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THE director of Liam Neeson's new film has praised the star's dedication to finishing the movie after his wife's sudden death during shooting.

Neeson was working on the film Chloe when Natasha Richardson suffered fatal head injuries during a skiing lesson in March of this year.

The death of the Maid In Manhattan star, daughter of actress Vanessa Redgrave, shocked the movie and theatre industry.

LIAM Neeson has spoken of how the US reaction to his wife's death helped him decide to become an American citizen.

The Star Wars actor said he was still a proud Irishman but the warmth from well wishers on the other side of the Atlantic prompted him to seek citizenship.

Neeson's wife, actress Natasha Richardson, died in March following a skiing accident in Quebec, Canada.

LIAM Neeson stepped back into the limelight, appearing at red carpet event for the first time since the death of his actress wife Natasha Richardson.

Publicists at the New York screening of Neeson's new film, Five Minutes of Heaven, told members of the press all personal questions were strictly off-limits.

The Oscar-nominated star and father-of-two children with Richardson was asked what his version of heaven would be.

The 57-year-old said it was being with his boys, adding that he was "kind of living it at the moment."

In Five Minutes of Heaven, Neeson plays a former member of an outlawed Northern Ireland paramilitary group who is haunted by memories of murder. The movie opens in selected US cinemas on August 21.

Natasha Richardson died in March after falling during a skiing lesson and suffering a head injury. She was 45.

BBC 1 today announces that The One Show is set to be extended.

The 30 minute show will include an hour-long show every week from September to the end of the year.

The 60-minute shows will include a raft of new features, celebrating lives, landscapes and stories from all around the UK.

Presenters, Christine Bleakley and Adrian Chiles will be taking a fortnight's holiday this month and top names will be providing holiday cover over the summer including Gloria Hunniford, Gethin Jones, John Sergeant and Myleene Klass.

Gloria Hunniford and Gethin Jones take the helm from Monday.

NORTHERN Ireland-born Hollywood star Liam Neeson has accepted an honorary degree from his former university at a ceremony in New York.

But he had to endure hearing quotes from his old school report during the ceremony, as the Vice-Chancellor of Queen's University Belfast, Professor Peter Gregson, recalled the actor's student days.

Neeson, who appeared in blockbuster films including Schindler's List and Michael Collins, enrolled at Queen's in 1971 as a physics and computer science student, before leaving to work at Guinness.

NATASHA Richardson died last night in a New York hospital, surrounded by her family, after a seemingly innocuous fall became a fatal blow.

The 45-year-old actress, wife of Liam Neeson, had fallen on the beginners' slopes at luxury Canadian ski resort Mont Tremblant on Monday afternoon.

She was taking lessons and was not wearing a helmet when the slip occurred and she banged the left side of her face.

Initially all seemed well and Natasha appeared unhurt, getting up and laughing. She refused to see a doctor and even signed a medical form saying she didn't need help.

But the fall had apparently torn a blood vessel in the brain which started a slow bleed.

The actress who won a Tony for best actress in a musical for Cabaret in 1998, was escorted back to her hotel by her skiing instructor.

Within a hour she was complaining of headaches, nausea and dizziness and lost consciousness.

BRITISH actress Natasha Richardson is in a critical condition in a Montreal hospital after a skiing accident in Quebec.

Natasha, wife of Liam Neeson and sister to Joely, star of Nip Tuck, was on holiday in the luxury Mont Tremblant resort when the accident happened yesterday. She is understood to have suffered a severe head injury.

It is not known if Neeson, 56, is with her. Natasha was initially taken to a hospital near the resort before being transferred to a hospital in Montreal.

She is a daughter of actress Vanessa Redgrave and the late director Tony Richardson. She married Neeson in 1994 after they both appeared in the film Nell. They have two sons, Michael, 13 and Daniel, 12.

In 1998 she won a best actress Tony for her role in the musical Cabaret.