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Los Angeles police are searching for a pair of burglars who broke into Miley Cyrus’ San Fernando Valley home and got away with jewellery and a luxury car.

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GIOVANNA Plowman is better-known as ‘tampon girl’. She is the New York teenager who had 250,000 Facebook followers earlier this year after she uploaded a video of herself removing a used tampon and sucking on it.

Is Miley Cyrus’ sexual grinding at the MTV awards just the latest in a long line of classless, self-promoting popstar behaviour, asks Ed Power

* Well, you can’t say Sarah Jessica Parker didn’t stick to the ‘Punk: Chaos to Couture’ brief at the Met Gala, in a Giles Deacon dress, Philip Treacy headpiece and Louis Vuitton boots. Top marks for drama and she’s smiling for once... the best accessory.

WHEN the trashier end of the media is desperate for dirt on an entertainer, and can’t find any, there is a tendency to manufacture non-events.

The people who stopped ‘X Factor’ singer Joe McElderry reaching number one have been offered jobs by his manager, Simon Cowell.