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Blahnik to be the Subject of a Documentary Film

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Manolo Blahnik and his shoes are made for walking right onto the big screen…

The 73-year-old Spanish fashion designer will be the subject of a documentary titled Manolo (The boy who made shoes for lizards).

Manolo Blahnik

The film about the fashion sensation, whose first name became a cultural reference point after frequent shout-outs on HBO’s Sex and the City, will be directed by Michael Roberts.

It’s being dubbed as an in-depth portrait of the man who is regarded as a genius by some of the most revered figures in fashion and will offer a behind-the-scenes peek into his fabulous world.

Manolo will feature interviews with a who’s who of some of the most notable figures in fashion and entertainment, including Anna Wintour, Rihanna, Andre Leon Talley, Paloma Picasso, Sex and the City author Candace Bushnell, Charlotte Olympia, Iman, Jamie Preto, Naomi Campbell, David Bailey, Isaac Mizrahi, Joan Burnstein, Mary Beard, Colin McDowell, Penelope Tree, Prince of Lampedusa, Rupert Everett and Blahnik himself.

Production on the doc is currently underway.

Content Media has acquired worldwide sales rights to the film and will begin introducing Manolo next month during the European Film Market in Berlin.

“Manolo Blahnik is fashion royalty and the king of his craft,” Content Media film president Jamie Carmichael said Wednesday in a statement. “He also happens to be a wonderfully colorful and fascinating man, with a unique world view. Michael Roberts is a director with unparalleled access and understanding of the fashion world and the combination of both these golden elements will make for fabulous and fascinating cinema.”

For more than 40 years, Blahnik has been designing his shoe line, which has attracted a devoted following including the likes of Nicole Kidman, Rihanna and the Duchess of Cambridge.

Vergara Named Spokeswoman for “Follow the Script” Hypothyroidism Campaign

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Sofia Vergara is encouraging women to Follow the Script when it comes to their health.

The 40-year-old Colombian actress and Modern Family star has been named the spokeswoman for Follow the Script, a campaign to raise awareness of hypothyroidism.

Sofia Vergara

Vergara, who has spoken out about her own bout with thyroid cancer, was diagnosed with thyroid cancer at 28 and had to have her thyroid removed.

“I was very young, and when they tell you that word (cancer), it’s like, ‘What are you talking about?’ You always think, ‘death.’ You don’t – that’s all you think when they tell you that. So it was – it was pretty scary,” Vergara said on ABC’s Nightline.

She first learned of the problem when she took her son Manolo to his endocrinologist and the doctor noticed an inflammation in her thyroid gland.

The removal of her thyroid left Vergara with hypothyroidism, a condition that requires daily medication.

“In my career, I’m known to ad lib and go off-script-but not when it comes to my health. I make sure to ‘Follow the Script’ so I get exactly what my doctor prescribed,” the actress said.

Roughly one in eight women will suffer from a thyroid condition during the course of their lives, Vergara’s endocrinologist, Dr. Jordan L. Geller, said during the campaign launch at the Trump SoHo in New York.

An estimated 30 million people in the United States suffer from hypothyroidism.