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Clooney and Hanks clash over actors’ strike
Disputes between actors are usually over who should have the biggest trailer on set, however George Clooney (pictured) and Tom Hanks are divided over a more serious conflict - the strike being called by the Screen Actors Guild (SAG), an action that could eclipse the now resolved... [continued]
Sean Langan freed after hostage ordeal
Due to the delicacy of the negotiations, the media had kept secret the fact that Sean Langan (pictured), the award-winning British documentary maker, had been kidnapped and held hostage for three months by Islamic extremists. And it paid off. On Saturday night, having endured various terrifying... [continued]
Armani attacks ‘slovenly’ Italians
Giorgio Armani, the septuagenarian Italian fashion designer, has launched a scathing attack on his fellow countrymen, claiming that the new do as you please culture has created a
nation of uncouth slobs. "It is time to straighten ourselves out, we are too slovenly," he said yesterday... [continued]
Fashion titans put clash aside for Superheroes gala 
Fury as Sir Ronnie digs large hole for himself
Sir Ronnie Cohen, the multi-millionaire City financier and Labour donor, has become the focus of much anger in Notting Hill Gate, where he has a £15m home and where, to the annoyance of many of his neighbours, including the supermodel Laura Bailey, he is constructing a 50 metre underground swimming... [continued]
Tony plays tennis to clear Labour debts
Tony Blair has offered a game of tennis (with himself) to a crisis charity auction arranged by the Labour Party to help clear its £24m debt. However, given that most of this was run up by the former PM while he was in office, Gordon Brown is... [continued]
Ronnie fails to sell portrait on eBay
Ronnie Wood, the Rolling Stone turned painter, appears to be the only person who is not benefiting from the sustained boom in the contemporary art market. The other day, he put one of his works, a limited edition portrait of his pre-Rolling Stones band The Faces, featuring... [continued]
In brief: Charles rents out holiday home
The Prince of Wales is offering his new holiday home, an 18th-century stone coach house located in Myddfai, near Llandovery, West Wales, to paying guests. Local estate agents predict
it could earn more than £500 a week… Billie Piper, the Doctor Who actress, claims, somewhat improbably, that... [continued]
Pregnant Piper tones down racy role
