Reach for the heavens... Brit's church guard pulls gun on a photographer

This is the terrifying moment when a church security guard pulled a gun on a photographer trying to snap Britney Spears.

The undercover officer, a retired policeman, ran out of the Hollywood church, aimed his weapon and shouted: "Get out of your car, get down."

Christian soldier: The guard aims his gun at the terrified photographer who was trying to get a picture of Britney Spears

The undercover armed church guard stops a photographer from following Britney

Britney attended a church service in Hollywood following her stay in rehab

He then handcuffed the photographer and accused him of trying to run over a traffic policeman before eventually releasing him.

It happened on Sunday as Spears, 25, left a service at the Bel Air Presbyterian Church.

"When her 4X4 came out officers stopped the traffic, let her go ahead and held paparazzi back," said one witness.

"One photographer tried to get past and suddenly two undercover security guards ran out into the street. The photographer looked terrified. It's not what you expect to see outside a church service."

Mike Hooper, executive director of the church, said: "One photographer was on the wrong side of the road and tried to run over an officer who had stopped traffic.

He kept coming and one of our guards pulled a gun out. I cannot speak for the security officer, but he does not regret it. This is a church, not a concert."

The photographer was handcuffed after the guard accused him of trying to run over a traffic policeman before he was eventually released

The Bel Air Presbyterian Church

Britney spears

Myleene: 'I couldn't cope being a size 8'

Myleene Klass shows she is back to her curvy best after the dramatic weight loss that earned her the nickname 'My-lean'.

The 28-year-old, who won new fans after parading in a white bikini on I’m A Celebrity... Get Me Out Of Here!, admitted dropping to a size eight when her band Hear’Say split up.

Stunning Myleene shows off her preferred size 10 curves

The classically trained musician, now a size 10 and about to star in a Marks & Spencer ad campaign said: "I have gone against the accepted wisdom that the best things happen to women when they are at their thinnest.

"When I was at my smallest I was most unhappy. I was in a miserable relationship and my career was nowhere. The best things have happened to me when I am most natural and curvy."

She said her weight had ranged from size 8 to a size 14.

Myleene is now a curvier size 10 - and happier for it

Myleene Klass

Angelina's secret sadness - by her brother

Even by the standards of Hollywood it is an extraordinary project. When three-year-old Pham Quang Sang explores his new home for the first time this week, he will become the latest addition to what must be one of the fastest-growing families on the planet, not to mention the most colourful.


Little Pham, from Vietnam, joins Maddox from Cambodia, Zahara from Ethiopia and Shiloh, born in Namibia last May. Equally remarkable are the parents, Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt, a superstar couple prepared to embrace domesticity on a heroic scale.

Ms Jolie has promised to adopt babies from every corner of the globe, without limit, and this is no empty threat. Already she has collected a family that resembles the United Nations.

Family: Angelina Jolie, dad Jon Voight, and brother James Haven Voight

She faces constant criticism, claims that she is a publicity-seeker, and demands that she take American babies instead of looking to the developing world for children. But the 'Brangelina' circus rumbles on, unperturbed, which on past form is no surprise. Since she first hit stardom, she has been defiantly unconventional, whether it is boasting about unusual sex, showing off her collection of knives, or her large, and some will feel disfiguring, collection of tattoos.

Although recognised the world over, she is a woman truly known by very few, but her brother, 33-year-old actor and director James Haven Voight, can honestly claim to be one of them.

A reticent man who has spent much of his life in the shadow of his famous younger sister, he rarely seeks the limelight. But with concern mounting about Angelina's behaviour, he has used his first-ever newspaper interview to defend her reputation and shed some light on the damaged and dysfunctional upbringing which has shaped them both.

In a fascinating insight into a very private world, he blames the bullying and manipulation of their handsome movie-hero father, Jon Voight, star of Midnight Cowboy, for blighting both their lives. And he says it is the trauma of their childhood which has driven his sister to create a huge and independent family of her own.

Already emotionally vulnerable, the death of their mother in January of this year has left 31-year-old Angelina shattered. She is eating little and already seems to be losing her famous curves. Now, more than ever, says her brother, she is determined to place her faith in the lives of the children - and who knows how many more there will be - she is gathering around her.

"I have no memory at all of my mother shouting at me or at my sister," James explains. "But I do have horrible memories of my father and the way he behaved. He was so tough on our mother.

"He lived in the same town. We saw him around Christmas time or at school recitals. He was always around but he never did his job as a father. I think one of the reasons Angelina and I care so much for other people is his treatment of our mother. Angelina and I were very protective of her for that reason."

It was their mother, Marcheline Bertrand, who provided the emotional underpinning to their lives, he says - the one point of stability amid the chaos. Her loss to cancer, aged just 56, has been devastating.

"Angie has become very thin because she's grieving," he admits. "It's even difficult for her to eat. I keep saying to her, 'Don't forget to eat'.

"But you know she doesn't pay much attention to food anyway and she's been going through a process of grief like me. She has not wanted to eat, nor has she been able to."

It ought to have been a privileged childhood for James and Angelina. Born in 1973 and 1975 respectively, they were members of Hollywood aristocracy. As teenagers they were educated at the Beverly Hills High School, alma mater to the stars - a school made more famous still by its central role in the long-running series Beverly Hills 90210.

Certainly, James remembers the domestic security of his mother's routine with affection.

"There was very much that home feeling when we came back from school," he recalls. "Angie and I would walk in and comment on how we could smell things cooking and baking in the kitchen.

"My mum was methodical in making sure we did our homework perfectly. She would do outlines to help us. When we were younger, she used flash cards.

"Or she'd be in the middle of cooking and pick up a carrot and teach us about the vegetable or the fruit so that it was visual as well. Angie is now the same with her kids."

Marcheline, a beauty of mixed French-Canadian and Iroquois heritage, was an actress in her own right when she married Voight in 1971. But it was a brief partnership. They separated in 1976, shortly after Angelina's birth.

James and Angelina refuse to talk about the reasons for their parents' break-up - although there have been persistent rumours of womanising.

For all Marcheline's efforts to create a happy home, it was impossible to escape the destructive influence of Voight.

Money was one of many battlegrounds, although there should hardly have been a shortage of cash. By 1975, he was a household name, handsome, blue-eyed and in demand.

Yet according to James, it was a constant battle - to the point that Angelina and her older brother were reduced to pleading with him to pay the child support he owed.

"I tried hard when I was alone with him," recalls James. "The alimony was always an issue. He would claim he was taking good care of her.

"But in reality Mum was stressing out and we had to tell him he was causing the problem. This would be when I was 13 and Angie was 11.

"We definitely had a taste of his manipulative behaviour. But it was when he dealt with my mother that we really saw him pulling the strings.

"And that made us very sad and angry. Angelina and I saw my mum oppressed. Now we're protective of women on their own and, of course, of children." It was an experience which drove brother and sister closer and even today their relationship borders on intensity. H for 'Haven' is tattooed on Jolie's wrist.

Notoriously, she gave him a long and passionate kiss when celebrating her Oscar success for Girl, Interrupted in 2000.

James, who has the same striking looks as his sister, travels with Brad and Angelina on many of their foreign expeditions, and spends hours in the company of her growing brood. Growing up, they never went hungry, but there were hardships. No one in Hollywood walks - Los Angeles is not built for the convenience of pedestrians - yet neither Angelina nor James could afford a car.

He explains: "One of the saddest things in my life happened when I was 16, which is when you can get your permit to drive in LA. I did not have a car in High School and neither did Angelina.

"Try to imagine. You go to Beverly Hills High, one of the wealthiest High Schools in the nation. Even the cheapest car that anyone has is brand new. All my friends are well off. I have a movie-star father and no car.

"It was debilitating. I did not to go to the prom [the social highlight of an American high school career] because I felt uncomfortable that Dad would have to drive me. It's an embarrassing thing.

"The significant years of dating and getting to know yourself, I didn't experience any of that. I didn't experience what I think is one of the most important times in a person's life, and neither did Angelina. It affected both of us.

"When I was in college and finally dating I went to my dad and told him what it was like for me in High School. He didn't try to understand at all. He said he didn't have money."

It was a lesson that neither of them forgot. James says: "Angie has been driven to be an independently wealthy woman now because we saw what it was like to be at the mercy of someone who controls the money and pulls the strings.

"There were times when our dad was awesomely good with us, but my biggest and most abiding memory is that he would look more to our faults than to our strengths."

It must, then, have been particularly hard to follow him in the movie industry. Certainly for all his sensitivity and good looks, James has scored only modest success with parts in the 2001 movies Original Sin - starring his sister - and Monster's Ball, which starred his sister's then husband, Billy Bob Thornton.

James says: "Look at what Angelina is doing - her work with the United Nations, raising awareness of refugees. It would just be great if Dad would commend her, or send her a message of encouragement. But she's never heard those words from him."

However, it did nothing to blunt her ambitions or her determination. In fact, the young Angelina was precocious in many ways.

This was a girl sufficiently confident to start a sexual relationship at the age of 14 and bring her lover back to live under the same roof with the tolerance, if not the approval, of her mother.

James denies that his sister is a domineering character, claiming that her famed decisiveness is, like her love of knives and her boasts about sadomasochistic sex, an attempt to be independent of other people's control. But he is not ashamed to admit he is under her influence, in all sorts of ways.

"She's always been very protective of me with regards to my romantic life, which I love," he smiles. "She wants me to be with the right woman. When you come from a divorced home, divorce is what you desperately want to avoid.

"Maybe I haven't found the right woman because my sister is too picky for me. Any woman has to go through two filters, me and then my sister.

"I'm a perfectionist by nature. Then, because I'm so close to Angie it's like I've already got the perfect woman in my life and it's hard for anyone else to live up to that.

"I go to Angie for advice and won't do anything without her because we were so close as children."

Her influence on him is so profound, he claims he has even been persuaded to adopt a child himself - provided he can find a partner first. Angelina has even brought about a change of career, persuading him to spend large parts of his time campaigning for charity. He is currently preparing to take part in a major US campaign to fight the AIDS pandemic in Uganda.

James is outraged by the claim that their relationship might in any way be inappropriate - claims prompted by 'that' kiss after the 2000 Oscars.

"I did not give Angie a French kiss, it was something simple and lovely," he insists.

"She was about to go off to Mexico to finish filming Original Sin with Antonio Banderas. I congratulated her on the Oscar win and gave her a quick kiss on the lips. It was snapped and became a big thing round the world."

It seemed at one point the fractured relationship between Angelina and her father was on the mend. The pair took part in the 2001 movie Lara Croft: Tomb Raider, for example, with Voight playing her on-screen father.

But Voight spoiled it by going on Access Hollywood, a prime-time US talk show, and accusing his daughter of having 'serious mental problems'. Jolie responded by legally erasing her surname, Voight, and banning him from seeing her children. They have not spoken since.

Voight's relationship with his son, meanwhile, is a little better. But not much. Voight has yet to talk to James in person following the death of his mother, an omission the son finds barely able to believe.

"My dad left a voicemail message that was very kind, wishing condolences to me and my sister. That was what he did," says James, his voice heavy with sarcasm.

Now, with the death of their mother, the wound is red raw.

"He was very tough on my mum for years and then the person he was tough on has gone. He can't do anything now, he can't fix that and it's very painful," James says.

"At some point I've got to be able to let my bitterness and anger towards him go and I'm working on that now. I believe my mother's in a better place. What I have to deal with is that there's no such thing as him making amends now - he's lost his chance and that just makes me and Angelina even more upset.

"When I first lost my mother, I couldn't stop crying. Fortunately, I was with Angie when we heard. It was such a big moment.

"If Angelina understood something about missing parents before, she understands completely now. Angelina and I are orphans too, in a way. When you see those kids in orphanages, they cling to each other. And that's exactly what they have - they have each other."

Angelina Jolie

Viewers in backlash as Heather appears on America's Strictly Come Dancing

Heather Mills has suffered a vicious on-line backlash after she made her debut on American TV show Dancing With The Stars.

Angry viewers, many of them Beatles fans, posted abusive messages on the website of broadcaster ABC, which models the show on the BBC's Strictly Come Dancing.

VIDEO: Watch Heather Mills in action

Heather Mills: Made her debut on the US version of Strictly Come Dancing. The judges praised her but she failed to win over viewers

The combination of her divorce battle over Sir Paul McCartney's £825 million, coupled with the spectacle of Ms Mills being the first contestant to appear with an artificial leg, has captivated America in the run-up to the fourth series.

Fans left messages online calling Heather is a disgrace and wooden

Although she drew plaudits from the judges on TV, many viewers were not as generous.
Nonie823 declared: "She looked as wooden as her leg, so get rid of her."

An excited Heather shows off her fancy footwork

Olive71 said: "Heather is a disgrace - not sure how she rates to be on Dancing With The Stars.
She is a nobody and only became a somebody when she married the best Rock Musician, Paul. America, boot her off."

Getting an energy boost from a banana before she starts recording the demanding show

Mikesnf wrote: "Let's all plot to get rid of this woman.
I'm not watching the show nor will I be until she's gone ... I'll vote like crazy to get rid of Heather Mills."

Heather has a lighthearted moment while waiting for the results

But lmillen wrote: "She did a great job, regardless of her disability. She is brave and beautiful," while an amputee wrote that her grace was "impressive".
Another viewer accused ABC of "exploiting the disabled".

Heather takes a breather as she puts on her 'dancing leg'

Ms Mills, 39, who lost part of her leg in an accident with a police motorbike in 1993, has said it is unlikely her prosthetic limb will fall off during the show.

However online gambling sites are taking bets on it happening.

Fellow contestant, former supermodel Paulina Porizkova said: "If she comes on and shows how warm and wonderful and gracious she is, the people are just going to go for her.

However if she doesn't, she's screwed."

Were Ms Mills to win, huge stardom is assured. Dancing With the Stars attracted 27.5 million viewers for the finale of its third series.

She danced the foxtrot with professional partner Jonathan Roberts and received a standing ovation from some of the audience after she ended the routine with a high kick.

The three judges awarded 18 marks out of 30, and the couple were a respectable seventh out of 11.

The public begin voting off contestants, who include world female boxing champion Laila Ali, the daughter of Muhammad Ali, and country singer Billy Ray Cyrus, next week.

Ms Mills said: "I'm just glad I did not fall over. I thought I would be lowest so I am pleased."

She has denied she is appearing on the show as a publicity stunt or for financial reasons and says she wants to inspire viewers with disabilities.

Heather Mills

Naomi's boots are made for working

VIDEO: Naomi Campbell refused to compromise on style as she arrived for day one of her community service in New York today.

The 36-year-old supermodel, who was advised to wear sensible footwear at the Manhattan garage she will clean for the next five days, kept on her Christian Louboutin stiletto boots with their trademark red soles and slung her hobnail workboots over one shoulder.

Video...see Naomi arrive for her community service

Naomi Campbell: The model is escorted to the location of her five-day community service sentence for for hitting her maid with a mobile phone.

She topped off the look with a baker boy hat and dark glasses.

Streatham-born Campbell, who has a reputation for tardiness, turned up a few minutes before her scheduled 8am start. The model was given the punishment of community work after admitting hitting her former assistant on the head with her mobile phone.

These boots are made for mopping: Sensibly she brings some battered workboots to carry out the cleaning work

The Streatham-born 36-year-old also wore brown trousers, an elegant short black coat belted at the waist, a jaunty baker-boy cap and her trademark dark glasses.

Naomi turned up for work in these fabulous Christian Louboutin stiletto boots with their trademark red sole

Unlike Boy George, who had to sweep New York streets last year as punishment for wasting police time, Campbell has been allowed to serve her sentence away from the glare of the cameras.

She will work indoors all week at the Manhattan district 3 garage on the Lower East Side of the city.

The area is being regenerated to make way for a "Basketball City".

Her duties include sweeping, mopping, polishing and scrubbing the toilets. Sanitation department deputy chief Al Durrell said: "If the toilets require to be cleaned, she will clean them, along with her co-workers.

"She will be sweeping the garage floor, sweeping the offices. We also have locker rooms and bathrooms she will be cleaning, mopping. We have windows that need to be cleaned so she'll be doing some of that."

Campbell's assistant, Ana Scolavino, needed five stitches after the model attacked her. Campbell's lawyer played down the incident, saying: "She did throw a phone but that doesn't mean she threw it at someone. But someone was accidentally hit as a result of it."

Campbell was ordered to pay $381 (£196) in medical costs and to attend two anger management classes.

Naomi Campbell

Is Tara Palmer cracking up?

In the spotlight: But is Tara on the edge?

Fame Academy has given her career a much-needed kiss of life. But after a string of tearful and increasingly erratic TV performances this week, even her friends are asking...Is Tara cracking up?

No doubt there was a perfectly innocent explanation. After all, one only has to glance at Tara Palmer-Tomkinson's rake-thin frame to ascertain that she has been known to skip the occasional meal.

Nevertheless, eyebrows were raised when she collapsed during filming for a television programme.

This is not, however, yet another tale of her wacky behaviour, and heaven knows there have been plenty of them, on this week's charity talent contest Celebrity Fame Academy. It occurred while she was taking part in another recent reality show, Project Catwalk.

"She was acting in an utterly bizarre manner," says a witness. "Between takes she was flopping about like a rag doll. She just looked completely out of it."

A funny turn prompted by illness, or a worrying backward step for a woman better known for cocaine addiction than any discernible talent? Suffice to say that the show's presenter, Kelly Osbourne, herself a veteran of rehab, was particularly taken aback at Tara's peculiar behaviour.

And when put into the context of her eccentric appearances on Fame Academy over the past week, is it any wonder that friends are becoming increasingly concerned about her well-being?

The BBC1 programme has seen a group of 'stars' share a house and perform live every night on TV after intensive singing coaching from professionals. Money for Comic Relief is being raised via the public voting on phone lines, which dictates who remains in the show.

While the programme has boosted Tara's profile, it has also revealed perhaps more than she would have wished about her rather fragile state of mind. Even the public have been alarmed, most notably after she burst into tears on screen, complaining that she felt 'weak', and then appeared to melt under the cameras, sweating buckets as she performed Elton John's hit, I'm Still Standing.

"She needs to pull herself together," says one long-standing friend, who asked not to be named. "Tara has always been eccentric, but just lately she has been acting far too strangely and it is getting worrying.

"You just have to watch her on television to see she is on the edge. She is more emotional than ever, and has been making bizarre demands like insisting that she is left alone away from any cameras for an hour every morning, and asking for a butler to come in and make juice drinks for her.

"She even tried to get her parents to "buy" her out of the show before it began by offering money to the charity instead."

It must be stressed that insiders from the show insist there is no way Tara could be abusing drugs in the house, and she is adamant that she has not used drugs for at least five years.

But one fellow contestant told the Mail this week that the former It-Girl's behaviour was "so strange that it certainly makes you wonder where the energy comes from".

Whatever anyone may think, her heart-on-sleeve madcap antics have clearly struck a chord with the public.

As with her appearance on I'm A Celebrity, Get Me Out Of Here five years ago, viewers seem to want to see more of her, even voting her into last night's head-to-head final.

How cruelly ironic it would be, then, if her latest rehabilitation in the eyes of the public should coincide with a return to past troubles.

Long years of cocaine abuse have taken their toll physically - her nose collapsed last year and had to be rebuilt by a plastic surgeon. Even now, it is immediately clear to observers that it remains damaged and misshapen.

But friends are more worried about the mental legacy of what one confidant describes as 'the lost years'.

"Whenever I see Tara now it breaks my heart. She looks so tired and drawn," says the source. "The face which was once so vibrant and beautiful has been eroded by everything she's been through.

"Everything is a struggle for Tara these days. Her career has been on a downward curve for a couple of years and she sees Fame Academy as a way of resurrecting herself.

"But she is 35 years old now, and there is a limit to how much longer she can play the ditzy single society girl about town. The truth is that she is desperate to settle down and have children before it's too late, but her track record with men is disastrous.

"When I met up with her recently, she was saying that she can't believe how her career has slumped. She was worried that nobody cared about her any more and that her moment in the spotlight had passed. This is a very frightening time in her life.'

So what does the future hold for Tara? Certainly from a professional perspective she is at a crossroads.

Once upon a time she had a column with the Sunday Times and an open invitation to every society event in town.

That early promise was wrecked by cocaine, but her successful appearance on I'm A Celebrity heralded a new dawn, with a new (albeit more downmarket) column for a weekly glossy, a radio show and a lucrative contract advertising Walkers crisps.

She launched a production company with her friend and sometime lover, the pop star Duncan James, and landed a presenting job on ITV.

Gradually, however, all that work has drifted away. The production company is no longer in existence, Charlotte Church took over the Walkers contract, the radio deal went after complaints that she 'rambled' on air and ITV quietly dropped her from her presenting role for the latest series of I'm A Celebrity.

Last year she descended to the level of selling tawdry tales of her sex life to the newspapers, most notably lurid reports that she had flings with pop singers Robbie Williams and James Blunt (establishing the veracity of these stories is near impossible as Tara herself has changed her tune repeatedly).
"I'm mortified someone blabbed about my private life," she said at the time. "I got burnt with James Blunt and I will not talk about Robbie."

Yet those who have known Tara for more than a decade say she has been "blabbing" to the press about her own affairs "since day one".

One friend recalls an occasion in the mid-Nineties when she tipped off a Sunday tabloid that she would be sunbathing topless in San Tropez, for which she collected several thousands of pounds in cash.

On another occasion, she arranged to be playing tennis without any knickers on at the Hurlingham Club, posed for a provocative picture and collected her fee from the paparazzo there and then.

"At first it was just a giggle, but as time went by she got more and more into cocaine and really needed the money," says the friend. "Then when she came off the drugs she developed this huge need to be loved by the public. She is a lovely girl but has no real talent and is painfully aware of that, so she is always craving recognition and validation.

"That's why she's doing Fame Academy. She says it's for charity - and to her credit Tara does a lot for charity - but the real reason is that she's desperate to hold on to her fame. It's pretty much all she has left."

Childhood friends say that the signs of her future problems were there to be seen from the age of 11. One former school friend, who attended Sherborne School for Girls in Dorset with her, says: "Tara was self-obsessed even then - something she seemed to have inherited from her mother.

"I remember she wore a brace even though she didn't need one, but she said her mum made her do it because she had to be perfect, right down to her teeth.

"Her parents spoiled her rotten and she was forever coming back from the holidays saying how she had been given a horse for Christmas.

"She only ever wanted to hang out with the most popular, bestlooking girls in the school. But unfortunately they were also the bitchiest people around, and Tara was the one who ended up getting hurt because, for all her flaws, she was not a nasty person.

"She was an appalling judge of character but, to her credit, she never had a bad word to say about anyone."

Tara's childhood was characterised by privilege and being given anything she wanted by her wealthy parents, Patti and Charles, who are famously friends of Prince Charles. Home was Dummer Grange, set in 1,200 acres in Hampshire.

At boarding school she was known as Two Weeks Tara because of her inability to hold on to a boyfriend.

Later, there were doomed dalliances with society restaurateur Mogens Tholstrup and Nick Rhodes of Duran Duran, then a brief engagement to PR man Kris Thykier (who, as chance would have it, is now happily married to Celebrity Fame Academy presenter Claudia Winkleman).

Her most recent serious relationship, with Matalan heir Jamie Hargreaves, ended two years ago, and since then she has had plenty of time to brood on past romantic failures.

"It's the story of Tara's life," says an old friend. She is utterly incapable of hanging on to a man because her charm wears off very quickly and then she turns into an incredibly needy, crazy girlfriend.

"She's man mad - with the emphasis on the word mad."

Fellow contestants on Fame Academy this week have been warned to beware. Friends say she had a soft spot for Radio One DJ Colin Murray, but has turned her attention towards host Patrick Kielty.

More damaging than any cheating boyfriends, however, was the collapse of her relationship with her long-standing agent, Martine Montgomery.

Montgomery, a skilful and tough showbiz operator, was Tara's representative for a decade and the pair were so close that many likened it to a mother/daughter relationship.

With her parents in the country, Montgomery's home in Chelsea was a safe haven for Tara through some difficult times. She was not so much an agent (though her contacts landed Tara some hugely lucrative contracts) as a friend and confidante.

But 18 months ago, the friendship imploded - so badly that Tara would communicate with her erstwhile friend only through lawyers. Neither has commented on the situation, but they have not worked together since.

At the same time, Tara discovered that another close friend was stealing money from her, and sources say she was "badly burnt" by the experience.

"It was far more damaging than any of the boyfriends who have hurt her," says one. "Tara was left feeling she couldn't trust anyone any more, and to be honest, she has never really recovered from it.

"She has thrown herself into her career, but the fun has gone out of it. It's such a shame."

Her current representatives say that Tara has a 'full schedule' for the remainder of 2007. Apparently her successful appearance on Fame Academy has prompted numerous offers of work.

In truth, she could do with them. Other commitments include her new events management company, Three's A Crowd, a novel due out later in the year entitled Get Over It, and a number of nebulous television projects (apparently negotiations are at a delicate stage).

Granted, she is hardly broke - she bought herself a ski chalet last year and is having another one built in the French resort of Courchevel. But compared to the deluge of work offers which flooded in after I'm A Celebrity, the cupboard is all but bare.

With less work to keep her occupied, Tara has been a more frequent fixture on the party circuit in recent months.

While she insists that she has not touched cocaine for half a decade, Tara has begun drinking again and acquaintances have seen her "looking pretty incoherent" on a number of occasions lately.

Her closest friends remain petrified that she will return to the bad old days. One long-standing confidant recalls an incident in the late Nineties: "I'll never forget turning up at her flat, looking through the letterbox and seeing her passed out in the hallway in a pool of her own vomit.

"Watching your friend become a hopeless junkie like that is just horrendous. Every time my phone rang I was terrified it would be someone telling me Tara had overdosed. She got over it in the end, but the problem with Tara is that she will always have terrible judgment, so we will never be able to relax.

"I just wish she would get off the showbiz treadmill and settle down. But thanks to

Comic Relief she is getting another fix of fame, so don't expect things to calm down any time soon."

Tara Palmer

A kiss and tears for Angelina's new orphan son

VIDEO: This is Angelina Jolie's latest adopted child.

Pax Thien Jolie, the latest addition to the Tomb Raider star's multinational family, appeared to be shy with his mother-to-be when she came to collect the three-year-old from the Vietnamese orphanage where he has spent much of his life.

Video...Angelina collects her new son from the orphanage

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Dressed in yellow t-shirt and shorts, Pax Thien Jolie

Jolie arrived with five-year-old son Maddox, whom she adopted in neighbouring Cambodia in 2002.

Jolie greeted Pax Thien, meaning Peace Heaven, with a kiss and held him.

Nguyen Van Trung, director of the Tam Binh orphanage on the outskirts of Ho Chi Minh City, said: "They tried to make friends with the Vietnamese boy, who cried when he saw them because for him, they are strangers. Jolie was very moved. Both of them tried to comfort the little boy."

Angelina Jolie pictured holding her adopted daughter Zahara, while partner Brad Pitt carries her eldest son Maddox

Van Trung said the boy was healthy and liked to play soccer. The child had been abandoned at a local hospital and was admitted to the orphanage in 2003, Trung added.

Jolie and Pitt visited Ho Chi Minh City last November and met children at the orphanage. They have one biological child, Shiloh Nouvel who was born last year, and two adopted children - son Maddox from Cambodia and daughter Zahara from Ethiopia.

Jolie and Pitt, who starred in the 2005 movie "Mr. & Mrs. Smith", have said they have no plans to marry but are committed to raising their children together. They are also working together on the film "A Mighty Heart" about the killing of a U.S. journalist by Pakistani militants.

Jolie won an Oscar in 1999 for best supporting actress in "Girl, Interrupted". She starred in the 2001 movie "Tomb Raider" which was filmed in Cambodia, neighbouring Vietnam.

Angelina Jolie , Brad Pitt

Heather Mills in pig farm raid to highlight 'cruelty'

Heather Mills has revealed she entered an industrial pig farm at the dead of night as part of a campaign to highlight alleged animal cruelty.

She led a team from the vegetarian group Viva! in a raid on a Somerset farm two weeks ago.

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Heather crouching in the dark next to a 'caged' pig

Miss Mills went on to the farm to point out the use of farrowing crates, which she calls "cages" and "prisons".

The crates are narrow pens with concrete floors. They are used for sows when they are giving birth and suckling their piglets.

They are so narrow that the sows cannot turn around. There is an escape area at the bottom which allows piglets to run out and avoid being trampled by their mothers.

Miss Mills highlights the 'cruel conditions' that the pigs are forced to live in

But although the crates have attracted Miss Mills’s ire, they are legal and widely used worldwide.

And last night the owner of the farm she visited threatened to take her to court for trespass and suggested the Viva! team might have brought disease on to his property.

Miss Mills will is launching a campaign calling for the Government to outlaw the crates.

She will also make a specific attack on Marks & Spencer for accepting meat from farms which use the crates. She will use the message: "This is not just torture – this is M&S torture."

Illuminated by torchlight in the night-time raid

Miss Mills found time to take part in the farm raid while at the centre of the maelstrom surrounding her divorce from Sir Paul McCartney.

Footage shows her putting on overalls and disinfecting her boots before touring sheds on the farm, where 3,500-4,000 pigs are reared at any time.

Miss Mills says she is doing nothing illegal. But entering private premises without permission would appear to be trespassing, a civil offence.

She expresses outrage at the use of the crates and the general conditions in which the pigs are reared. Some 70 per cent of all pigs raised in the UK start their lives in farrowing crates.

The filming took place at Briarwood Farm, at Greinton, near Bridgwater. But owner Michael Underhill knew nothing of it until contacted by the Daily Mail. He said: "This is trespass, I intend to take legal action over this. We can’t just have people coming on to the farm whenever they choose.

"There are risks of disease being carried into the buildings. We have had some sickness in the piglets recently, we don’t know where it came from, but these people could have brought disease on to the farm. They don’t know the harm they are causing."

Pulling on her boots. But the farmer claims disease could have been brought onto his property

He said he was doing nothing wrong. "Farrowing crates are widely used. They are there to protect the piglets from being trampled and coming to harm. They are a welfare measure."

A Marks & Spencer spokesman said: "M&S has leading animal welfare standards and has been recognised for these by both the RSPCA and Compassion in World Farming.

"We are disappointed Viva! is taking this action as we met and told them before Christmas that we were phasing out the use of farrowing crates.

"All our fresh pork is already outdoor bred – which accounts for 30 per cent – and we have committed to moving to free range."

Viva! director Juliet Gellatley, a friend of Miss Mills, denied taking disease on to the farm. She said: "None of the people involved had been on another pig farm for a very long time. They wore biosecure suits and new, disinfected boots."

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Snubbed Sienna parties until dawn after premiere

VIDEO: Sienna Miller suffered a double-heartache last night and drowned her sorrows with a late-night boozing session with pal Rhys Ifans that went on until dawn.

The 25-year-old actress was snubbed by her new man Jamie Burke at the premiere of her new movie before finding out that ex-fiance Jude Law has been getting cosy with Lindsay Lohan in New York.

Sienna: A glam Sienna arrives in Leicester Square for the Factory Girl premiere

Sienna sneaked out of the afterparty for The Factory Girl to go to Paper nightclub in Regent Street. There, she and Rhys, 38, drank Dom Perignon vintage champagne until 5am.

But later it was a different story as sozzled Sienna had to be helped from a car

She was down in the dumps after model Jamie failed to turn up at the red carpet premiere of The Factory Girl in Leicester Square. We’re told Sienna’s man of the moment, who’s dated Lindsay and Kate Moss in the past, is actually in London at the moment.

Oops Sienna did it again: Slumped in the back of a car, in typically tipsy mode

Video...see Sienna on the red carpet and clips from Factory Girl

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Questions were raised as to where he was last night, but when we asked Sienna she said: “Don’t be so cheeky. I’m not telling you.”

But that wasn’t all. In a second blow, we can reveal the actress got news before the event that her ex, Jude, has been out partying in New York with Lindsay Lohan. The pair hit New York hotspot The Box last Friday and spent two hours in deep conversation

Sienna Miller leaves the party, and not too soon

Our source said: “They looked very cosy and left together at about 5.30am with friends.”

Lindsay, who’s just come out of rehab, has made no secret of the fact she’s been dying to get her claws into Sienna’s ex.

Sienna and sister Savannah

After his affair with the nanny, Lindsay famously said it wouldn’t be long before Sienna ditched him and she wouldn’t mind being around to pick up the pieces.

Last night, Sienna decided to snub the movie’s after-party and instead drown her sorrows in a VIP booth at Paper.

Our spy said: “She arrived late – and sober – at the official afterparty at Asia de Cuba, St Martin’s Lane, before sliding out a side door.

She tricked fans and paparazzi by telling them she would be going to Boujis, but failed to arrive. She also fooled hangers-on by telling them she would be going to Mayfair’s Funky Buddha, but didn’t turn up there either.

“She ended up getting a VIP room at Paper, and her and Rhys were drinking Dom Perignon until dawn. It was a heavy session and they spent quite a few bob.”

Earlier, at the premiere, The Factory Girl director George Hickenlooper revealed she was a “disgusting eater”.

Hickenlooper joked that he had tried to stop Miller tucking into French fries and chocolate during filming but she simply told him to "bugger off".

Miller said: "He used to steal my bagels. He gave up because I love my food."

The actress said the premiere was "very exciting, it feels like a good party after lots of hard work".

She said she had enjoyed playing her first lead role: "You try to lose yourself in the moment."

And she praised co-star Guy Pearce, who plays iconic pop artist Andy Warhol, saying: "Guy Pearce is a great actor, a great friend and totally embodied Andy."

Miller wore a vintage cream and black Balenciaga mini dress, Bvlgari jewels, black tights and black Sergio Rossi shoes as she walked down the shocking pink carpet outside London's Vue Leicester Square cinema.

Her sister wore a grey dress from 2812, their clothing label due in shops from July.

Hickenlooper said he was thrilled that hundreds of people turned out to the premiere.

"I'm so flattered all these fans are here," he said.

"I like the British, it's a more literary climate so maybe they will appreciate the film more."

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Fashion guru Trinny's looking very skinny

Revealing: Trinny in plunging neckline at airport yesterday

Trinny Woodall prepares to jet home from India -looking a touch on the skinny side. The TV fashion guru's low-cut, flower-patterned dress drew attention to her rather bony chest.

But despite Trinny's gaunt look, her spokeswoman quickly dispelled talk of problems. She said:

"There's no ongoing issue with thinness. She's very healthy."

The presenter of ITV's What Not To Wear and her TV partner Susannah Constantine wrote with amusing honesty about Trinny's figure in an article three years ago.

They said: "Trinny is thin with very short legs, no boobs. But because she has learned to disguise these defects, all the onlooker sees are endlessly long limbs.

"And, because she dresses so well for her shape, you don't notice that she's as flat as a prairie."

Trinny, 42, was snapped at Jodhpur airport returning from Liz Hurley's wedding celebrations.

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So Posh...and such a bargain

If imitation is the best form of flattery, Victoria Beckham should be feeling very flattered indeed. Within weeks of her appearing in a fitted silk bomber jacket, Primark has produced its own leather-look version. And it is flying off the shelves.

Primark get Posh: The £12 jacket is a deadringer for one worn by Victoria Beckham - apart from the £3,000 price tag

Virtually all 160 stores in the chain have had to reorder and restock the jacket. At a mere £12, it can never compete with the luxury of Mrs Beckham's £3,000 number, thought to be part of Gucci's latest spring/summer collection. But it certainly ticks all the right fashion boxes.

"There is no way you can tell that this jacket costs £12 or that it's not actually made of leather," said GMTV stylist Mark Heyes.

"Primark, out of all the budget shops, really has their finger on the pulse. The jacket is simply a massive hit throughout."

Last night a spokesman for Primark said the store was delighted at the success of the bomber jacket, which had "captured the public's imagination".

But despite this fashion success, the Beckham's are struggling to maintain their star status. David Beckham was snapped hobbling on crutches while Victoria looked like a literal shadow of her former self in California. Dressed in severe black, Posh's gaunt frame is more like a Size 0 model than a healthy star.

Me and my shadow: Posh looks like a cardboard cut out while David Beckham hobbles on crutches

David has every right to look morose. The international footballer injured his ligament after a bad smash during a Real Madrid match and will be out for four weeks. It rules out any chance of a recall to England's squad for this months Euro 2008 qualifiers.

Meanwhile, Victoria has been struggling to make a splash in America. The once-upon-a-time pop star is hoping a prospective reality show will raise her profile in the U.S.

Victoria Beckham

Actor John Inman dies aged 71

Video: John Inman, who died yesterday in a London hospital at the age of 71 after a long battle against liver disease, was probably responsible for raising the profile of the homosexual male to its highest level since the heyday of Oscar Wilde.

Yet, ironically, theTV role for which he will always be remembered infuriated the activists of Gay Liberation.

John Inman, who died after a long illness, was described as 'one of the best and finest pantomime dames working to capacity audiences throughout Britain'

They regarded his character, Mr Humphries - the outrageously camp floorwalker who minced through the menswear department of Grace Brothers, shrieking: 'I’m free!' - as the sort of demeaning sexual stereotype they were fighting to erase.

For years after the series ended , members of the Campaign for Homosexual Equality demonstrated outside theatres where Inman happened to be appearing.

But the star of Are You Being Served? took their taunts with Lancastrian sang-froid - and stoked the fire by revealing that his favourite hobby was sewing.

Much of the inspiration for Mr. Humphries undoubtedly came from Inman's own life.

The son of a male hairdresser, he was born in Prestonon on June 28, 1935, and brought up in a Blackpool boarding house run by his mother.

A timid wartime child, he remembered his father as “a drinking man who used to knock my mother about”.

By the age of six, John was escaping into theatrical fanatsies, occasionally taking down his mother’s blackout curtains and giving impromptu shows for the neighbours.

At 11, he made his professional debut at Blackpool’s South Pier in the melodrama, Frieda. He later said that he “knew instantly that this was the only life I ever wanted”.

But as he advanced into his teens - small and slight - the work dried up. In order to earn a living wage, he became a trainee window-dresser, eventually graduating to London, where he worked at Austin Reed in Regent Street.

There, like the character he would one day play, he liked to pose in the window, struggling to keep a straight face as he flaunted a sign that said: “Available in other colours”.

Then, a resting actor told him about a job going in Crewe - “the actor’s graveyard” - and Inman made his second start in the theatre.

For years, he played minor characters until the 1972 BBC television sitcom Are You Being Served? transformed him into a household name.

The writing was crude, the situations obvious and the characters at Grace Brothers - a broken-down department store - owed much to French farce. But viewers adored the series.

And all the leads became as well-known as the archetypes they played: Mollie Sugden, who was the matronly Mrs. Slocombe obsessed with her pet "pussy"; the future EastEnders star Wendy Richard, who brought considerable front to the bosomy Miss Brahms; and most of all, Inman himself, mouthing gap-toothed triple entendres as the camp floorwalker Mr. Humphries. Inman denied that Humphries was gay - but no one agreed with him. For the first time in living memory, the public had taken an overtly camp TV actor to their hearts.

The series was to run for 12 years and 69 episodes, making Inman a world-wide star - even in the United States, where a man once fell off his bike in shock after recognising him in the street.

Nothing else that Inman ever did replicated the magnitude of his fame as Humphries.

The 1977 film version of Are You Being Served?, which took the staff on holiday to the mythical Costa Plonka, proved a damp squib, and a 1980 Australian version of the series, in which Mr Humphries was promoted to head of the menswear department of Bone Brothers - lasted only a year.

In 1999, at the age of 64, Inman astounded his friends by announcing that he had been straight all his life and that, furthermore, he had been involved in a “serious relationship” with a woman for 28 years. No one seemed to know who she was.

In December 2004, suffering from the ravages of Hepatitis A, he pulled out of a London pantomime.

And, a year later, all pretence and denial cast aside, he "married" his male companion of the past 33 years, Ron Lynch, in a civil partnership ceremony at Westminster Register Office.

Both were heavy drinkers, and there had been numerous quarrels and separations. Many of Inman’s friends disliked and distrusted Lynch, slyly revealing that the star had met him on the rebound after being dumped by the man who was the real love of his life.

But as Inman’s health deteriorated, Lynch was on hand to support him.

Those who hoped that the star might make a final comeback were to be disappointed. A play - entitled There’s No Place Like A Home - was written expressly for Inman and Danny La Rue by the impresario Paul Elliott.

But La Rue, suffering from macular degeneration of the eyes, found himself unable to read the cue cards. And Inman, by that point, was too weak to walk across a stage.

His health declined steeply in the last few months, leaving him desperately thin and barely able to walk. The end came at four in the morning yesterday at St. Mary’s Hospital, Paddington. Lynch, who now stands to inherit Inman's substantial fortune, is said to be “devastated”.

Poignantly, Inman’s official webpage announces: “John’s site has been temporarily taken offline. Thanks for your interest, please call back in a few days”.

But John Inman, that splendid trouper, is no longer available.

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Heather demands £10,000 a day from Sir Paul 'to get by'

Heather Mills is demanding £10,000 a day as part of her bitter divorce pay-off from Sir Paul McCartney.

The former model is considering a "high-speed" settlement with her estranged husband with a minimum cash payout of £3.5 million a year - for a total of at least £40 million.

Heather Mills is considering a quickie divorce with a minimum cash payout of £3.5 million a year

Mills, 39, has calculated the amount after drawing up a list of her annual cash commitments and says she needs the money to "get by".

But Sir Paul looks set to reject the offer, claiming he is not worth as much as everyone thinks he is.

One of the singer's friends said: "It's amazing. When you consider her humble beginnings, £10,000 a day is a phenomenal sum to cover her needs. It's as much as some Premiership footballers earn. Many people have to work a year for what she wants to bank in a day.

"Heather is making extremely large demands considering the brevity of the marriage.

"Paul wants to be as generous as possible but the trouble is his fortune has been grossly exaggerated."

The 64-year-old former Beatle has argued that he is worth "considerably less" than the £825 million fortune he has been alleged to be possess. The couple's bitter divorce battle saw them to come face-to-face last week as they appeared three times in the High Court.

It was hoped that they might split in a "quickie divorce" which would avoid both appearing in court, but the hearings could now drag on for months and possibly into next year.

Leaked divorce papers showed Ms Mills claims that Sir Paul poured wine over her, stabbed her arm with a broken wine glass, pushed her over a coffee table and shoved her over into a bath when she was pregnant with their daughter Beatrice. Sir Paul has denied all the claims.

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Dross Stone - singer keeps fans waiting for two hours without apology

At 19, soul star Joss Stone seems to be going through something of a mid-life crisis.

She has discredited her old albums, ditched her hippy look for tight dresses and hair like a burning bush, freely admitted to smoking cannabis and, worst of all, allowed Vinnie Jones to guest on her latest record.

Never mind the Devon girl’s strange mid-Atlantic accent, much ridiculed after a bizarre cameo at the Brit awards. I met her three years ago and she talked that way then.

The real worry is that Stone could be turning into one of the other guests on next week’s new album - Lauryn Hill, high priestess of flakiness.

The doors at last night’s show opened at 7pm and Stone finally appeared two and a half hours later, with no support acts in between.

You have to be truly fabulous to win back a crowd that is booing before your arrival, and she wasn’t fabulous enough. Playing a theatre show at club volume was her second mistake. Audience chatter almost drowned out much of the music.

She also began the set with three unreleased songs, when a couple of familiar hits might just about have got people back onside.

There was nothing wrong with the new material. Tell Me What We’re Gonna Do Now had an appealing lazy groove, while Girl They Won’t Believe It had more in common with the nu-soul of Jill Scott or Alicia Keys than the vintage stars to whom she has previously been compared.

Put Your Hands On Me sounded like the future hit to win over the doubters.

With its stop-start beat and swaying horns , it resembled Amy Wine - house’s Rehab with even more vocal acrobatics.

That freakishly powerful singing voice remains extraordinary, but she did herself no favours when talking between songs.

Giggly schoolgirl charm has been replaced by rambling self-indulgence.

There was enough time to go to the bar, to the lavatory and to catch the end of the football in the pub across the road during her excruciating introduction to another new song, Music.

A couple of old favourites, Jet Lag and Super Duper Love (Are You Diggin’ On Me), pleased some of, but not all, the long-term fans. Only once before at a gig has an audience member spotted my pen and pulled me aside to make sure I noted how short-changed they felt.

After her encore she threw flowers into the crowd — flowers being necessary, of course, when someone needs to apologise.

Joss Stone

Charlotte gets a fly-half's grip on Gavin

An unusually reticent Charlotte Church appears to be rugby-tackling hunky boyrfriend Gavin Henson from behind.

It's probably a bit easier to handle than the tackles he usually receives, as Charlotte grips the Welsh international to shield herself from the waiting photographers.

We're having a baby: Charlotte Church has a firm grip on partner Gavin Henson as she uses her rugby player boyfriend to shields herself from photographers

The couple arrived in London via a chauffeur driven car to dine at trendy eaterie Julie's in Notting Hill, days after announcing they were having a baby.

Safe from harm: The chat show star chats on her mobile in the safety of her chauffeur driven car

Charlotte's reluctance to face the cameras could be down to a growing maternal urge to protect her unborn child from the media glare - or to head off the inevitable disparaging remarks on the size of her bump!

Charlotte Church , Gavin Henson

Liz Hurley and wedding party prepare for party marathon

The full details of the six days of lavish celebrations for Liz Hurley and Arun Nayar's wedding are revealed today.

The couple, who married at the weekend in Gloucestershire, are holding a staggering six parties in five days in Mumbai and Rajasthan this week.

From Wednesday the wedding will virtually take over the city of Jodhpur, with events in two palaces and two forts, all within a three-tier security "ring of steel."
Even the Maharajah of Jodhpur will not be allowed to carry his mobile phone to celebrations at his own palace as part of the attempt to prevent unauthorised photographs. The newly-weds have sold the rights to the wedding to Hello! magazine in a deal reported to be worth £2 million.

The deal with the magazine hinges on guests either checking in their mobile phones and cameras before they enter or leaving them at home, to prevent any sneaky photographs getting into the hands of the press

Newlyweds: Liz Hurley and Arun Nayar are staying at the five star Taj Mahal Palace Hotel

The royal family of Jodhpur - headed by His Highness Maharajah Gaj Singh, own the Hotel Umaid Bhawan Palace and have been told there can be no exceptions - even though the palace is their home. A hotel source said: "It's rather excessive. The maharajah has welcomed the couple to hold their wedding here and even stay in the royal quarters, and he will understand the security issues. Jodhpur will be more secure this week than during the Mughal invasions."

Elton's other half David Furnish arrives

Security will be handled by the couple's own security personnel, the hotel's security staff and local police, who have been approached by the couple.

"They have given clear instructions that no uninvited guests should be allowed to enter the hotel premises or the party areas,î the source said.

The newlyweds arrived in Mumbai shortly today and were driven to the five-star seafront Taj Mahal Palace and Tower hotel in a silver Bentley with a convoy of Mercedes behind.

Blushing bride: Liz Hurley arrives at Mumbai airport

Hurley, 41,and her textile heir husband, will tonight host a "glamorous casual" party for up to 400 guests at a venue rumoured to be the Nayar family home in Nariman Point, south Mumbai.

Tomorrow night, a black tie party, called the 'do after the I do', is being hosted by Mumbai's social queen Parmeshwar Godrej, a close friend of Nayar, at her home. The couple and guests are expected to arrive in Jodhpur on Wednesday and will have the Hindu ceremony later that evening on the lawns of the Bhawan Palace hotel.

The couple travelled in a silver chauffer-driven Bentley

A sacred fire will be lit amid Vedic chantings. Nayar's shawl will be tied to his bride's "duppata" or veil, and they will walk around the fire seven times to seal their marriage and then be showered with rose petals.

Nayar, 42, will produce a box of red wedding bangles which he will wash in milk and then place on both Liz's wrists. Traditional sangeet (music) night will be played with Bollywood dancing.

The dress code for the evening is pink saris for women and saffron turbans with orange kurtas for men. The following day, they are expected to host a party in the nearby Balsamand Palace with a party that evening in Nagaur Fort.

On Friday they will host a postwedding party in Mehrangarh Fort in Jodhpur.

Elizabeth Hurley