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December 31, 2002 - Over at Interscope, Enrique Iglesias is rating pretty high. The Latin singer wanted a $30,000 limited-edition platinum watch from Über-upscale Swiss watchmaker Vacheron Constantin, and to celebrate the double-platinum success of 'Escape', the surprised him with one of the watches-which take up to eighteen months to make, and only 247 of which are being sold worldwide-for the holidays. The watch maker had to get Guatemalan president Alfonso Portillo Cabrera to wait in line for his in the process. Read more.

December 25, 2002 - The Mail reports Anna Kournikova banned masseuse to the stars Dot Stein from administering to Enrique Iglesias when he had a backache. Anna felt Dot was too good looking to get close to her boyfriend.

December 24, 2002 - Apparently Enrique Iglesias thinks he's a target based on his cover in the new issue of the Spanish edition of Rolling Stone magazine. Check out the cover photo and fan reaction here.

December 23, 2002 - Apparently Enrique Iglesias thinks he's a target based on his cover in the new issue of the Spanish edition of Rolling Stone magazine. Check out the cover photo and fan reaction here.

December 16, 2002 - The Sunday People reports Enrique Iglesias triggered a fued with Lionel Richie for a BBC1 taping when he decided to scrap a planned duet with Richie, even though he had already taken the flight from Los Angeles to London to make the appearance. Furious Lionel wanted to confront Enrique but the his security people made sure they didn't meet. Iglesias' spokesman said, "Enrique felt he had to cancel the duet because he hadn't had time to rehearse." Read more. 

December 4, 2002 - The Mirror reports Enrique Iglesias left BBC bosses bemused with his ludicrous demands when he appeared in The Royal Variety Performance, recorded last night. Iglesias demanded a list of the questions Prince Charles would ask him when they came face-to-face in the line-up after the show. "It's quite funny, really," a source said. "Prince Charles just shakes hands and maybe says the odd word to the performers in the line-up. It's hardly like he's going to start firing questions at Enrique. He'll be lucky if His Royal Highness even knows who he is."

December 4, 2002 - The Sun has photos of Anna Kournikova and Enrique Iglesias laughing as a pal mooned passing pedestrians from an upstairs window while they were dining at NOBU Japanese restaurant in London’s Park Lane. The couple covered up completely as they left the restaurant, cuddling up in the back seats of a minibus as it sped off before arriving at their hotel at Hyde Park Corner two hours later. Check out the pictures here.

December 2, 2002 - More photos of Enrique Iglesias at the ONDA Awards on Thursday (November 28) at the Tivoli Theater in Barcelona, Spain have been posted. Check them out here.

December 2, 2002 - A fan on Enrique Iglesias' official message board has posted a portion of the singer's interview with Germany's BamS magazine. Enrique talks about his "strictly platonic" (which caused him to laugh saying it) with Anna Kournikova. Asked what he likes in the Russian stunner, Iglesias said, "I can have fun with her, I can laugh with her. She is full of energy. She takes part in everything. She is so exciting - with her I could waterski at 3 o'clock (in the night). She is cool, she is not arrogant, she is independent - it is not good, when a woman is financial dependent on her partner." Read more.

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