In brief: Craig takes himself seriously

Daniel Craig (pictured), who plays 007 in the forthcoming Bond movie The Quantum of Solace, seems to have let the role go to his head. Speaking to Empire magazine, he launches into a defence of the civil service. "The reason the civil service remains a non-political organisation is that if the s*** hits the fan, like goose-stepping Nazi b******s, you hope the civil service will turn round and go 'We've got it covered.'"............The much vaunted fly-on the-wall documentary involving the family of singer Michael Jackson appears to have hit the buffers. The programme was supposed to be based around Tito Jackson and his young sons moving to the Devon village of Appledore. However, several months after Tito first set up home in the countryside, rumour has it that the plug’s been pulled. "The story around here is that it's all ended in tears," a source told the Independent ............ Jack Osbourne is producing a new documentary about his father Ozzy, formerly the lead singer of Black Sabbath. The 22-year-old says MTV’s series, The Osbournes, which made stars of him, his sister Kelly and mother Sharon, misrepresented his father: “My dad's not an idiot — he's nothing short of a genius” ....... The 20-year-old son of rap star Dr Dre, Andre Young Jr, has been found dead at his family’s home in Los Angeles