In brief: Lee McQueen wins The Apprentice

The BBC television series, The Apprentice, was won last night by 30-year-old Lee McQueen, who will now work alongside Sir Alan Sugar on a £100,000 salary. McQueen defended his decison to falsify his CV – he claimed he'd completed a two-year university course, when in fact he'd left after four months – by citing Harrow School, where he once worked as a catering manager. He said: "[it was] full of posh kids getting a great education. I think that might have something to do with my insecurities."...Madonna's gay brother, Christopher Ciccone, is rushing out a tell-all memoir about his sister before the singer's lawyers can sue to block publication. According to the New York Post, the book is “brutal” and “extremely graphic and devastating”. As Ciccone became estranged from the pop star around the time she met husband Guy Richie, who reputedly doesn't care much for gays, he may be in for similar treatment... A Beatles fan, Gail Renard, who sneaked into John Lennon and Yoko Ono's bedroom back in 1969 and made off with the original Lennon-scrawled lyrics to Give Peace A Chance is expected to be £300,000 better off today when the prized song-sheet is put on auction in London… Radio 2 presenter Chris Evans has admitted accidentally giving away a valuable Damien Hirst print to a charity shop; he told listeners it had been put in the wrong box when he was moving house. "It's somewhere in a charity shop in Godalming," said Evans… George Michael, the pop singer, is giving up touring, saying that he is seeking "a quieter life" out of the public eye; he will stage two major concerts at Earls Court in August… David Beckham has replaced his friend Sir Elton John as the tenth most powerful celebrity in the world, in a list compiled by Forbes magazine…Footballer Wayne Rooney has married his childhood sweetheart Coleen McLoughlin at the Villa Durazzo, a 17th Century palace in the italian viilage Portofino….