RAISE A GLASS TO SHAKIRA

Sultry Columbian songstress Shakira has been recording a television advert this week for festive favourite Freixenet.

Wearing a frilly gold skirt and matching shimmering top, she is seen enjoying a glass of the bubbly as snow starts to fall, before she broke into song whilst wearing an alternative black dress.

The campaign has cost the drink maker 500,000€ to have Shakira front their festive advertisement. The money, which is being donated directly to Shakira´s own charity, Pies Descalzos Foundation, will be used to fund the building of two new schools, one in Haiti and the other in her native Colombia.

Shakira has done an incredible amount of work for her charitable foundation, most of which she hides from praise. In a recent news gathering, she was quoted as saying ““Education is a birthright and a quality education is the only tool that a child has to turns dreams into reality.”