Bookmaker Paddy Power have made Samantha Mumba and dirty little red heads Podge and Rodge their joint favourites at 6/1 to replace Louis Walsh as the third judge on the X Factor.

Pop mogul Simon Cowell has blasted claims he cheated on his longterm partner Terri Seymour with a 21-year-old model, insisting they're just good friends.

Model Sophie Anderton and former It girl Tara Palmer-Tomkinson are fighting tooth and nail over a lucrative modelling contract.