Katie Holmes threw husband Tom Cruise a surprise 49th birthday party on Saturday.

Joseph Brooks, the Academy Award-winning songwriter of You Light Up My Life who was awaiting trial on charges of sexually assaulting more than a dozen women, was found dead of an apparent suicide in his Manhattan apartment, police said.

He might be a gay cowboy on-screen, but in real life Jake Gyllenhaal has an eye for the ladies.

VICTORIA and David Beckham were the toast of a New York bash thrown by style bible Vogue.

ACTORS Sadie Frost and Jude Law said they were "the luckiest parents alive" yesterday after their daughter was unharmed by popping an ecstasy tablet in her mouth.