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Monty Python perform together for final time


The members of legendary comedy troupe 'Monty Python' performed together for the final time on Sunday (20.07.14).
Eric Idle, 71, John Cleese, 74, Michael Palin, 71, Terry Gilliam, 73, and Terry Jones, 72, took their last bow together at London's O2 arena following a sold-out 10 night run which pocketed them all £2.2million each.
Celebrities including James Corden, David Walliams and Rob Brydon attended while Mike Myers and Eddie Izzard featured in some of the sketches on the last night of the One Down, Five To Go performances which included many of their classics such as the Dead Parrot sketch.
The troupe received a standing ovation from the crowd of 20,000 at the arena, while the final night was broadcast on UKTV GOLD and in cinemas around the world.
As the quintet took their final bow, the caption Monty Python 1969-2014 could be seen before being replaced by a sign which told the audience to "P**s Off".
The lavish production - which featured state-of-the-art sets, expensive video skits and backing dancers - is thought to have cost £4.5 million to stage.
A portion of the profits will go to the estate of late 'Monty Python' star Graham Chapman, who died in 1989 but continues to have a presence in the troupe's sketches.
Speaking before the final performance, Idle told The Sun newspaper: "I'd just like to be remembered at the end of the show for getting through it. How would I like to be remembered? With a small ripple of applause!"

Katie Price alone in hospital while Kieran had affair


Katie Price claims Kieran Hayler first cheated on her when she was in hospital after giving birth to their son.
The 36-year-old star confessed earlier this year that she'd discovered her husband had been having a "full blown sexual affair" with her best friend Jane Pountney and she's now revealed that they first got together while she was in hospital after having an emergency Caesarean section when her waters broke prematurely.
Katie, Kieran, her children - Harvey, 12, nine-year-old Junior and seven-year-old Princess - and Jane and her husband Derrick were all on holiday in France when she first suspected something was going on between them and she now claims they took advantage of her being in hospital.
She told The Sun newspaper: "They had their first sex in the bathroom upstairs in the villa. Later on, they had sex in my bed while I was lying in hospital alone.
"I felt so scared. All I wanted was for Kieran to visit me but he kept saying his shoulder was hurting and he needed to rest. I couldn't reach Kieran on his phone and kept texting Jane asking to tell Kieran to come and visit but she was not passing the messages on.
"Instead, she was telling him things like, 'You're just one of many, Katie will get rid of you soon'."
Katie - who is now heavily pregnant with her and Kieran's second child - had had a traumatic experience giving birth to Jett but claims her spouse rarely came to the hospital to see if they were OK, and instead continued his affair, even after she had been discharged.
She added: "Apparently, I once returned to the villa just 10 minutes after they finished having sex in the kitchen ... I felt like I had lost the man I'd married. Deep inside, I was really struggling. He had dramatically changed and now I know why."

Dannii Minogue planning UK TV comeback


Dannii Minogue is planning a UK TV comeback.
The 42-year-old singer - who starred as a judge on 'The X Factor' from 2007 to 2010 - has revealed she wants to return to British television screens and is waiting for an opportunity that can live up to the popular ITV reality show.
She told Fault magazine: "I've been having meetings. I definitely want to come back and do something - I'm just trying to find the right thing.
"Leaving X Factor here when it was just such a juggernaut... you kind of want it (the new project) to be something just as special."
The 'All I Wanna Do' hitmaker also expressed an interest in working in television production.
She explained: "I am looking for projects where I can be involved, not just as hired talent but from the production side.
"I'd love to being doing both: Being on camera and also involved in the production."
Meanwhile, Dannii - who played Emma Jackson on 'Home and Away' from 1989 to 1990 before her character left Summer Bay to take a job as an air hostess - previously admitted she'd love to reprise her role and get back together with her former co-stars.
She said: "I'd love to get back on the 'Home and Away' set and have a revisit. I think anything is possible with the right scriptwriters. I think it would be fun.
"There are a few old friends there who were there when I was on, so it could be great."
The pretty brunette - whose sister Kylie Minogue starred on rival soap 'Neighbours' in the '80s - also confessed she'd like to make a cameo appearance in prison drama 'Wentworth'.
She said: "I would love to do 'Wentworth' - really. No make-up, a prison outfit, working the press and the bad Dannii would come back. Now that would interest me."

Rose Byrne: Glenn Close is a ‘joker’


Rose Byrne says Glenn Close is a "joker" on set.
The 'Damages' actress was worried at how her co-star would behave on set, and has revealed while she was expecting to "feel intimidated", she actually became a victim of one of the veteran's pranks during filming for the legal thriller which ran for five years.
She told The Observer Magazine: "I was worried I was going to meet Glenn Close and feel intimidated.
"Thankfully on the first day of shooting 'Damages' she proved to be ever the joker, blowing up a big picture of Brad Pitt in my dressing room for me. We worked together on 'Troy', and had shared a naked seen."
However, the 'Insidious' star wouldn't have been able to get her own back after the creative prank, having admitted that she is "not a natural" when it comes to comedy, despite starring in 'Bridesmaids'.
She added: "I'm not a natural comedian but I try. 'Bridesmaids' was like a breath of fresh air for me as I'd longed to do comedy for a while.
"I think we all harbour secret ambitions and that was mine - I'd always been limited to being seen as a serious actor. Thankfully, it worked out."

Anna Passey’s Ryan Gosling obsession


Anna Passey is "obsessed" with Ryan Gosling.
The 'Hollyoaks' star - who plays Sienna Blake on the Channel 4 soap - has revealed she has a huge crush on the Hollywood A-lister, who is reportedly expecting his first child with glamorous girlfriend Eva Mendes, and would love to cook him a romantic meal.
She told Now magazine: "I'm obsessed with him! I'd make him a really bloody steak."
The soap actress says she's a good cook, but doesn't really enjoy spending time in the kitchen.
She explained: "I find it all a bit hot and boring. I love baking, though, so if I ever go to a party I'll bring something I've baked. Chocolate Guinness cake is my speciality!"
Anna also praised the kitchen skills of her co-star Sophie Austin, who plays Lindsey Butterfield.
She added: "I live over the road from her and her fiancé and they call me when my tea's ready! She always makes something very healthy, such as salmon salad - and she has a freezer full of ice cream!"

Sinitta: X Factor needs Mel B’s spice


Sinitta thinks Mel B will add "spice" to 'The X Factor' judging panel.
The 'So Macho' singer, who is one of show boss Simon Cowell's closest confidantes, says the Spice Girls star's straight-talking approach is sure to make for great TV.
She told Closer magazine: "I think it did need a bit of spice in there.
"Mel B wants everyone to know why she's Queen Mel B. So I'm excited for a lot of reasons."
Sinitta reckons all of the judges - Mel, Simon, Cheryl Cole and Louis Walsh - will want to prove their credentials on the new series, but she believes we'll see a softer side to Simon, who became a father in February.
She added: "Louis wants to show Cheryl why he belongs on the panel.
"I think Simon, as much as he is very decisive and a genius at discovering, mentoring and organising new talent, is in a different place in his life right now.
"His heart is all wide open with his baby Eric - I think we're going to see a softer Simon."

La Roux prefers quality over quanitity


La Roux always wanted quality over quantity.
The 'Bulletproof' singer - whose real name is Elly Jackson - explained she is a person who would much rather spend "three months" on a project and make it perfect, rather than rush just to get more work done at a much lower standard, and admitted she was even like that at school.
She told the Sunday Times newspaper's Culture magazine: "I was the person that would spend three months on one drawing. Everybody else would be handing in tons of coursework, and I'd be like, 'Look, this drawing is amazing'.
"And they'd say, 'But Elly, you're supposed to have handed in another 10 pages of this'. 'Yeah? But this one thing I'm handing in is, like, way better than the rest of the class.' "
She has carried this belief into her musical career, and as she prepares for the release of 'Trouble in Paradise' - the follow-up to 2009's self-titled debut - she is still happy to take her time.
She added: "Time doesn't really mean anything these days. We're already half-way through 2014, and what have most people achieved?
"It took us two and a half years to make this record, but I'm like, 'Do you know what? Two and a half years ain't very long' ... We'd say something [to the label] like, 'We've only done three songs'.
"And then one of us would go, 'Yeah, but they sound really great'. I don't understand how people do it quicker, though ... It's almost like you can hear the panic in them."

Lorde says Kanye West is like her ‘school principal’


Lorde says Kanye West is like her "school principal".
The 'Royals' hitmaker has admitted she looks up to the 37-year-old rapper like a school teacher who has taught her everything she knows about pop music.
She told The Guardian: "(He's) like my school principal, if the school is pop."
The 17-year-old singer has also revealed that Kanye inspired her to have confidence in herself and doesn't care that people think she is arrogant.
She explained: "I like making grand statements. The name Lorde is quite grand and a little bit arrogant. I like that, I like the intensity of it.
"I don't mind. I'm a really big fan of Kanye West. He's confident and I like that."
Meanwhile, the Grammy Award-winner - who shot to fame after releasing her debut album 'Pure Heroine' in 2013 - has revealed her follow-up album will have a "different vibe".
She previously told the BBC: "I think I've learned so much as a songwriter, there's going to be so much of an improvement because of that. I'm working on stuff quite tentatively, it's definitely still at the beginning and yeah, it's totally different."
She added: "I wrote the last album about that world which was the suburb where I grew up and populated by my friends and people who were really familiar to me. Now I'm in a different place every day and I'm with new people every day and it's a different vibe."

Adam Levine offers Keira Knightley record deal


Keira Knightley has been offered a record deal by Adam Levine.
The 29-year-old actress - who plays songwriter Gretta alongside Adam in the new comedy-drama 'Begin Again' - is said to have impressed the Maroon 5 frontman with her vocal abilities, prompting him to offer her a record deal at his new label '222 Records'.
A music industry insider told The Sun: "Keira has offers on the table and is tempted by them. She enjoyed singing in the movie and people around her were impressed.
"Adam has just started a label called 222 Records and has been trying to persuade Keira to sign a deal with him."
The 'Harder To Breathe' hitmaker - who also stars as a coach on the 'The Voice' - was so impressed by Keira's talent, he now believes adding her to the new label will give it a "kickstart" in the industry.
The source explained: "He thinks she could be a successful pop star and sell loads of records, which would help kickstart his career as a label boss."
However, Keira - who is married to Klaxons musician James Righton - has previously insisted that she struggles to play guitar and has no real interest in music.
She confessed: "I know nothing about music."
Meanwhile, Adam and his 'Victoria's Secret' model girlfriend Behati Prinsloo tied the knot in Mexico over the weekend.
According to Us Weekly, the happy couple were joined by around 300 guests as they showed their love for one another in a beautiful ceremony.
Stars like Jonah Hill, Candice Swanepoel and Jason Segal were all in attendance.
An insider recently said: "Everyone seemed to have a great time. The party went to the late hours."

Paris Hilton ignores her critics


Paris Hilton tries to ignore her critics.
The socialite has hit back at people who criticise her for her career path, or the image they have seen on shows like 'The Simple Life', and insisted while their comments were "really hurtful" in the past, she's now in a position where she finds them more funnier than painful.
She told the Sunday Telegraph newspaper's Stella magazine: "If people want to be mean, that's their problem. It used to be really hurtful. I would call and cry to my mom all the time but now I just laugh."
However, Paris insisted her fame has meant she has encountered some difficulties when it comes to friends and relationships, and claimed a lot of girls try to be her friend simply to ride her coattails and make a name for themselves.
She added: "So many people have bad intentions, so many girls want to hang out [with me] to be someone.
"I weed those people out of my life. I call them hungry tigers."
However, she credited the notion of people wanting to "be" here with making her businesses so successful.
She explained: "[My fans want] to buy a piece of me. It's like a kind of Barbie American dream.
"I have that childlike quality so a lot of little girls especially [like me]. I've always been a kid at heart. I think I always will be."

Ed Sheeran: One Direction can hide it if it gets too much


Ed Sheeran says One Direction will be able to hide it when they're struggling with fame.
The 'Sing' hitmaker has dismissed the idea he would ever talk about life in the spotlight with members of the 'Best Song Ever' boy band, but he's sure when it gets too much, they do the same as him and don't let it show.
He told the Mail on Sunday newspaper's EVENT magazine: "When I see them - the last time I saw all of them was last year at the MTV Video Music Awards , but I see Harry [Styles] quite a lot - I don't counsel them.
"We have a drink and some fun. Whenever I see them, they're fine, but I have times where I don't handle things very well and I mask it, and I'm sure they can mask it as well.
"I don't have any of the frustrations that they might have, because they have to make decisions as five, whereas I'm my own man. That's the balance they have to get."
Meanwhile, Ed opened up about his celebrity friendship with Courteney Cox, and admitted he stays at her home "pretty much every time" he visits Los Angeles, and he insisted it just happened by accident.
He added: "With Courteney, you don't really ask. She's a southern girl, pure Alabama, so she's very much 'the hostess with the mostess'.
"She's very warm and friendly, and wants to give to everyone. She lets people stay, cooks dinner, shows an interest in what they're doing.
"So it's not so much forcing yourself, or her asking you, you're just there. Pretty much very time I go to LA now that's where I stay."

Lily Allen admits album flop was partly her fault


Lily Allen thinks "maybe" her songs weren't good enough on her third album.
The 'Smile' star's most recent record, 'Sheezus', flopped and she now acknowledges that it could be partly her fault and the songs weren't as strong as they could have been.
She told the Daily Mirror newspaper: "Maybe the songs aren't good enough this time, who knows? I just know I can't wait to get back into the studio."
Lily - who went on a musical hiatus between 2011 and 2013, during which time she had daughters Ethel, two, and Marnie Rose, 18 months and wed Sam Cooper - also says the differing sounds of her first two singles, 'Hard Out Here' and 'Air Balloon' could have confused some fans.
She added: "I put my trust in other people, which I don't usually do. I usually
go with my own gut feeling but maybe I wasn't feeling as confident as I have in
the past because of all the hormones.
"The first thing I came back with was 'Hard Out Here' and that was important to me, a real statement of intent, even though you couldn't put it on the radio over here because it had too much swearing.
"I thought it did really well and then management and the label chose to go with 'Air Balloon' and I just think starting with something really aggressive and in your face and then going in a different ­direction... people need to know what they are getting."