In brief: High School musical UK premiere

Vanessa Hudgens, Zac Efron, Vanessa Hudgens (pictured), Ashley Tisdale and Corbin Bleu, the stars of High School Musical 3: Senior Year, were all attendance for the movie's London premiere in Leicester Square last night. As were thousands of teenagers, who screamed at the young cast as if there lives depended on it. Most of the attention was focused on Efron and Hudgens, who are said to be dating………… British actor Simon Pegg's new film How To Lose Friends and Alienate People topped the UK and Ireland box office in its opening weekend. The movie, based on journalist Toby Young's account of his time working for Graydon Carter at Vanity Fair magazine in New York, took £1.15m ………… Harry Enfield's BBC show Harry and Paul has been labelled "distasteful" by members of the Philippine community in the UK, who have objected to a sketch that showed one man urging another to "mount" a Filipina maid. The Philippine embassy in London has written to the BBC and the Press Complaints Commission about the scene…………. A fire at Nick Nolte's home in Malibu, California, gutted his living room on Tuesday, but the actor escaped with minor injuries after trying to douse the flames with a garden hose………… The Duchess of Cornwall, aka Camilla Parker Bowles, is to return home early from a tour of eastern Asia she had undertaken with Prince Charles because "it's too hot", according to Buckingham Palace ............An auction at Sotheby's of memorabilia belonging to the Belgian composer Jacques Brel, among them his pipe and various song manuscripts, has been criticised by his daughter, Therese Michielsen. She claims she tried to buy back all the artefacts from the sellers, a constellation of relations of Brel's former girlfriend, but was refused …......