She and
husband Marc Anthony have had twins. What's more, People magazine is
paying them several million dollars for the photographs. Phew,
expensive kids, aren't they?
Sleepy types
Daytime
power naps can improve your memory, according to scientists. Another study
showed a midday snooze helps prevent heart disease. So, if you never get
out of bed, you'll be as healthy as healthy gets.
Cruz
Beckham
Not
destined to be the shy and retiring type, was he, given his parents? As
confirmation, he last week upstaged
his mother during a Spice Girls concert in New York by some on-stage
head-spinning, though we gather they call it breakdancing.
CS
Lewis
The late
Oxford don's children's books have been voted more popular than Harry
Potter. The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe triumphed in a poll, while
Winnie the Pooh also finished above JK Rowling's works. On the downside,
the survey was conducted among parents, and what do they know?
Giorgio Armani
He's a
brave fellow, il maestro, the boldest perhaps in the fashion world,
according to the new consensus. His achievement? He dared criticise
American Vogue
Not a
very popular place to study, it turns out. Only 81.6 per cent of students
go back after their first year, which gives it the worst drop-out rate in
the country. What's wrong, we wonder, with Bolton, birthplace of our
favourite chucklemeister,
Mr Peter Kay?
Gordon Brown
The PM
has been used, with a scarlet flower
behind his ear, in adverts for the tropical island of Fiji. Some have
suggested he thought it was Fife when he glanced at their written request.
Why the Fijians chose our dear leader, we're less sure. Any
suggestions?
David
Miliband
Isn't it
awful when friends don't tell you all they've been
up to? This was the position of our tyro Foreign Secretary
when he had to admit 'extraordinary rendition'
flights did land at a 'British' airport - Diego Garcia in the Indian Ocean
- in 2002. We felt a little pang for the boy
Miliband since he had been 'misinformed' - isn't that their job? - by the
CIA.
Two
runaways pigs have been working their way through plants and vegetables.
Imagine the bother, as the allotment holders are keen to get on with
planting. It emerges that the pigs are probably of the glorious Old
Spot variety. Which at least means they will taste good when
caught.