KATE WINSLET - KATE LEARNS TO STAY PRIVATE

British beauty KATE WINSLET has been taught to stay silent about her private life - thanks to her role in current movie THE LIFE OF DAVID GALE.

The star, who plays a journalist in the film, began to understand why so much of her personal life appears in the press - after talking to real-life news hounds to research the part.

She says, "I spoke to a lot of female journalists and so on and so forth and the one thing they all said to me was that there's basically no such thing as off the record - and I went 'ahh!'"

"Okay, lets just think about that for a minute. And it's made me a little more guarded just about my personal life."