Poor Elle Macpherson. She's widely regarded as one of the most beautiful women in the world, but even she's not immune to the pain of a broken heart. It's been just over a week since she split up with Arpad Busson, so she's bound to be staying in bed all day, crying and eating all sorts of bad food.

What's that? Elle Macpherson is dating Al Pacino? Bloody hell, that was quick.

Cows abound in the world we call Showbiz. Some are stupid and some are plain mad. But those possessed of BSE - a Big Smug Ego should be prevented from living their fantasies in public without any chance for the viewers to respond appropriately. And where better to do this than Live 8?

Ms Dynamite (CDs) delivered a smug and simplistic proclamation about why we in the West (Boooo!) are totally responsible now and will be, like, for ever and ever for creating the misery and tragedy that stalks Africa. There's nothing like fame for giving an individual a reason to swallow any and all nonsense to support their own limited perspectives upon events or historical evidence.

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Big Brother 6 is reaching the halfway point, and all the sexual frustration that must arise when you're trapped in a house full of honking simpletons has come gushing out. First Saskia admitted sleeping with Maxwell, and now Makosi and Anthony have been getting up to some suspect jiggery-pokery in the pool.

But the big question is - who'll win? It's worth betting on the Big Brother winner because the odds are so much longer - if you're right, you'll make more money from a smaller bet.

So here are the very latest special betting odds on each Big Brother housemate to win, brought to you by hecklerspray and Betfair.com...

Tony Blair must be shaking in his boots at his scheduled grilling on MTV by those masters of the political cut and thrust interview... Destiny's Child. You know, Beyonce and the other two she allows to stand behind her.

hecklerspray wonders exactly what hardline questioning Destiny's Child will put to Tony Blair on MTV...

The movie Deep Impact is well known for two things. It starred Morgan Freeman as the cuddliest President America never had, and it's also the film where millions of people died when a massive chunk of rock smashed into Earth.

So when NASA decided they would crash a huge probe into a comet, what name did they decide to pick to call it? That's

Sir Ian Holm has been confirmed to play Pope John Paul II in a new TV mini-series.

Recently most famous for the Lord Of The Rings movies where he played Bilbo Baggins, Sir Ian Holm will star as the elderly Pope in the production, tentatively titled John Paul II.

The American biopic will use two actors to play the late Pope - Holm

Yesterday we reported about the Marlon Brando auction at Christie's in New York, which was expected to raise around $1 million.

It turns out that the auction was a huge draw for movie fans and personal collectors - the total sales of all the lots added up to $2,378,300. As predicted, the most hotly-contended item was an script for The Godfather, annotated by Marlon Brando, which broke records for movie memorabilia.

Just over two weeks to go until the children and wonky-eyed drama teachers of the world can rush out and buy a copy of Harry Potter And The Half Blood Prince. And Bloomsbury, the book's publisher, is hyping the book to immense levels.

Bloomsbury is spending more money on advertising Harry Potter And The Half-Blood Prince than on any other of their books in history.