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Monday April 6, 2009

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Fred Goodwin said to be staying with Jackie Stewart in Switzerland

The whereabouts of the former Royal Bank of Scotland chief executive Sir Fred Goodwin, the most wanted man in Britain - by hungry paparazzi, angry shareholders and disillusioned taxpayers - has been a mystery since he vanished from his Edinburgh home a month ago amid the furore over his £700,000-a-year... [continued]

Sir Fred Goodwin Jackie Stewart

Boatengs quit SA after bullying claims

Paul Boateng, the former Labour MP who became Britain's first ever black Cabinet minister, is returning from his post as Britain's High Commissioner in South Africa following claims that his wife, Janet Boateng, bullied members of their domestic staff. Mrs Boateng, a 52-year-old former Labour councillor in Lambeth, south London,... [continued]

Clare Balding in soup after Grand National

Did the BBC's doyenne of sports broadcasting, Clare Balding, overstep the mark on Saturday when she welcomed the winning jockey Liam Treadwell (pictured) into the winners' enclosure at Aintree after the Grand National? As the TV cameras trained on the victorious 100-1 outsider Mon Mome and the grinning jockey, it... [continued]

Mon Mome ridden by Liam Treadwell wins The John Smith's Grand National Steeple Chase

Cancer-sufferer Farrah Fawcett ‘unconscious’ in LA hospital

The Charlie's Angels actress Farrah Fawcett, one of the most famous sex symbols in the world when she was known as Farrah Fawcett-Majors in the 1970s, is unconscious in a Los Angeles hospital after fighting cancer for the past three years, according to reports.   Since Thursday... [continued]

Jaclyn Smith, Farrah Fawcett and Kate Jackson in Charlie's Angels

Marina Hyde exposes crazy world of celebs

The Guardian writer Marina Hyde - author of the 'Lost in Showbiz' column, among others - has written a book, and it's not one that Sharon Stone (pictured), Jude Law or Brangelina will want to read. Celebrity: How Entertainers Took Over The World And Why We Need... [continued]

Sharon Stone

Berlusconi threatens press over gaffe reports

Italy's Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi (pictured) has threatened his country's press with "direct and tough" punishment after Italian journalists took great pleasure in reporting a series of gaffes he made during last week’s G20 and Nato summits. Berlusconi accused the press of having "no other aim than that... [continued]

Silvio Berlusconi

Former Beatles Paul McCartney & Ringo Starr back together again

Former Beatles Ringo Starr and Paul McCartney appeared on stage together for the first time in seven years on Saturday night, at New York's Radio City Music Hall. In a concert to support film-maker David Lynch's foundation, which aims to encourage world peace by teaching transcendental meditation to 'at-risk' schooolchildren,... [continued]

Sir Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr

Second tragedy for Morgan Tsvangirai

Less than a month after his wife Susan was killed in a road accident, Zimbabwe's Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai suffered another family tragedy on Saturday when his youngest grandchild, two-and-and-a-half year-old Sean, drowned at the family home in Harare. Sean and his father, Garikai Tsvangirai, were only in Zimbabwe to... [continued]

Morgan Tsvangirai

Charlotte Rampling seeks to block book

The English film actress Charlotte Rampling, known for a series of roles in sexually explicit films, including Georgy Girl and The Night Porter, has brought in lawyers to try to halt publication of a biography from Bloomsbury, the 'Harry Potter' publishers. After providing the writer Barbara Victor with 100... [continued]

Charlotte Rampling

Cheryl Cole ‘needs elocution lessons’

It appears Simon Cowell, the pop tycoon and X Factor judge, has a Professor Henry Higgins complex - and that Cheryl Cole is his Eliza Doolittle. According to a report in the Mail on Sunday, Cowell has decided the 25-year-old needs to have elocution lessons if she wants to become... [continued]

Candy and Tori Spelling in memoir war

The two women in the life of the late Aaron Spelling - his widow Candy Spelling and his actress daughter Tori Spelling - are squabbling over their memoirs of life with the Texan television tycoon, and with each other, like two characters in one of his famous soap operas.... [continued]

Tori Spelling

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