This summer prepare yourself for Celebrity World Cup which will find the likes of Brian McFadden (Ireland) playing against Eric Cantona (France) and Goldie Lookin' Chain (Wales).

According to thehollywoodnews.com, a biopic of Michael Hutchence the deceased lead singer of 80s band INXS is in the pipeline.

The makers of Big Brother have come under pressure from anti-smoking campaigners to ban smoking from the house for the series this summer. Campaigners believe that smokers such as Pete Burns on the recent celebrity Big Brother might encourage younger fans to smoke. I see three problems with this

1) Nobody in their right mind would ever want to be anything like Pete Burns
2) Denying smokers access to cigarettes is one of the ways BB ensures that ther is always lots of friction and therefore drama in the house. Which is what keeps everyone watching.
3) Having a houseful of non-smokers would inevitably be boring to watch.

Apparently someone at Disney has decided that it would be a good idea to turn Desperate Housewives into a computer game. Players will become Wisteria Lane housewife, who can uncover or create new scandals on the seemingly idyllic street where the show takes place. Not sure who exactly who they think is going to buy this game?

Phina Oruche who plays supermodel Liberty Baker In Footballers Wives says that if Naomi Campbell has a problem with her character then she can "lump it".

Since the release of The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown the website by Catholic organization Opus Dei has been inundated with visitors. During 2005 they had a record 3 million people accessing the site. I wish Dan Brown would mention Uncoolism.com in his next book.

Heat magazine has reported that Channel 4 have got the builders in to redesign the Big Brother house to incorporate a bigger garden and a secret garden. The next series will start on the 26th May and last for a record 13 weeks.

Neil Diamond's latest album 12 Songs is the best thing he has done in decades and just to prove that he is still down with the kids he has gone and got himself a MySpace account. What next Barbara Streisand getting involved in some happy slapping?

Readers of The Sydney Morning Herald have been asked to submit their favourite movie blockbuster guilty pleasures, so far these include

- Tequila Sunrise
- Black Rain
- Happy Gilmore
- Point Break
- Top Gun

To that I would add my favourite Con Air. Why not add your own.

You can view the new trailer for The Da Vinci Code at Yahoo Movies.

Adam Sandler one of our favourite movie guilty pleasures is starring in an upcoming comedy "Click" with Kate Beckinsale, David Hasslehoff and Christopher Walken. The premise behind the movie is that Sandler is a harrassed business executive who finds a universal remote control which allows him to stop and start time. Who hasn't at one time or another wished they could turn the volume down on someone who was having a moan at them? Sandler's own choice of activity to alter would be his teenage sex life "I would definitely slow-mo my sexual episodes," Sandler laughed. "They tended to go very quickly — for everybody. I'd like to go back and slow my penis down."

Lisa Snowdon is to be the new presenter of the second series of Living TV's top guilty pleasure Britain's Next Top Model. Last year's winner, Lucy Ratcliffe, was signed up by the Models 1 agency and won a contract with cosmetics giant Ruby and Millie. Hopefully there will be lots more tears and cat fights along the way to finding a winner in this year's series.

The Feeling are all over the place these days, they first single Sewn is still in the charts, their second single FIll My Little World is to be released shortly and is already being used on BBC Radio One new adverts. This week they announced they are playing at The Great Escape music festival in Brighton and they are interviewed by Top Of The Pops.

It's going to be cool to have read it but wait long enough and it'll become the next Da Vinci Code. "Blink" by Malcolm Gladwell is set to be the biggest book of the year appealling to both intellects (or wannabe's) and dullhard's alike.

It's written on the supposition that first impressions really do count. It's a great book that reasons that the impression and opinion you build up within the first 2 seconds of being presented with something new, say meeting a new person or walk into a house you are thinking of buying. Essentially it argues that more often than not in those two seconds the opinion you form is most probably as accurate as one you form if you'd spend hours or days with that person, or round that house.

You'll love it and feel bad for doing so!

Prison Break the preposterous American drama where a guy intentionally gets himself sent to prison in order to break his brother (who is on death row) out is to return for second series.

Nadia the tranny from Big Brother is facing up to six months in prison for slapping a man in a pub in Islington, London. Surely the judge will see sense and throw this one out of court, being beaten up by a tranny can't be a crime, can it? Some people pay good money for that sort of stuff.

Who doesn't love a supergroup - Velvet Revolver, The Powerstation, err that's it. Well, Tommy Lee Of Motley Crue, Gilby Clarke formely of Guns N Roses and Jason Newstead formerly of Metallica have formed Supernova and are going to take part in the show Rock Star (which last year starred INXS) to find themselves a lead singer. Supergroups, heavy metal and reality TV, does it get any better than this?

Digital Spy has an interview with the improbably named Chucky Venice who plays Tremaine Gidigbi in Footballers Wives and who seems to spend more time on screen in skimpy briefs than he ever does in a football strip.

Who doesn't enjoy the odd online sex scandal, whether it's one of the old classics like Pamela Anderson, Paris or Abi Titmus Hilton or one of the new breed of Singaporean amateur mobile phone sex videos. If you are looking to make a name for yourself in the blogosphere then nothing generates interest like a saucy video, especially it it appears that it has been leaked by accident.

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Lots of Spice Girls stories this week, the News Of The World says they are rehearsing to play a string of dates at the end of the year. However NoTW's sister paper The Sun says completely the opposite that they have decided not to reform and tour.

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It was only a matter of time before they decided to roll out the reliable lesbian storyline in Desperate Housewives, and the character involved is none other than Gay icon Bree Van De Kamp who is rumoured to have an affair with a character played by either Kim Cattrall or Kim Delaney.

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Orson have been called a cross between The Rolling Stones and The Scissor Sisters, they make great 80s influenced pop music and they are currently in the UK Top 10 with their single No Tomorrow. If you need to know anything more about them Channel 4 has an interview with them.

Here is a timely article from The Guardian on the sudden success of unfashionable bands such as Orson and The Feeling and the recent No1 hit remix of Leo Sayer. His conclusions:

"We seem to have entered a world in which soft rock has ended up representing the acme of rebellion; where it is, as soft rocker Huey Lewis once smugly predicted, hip to be square."

Guilty Pleasures next monthly residency at Camden's Koko will be on March 25th. DJing will be Sean Rowley, Terry Hall (Ex-Specials, Fun Boy 3), Jon Carter and Nicky Holloway.

The Times Online has printed Dan Brown's witness statement to the High Court in which the author speaks about his inspiration and research for his bestselling novel, The Da Vinci Code.

A couple of weeks ago it was announced the All Saints are reforming, which was quite a surprise to anyone that has read the Appleton sisters autobiography which spent a good deal of time detailing why they hated the other two members of the band so much. I suppose the combined failure of their solo careers must have allowed them to bury their respective hatchets. Anyway we are glad they a reforming and here is a nice piece from AskMen.com summarising why All Saints were such a great pop band.

Actor Johnny Briggs whos character Mike Baldwin has Alzheimers disease has filmed his final scenes for Coronation Street. The 70 year had an emotional farewell and plans to spend his retirement spending time with his family and playing golf.

A critic from Gigwise went to a gig by The Feeling expecting to have a bad time but left proclaiming "The Feeling are destined to become the new Keane, sell loads of records and be widely hated by those of you who prefer your music to be more “angular” or other such bizarre words." Find out why here.

The Discovery Channel has produced a program titled "How William Shatner Changed The World" which proposes that Star Trek actually predicted the future we are now living in from commumicator flip-style phones and medical imaging tp space craft propulsion.

Dan Brown, author of The Da Vinci Codes was in court in London this week defending allegations that he plagiarised his book from the nonfiction book The Holy Blood and the Holy Grail. Brown has said that he is shocked by allegation which he has called "absurd".

Who doesn't have a soft spot for Adam Sandler? Well apparently the director of his next movie about two pretend gay firefighters. David Dobkin the director of Wedding Crashers has left the production of "I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry" after a "differing of the vision of the movie".

Is there anyone that could argue that the Brat Pack movies weren't the best thing you could go to see at the cinema in the 80s? Who could ask for more than a box set containing The Breakfast Club, St Elmo's Fire and About Last Night.

ABC Entertainment have announced that fans of Desperate Housewives can smell like the characters in the hit TV program. The fragrance is to be made by Coty who have previously teamed up with Jennifer Lopez and Sarah Jessica Parker to produce perfumes.

Apparently Jon Bon Jovi doesn't like The Darkness, he was recently reported as saying

"It's just Spinal Tap isn't it? It's just a lark. I'm not sure they think so, though. I think they take it seriously. They made a little splash in the US but, man... I don't get it at all."

Talk about poodle haired pot calling the kettle black.

Sean Rowley's club night Guilty Pleasures named after the successful series of CDs is going from strength to strength. The Guardian reports that it is packing Camden's Koko club with ecstatic punters and that there is even a TV program in the pipline.

The next London gig by up and coming soft rockers The Feeling will be at the Brixton Academy on April 13th where they will play alongside We Are Scientists and The Towers Of London at the XFM Big Night Out.

Footballers' Wives has been an unexpected success in the States and BBC America has made a deal with Target Entertainment for Season 5 of the ITV Soap.