Disgraced No 10 spin doctor Andy Coulson was handed the "major share of the blame" for phone hacking at the News of the World as he was jailed for 18 months.

Gwyneth Paltrow and Chris Martin are still spending lots of time together as they want to keep things "consistent" for their children.

"London, it’s a great city." It’s the type of stock line that gets thrown about because it sounds like the right thing to say.

Gwyneth Paltrow and Chris Martin had couples therapy before separating.

Reese Witherspoon's parents barred her from moving to Hollywood because it is "where crazy people live".

Alex Reid has been arrested.

Chris Martin and Gwyneth Paltrow are moving to Los Angeles.

Mothers watching the Olympics say they are relieved they have been able to take their babies after organisers backtracked on plans to make them have their own tickets.

Only 11 years after her death, Elton John sang his ode to Marilyn Monroe: “Your candle burned out long before your legend ever did.”

Chantelle Houghton has reportedly walked out on Alex Reid just weeks before their baby is due.

THE event that many feared would be the “Carmageddon” of epic traffic jams cruised calmly toward a finish last night, with bridge work on the Los Angeles roadway completed ahead of schedule and officials reopening a 16-kilometre stretch of one of the busiest US freeways.

IT is time to chill out about the potholes and spare a thought for commuters in Los Angeles who are bracing themselves for this weekend’s 53-hour closure of one of the world’s busiest motorways.

Arnold Schwarzenegger has delayed his Hollywood comeback as he braces for what could be a costly divorce prompted by revelations that he had an affair and child with a housekeeper who worked for his family for 20 years.

A petition has been filed to order the late Dennis Hopper's widow out of her home.

An alcoholic rogue trader who cost his company £6m (€7.4m) after a drunken golf weekend was today fined £72,000 (€89,000) and banned for a minimum of five years by the City watchdog.

ACTORS Jim Carrey and Jenny McCarthy ended their five-year relationship by announcing the split on their Twitter pages.

Actor Sean Penn faces battery and vandalism charges stemming from an altercation with a photographer in Brentwood last year, California prosecutors said today.

TYSON FURY may be the new English heavyweight champion but he left nobody in any doubt about his Irish roots when he made his Dublin debut at the O2 on Saturday night.

FRANK MALONEY has launched a new attack on the British Boxing Board of Control as the fallout from John McDermott’s controversial English heavyweight title defeat by Tyson Fury continues.

An inquest into the death of Olympic bronze medal-winning boxer Darren Sutherland was opened and adjourned today.

Boxing promoter Frank Maloney has vowed to return to the sport as soon as possible after undergoing an operation at King’s College Hospital in London yesterday following a heart attack.

PHILLIP GARRIDO was a religious zealot with a dark secret neighbours never guessed.

Fans of Hollywood icon Marilyn Monroe will tomorrow be given a rare glimpse of some of her most intimate possessions when they go on show for the first time in Ireland.

JOE CALZAGHE has revealed why fighting Bernard Hopkins thousands of miles from home holds no fear for him after the dark early days of his career when he was routinely spat at and abused by rival fans.

Pregnant Jamie Lynn Spears turned her 17th birthday bash into a bargain affair, dining with fiancé Casey Aldridge at chain diner Ruby Tuesday and then shopping at superstore Wal-Mart.

Phil Taylor made a superb return to the PDC Pro Tour with victory in the Southern Players Championship at the Brentwood Centre on Saturday.

A woman with a history of mental illness walked her young niece and nephew into oncoming traffic to commit a double-murder suicide, prosecutors said today.

BSkyB’s £125m (€184m) takeover of Alan Sugar’s Amstrad business was today given the green light by regulators.

New mum Naomi Watts received police protection as she went shopping on Monday as pursuing paparazzi sparked a safety scare.

BSkyB faced more regulatory scrutiny today after the City watchdog said it would investigate the broadcaster’s £125m (€185m) takeover of Alan Sugar’s Amstrad.

Two dogs belonging to US actor Ving Rhames apparently mauled a man to death at the star’s home, authorities said.

The father of US murder victim Ron Goldman has asked a court to give him the publicity rights to the name, image and likeness of OJ Simpson, who has failed to pay a $33.5m (€26.2m) judgment in a 1997 wrongful death lawsuit.

King Kong star Naomi Watts is expecting her first baby, according to media reports in Australia.

Anti-bullying campaigners have voiced concern over the plight of Jodie Marsh in the Celebrity Big Brother house.

California governor Arnold Schwarzenegger was riding his Harley Davidson motorcycle illegally over the weekend when he collided with a car in his Brentwood neighbourhood, police say.

Arnold Schwarzenegger has been released from hospital in Santa Monica, California, after he was involved in a motorcycle crash near his home in Brentwood on Sunday afternoon.

A fat-lipped Arnold Schwarzenegger vowed to keep riding motorcycles – despite a weekend accident that left the former Hollywood action hero with minor injuries.

California governor Arnold Schwarzenegger received 15 stitches in his lip after he and his 12-year-old son were involved in a motorcycle accident near their home.

Christian Slater's recent run-in with New York police hasn't deterred the actor from selling up in Hollywood and moving to the Big Apple.

On the anniversary of Marilyn Monroe’s death, a former prosecutor has unveiled what he says are notes of her secret confessions to a psychiatrist that show her as anything but suicidal.

Jodie Marsh is one of the current clutch of D-list celebrities who are famous for, well, being famous.

Losses by the owner of British-made upmarket car brands Jaguar and Land Rover contributed to a 38.5% fall in first quarter earnings at Ford, it emerged today.

Ford saw its shares fall to their lowest level in more than a year today after becoming the second US car giant in weeks to shock investors with a profits warning.

Hollywood hunk Ben Affleck has further fuelled speculation he plans to settle down with girlfriend Jennifer Garner, after buying a family-sized home in California.