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More than any other of the previous five TV-gripped years, the middle months of 2005 are truly turning out to be the summer of Big Brother (DVDs).

First came the news that the BBC's slightly dodgy Dr. Who (DVDs) revival would feature an episode in which glum Chris Eccleston (DVDs) stepped through those famous diary room doors. And now? Now rumours are spreading across the Bonza land of Australia that lovely young starlet Natalie Portman may be entering the Big Brother house.

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Tom Jones (CDs) is to return to his home town in Wales for a huge concert to mark his 65th birthday.

The growling, leather-trousered man's man will sing in Pontypridd for the first time in 41 years tomorrow night. And, according to his interview with BBC Wales, he'll have to try as hard as he can to stop crying all the way

Celebrities really don't come more pointless and stupid than Mariah Carey (CDs). Just look at her, for Christ's sake. She's a vacuum-packed foil-fresh bundle of dullness, a bland-as-bread 'diva' with an ego the size of a planetary system and a voice that sounds like a hippie riding a bike down a cobbled street.

She has, however, recently celebrated her 16th - count 'em - Number One hit in the United States. Which means that a lot of people like her. Which means that a lot of people are making young Mariah a lot of money. Which means that she can spend the aforementioned money on a lot of silly and stupid things.

Like employing an assistant whose sole job is "to keep her skirts from touching the floor."

George Lucas is rumoured to want to make another new Star Wars movie.

Last decade, Lucas made claims he wanted to make six more films, three prequel Star Wars movies about Darth Vader (potatohead) and three sequel Star Wars movies about Luke Skywalker (lightsaber).

ITV have revealed details for ITV4, a channel for men.

ITV, currently playing the clever strategy of replacing a show as toe-curlingly awful as Celebrity Wrestling with a show even more fantastically awful, Celebrity Love Island, have decided that the male-targeted ITV4 will compliment their current roster of TV channels.

Mediocre junkie Pete Doherty (CDs) has revealed to an ever-more-disinterested world that he is being kept under "24 hour surveillance", presumably by shadowy agents of government conspiracy.

Pete announced this during an appearance at the Ivor Novello awards, during which he wore a cray-zee straw hat and had "black marker pen scrawled all over his face" - a move which the NME editorial staff would hail as 'genius' and which everyone else would hail as 'pathetic sixth-form attention-craving.'

"I found a bug, a hidden camera in my house," Pete babbled. "I don't want to talk about it. It's being investigated."

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Big Brother 6 starts tonight on Channel 4, and we're still conducting a countdown until the moment the housemates step inside the Big Brother house. We're betting that this season will be the most popular ever - so far we've learnt that there's beer on tap, heat-seeking cameras and a Channel 4-controlled mole on the inside.

But that's simply not enough information. What Big Brother news have we found in the last few hours?