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Katie kisses boyfriend in front of kids
Katie Price and her cage fighter boyfriend Alex Reid got passionate on the grass during a family day out to the park with her children.
Four-year-old Junior was just a few feet away as his mum snogged her new fella in front of a TV crew filming for her new ITV reality series, What Katie Did Next.
Apparently Katie was keen to show everyone that Alex is now part of her family and they are taking their relationship seriously. Peter Andre, meanwhile, has not disguised his disgust with his wife’s recent behaviour. “She is appalling everyone on his side of the family,” Peter’s spokesperson said – and that was before this romp in the park!
On a lighter note, Peter’s new single Behind Closed Doors is expected to be number one in the charts this Sunday and he has revealed plans to go on tour at the beginning of next year. But fans shouldn’t expect too much ‘Insanaia’ – the 36-year-old said he would take a more mature approach to his performances than he has done in the past.
It’s been a long time, been a long time, been a long lonely, lonely, lonely, lonely, lonely time
Did you miss me? To cut a very long story short, I had a mystery issue with my blog which meant I couldn’t log in. I was very close to scrapping it completely until an MSN techie came to my rescue. So, anyway, here we are. An awful lot has happened since I last blogged. Michael Jackson went and died for one. But there’s no point trying to cover all that time, so let’s excise it from history like a bad relationship or that job you hated and left after six months without another one to go to and now don’t even include on your CV.
Or is that just me?
On a more topical note, I’ve just heard Les Paul died. I don’t suppose the name means a great deal to most people but to people like myself, Les Paul is/was God. Or at least a god. He invented the electric guitar, you see. Not a bad thing to be able to say. As someone once said of his famous creation, “the electric guitar: helping men attract women for 70 years”.
Jade’s mum ‘may ban Jack from sons’
Jack Tweed could be banned from seeing his stepsons, as Jade Goody’s mother is reportedly taking steps to stop his access to Bobby, six, and Freddie, four. 
According to a report in The Sun, Jackiey Budden is trying to persuade the boys’ father, Jeff Brazier, to join her in seeking a ban in the High Court.
Jackiey is unhappy about Jack’s recent wild behaviour, which culminated in police being called to his Essex home last Friday after complaints of all-night parties: “I’ve stuck up for him too often – but not anymore,” she told The Sun. “If he wants to go around sh*****g different girls, that’s up to him. He’s 22 and I expect that. But don’t give interviews blaming drink, because it’s rubbish. It made me sick that he was with a girl just three weeks after the funeral – I was shocked. Most of the men Jade has ever been with have sold her out. The only difference with Jack is that he waited till she was dead.”
Last week Jack admitted he was having trouble coping with Jade’s death. “I don’t really know how I’m bearing up at the moment,” he told reporters at a Nokia party. “I’m drinking quite a lot, which I shouldn’t be. I shouldn’t be saying it but I don’t want to lie to anyone and I am drinking quite a lot and I’ve got to go and see someone or I’ve got to stop. It makes me forget about everything when I have a drink. I don’t like the feeling when I’m not drinking. It’s not a nice feeling because I sit there and think about Jade non-stop.”
Dannii Minogue talks Botox and bullies
Dannii Minogue has opened up about Botox and the men in her life in a new interview with Grazia.
The 37-year-old admitted she had used Botox in the past but said she is now going for a more natural look. “I see the comments. Plastic. All Botox. I can see what people see, but I have to say that – while I have been open about doing it before – I’m not doing it now. For The X Factor, it is actually quite useful to be able to have facial expressions!”
The Minogue sister also said she credited Simon Cowell for saving her career. “This show is the biggest thing that has ever happened to me. It’s astonishing,” Dannii said of X Factor. “Let’s face it. Simon Cowell is looking down at God, judging him. To be around that is incredibly exciting, and an honour. He is definitely a man with incredible appeal – his power, his magnetism and his raw honesty.”
Dannii also revealed she almost quit X Factor due to Louis Walsh’s bullying, which even led to tears during one live show last year. “I made it very clear that if it was going to be anything like that again, then I didn’t want to go there. I’m not made of steel.
“It got heated on and off set,” she continued. “There are only so many times I can be pushed around. It was absolutely horrible. I would never want to go through that again or see anyone else go through it.”
Thankfully, Louis apologised to Dannii and the four judges are back on our screens for the new series of X Factor from August 22.
The truth behind Lindsay’s Elle shoot
Lindsay Lohan looks sensational on the cover of the new issue of Elle, but her antics at the magazine photo shoot left the Elle team going crazy – so much so that they wrote all about it in the article! 
Elle’s editor-in-chief Lorraine Candy dished the dirt on the diva in her editor’s letter: “Lindsay Lohan wrote me a note during this month’s cover shoot. It read, ‘Let’s do it again some time.’ I’ve put it on my office wall because, in all honesty, I don’t know if I could. This was the most unpredictable and confusing cover shoot in my magazine career.
“First, Lindsay was about to arrive,” she continued. “Then she was in Paris. She was almost on set, then she disappeared into her hotel room. She was ready for her interview, then she had to have a fake tan! But we got there. And what we got was amazing. This shoot is truly original, just like Ms Lohan herself.”
The controversy surrounding the shoot was heightened when it was reported that £24,000 in jewellery that Lindsay had worn for the photos had gone missing. A police investigation was launched and the star was expected to be questioned, along with everyone else at the shoot. She was cleared of any wrongdoing.
To watch the behind-the-scenes footage of Lindsay’s cover shoot with Elle, visit elle.tv
Slumdog stars go public with relationship
Good to see that Slumdog Millionaire stars Dev Patel and Frieda Pinto have finally gone public with their relationship after months of speculation.
The happy couple held hands and put their arms around each other as they introduced an open-air screening of Slumdog Millionaire at Somerset House in London.
It’s their first official outing as a couple, despite rumours the cute couple have been dating since the film’s release. Their cover was blown by co-star Anil Kapoor several months ago, when he admitted: “When I meet them, I feel there is something happening,” adding they had “a magical chemistry”.
The couple’s tactile admission of their relationship is a long way from their actions of last month, when Dev ran away from snappers in New York who were trying to get a photo of the couple leaving a restaurant together.
At 24, Frieda is five years old than London-born Dev. She was engaged to her college boyfriend, Rohan Antao, but that relationship ended in January, just weeks before she and Dev looked so happy together on the red carpet at the Oscars.
QT’s lead Nazi on Nazis in film
I recently attended the press junket for Inglourious Basterds. My main reason for being there was an interview with Tarantino, which was great and will be up on the site soon.
For now though, I’d like to share with you this segment of my interview with Austrian actor Christoph Waltz, who gives a wonderfully creepy performance as Colonel Hans Landa – the pivotal Nazi character nick-named “The Jew Hunter”. It was a “roundtable” interview, meaning several journalists sit in and ask questions. It was all very run-of-the-mill (“What was it like working with Tarantino?” etc etc) for ten minutes or so (I struggled to get a word in edge-ways), until someone asked the question below. It appears Waltz has given a lot of thought to Nazis in film – I was fascinated to hear his thoughts.
We are aware that Nazi films, like Downfall, are all historically correct. Inglourious Basterds clearly isn’t. Is it ok to laugh about the Nazis? What do you think the reaction will be in Germany and Austria?
“I have a slightly different approach to this issue, because I detest these movies that try to make us believe that they are telling the truth. I find it ludicrous, but not laughable, unfortunately. I think it’s hypocritical to say ‘we want to tell, especially a young audience, how Hitler really was as a person’. First of all I’d like to know why?
Second I’d like to know why young audiences need to know how Hitler was as a real person, because how does it help them in their lives? Is that really dealing with the subject in a responsible manner? I could go on for a year and a half about why this is the irresponsible approach to turn it into a backdrop for a sh**** movie that’s boring in the first place. It’s neither this nor that because the approach is boring; what are we meant to derive from it? What message does it give us? That Nazi’s were actually people? ‘This is how it really was, you must not forget’? We know! It’s supposed to appease our conscience; it’s the politically correct rubbish – the overlooking of the criteria that helps us to deal with the subject. We are only the second of third generation after the disaster, the biggest disaster in the history of humanity, and we’re using it to think, ‘we are all good, we are all right because we know that they were wrong’, but how does that help us to get an idea about the course of history? It doesn’t.
But look what Quentin does; he rips it open and all of a sudden you gain a completely new perspective. The question ‘what if?’ isn’t irresponsible, it actually triggers a process within you and you think ‘yes, what if? What can I contribute so that the process and the consciousness of this disaster actually turns in to something that helps me, and helps us all to avoid it in the future. It gives us an active understanding and an active way of dealing with the subject, and doesn’t turn the process in to a consumable product so that we find ourselves saying, ‘good, let’s go and have dinner because we don’t have to deal with this any further’.
And that’s why I love Quentin’s work, because he does it again and again and now he’s done it with this part of history. Laughing is a release reaction, that’s why the sound of laughter is explosive; it relieves tension, and the tension in this story is so immense that you need to laugh in order to stand it, in order to endure it to the end. Sorry, I get very passionate about this!”
Katie Price denies dating cage fighter
Katie Price has denied reports she is dating cage fighter (and ex-Hollyoaks actor) Alex Reid, but there is no doubt the pair have spent a lot of time together in recent days. 
Katie explained Alex’s attendance at her recent London book launch by saying he was acting as her bodyguard. The pair were also spotted at several Manchester bars over the weekend and at a chippy at 5am, the same night Alex was photographed accompanying Katie back to her room at Liverpool’s Malmaison Hotel.
When asked if the boxer was her security guard, at the Liverpool launch of her novel earlier today, Katie said: "Yes, that’s right" in a fit of giggles. She also earlier admitted to The People that they are close friends: "Alex has been a huge support for me recently. I have known him a long time but he’s a good friend now. I’m having lots of fun at the moment, which I think I deserve after everything I have been through lately."
Kerry Katona’s husband files for divorce
Kerry Katona’s husband is launching divorce proceedings after the star threw him out of the house, News of the World reports.
The paper states the breakup came amid claims Mark had cavorted with strippers on a recent holiday to Majorca. The trip was meant to be a romantic break for the couple, who married on Valentine’s Day in 2007.
Kerry reportedly threw Mark out of their £1.5 million Warrington home last Tuesday, and he has since retaliated by having lawyers serve Kerry with a letter which claims he "cannot reasonably be expected to live with her".
At least Kerry has work to keep her busy (as well as looking after her four children, of course) – on the weekend the 28-year-old filmed another advert for Iceland with Coleen Nolan.
Kerry originally announced she was divorcing Mark in March but changed her mind and took him back just a week later.
Just when I thought I was out… they pull me back in!
Memories of a dark time in my life resurfaced today. There was a time when I was a skinny, pale junkie. All I ever did was sit in a darkened, dingy room, endlessly feeding my addictions. I was off the rails. And it’s taken me years to get clean.
Yes, there was a time when I played World Of Warcraft.
The World Of Warcraft movie has been certain to happen for a while now. It’s ridiculous to think that a global gaming phenomenon like this wouldn’t be snapped up by the franchise-loving Hollywood culture at some point.
But the big news is that Sam Raimi – a favourite among geeks ever since the genius of the Evil Dead trilogy – is locked in as director!
"At its core, Warcraft is a fantastic, action-packed story," he said in his press release. "I am thrilled to work with such a dynamite production team to bring this project to the big screen."
Members of the Warcraft (including our tech & Gadgets editor) fan community are already questioning Raimi’s commitment to the Warcraft world. The burning question: “Does he have level 80?” It’s worth noting that I only ever got to level 45 – and it certainly felt like I was committed at the time! Though I’m a rubbish gamer.
Still, what happens to me when I’m sitting in the cinema watching Raimi’s glorious vision of the World Of Warcraft err… world!? Will I be able to resist?! I still have an account that is only a few clicks away from re-activation!? Worrying times.
Interesting thing I read today: The 300 Sequel is definitely happening.
