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Comic Russell Brand remained sober at a recent club launch in LA while his pals had one too many.

The 34-year-old British funnyman has previously been known for his partying ways but at the launch of LA club Soho House, he was one of the only partygoers in his group staying away from booze.

A source said to UK newspaper Daily Mirror: “Russ was in hysterics when Jason and Guy were so tipsy they almost fell out of their Bentley and tried to get into the wrong entrance of Soho House.”

Brand recently attended an Oscars bash with his singer fiancee Katy Perry, 25.

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Jon Gosselin has turned down an offer from Playgirl magazine, according to a US report.

The troubled reality television star was approached with an offer to pose that reportedly was worth $20,000, RadarOnline reports exclusively.

The magazine recently snared Levi Johnston, the ex-lover of Bristol Palin and father of her lovechild, Tripp. But Gosselin, a family man and father of eight, will not be taking Johnston’s lead, the report claims.

“He is not doing it,” a representative for Gosselin confirmed on Thursday. Gosselin starred in Jon & Kate Plus 8 with his ex-wife, Kate.

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With celebrity ambassadors such as George Clooney, Americans are the best-looking people in the world, according to a survey of more than 5000 globe-trotting Brits.

Brazil hopped into second place in the poll, while Spain – homeland to Penelope Cruz – ranked third and Australia, launchpad of Hugh Jackman, Miranda Kerr and Russell Crowe, was fourth.

”America has got a lot on offer and boasts some of the sexiest people on the planet,” said a spokeswoman for Onepoll.com. “The likes of Jessica Alba, Jennifer Aniston and Brad Pitt all help America’s image as a hotbed of good-looking people. But with a population of more than 300 million, they do have an unfair advantage.

”England’s talent only got them into seventh place and despite Gerard Butler waving the flag for Scotland, they only just beat the Germans. But in fairness, when you think of good-looking countries, Sweden, Italy, France and Brazil talent all spring to mind before us lazy, pale Brits. If you’re looking for some fun in the sun, you now know where to head on holiday.”

Celebrity Big Brother star Heidi Fleiss had a verbal showdown with ex-boyfriend Tom Sizemore during their joint stint in rehab.

The former Hollywood madam told Sizemore he was a “loser” who “turns women gay”.

Sizemore, who was convicted of assaulting Fleiss in 2003, appeared on Celebrity Rehab – a US reality show which helps stars kick their addictions – at the same time as his ex-girlfriend.

“The truth about Tom is that we were really in love for about two months – really, really in love,” she said. “Then I left Tom Sizemore’s house with my head split open, bleeding. He’s disgusting. He’s a disgusting person and every time I look at him it makes me sick that I could even have liked him.”

A clip from a forthcoming episode of Celebrity Rehab showed the former lovers facing one another, as Fleiss said: “You’re such a loser. And the thought of being with you turns women gay.”

Brittany Murphy was juggling a number of movie projects in the months leading up to her sudden death, according to reports.

The 32-year-old is set to be buried in a private ceremony after suffering a fatal cardiac arrest at the weekend.

A British newspaper reports that Murphy had just completed two indie thrillers and was about to start work on a romantic comedy.

Abandoned director Michael Feifer said that the actress was dedicated to her art. “She knew her material. She was on her game, she was professional, she was there for me, she was healthy,” he said.

Scott Chambers, executive producer of Something Wicked, told the Los Angeles Times that Murphy was frail, but had a good work ethic. Chambers has also denied reports that Murphy lost consciousness while on the set of the thriller.

Fugitive director Roman Polanski is firmly ensconced in his Swiss chalet under house arrest for an unclear duration.

The director, who is wanted in the US on 30-year-old child sex charges, looked pleased in a photo that surfaced from the scene showing him pulling up to his home in the luxury mountain resort enclave of Gstaad.

Polanski, who wears an electronic monitoring anklet, has free run of his home, the Milky

Way, where he is staying with his wife and their two children. The house arrest was the result of his posting $4.5million in cash. He has spent more than two months in jail in Zurich.

Polanski and his family stayed behind shuttered windows with two security guards walking around the grounds. Reporters and paparazzi were positioned on an adjacent hill.

“Mr Polanski and his wife just asked us to say they are not coming out. There is no point in waiting, so you can all leave,” said one of the guards.

Gstaad is a celebrity-frequented haven where locals are known for keeping their distance. Elizabeth Taylor and Roger Moore have visited the enclave.

Roger Seifritz, head of the local tourism office, said celebrities “go shopping, sit down in restaurants without anyone around, and this is why they come back to Gstaad – to have this freedom to be themselves without having to worry. You could sit in a cafe and have cake and coffee without realising that someone famous is sitting next to you having a sip of tea or reading a book.”

Polanski will stay under house arrest until the Swiss government decides on whether to honour an extradition request for him from the United States.

Top Chef beauty Padma Lakshmi has admitted: “I like me better naked.”

The former model – who was previously married to author Salman Rushdie – said she prefers not to wear clothes.

She said: “I don’t mean that in a vain way.

“When you put clothes on, you immediately put a character on.

“Clothes are adjectives – they are indicators.

“When you don’t have any clothes on, it’s just you, raw, and you can’t hide.”

Lakshmi, 39, is pregnant with her first child.

She has so far refused to divulge the identity of the baby’s father.

Model Victoria Silvstedt has revealed she turned down the opportunity to star on I’m A Celebrity Get Me Out Of Here as she is scared of bugs.

The 35-year-old was reportedly offered £250,000 to take part in the show but refused because of her bug phobia.

She said: “I really wanted to do it, but I hate creepy-crawlies. I even got panicky when I had to pose with a camel.

“Apparently, there are camel spiders the size of your face, which would have made me pass out.”

Silvstedt has previously appeared in a reality show called My Perfect Life, which centred around her life.

Sex scandal funnyman David Letterman kept a secret bedroom at his talk show’s studio that only a select few female staffers were allowed to visit, it has been claimed

The late night star last week admitted to having sex with his staff after allegedly being blackmailed for $2 million over the juicy details.

Now staff at The Late Show say their boss has long kept a bedroom they dubbed ‘the bunker’ in the Ed Sullivan Theater where his show is taped.

And they insisted that it was strictly off-limits to anyone but his ‘favourite female underlings’.

“He doesn’t have to come out – he has a suite upstairs,” one staff member said. “It’s off limits to pretty much everybody.

“If he is having an affair or fooling around with somebody at work, she wouldn’t be noticed coming in or out or seen as something strange because she works there.”

Located in the cavernous Ed Sullivan Theater close to Times Square, Letterman’s office comes with a reception area as well, a source said.

However a spokesman for Letterman’s production company, Worldwide Pants, denied that the digs are a love nest.

A source close to Letterman said the host simply crashes on the fold-out couch on Mondays, when he drives from his weekend home in North Salem in upstate New York to the Broadway studio at 2 or 3am.

Letterman stays at his apartment in hip downtown neighbourhood TriBeCa during the rest of the filming week but he is also known among staff as a night owl and for keeping odd hours at his office.

While the show usually wraps by 7pm sometimes he stays and watches the broadcast of his show in his office at night, an insider said.

“He doesn’t work regular hours,” the Letterman source said. “It’s not a 9-to-5 place.”

“Late Show” sources said female employees always did well under Letterman.

“Dave has a great track record of promoting women on the show — three of the five executive producers are women, and all of them have been with him for more than 20 years,” said another high-ranking Late Show staffer.

Another source described the show as: “A very female-friendly place. He’s got all these strong women working for him. Strong women survive there.”

A British MP has urged Arnold Schwarzenegger to use his muscle to shut down a US website that allows users to review prostitutes.

The California-based PunterNet describes itself as “The Online Community for Patrons and Providers of Adult Personal Services in the UK.”

In her appeal to the action hero turned California governor, Labour Party deputy leader Harriet Harman said: “Surely it can’t be too difficult for the Terminator to terminate PunterNet, and that’s what I’m demanding he does. And if he doesn’t, I’ve got a message for Arnie: I’ll be back.”

She told an audience of women at the party’s national conference in Brighton that PunterNet contained “pages and pages of women for sale in London”.

Harman said the site, which offers “field reports” on prostitutes, fuels the demand for prostitutes, calling it the “ultimate commodification” of women.

PunterNet fired back at Harman in an open letter to on its website, claiming the right to freedom of speech.

Piers Morgan has leapt to the defence of his good friend David Hasselhoff.

The Knight Rider star was rushed to hospital by ambulance over the weekend with alcohol poisoning, according to US reports.

The Hoff, who has battled alcoholism for years, was at home with his 17-year-old daughter and his male assistant and had been drinking for more than a day, according to online reports.

Morgan and Hasselhoff have become close friends during their time as judges on America’s Got Talent.

“Look, he is one of my good friends… and I was very sorry to hear this,” Morgan said, as he stood in as a guest co-host on NBC’s Today Show.

“I don’t know what has really gone on and if he is watching this now, and I am sure he might be, I am sure he is fine.

“He has got a problem he will admit that and it is very sad for him, he is a really good guy and a brave guy.”

Morgan added: “A lot of people might be laughing about this, but actually it is not funny, and he has a tough time and does his best to deal with it.

“I wish him all the best, I really do. He is a very good guy and has a big heart.”

Reality TV star Kristin Cavallari has revealed that she likes playing a hated character in The Hills.

Cavallari, 22, said that, despite the new series trailer labelling her as a “bitch”, she is getting along with everyone on the show – except with her co-star Audrina Patridge.

She said: “I’m friends with everyone – except for Audrina.”

She added: “Honestly, I think it’s fun to play the bad girl, and no one remembers the nice girl, you know?”

The new series of The Hills is due to air on MTV, on 29 September.

Tyra Banks says she is definitely not engaged.

It was rumoured that the American media personality was going to get married to her boyfriend, businessman John Utendahl, after recently been spotted with a big ring on her finger in Los Angeles.

The former model, 35, wrote on Twitter: “Hearing about crazy rumours that I’m engaged. Well, I’m not.

“The ‘RING’ is my high school class ring. It’s 10k gold, and has zero diamonds. Ha!”

Season 5 of the talk show host’s programme, The Tyra Banks Show, premieres on September 8 in the US.

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Here are the latest red-hot pictures of G.I Joe hunk Channing Tatum working as a stripper.

The Hollywood star used to drive the ladies wild as a hunky nightclub entertainer before hitting the big time.

The star would strip to a skimpy pair of underwear in front of rowdy groups of bachelorette and divorce parties to earn a living.

Now one fan of Tatum’s has told how she got a sexy striptease from the actor at her bachelorette party.

Amy Coleman even claims that after his raunchy striptease Tatum even told her to call off her wedding.

“He was awesome, a really good dancer and a really nice guy,” Amy told the National Enquirer.

Tatum, who stripped under the name Chan Crawford, was just out of high school when he joined ‘The Male Encounter’ group as a teenager in Florida in 1999.

Tatum was paid $50 to dance with a group of male performers before taking the stage on his own and stripping down to his smalls.

The group would then go into the audience and perform individual lap dances, for which Tatum could make another $100 in tips.

Tatum worked Amy’s bachelorette party at the now closed Club Joy in Tampa, Florida.

“He did this Camp Granada skit, where he starts out as a nerd with glasses and a hat, with a notepad on his knees, pretending he’s writing a letter home to his parents and mouthing the words to ‘Hello mudda, Hello fadda’,” said 37-year-old Amy.

“Then the disco music started up and the clothes came off.”

Amy then told her friends she thought Channing was the cutest of the stripes, so her friends called him over to their table.

“When he found out I was getting married, he said, ‘Don’t get married.’

“We hung out and I told him, ‘What are you doing here? You need to be modeling.’

“I told him I was going to see him on billboards some day.

“He was really naïve about it and humble.

“But then he said if he was on a billboard some day, ‘You can look up at me and realize you could have had me right here’ then he held up his little pinkie meaning I could have him wrapped around my finger.

“He was so sweet – or maybe he was trying to get lucky.”

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Jada Pinkett Smith has admitted she “always makes time” for sex with her husband Will Smith.

Jada, 37, has been married to Will, 40, for 11 years and they have two children together.

She said: “My husband and I always make time for sex! Always! No matter how busy we are. And if I told you the places! You would not ever believe!”

Jada added: “It’s crazy the risks that we take but that’s what keeps it so much fun.”

Jada admitted she is still surprised at being married for so long, she said: “I never thought that I’d be married to anybody, and I surely never thought that I’d be married to anybody as long as I’ve been married to him.

“And I plan on being married to him for the rest of my life.”

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Bottles of putrid Michael Jackson perfume are reportedly set to go on sale after his death.

It has emerged that dozens of 17-year-old bottles of scent – each featuring a hologram of the star – were left over from Jackson’s failed bid to release his own fragrance in the early ’90s.

The ill-fated attempt, which reportedly left the Thriller star millions out of pocket, was pulled when his 1993 child molestation accusations came to light.

Until then, the project was going full steam ahead, says Florida-based entertainment manager Neil London, who had been asked to produce a TV advertisement to sell the product.

The commercial was finished but never hit the TV screens. “So dangerous, it’s not available in stores,” the voiceover says, in a tribute to Jackson’s album at the time, Dangerous.

“Let Michael Jackson stir your senses like never before, with ‘Mystique de Michael Jackson’ for women and ‘Le Jan de Michael Jackson for men’ – two dangerously seductive scents.”

The limited-edition perfume was to be distributed through direct marketing and an 800 telephone number.

However, the scheme was axed the day before it was due to go live in the summer of 1993, when the scandal emerged about Jackson’s sleepovers with young boys at his Neverland Ranch. A holographic image of Jackson, who died aged 50 on June 25, was on the front of each bottle.

It is understood most of the 400,000 bottles were destroyed but London, who now runs a popular lifestyle website, kept back a few dozen for himself.

Eva Longoria Parker likes to be tied up during sex, she has revealed.

The Desperate Housewives star, married to basketball player Tony Parker, said her restraint of choice is a silk scarf.

She said: “I’m not averse to being tied up with silk scarves.”

She added: “I like a man to take charge. There’s something very sexy about being submissive.”

Eva plays love cheat Gabrielle Solis in the hit show, which is now in its sixth season.

She was speaking to mark Cosmopolitan magazine’s Best Ever Sex survey.

In the survey, actress Kirsten Dunst also revealed that she once had sex in a shop changing room with Jake Gyllenhaal.

Katie Price has defended her behaviour in Ibiza and claimed she’s a “young woman” and she’s “going through a split”.

The 31-year-old has recently been seen partying in Ibiza and posing for her new calendar. It was revealed last month that Katie and husband Peter Andre, 36, were splitting after three and a half years of marriage.

She has now said: “I’ve had a great time in Ibiza and people can slate me all they like – I work hard, I’m a good mum, I’m a young woman and I’m going through a split.

“There’s nothing wrong with going away and having a good time for a week after all I’ve been through. And I bet you there are loads of women around the country who would do exactly the same thing.”

The mum-of-three, whose children are in Cyprus with Peter, also said she is currently filming her own reality show – without her estranged husband.

She said: “I’ve been doing a shoot for my calendar and filming my new reality show – it will be the same as the ITV2 one I did with Pete but you will see a happier side of me.

“It will be me working and going about my life and will be out in September. I don’t know anything about whether Pete’s going to do one as he’s his person – it’s nothing to do with me.”

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Black Eyed Peas ‘The E.N.D.’ Lands At #1 On The Billboard 200 Chart

Black Eyed Peas’ “The E.N.D.” bows at No. 1 on the Billboard 200, selling 304,000 — the hip-pop act’s best sales week ever. It’s also the first No. 1 album for the group, which had previously gone as high as No. 2. Its last set, 2005’s “Monkey Business,” bowed in the runner-up slot with a then-best 291,000. It had the unfortunate luck to come out the same week as Coldplay’s “X&Y,” which kept the Peas’ at bay when it started at No. 1 with 737,000. via Billboard.com

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US I’m A Celebrity host Myleene Klass said she was “terrified” her baby daughter would ruin Simon Cowell’s $30m mansion when she visited him.

Klass, 31, took daughter Ava to Cowell’s home in Beverly Hills and said she was scared the tot would make a mess.

She said: “His whole place is flawless and white. I was terrified Ava would get hold of a crayon and destroy it.”

However, the 22-month-old was spoilt by Cowell, 49, and Klass said: “He’s so naughty. He kept insisting on feeding Ava biscuits and meringue.”

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