Scarlett in IndiaMovie starlet Scarlett Johansson has given the Oscars a miss to tour slums in India, while Big Brother blabbermouth Jade Goody is living it up in a five-star hotel in the capital.
Lost In Translation star Johansson, 22,visited an Oxfam-funded school in the northern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh.
It was set up to educate children from the ‘untouchable’ Dalit caste.
She was particularly won over by one girl called Gudiya, who rose every day at 3am to study, do her chores and then walk to school.
‘She was an amazing, bright young girl, full of ambition and attending the fifth grade,’ said Johansson.
‘Her self-pride and drive to succeed was an obvious outcome from her schooling.’ Johansson also travelled to Sri Lanka where the charity is helping to rebuild life following the 2004 tsunami.
Meanwhile, Goody â on a handwringing trip to restart her ‘career’ after bullying Shilpa Shetty â called a press conference at her luxury base in New Delhi to announce she was donating £25,000 to underprivileged children in India.
‘I am not giving the money to improve my image,’ she claimed. Course not. Thought never crossed our minds.
