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Billie Faiers’ baby scare


Billie Faiers collapsed and woke up to find her baby wasn't moving.
'The Only Way Is Essex' star is pregnant with her first child with fiancé Greg Shepherd and after collapsing at her pal's Harry Derbridge's birthday bash, she woke up the next morning to find the baby wasn't kicking like she routinely does around 6am.
Billie explained to Now magazine: "I felt a shudder coming over my whole body. It was like my body was shutting down - I had no control over any part of me.
"My ears were ringing. My head hit the table and I couldn't move. Then everything went down.
"[It lasted for] about five minutes. Then I could see, but I couldn't move. I was lifeless, my bones ached, but in my belly I could feel loads of rapid movement. I thought, 'Oh my god, my baby is in distress.' "
Although she didn't go to hospital, Billie went to bed and the next morning panicked when she realised she couldn't feel anything.
She said: "When you're pregnant you know your baby's routine of movement and every morning she'd wake me up. But I woke up at 6am and couldn't feel anything. I lay there for five minutes ... nothing. That's when I panicked, 'What if there's something wrong with the baby.'
"I was hysterical. I rang Sam and screamed, 'I cant feel the baby move!' "
Billie's mother, sister Sam and her boyfriend Joey Essex came over to see her and after about 40 minutes, much to Billie's relief, the baby kicked.
She added: "After about 40 minutes [she kicked]. They made me have tea and biscuits to stimulate something. My aunt had her hand on my belly and suddenly we felt a kick. It was the biggest relief ever. Only then did I ring Greg and tell him what had happened."

Zoe Lucker: It’s sad Waterloo Road is ending


Zoe Lucker insists it will be "sad" to see 'Waterloo Road' end.
The 40-year-old actress played crime family head Carol Barry in the BBC One school set drama up until last November.
Although she had already left the series when it was announced it was being cancelled this month, Zoe's first thought was for her castmates who had been on the programme for a long time.
She told BANG Showbiz: "For me, I'd left in November anyway so I knew I wasn't going back, but for my friends who were staying and had been in the series for a long time, my first thoughts were, 'Oh, I hope they're OK about it,' because they've done that amount of time in the show.
"They're still filming another series of it, so they'll be 20 more episodes and then it will come to an end. It will be sad to see a lot of the characters go."
However, Zoe wasn't surprised by the news 'Waterloo Road' - which stars Laurie Brett, Angus Deayton and Melanie Hill - was being axed because it first appeared on screens in 2006 and will have reached 10 series when it's taken off air in 2015.
She added: "I wasn't really shocked by the news, because it's been going for 10 series now ... Everything has to end at some point. With most of the shows that I've done I've tended to go in for a couple of years and then come out. Usually, shows often run for about five or six seasons and then people decide that maybe it's time to go in a different direction."
Zoe has recently started working with FindAnyFilm.com to support their campaign to inform parents about how they and their family can enjoy film and TV safely and legally online and avoid damaging malware and bogus features which will corrupt their home computers.
The screen star wanted to get involved to protect her five-year-old daughter Lilly - her child with her husband James Herbert - from being exposed to potentially damaging internet content.
She said: "I got approached as a mum really, I'm a massive technophobe and I do get very concerned about the internet and the sites that our children are visiting. I've got a five-year-old daughter who is really into film and she loves watching it on my husband Jim's laptop ... Obviously, at this age I can monitor her and supervise her all the time but as she's getting older I know she's going to want to visit these sites and we don't always know whether they're rogue or not. For me I really wanted to push the Findanyfilm.com site so that parents know that there's somewhere where their children can go to download legal films."

Robbie Williams not returning to Take That


Robbie Williams is not returning to Take That.
The 'Angels' hitmaker - who first quit the band in 1995, a year before they split, but returned in 2010 for their 'Progress' album and tour - won't be joining Gary Barlow, Mark Owen, Jason Orange and Howard Donald when they next go out on the road because he wants to spend more time with his family.
Robbie - who announced earlier this week his wife Ayda Field is pregnant with their second child - said: "Logistically I can't do it. I have the tour and I'm going to be a dad again."
However, the 40-year-old star - whose 'Swing Both Ways' tour started in Austria on Monday (28.04.14) - insists it doesn't mean his time with the 'Flood' singers is over for good.
He added to The Sun newspaper: "It doesn't mean to say I won't join in along the way. Whatever happens, I am absolutely going to be in Take That -- I love being in Take That.
"After [my] tour wraps, I'm going to go away for a year or two."
Gary previously admitted Robbie - who also has a 20-month-old daughter, Teddy Rose, with Ayda - had been given a deadline to decide whether to return to Take That.
He said: "We need to know what we are doing by the end of May.
"The thing is with Robbie is that he is a family man, so whether he will be in the final line-up I'm not sure.
However, he also admitted the 'Candy' hitmaker would have some involvement with their new album regardless of his decision to tour or not.
He added: "If he's not back in the band, he'll write on the record and we will work with him on his next record."

Adele buys 15k playhouse


Adele has splashed out £15,000 on a playhouse for her son.
The 'Rolling in the Deep' hitmaker - who has 18-month-old Angelo with her partner Simon Konecki - fell in love with the garden toys after seeing them in her friends' houses so decided to buy one for her little boy to enjoy in their south coast home.
A source said: "Nothing is too much for Angelo as far as Adele is concerned.
"She dotes on that little boy.
"But actually, Adele isn't usually one to splash out on things. She's never been one for the usual celebrity trappings.
"A couple of her friends have the playhouses and she thought it would be the perfect gift."
The white weatherboard house features three turrets, a veranda and its own picket fence, and can even be wired up to mains electricity.
And the 25-year-old singer hopes Angelo will enjoy playing inside it for many years.
The source added to The Sun newspaper: "It's the kind of thing he'll never get bored of either -- he'll still be hanging out in it with his mates when he's 10."
The 'Skyfall' star could easily afford the £15,000 toy as it was revealed earlier this year her company Melted Stone had filed a
turnover of over £30 million, despite Adele not touring or releasing new music.
According to reports at the time, the British star took home £12.1 million, which included a £4.9 million pay package and a £7.2 million dividend.



Calvin Harris creates Rita room


Calvin Harris has created a room dedicated to Rita Ora's achievements in his US home.
The Scottish DJ surprised his 23-year-old girlfriend by having an entire area in his Hollywood Hills mansion depict her impressive career achievements and she was "blown away" by the gesture.
A source told the Daily Star newspaper: "Calvin went to the trouble of getting all of Rita's gold and platinum single discs mounted onto the wall in one of the rooms at his LA place.
"It has the platinum discs for 'R.I.P.' and 'How We Do' from Australia, the gold discs from 'How We Do' from the UK and New Zealand, and still photographs of Rita acting in the new 'Fifty Shades Of Grey' movie.
"He wanted to let her know how proud he is of her.
"Rita was absolutely blown away."
And the 30-year-old star - who has been dating the 'How We Do' singer for over a year - has even left space for her future achievements.
The source added: "And to show how confident he is in her continued success, he even left two walls blank.
"The plan is they can be filled with her future triumphs."
Rita recently admitted the 'Acceptable in the 80s' hitmaker is the first person she's ever fallen in love with.
Discussing what is attractive about him, she said: "There are so many things. The fact that he got something out of me that I never thought I had. Yes, like falling in love. I just didn't think I had it. I'd never experienced it before. And I was just like in the wilderness, thinking, "Will it ever happen?' "

Sam Claflin eyes villain role in comic book film


Sam Claflin wants to play a villain in a comic book film.
The 'Hunger Games: Catching Fire' actor thinks the current film adaptations of famed Marvel and DC comics characters such as 'Amazing Spider-Man', 'Man of Steel' and 'Wolverine' are "genius" and he would love to try his hand at playing their arch rivals.
He told Collider.com: "It's definitely something that interests me, I mean I love those movies and I am constantly surprised by them, they could have gone down the cheesy route, but they have been reinvented and are just genius. I mean what Christopher Nolan has done with the [Batman] is incredible.
"What I've enjoyed most recently is being a villain in this black comedy film 'Posh', and it's something I really enjoyed playing on the darker side of life, so having the opportunity to play a villain would be pretty epic."
Meanwhile, Claflin also revealed the 'Hunger Games' trilogy is set to come to an end when the cast finish filming June.
He mused: "Obviously it's been a big part of my life for the last three years so it's hard to believe that's coming to an end but it's definitely coming to an end which will be very sad."

Laura Whitmore would never date Niall Horan


Laura Whitmore claims she never dated Niall Horan because he's "a child".
The presenter, 28, was rumoured to be dating the One Direction hunk, 20, last year after they appeared to be leaving the same building the morning after a night out, but she's confessed she was never romantically involved with him because he's far too young for her.
She told heat magazine: "I was never seeing Niall. He's a child. The most embarrassing thing about that is that people thought we were together.
"I love Niall, he's lovely. But I'm 28. He's a boy. And he kind of looks like my little brother. So, no."
Laura - who is reportedly dating 'Scream (Funk Up My Life)' hitmaker Paolo Nutini - has been signed up to present the Eurovision song contest's semi final with BBC Radio 1 presenter Scott Mills.
She is also reportedly taking over from Caroline Flack as the host of 'The Xtra Factor', but she claims she hasn't been offered the job.
She explained: "My mother actually called me up and was like, 'You didn't tell me you were doing 'The Xtra Factor'!' But listen, I've been in LA for a week, so I have no idea what's going on."

Kelis doesn’t want her son to be ‘exploited’ by fame


Kelis doesn't want her son to be "exploited" by being in the limelight.
The 34-year-old singer, who has four-year-old son Knight with ex-husband Nas, understands she has to deal with her family being in the spotlight but wants to protect their little boy as he grows up under the glare of the media eye.
In an interview in Spin magazine, she said: "I'm a mother and I'm not going to let people exploit me or my son. He has his own life. Like while I'm here -- he's the centre of my life. I am very cautious and I think people think you're public property, which I don't agree with. But I recognize that's the position that I put myself in. They don't put you in that place. It's not up for discussion."
The 'Milkshake' singer insists when she started out in the music industry at 16, she didn't realise she would have to deal with the pressures of being a role model.
Kelis explained: "I had no intentions of being a female role model. Quite frankly, I thought I had a choice. I thought I could be like, 'Well if I say I don't want to be then I won't be'. Fast-forward about 20 years and things have changed.
"But what I will say is that I'm grateful that I was raised by parents -- and more specifically by a mother -- who gave us a sense of worth and of confidence and understanding about who we were in this great big place."

Kasabian: We’re stepping things up like Kanye


Kasabian are "stepping things up" after being inspired by Kanye West.
The band - who are set to release their new album '48:13' on June 9 - were encouraged to experiment more with sound after listening to the 'Bound 2' rapper's music.
Singer Tom Meighan told NME: "I suppose you go out there to make ear-bleeding music, but done in a good way, not done like some sh**y metal rock bands from America, we do it in our way, like a Kanye West way, really f**k it up, fusion it."
The band - also featuring guitarist Serge Pizzorno, who wrote and produced the album, Christopher Karloff and Chris Edwards - had the confidence to be more "direct" with their new record.
Tom continued: "The new album, we just feel excited, it's like anything that's new, you build it up and work on it for so long, Serge has in the summer and we went and recorded it in Richmond just before Christmas and we're massively excited.
"We took some time out, it's our fifth baby, we're more excited because we've stepped up a bit, stepped a lot up, actually."
Meanwhile, the band will make their debut appearance at the top of the Pyramid stage bill at Glastonbury Festival on Saturday, June 29.

LeAnn Rimes has hangnail removed


LeAnn Rimes had a hangnail removed earlier this week.
The 31-year-old singer took to Twitter on Monday morning (28.04.14) to announce that she was having a piece of torn skin cut out of her finger by her dermatologist.
She tweeted: "Seriously painful hang nail. About to have surgery at the derm. This is not going be very enjoyable!! (sic)."
After the procedure, the 'Can't Fight the Moonlight' hitmaker wasted no time sharing with her fans how painful the surgery was and how bad the numbing treatment was.
She explained: "Omg, that hurt! Numbing shots on your fingers are no bueno! at least I don't feel any pain right now or my hand for that matter (sic)".
However, the blonde beauty, who is married to Eddie Cibrian, appeared to be in better spirits later on in the day as she threw herself back into work and announced that she was preparing to record a christmas track.
She wrote: "Worked out arrangements 4 Xmas songs I'm recording tmrw w/ @darrellbrown SOOO excited about what we're creating for my Xmas project (sic)".




Selena Gomez finds texts on Justin Bieber’s phone from Kylie


Selena Gomez reportedly "flipped out" after finding text messages from Kylie Jenner on Justin Bieber's phone.
The 21-year-old singer, who has had an on/off relationship with Justin for three years, ended her friendship with the reality TV star earlier this month after she found out she'd been texting the 'Baby' hitmaker and sending him photos.
A source told RadarOnline.com: "Selena flipped out and there was a huge fight between the girls. She now wants nothing to do with Kylie or [her sister] Kendall."
However, it's not just the sisters that have had the cold shoulder from Selena - who was seen cuddling Justin at the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival earlier this month - as she's also dumped the 20-year-old singer.
The source explained: "Selena was also furious at Justin. They're not together right now."
Meanwhile, the 'Come & Get It' hitmaker has recently turned back to her old friends because she wants to focus on her career and doesn't want to be known as a party girl.
The 'Spring Breakers' actress, who spent three weeks in rehab in January, has also been attending church regularly in the hope that it'll help her deal with her depression.
A source said previously: "Selena is trying to change her ways by going to church and more so to avoid going to rehab. She feels like she has a spiritual gap and that maybe that's why she is struggling.
"She learned about the spiritual aspect in rehab when they talked about the Twelve Steps of Alcoholics Anonymous."

Ariana Grande wants to date a ‘bad boy’


Ariana Grande wants to date a "bad boy".
The 20-year-old singer admits she's instantly attracted to a guy that has artwork etched on his body and has a little bit of a naughty streak in his personality.
She explained to E! News: "[I like a guy with] lots of tattoos ... I don't really have a type, type. But I love guys that can make me laugh. I love funny guys, I love a bad boy. I tried the good boy thing for a minute and I was like, 'No, Oh my gosh, that won't work'."
However, the brunette beauty previously admitted that she was determined to stay away from unhealthy relationships after she lost her spark while dating a controlling guy.
She said: "I was dating a boy who made me a different person. And my family was like, 'You've lost your light, you are constantly distracted.' If I waited too long to text him back, it was the end of the world. And it was just a very unhealthy relationship."
Ariana may also want to stay away from dating a fellow celebrity as well after her relationship with The Wanted's Nathan Sykes came to an end last year when their globe-trotting careers put a strain on their romance.