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Brown offered Alan Sugar-style TV role
In a forlorn attempt to boost his dire poll ratings and perhaps show a more human side, Gordon Brown is thought to be considering an appearance in a reality-style TV show based on the BBC's The Apprentice. The idea has been put to Brown by Housing Minister... [continued]
Castro’s daughter’s life to be made into a film
A film is to be made about Fidel Castro's illegitimate daughter, Alina Fernandez (pictured, right), who since slipping quietly out of Cuba in 1993 has been one of her father's most outspoken critics. The movie is based on Fernandez's memoir Castro's Daughter: An Exile's Memoir of Cuba, which... [continued]
Big Sue sells for a hefty $33.6m
If there is a recession looming, no one seems to have informed the art world. On Tuesday the British painter Lucien Freud broke the world record for money paid for a work by a living artist when his monumental portrait, Benefits Supervisor Sleeping (pictured), sold for $33.6m... [continued]
Facebook’s Zuckerberg loses key guru
All is not well at Facebook, the ailing social networking business. Last month The First Post reported that Dustin Moskovitz, one of the company's co-founders, had allegedly
moved to another office because relations with his partner, 23-year-old CEO Mark Zuckerberg (pictured), had become strained. Now Adam D'Angelo,... [continued]
Facebook founder loses more friends 
Divorce no laughing matter for Cleese
John Cleese's divorce from his third wife, the psychiatrist Alice Faye Eichelberger, looks set to become every bit as messy – and expensive - as Sir Paul McCartney's very public battle with Heather Mills. When the couple (pictured together last year) announced four months ago that their... [continued]
In brief: DiCaprio in frame to play Bond creator
Leonardo DiCaprio (right) is being tipped to play James Bond creator Ian Fleming (left) in a new film, Fleming; writer Damien Stevenson says: "It's the real James Bond. In England, Ian Fleming's exploits are well known. Talking to people out here [America], no one had any idea... [continued]
Kelly family hits out at Cherie Blair
The family of the late David Kelly, the scientist who committed suicide after being outed as the source for the government's infamous "sexed up" intelligence dossier on Iraq's weapons capability, have rounded on Cherie Blair for exploiting his name to sell her tawdry memoirs, Speaking for... [continued]
