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July 28, 2002 - Ananova reports that in October, Madame Tussaud's first waxwork of Sarah Michelle Gellar, the star of Buffy The Vampire Slayer, will be unveiled as part of a Halloween exhibit called Dracula's Escape from the Chamber of Horrors. Visitors will be given a stake and cloves of garlic in order to help Buffy find Dracula among actors dressed as the vampire.

July 28, 2002 - Connie Ogle of the Miami Herald is fuming that Buffy was robbed for this year's Emmy nominations "The most astonishing, entertaining hour (hour plus, actually) of TV in the past year slips by virtually unnoticed. Nothing here is real; nothing here is right. Buffy the Vampire Slayer's musical episode, Once More, With Feeling, registers a paltry outstanding music direction nomination."

July 28, 2002 - AAP has more details on Sarah Michelle Gellar and Prinze Jr snubbed the Australian premiere of Scooby-Doo at Movie World, reportedly because they couldn't stand autograph-hunting locals and the food at restaurants on the Gold Coast. Read more.

July 28, 2002 - Sarah Murphy reckkons Buffy beauty Sarah Michelle Gellar is the ultimate style icon. And when we offered to turn the 23-year-old Dorset girl into the vampire-slaying TV heroine, she couldn't resist. Read more.

July 26, 2002 - WENN reports the second installment of 'Scooby Doo' is due to start shooting in the Summer of 2004 and, according to screenwriter James Gunn - it will be called 'Scooby-Too'. Read more.

July 23, 2002 - Variety reports Sarah Michelle Gellar has signed on to star in 'A Semester Abroad', which is expected to begin filming next summer. The film is described as a fish-out-of-water comedy that follows a tough girl from Queens on a scholarship to an elite London university.

July 22, 2002 - Sarah Michelle Gellar is on the cover of the new Cosmopolitan, where she talked about her fiance Freddie Prinze Jr. "He's my best friend," she said. "He grew up with women, so he leaves the toilet seat down."

July 19, 2002 - TeenHollywood.com reports Sarah Michelle Gellar has revealed she had to twist the arm of "Scooby-Doo" director Raja Gosnell in order to get the part of Daphne. Read more.

July 16, 2002 - Sarah Michelle Gellar and the rest of the 'Scooby Doo' cast did an interview with Capital FM in London.

July 14, 2002 - Sarah Michelle Gellar is quoted by Sky News saying of her fiance or husband, if reports are to be believed, "He's really the most romantic person. Everything has to be just so with him. I get flowers for no reason other than he's thinking about me."

July 9, 2002 - Sarah Michelle Gellar tells IMDB.com that she found that staying in a solar-powered home while filming the Scooby film in Australia left a lot to be desired - despite the green benefits. She says, "There's nothing worse than working an 18-hour day in the sand, coming back all covered in sweat and grit, and really, really looking forward to washing it all off in a long, hot shower, only to be told, 'Sorry - there was no sun today, which means we have no hot water!' So you have to stand around, boiling water to be able to sit in a two-inch-deep bath."

July 8, 2002 - Sarah Michelle Gellar has "explained" why she kissed co-star Linda Cardellini, who plays Velma, in the Scooby Doo movie. Sarah, who plays Daphne, said, "Our protoplasm was stolen, then went back to the wrong bodies. So we kissed to swap them."

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