuda, where Douglas has a hotel.

Zeta-Jones has been described as “a rock” after being by her husband’s side following his diagnosis with cancer last year and in turn he has praised her dedication to him, describing her as the “love of his life”.

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CATHERINE Zeta-Jones has praised husband Michael Douglas’ healthy appearance as the actor continues his recovery from throat cancer.

The Swansea-born actress and her Hollywood star husband yesterday made a front row appearance at New York Fashion Week and the couple will next week visit Buckingham Palace where Zeta-Jones will finally collect her CBE.

Douglas, who is recovering from gruelling treatment in his battle against throat cancer, looked tanned and healthy yesterday in a grey cashmere jumper and sunglasses as he watched the autumn/winter show by American designer Michael Kors.

Zeta-Jones, who was dressed in black leather, gave the Wall Street star a hug, before telling reporters: “Doesn’t he look great?”

In January, Douglas declared that he had been given the all-clear by doctors after gruelling chemotherapy and radiotherapy sessions.

During the eight-week treatment cycle at a New York Hospital, Douglas had lost 40 pounds, which he has started to gain back. He will now have regular examinations by specialists to check the cancer has not returned.

The couple’s appearance at the fashion show comes just a week before Zeta-Jones’ date at Buckingham Palace.

The Tony award-winning actress received the award in the Queen’s Birthday honours list last June for services to the film industry and charity.

She has long been a patron of Swansea’s Longfields Day Centre, which caters for young adults with cerebral palsy and related disabilities, but after Douglas was diagnosed with stage four throat cancer last summer, she has been unable to collect her award.

At the time of the announcement last summer, she said: “I am absolutely thrilled with this honour. As a British subject, I feel incredibly proud, at the same time it is overwhelming and humbling.”

The glamour couple, along with family members, will now make the trip to London where she will be formally presented with her CBE on February 24.

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Update! Insiders tell Vulture exclusively that now that Bruce Willis is committing to star as a professional gambler-in-shambles named Dink, the rest of the cast for Stephen Frears’s sports-gambling movie Lay the Favorite, Take the Dog (adapted from Beth Raymer’s memoir) is falling quickly into place at Focus Features: We now hear the odds are good that Justin Timberlake will play the part of Rosie, a Long Island bookmaker who runs a massive off-shore sports book under which Raymer (to be played by Rebecca Hall) apprenticed. We also hear the smart money is on Oscar winner Catherine Zeta-Jones signing on to play Tulip, Willis’s wife. Just in the nick of time: Shooting on the picture — described by Variety as equal parts The Grifters and High Fidelity — is scheduled to start in April.

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NEW YORK (CBS) Catherine Zeta-Jones says she’s angry that doctor’s didn’t discover husband Michael Douglas’ cancer diagnosis sooner.Douglas is currently undergoing radiation and chemotherapy to treat a walnut-sized tumor at the base of his tongue.

The actor said he spent months seeking attention for persistent ear and throat pain, but that no cause was found until he received the cancer diagnosis in early August.

“It makes me furious they didn’t detect it earlier,” Zeta-Jones told People magazine in an interview published in Friday’s issue. “He sought every option and nothing was found.”

Douglas and Zeta-Jones have been married for 10 years and have two children together, Dylan, 10, and Carys, 7.

The actor announced his diagnosis on August 16.

Zeta-Jones told the magazine that she struggles with watching her husband become fatigued due to the radiation and chemotherapy, which Douglas said “really knocks you out.”

“I know maybe I should be stronger, but emotionally I just don’t want to see that,” she said, later adding, “The hardest part is seeing his fatigue, because Michael is never tired.”

In his first appearance following the announcement of his diagnosis, Douglas told “Late Show” host David Letterman on Tuesday that while his disease was late “stage four,” the cancer remains above the neck and that means expectations are good, with an 80 percent or better chance of recovery.

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Catherine Zeta Jones and Angelina Jolie are competing to play Dame Elizabeth Taylor in a Hollywood blockbuster about her love life, according to reports.Industry sources have named Russell Crowe, the New Zealand actor, Briton Clive Owen and Colin Farrell, the Irish star, as possible Burtons.

Mike Nichols, the Oscar winning American director, reportedly wants to make the film, which would be based on the book “Furious Love: Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton, and the Marriage of the Century”.

Sam Kashner and Nancy Schoenberger, the husband and wife who wrote the book, were given unprecedented access to a series of love letters written by Burton to Taylor during the course of their two marriages.

They were also given an unpublished first draft of Taylor’s 1965 autobiography, as well as a portfolio of the screen siren’s favourite personal photographs, which are reproduced in the book.

Hollywood sources told the US TV show Entertainment Tonight that both Jolie, 35, and Zeta Jones, 40, had expressed an interest in playing Taylor.

Jolie has already been lined up to take on Taylor’s most famous role as Cleopatra.

It was while making the 1963 epic that Taylor met and fell in love with Burton.

She was already married and their public affair was condemned by the Vatican.

After divorcing Eddie Fisher, her third husband, in 1964, she married Welsh-born Burton.

Their stormy marriage lasted ten years, with Burton lavishing jewels and other extravagant gifts on his wife.

A year after their 1974 divorce, the couple wed again, but this time the union lasted just ten months.

Taylor went on to marry twice more. Now 78, she lives alone in Beverly Hills, California, and suffers from ill health.

Burton died aged 58 from a brain haemorrhage at his home in Switzerland.

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