Oh Winona!

She's at it again. According to marieclaire.co.uk Winona Ryder is up to her old pilfering tricks, this time at a CVC Pharmacy in Hollywood.

For those not familiar with US chemists, rest assured CVC is hardly Harvey Nicks! And yet, Ms Ryder saw the need to stash a pile of make-up into her bag, only presenting a few items for payment at the register. Alarms sounded as she went to leave the store, however, this time the unpaid goods were simply taken off the (failing) actress and put safely back on the shelves. Luckily for Ryder her three-year probation period - handed down after her 2002 heist of £3,000 worth of designer wears at Saks Fifth Avenue in Beverly Hills - is well and truly over... The Intern is yet unclear as to whether any further legal action will be taken.

You have to wonder why a Hollywood starlet would feel the need to steal cosmetics. Surely she still gets royalties for her string of successful films in the early nineties? I have to say, I took issue with the online article describing Ryder at the time of her first 'incident' as "at the height of her career" - her major film of that year was Mr. Deeds with Adam Sandler, hardly a blockbuster, and prior to that her film of note was Girl Interrupted with Angelina Jolie in 1999, and forgive me if I'm wrong, but didn't Jolie win the Oscar for that one?

Seriously, while I -like many girls in Generation Y (born 1980 - 1996) - dutifully bought Big Gulps and dissed EVIAN mineral water (isn't that naive spelt backwards?) in an effort to be like Ryder in the film classic Reality Bites, I struggle to see how anyone could envy the poster girl now. She's not even a cool, young jail bird like Paris or Lindsay... and now she's even without her make-up! Poor Winona, woe is she.