LIAM NEESON

admits that reports he had fallen for a mystery woman while filming in Australia were the result of a joke he tried to make based on the title of one his movies: Taken. ‘It was b ****** s,’ confesses Neeson, who turns 70 next month. ‘I said, “I fell in love, but she was taken.” That’s a joke.’ The star says he’s still grieving his actress wife, Natasha Richardson, who died in a skiing accident in 2009 at the age of 45.