Monday, December 31, 2007

Paris Hilton & Kevin Federline Party in Las Vegas

Kevin Federline and Paris HiltonThe unlikely duo of Kevin Federline and Paris Hilton caused heads to turn in Las Vegas over the pre-New Year’s weekend.

On Sunday, the duo partied together for the second night running.

Both were in town to host separate New Year’s Eve parties – hers at LAX, his at Tangerine – but each name attraction started celebrating early, hitting LAX on Saturday and Pure Nightclub on Sunday.

A source close to Federline said that the two hung out in Hilton’s room Saturday after leaving the club.

Still, they seemed less chummy on Sunday at Pure, mingling only briefly before drinking a shot of tequila together.

Wednesday, December 26, 2007

Janice Dickinson’s Quieter Side

Janice Dickinson Poses at Toy Drive

Janice Dickinson gave us a rare glimpse into her behind-the-scenes life and says that she kicks back wearing no makeup and watches black and white movies with her man Joe Kaplan.

“Joe and I, new relationship, nine months, we sit up at his house, there’s no make-up, there’s just only lots of black and white television, Turner Classic Movies and he plays guitar to me, we make lovely music together, we cook and he makes me ribs because he’s from Texas. And I didn’t want to share it with you or anybody else and I just did.”

Does “no makeup” mean half as much? That’s my guess.

Britney Spears: A Suicide Risk?

Britney Spears Looks Tearful in Car

Beverly Hills analyst and addiction expert Marty Brenner fears that Britney is displaying the kind of behavior that “could end in suicide” if she does not get help.

“She appears to be crazy,” said Brenner, who has not treated Spears. “She is disconnected from life. She’s losing it now, and she’s going to eventually lose it altogether if she doesn’t get the help she needs. She’s exhibiting bipolar signs and she’s clearly fighting depression.”

Well, she has been acting strange for some time, but it’s possible that her sister’s pregnancy has set her off in another bid for attention. During the weekend, Britney stopped on a busy road to snap a photo of a mural, then flipped when photographers refused to move out of her way. She screamed “Mother*******” at them and smashed her camera against a car. Later, she stopped numerous times at gas stations and at a Wal-Mart to use the bathroom.

You know what? I could care less about all the bizarre behavior, but I will never get over her thing with public restrooms.

Monday, March 19, 2007

QUITTICH: Hermione vanishes from Harry Potter


TEEN film star Emma Watson is about to do a vanishing act from Hogwarts — because the Harry Potter films have lost their magic.

The pretty 16-year-old, who plays key character Hermione Granger, wants a spell doing other roles.

She has REFUSED to sign a new contract, plunging the final two movies of the JK Rowling novels into crisis.

The feisty young actress has told producers that even doubling her pay packet to £2 million a movie won't do the trick.

Filming on the sixth film in the series — Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince — is due to start in months.

Daniel Radcliffe is already signed up to star as the quidditch-playing wizard and Rupert Grint will again play Harry's best pal Ron Weasley.

He told us: "Emma doesn't want to do it any more. She's tired of being known as ‘that girl from Harry Potter'."

She was shocked when a besotted fan stalked her at school.

Rupert added: "Daniel and I are distant from her now. We don't text or talk to her when we are not filming."

Their last film together — Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix — comes out in July.

Film makers Warner Brothers confirmed Emma, has not signed for more movies.

Kelly Brook goes in-Zane in the bedroom

THEY say you can't judge a Brook by the cover — so this thriller has wisely whipped hers off.

Actress and TV beauty Kelly, 26, eased out of her jacket to display the curves that lucky fiancé Billy Zane gets to curl up with at bedtime.
























And she revealed her wild plot: "It's essential to be playful to keep sex fresh in a long-term relationship. It keeps me fit and healthy. What's better than sex as part of your diet?"

Novel idea, Kelly. Hollywood star Billy, 40, is one lucky chap(ter).

The busy former Celebrity Love Island presenter is living out her own fantasy love story this year. Her movie Fishtales, in which she stars as a mermaid opposite Billy, is out soon.

Then they're getting wed on the fairytale Greek isle where they made the film.

After that, it's time for making babies.

Aaaah! Can't beat a nappy ending...

Paul McCartney performs his latest number...

CURLED up on a park monument, Paul McCartney performs his latest number... Lady Mucca and the Tramp.

This astonishing exclusive picture was taken as the star took a stroll with friends during a break from his divorce battle with Heather Mills.

At one point Macca dramatically rolled onto the ground, mimicking a down-and-out, and yelled: "This is what she is trying to do to me!"

An insider told us: "Paul was out walking with his mates in Liverpool when he decided to jokingly pose for a picture to show how Heather is trying to destroy him. He was only larking about, but making a point too."

Pals say they're just glad to see the former Beatle laughing and joking again after Heather, 39, backed down and accepted a £29 million cash and property settlement and joint custody of their three-year-old girl Beatrice.

"Paul has been in great spirits since the court hearing," one friend revealed. As his homeless man impression proves.

But, with a personal fortune of £825 million, at least he had the good grace not to ask for any spare change.

Hannah Spearritt cheated on her long-term lover

SEXY Primeval babe Hannah Spearritt cheated on her long-term lover when she started having a Jurassic lark with her hunky telly co-star.

Hannah and Andrew-Lee Potts take on time-travelling dinosaurs and other extinct beasties in the smash-hit TV series.

But it was what went on between them AFTER the cameras stopped rolling that left her five-year relationship with former S Club 7 bandmate Paul Cattermole as dead as a dodo.

Paul told the News of the World: "Hannah and I lived together happily until she started working on Primeval. Within days she became secretive and spent all her time in hotels, only coming home every few weeks.

Instinct


"Within a couple of months our five-year relationship was over. I knew in my heart she was seeing Andrew.

"After being with somebody that length of time you have an amazing gut instinct."

The truth finally came out earlier this month when Hannah, 26, and Andrew, 27, went to a London film premiere as a couple.

In Primeval Andrew plays palaeontologist Connor Temple — who has a crush on Hannah's character, zoologist Abby Maitland. But Paul can't bring himself to watch the big-budget ITV show which pulls in eight million viewers.

He said: "I think it would take an amazing bloke to watch the woman he thought he might spend the rest of his life with and her new lover on telly together."

Hannah and Paul met when they joined S Club 7 in 1998. He said: "Our management had forbidden us from having relationships so it made us feel extra naughty. We found it hilarious. I remember creeping from one hotel room to another in the middle of the night so nobody would know.

"Hannah may have an angelic face but I used to call her a vixen in the bedroom.

"People used to say we had the perfect relationship—we were great mates with a fantastic sex life.

"We loved staying in having an Indian takeaway and watching a film, or just going to the pub. Hannah's such a petite thing, but she'd knock back pints with me." In October 2001 the pop pair admitted their secret romance in a blaze of publicity and kissed in an episode of the S Club 7 TV series.

And after becoming public property they made an extra effort to have time just for themselves.

Paul said: "I remember when we went away skiing together. We had a lovely chalet. We drank champagne and made love in front of the log fire.

"It was romantic, we were happy and were always very tactile with each other wherever we were. I imagine some of the other bandmates probably got a bit annoyed with us."

Pressures


Paul quit S Club in 2002 and he and Hannah moved to Brighton. He formed a group called Skua and in 2005 became lead singer and songwriter of a band called Charlie Bullitt.

He said: "We moved to Brighton to get away from the pressures of being recognised.

"It wasn't a great time. I was getting slated for putting on weight. One paper said I looked like Meatloaf. I think I put on the weight because I lived with Hannah. She could eat whatever she liked. I couldn't!"

At the beginning of last year Hannah landed the job in Primeval just as Paul left his group.

He said: "I think we started to go downhill then. I wasn't working and decided to go back to acting.

"Hannah kept telling me to go out and get an agent and to get some work. I think I was a bit of a disappointment to her then and probably wasn't the greatest of boyfriends.

"I didn't have a lot going for me, but I never expected her to kick me while I was down. But I knew something was wrong—she wasn't tactile, she didn't want to make love.

"The crunch came when I realised it had been a whole two weeks since we'd seen each other. She obviously didn't want to be with me.

"I don't hate Hannah, I wish her happiness. I just feel sad that she couldn't tell me about her and Andrew before publicly announcing it."

A spokeswoman for Hannah said: "Hannah does not wish to make any comment."

Actress Michelle Ryan says she's heading straight to Hollywood.

Actress Michelle Ryan says she's heading straight to Hollywood.

By Kasie Davies

She's best remembered for her role as Zoe Slater in EastEnders, but Michelle Ryan admits that things could have been very different if it wasn't for some careful choices. The 22 year old estimates that she has turned down £1m to appear in a host of reality TV shows over the years - and now her decision to stick with acting is about to pay off.

"I've turned down so many offers for reality shows, I could have made a small fortune by now if I had done them," she reveals. "If you want to do that, then I say go for it, because it can set you up for life. But it's not about having money in the bank for me.

"I just want to do good work and move on from EastEnders. Some people would be very comfortable with that kind of work, but if I was doing auditions and reality stuff, it would be too much to focus on.

"I'm doing what's right for me and sticking with the acting."

Michelle admits her time at EastEnders left her feeling fragile. In 2002 she had time away from the soap after suffering a breakdown - at one point it was reported that she was thinking of taking her own life.

"When I left EastEnders my confidence was low," she admits. "I was exhausted and very down, but I never thought of suicide. I look back on the show with affection now, but I'm glad I moved on when I did. In five years, Zoe went through a lot. I still get letters about the storyline when she discovered Kat was her mum.

"I was so lucky getting a job straight from school where I learned so much. I made some fantastic friends. I'm still in touch with Kacey (Ainsworth, Little Mo), Tracy-Ann (Oberman, Chrissie Watts), Jill (Halfpenny, Kate Mitchell) and Charlie (Brooks, Janine Evans). We talk all the time.

"I was a bit anxious about leaving but there were lots of offers coming in so I knew I was making the right decision.

"I was nervous about working with older actors in EastEnders, but now I feel I can hold my own."

Michelle's latest role, in the ITV1 adaptation of Jane Austen's Mansfield Park, is much more her style. She plays Maria - a society beauty who causes a scandal by leaving her husband after falling in love with another man.

"Maria's a minx and a flirt, but she also has a vulnerable side and is quite innocent," says Michelle.

"In those days, it was essential that women married well. Maria has a fling with Henry, who's a cad, then ends up marrying a rich man, Rushworth, for the lifestyle. But she brings shame on her family when she takes off with Henry again."

Michelle's co-star in the drama is Billie Piper and the pair became firm friends.

"It was a young cast," Michelle says. "Billie is lovely and charismatic and all the boys were gorgeous."

As well as Mansfield Park, Michelle recently completed Jekyll for BBC1 with James Nesbitt, about Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde.

"I play a psychiatrist. I borrowed a suit for my interview so they could see I could play someone older," says Michelle. "Things are going so brilliantly, I treasure every day."

Perhaps the biggest break of all has been landing the role of Jamie Sommers in the remake of the Seventies hit The Bionic Woman. If it's successful, Michelle will become a big star in America.

"I still can't believe all this is happening to me. As soon as news got out, Shane Richie and other old mates from EastEnders sent me congratulatory texts," Michelle admits. "I'm very excited - I'm still pinching myself."

Michelle was picked from thousands of other actresses to play the crime-fighting sex symbol.

"Hopefully it won't be too much of a stretch for me," she admits. "I'll have to learn martial arts and I did an American accent at the audition - but I'm not sure what I'll do for the first show."

If bosses like the pilot, which is being filmed this month in Canada, the young Brit will sign up for an entire series. As Michelle admits, it's a far cry from her days selling Puffa jackets on Albert Square.

But breaking into the US has brought about other changes. Michelle recently split with her fiancé, Tommy Williams, 27, a semi-professional footballer, after almost four years together. And North London-based Michelle admits she has no plans to give it all up for married life and a family yet.

"I have moments where I think, 'Oh, I want to get married and have kids' - and I definitely will one day - but I'm happy to leave it until I'm about 30," she reveals with a smile.

"Lots of my friends are having kids and I can see it's hard work. I'll happily change nappies, bathe and feed them, but toddlers need so much input. I want that, but not just yet. I'm having too much fun working right now."

Michelle missed out on a Hollywood movie because it clashed with her final scenes in EastEnders, but has since starred in Cashback and I Want Candy, currently on general release.

"I've worked non-stop since leaving," she says. "I played my first lead in I Want Candy with Mackenzie Crook and Carmen Electra. It had a great vibe about it and I hope people like it.

"Everyone is saying the next year is going to be good for me - hopefully it will be."Publish

Zoe Lucker on shunning the super-skinny life, internet sex and finally meeting Mr Right

Grinning broadly and giving that famous throaty laugh, Zoe Lucker can barely contain her joy.

As she slips into a size 10 sequinned gown for her exclusive Sunday shoot, Zoe is toned, tanned and confident.

At 5ft 6in, curvaceous Zoe has a fabulous figure. But reflecting on the celebrity pressure to be thin brings back uncomfortable memories for the newly-auburn TV star. In her early 20s, she was obsessed with cutting fat from her diet and became too thin, weighing around 8st.

"I was obsessed with diet," she recalls. "I'd eat very high carb food, which didn't give me enough fat. My eyes and skin were affected by it and my mood changed.

"I was definitely not as chilled out as I am now.

"I'm going to be 33 next month and, as you get older, you look gaunt if you are too thin. I take a lot of vitamins and I'm quite a healthy eater. I've been to the gym twice in my life but I love walking so I walk as much as I can.

"When I eat stodgy food, it makes me feel tired, even itchy. Nowadays, for breakfast, I eat cereal or bacon, chicken and salad for lunch, and I love pasta at dinner. I'm not into snacking.

"I worry about the size 0 issue because I can only assume these girls are spending every waking moment thinking about what they are putting into their mouths.

"If teenage girls are not feeding themselves, they're not feeding their brains, which is so important at that age."

Slimming aside, Zoe thinks she may have finally found her perfect man - and she's never been happier.

After a divorce and a string of failed relationships, the former Footballers' Wives star says she has met the man she'll settle down and have kids with.

"I feel very, very happy at the moment," she grins. "Everything is going as I want it to. I don't think I've ever been happier. It's true I have a man in my life and I think he could be The One.

"I'm not going to go into any details because it's early stages and I don't want to jinx things -I've talked about my love life in the past and regretted it. But he's in showbiz and he's fantastic."

Zoe, who was briefly married to estate agent Richard Forshaw in 2000, is reluctant to reveal her lover's name. But he has all the attributes of her ideal man.

She smiles: "He's loyal, caring, funny and affectionate. Good looks are important too. I like dark hair and eyes and smiley faces."

Zoe's exes include DJ Tom Thorpe and children's TV presenter Tony Craig. Despite rumours, she's repeatedly denied a relationship with DJ Chris Evans.

"I've had relationships in the past where I haven't got on with a person, but you can end up staying for reasons you can't explain," she admits. "You look back and think, 'What was going on there?'

"When I was younger, I was quite high-maintenance, but as you get older, it feels right that two people spend time together and enjoy each other's company. I don't see any point in a relationship if you're not having a laugh and they're not your best mate."

Now she's no longer obsessed with her weight, Zoe is focusing on other things - and becoming a mum is very high on her agenda.

"I've always wanted children," she says. "I'll still have to work - I've got a mortgage like everyone else - but I'd like to spend as much time as possible at home during the baby's first couple of years. Hiring a nanny and going straight back to work isn't me at all."

The second of four children, Zoe's childhood in Huddersfield, West Yorkshire, was idyllic.

"I love our family Christmases and Sunday lunches and that's what I want for my kids," she says.

And her desire for children is so great that she wouldn't rule out having a baby on her own.

"If you get into your late 30s or early 40s and haven't met the right person, going it alone is an option," insists Zoe. "I have a lot of friends who are single parents and have done a fantastic job of raising their children."

Zoe has had an image overhaul for her latest role as a kind-hearted copper's wife in Holby Blue, a new spin-off from hospital drama Holby City to be screened later this year

And while she misses Tanya Turner, her Footballers' Wives character, and can't bear to think of her as dead, Zoe does have one regret about the show.

Video grabs of her many "sex scenes" can now be found on websites. And taken out of context, she says some of them, including the infamous mile-high incident with Conrad, look like internet porn.

"When friends say, 'Have a look at these pictures', I'm mortified," admits Zoe. "It looks so full on and they make me uncomfortable. It was only acting after all. My friends think it's hilarious but I don't like the idea of kids my godchildren's age possibly seeing these images.

"When you act, there's a storyline and you are playing a character, so it's obviously different from doing it yourself.

"I'm not sexually adventurous like Tanya. I would never think about sex on a plane. It's a bit disrespectful to everybody else trying to use the bathroom!"

Two years ago, while filming the TV series Bombshell (which has yet to be screened in the UK), Zoe started suffering panic attacks.

This is the first time she's spoken about the stress that sparked them.

"My god-daughter, Molly, was going in for a big op," says Zoe. "She was five and had to have a cyst removed from her forehead because it could have affected her brain.

"I was trying to pretend to her mum, my best friend Sally, that everything was going to be OK. But there was a panic going on. It was very stressful and at the same time I was working very long hours doing Bombshell. That was when the panic attacks started.

"Molly was supposed to be in intensive care for two weeks but she was home in two days. She's perfect now - and my panic attacks are a thing of the past."

Zoe's face lights up when talking about Molly, her other godchildren and her nephew and niece. It's clear what a devoted mum she'll make - and she can't wait to fulfil her wish.

"I can work very hard and have fantastic friends but a baby is what I've always wanted," she smiles.

SEX ADDICT: Ulrika's been diagnosed - have you?

I wasn't even sure I believed in sex addiction. I was inclined to write it off as an invention to excuse the behaviour of the selfish and the immoral.

EXCLUSIVE

News of the World columnist and TV star Ulrika Jonsson is as famous for her lovelife as her career.

Two divorces, an affair with Sven Goran Eriksson, an abusive fling with Stan Collymore — it's been a rollercoaster ride of passion and heartbreak.

She has never understood why she her relationships didn't go the distance. Then Channel 4 asked her to investigate the growing problem of sex addiction.



What Ulrika learned shocked her to the core. She began as a reporter, underwent therapy herself — and left with an astounding conclusion. Here is her story...

MY name is Ulrika, and I'm a sex addict...apparently.

This was the devastating diagnosis I was faced with by a team of therapists. And I was only there to make a TV documentary.

What started out as an innocent journalistic exercise suddenly turned into a traumatic journey of personal discovery.

If you had asked me six months ago to describe a sex addict I might have said someone who regularly visits prostitutes or cheats on his wife. I probably wouldn't have thought of women at all.


So when Channel 4 asked me to go to America and investigate the world of sex addicts and their therapists it was with huge curiosity, and some scepticism, that I agreed.

It was a journey that opened my eyes in a way I would never have anticipated.

Because what I discovered was that sex addiction has very little to do with "how many" or "how often".

The definition of a sex addict is someone whose sexual behaviour damages their life. Given that, I suppose thousands of us, who believed we were just unlucky or ill-used might fit that bill.

Virginity


What this addiction is actually about is how you use sex, how it makes you feel and the damage that it does — to you and to other people. When that penny dropped it knocked me sideways.

It was a discovery that gave me a chilling insight into my own childhood and the implications that had on my own loves and relationships.

I know people imagine they've got me taped... sassy Swedish blonde, adulteress, heart-breaker. In fact, I didn't lose my virginity until I was 17, I've had fewer partners than average and while I may have hurt others, the person hurt hardest was me.

Because I discovered that for virtually all my adult life I had been using the way I related to others to try to heal something in myself.

When I first had sex it was with a complete stranger. I just wanted to get it out of the way. I soon discovered someone desiring me made me feel of being wanted or needed.

But I would feel empty afterwards, emotionally unsatisfied, so I would have to have more sex — to refuel. I had a "male" attitude to sex — do it for it's own sake and to hell with emotional connection.

As any addict — to drugs, drink or arousing desire — will tell you, it makes you feel better for a while, but ultimately, never works.

The kick is fantastic for a few minutes. Then you need more.

It's not surprising that when damaged people seek something to fill a hole in their soul they often settle on sex.

The world is dominated by it. It's on billboards, on TV, in papers and magazines. If you don't want to pay for it, it's all there for free on the internet.

Anyone, including kids, can tap into more porn and perversion than it's humanly possible to absorb.

The upshot of this, coupled with poor sex education, is that Britain is the Western world's teen pregnancy capital and STDs are rife.

In search of answers I travelled to America, where sex addiction is treated with the same seriousness as better understood compulsions.

At the Pine Grove Centre in Mississippi I learned that of 1,000 sex addicts treated, 80 percent had suffered childhood abuse or trauma.

I also learned sex is not the enemy here. The problem is the way we use it to patch up a perceived inadequacy in ourselves.

When one therapist referred to sex addiction as an "intimacy disorder" it threw up many questions for me — and answered many more. Especially when I discovered this disorder is formed early on in life.

Some experts believe that what they call our "love map" — the way we think of ourselves and relate to others — is formed by the age of eight. It goes to the core of our approach to intimate relationships.

All the therapists I met insisted that some kind of early "trauma" — it could be as awful as sex or physical abuse or as slight as loneliness or rejection — shapes our whole outlook.

I already knew my childhood was not exactly normal. My mother left my father when I was eight and I lived alone with him for four years.

Abuse


I was not abused, but he kept a large library of porn which he made no attempt to hide. And I often witnessed him have sex with the many girlfriends in his life. It wasn't deliberate, he just wasn't bothered if I happened to be around.

When a therapist asked me how I would feel if a man behaved that way with my children I had to admit I'd want to kill him.

But I cannot bring myself to see that as abuse. What I do concede is it shaped me, and made it hard for me to feel a person worthy of love and respect. My early attitude was that sex was disgusting and as a child I was never allowed to make a connection between love and sex.

Therapist Dawn Zurlinden explained that deep down, I didn't feel valued by my parents so I try to prove them wrong. The way I do this is to make people desire me, so I become worthy in my own eyes.

I was also told I am drawn to men who are "emotionally unavailable" because I cannot trust.

What the world sees, I'm told, is a strong, independent working mum who fights her corner. What I feel inside, much of the time, is fear.

My experiences turned many of my preconceptions on their head. I met Marni, a god-fearing, middle-aged lady from the bible belt, whose life has been blighted by her compulsion for bad, loveless sex.

She's the most unlikely sex addict you could imagine... if you didn't know anything about sex addiction.

Before this project I was asked sniggeringly countless times to get sufferers' numbers — usually by men whose own appetites no woman could satisfy. If they tune in, I suspect they may be laughing on the other side of their faces.

And if you can't tell the difference between f***ing and making love — this programme is definitely for you.

Lindsay Lohan runs around NY

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Hurricane Lohan is still wreaking havoc on New York and doesn’t appear to be slowing down. We spotted running some errands around NYC and didn’t look too paranoid about running in to her ex-con father Michael who has been pitching a new reality show for his daughter where he is stranded on a desert island with Lindsay, Paris Hilton, Jessica Simpson and their fathers.

I think a better show idea is to put them all on a desert island and leave them there. Forever. Without any cameras. Good riddance.

Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes got into the St. Patricks Day

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Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes got into the St. Patricks Day spirit by dressing Suri up in an Irish green tartan dress for their weekly trip to see their son Conner play basketball.

I bet Tom broke out that awful excuse of an Irish accent he used in Far & Away and to spout those limericks in Cocktail to everyone at the game. The thought of that makes me want to vomit.

I hope she’s the first one voted off

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Heather Mills has brought her non-publicity seeking self to Los Angeles to start filming Dancing With The Stars and I am already sick of her. It’s bad enough that I have to deal with her spouting off about the media and crying about her fame when she is all the way over in the UK but now she is in my backyard. I can’t escape it.

Please God make sure she leaves before Posh and Becks make their “official” move.

Minnie Driver already spending her riches?

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Why am I bothering to put boring old Minnie Driver leaving a Ralph’s grocery store on the blog? Because she has a new show, called The Riches on FX and it is actually excellent. She and her husband played by British comedic legend Eddie Izzard are probably best described as grifting Gypsies roaming the deep south who assume the identity of a wealthy couple. The show has a ton of cringy moments, awkward southern stereotypes, and it’s great to see Izzard doing something other than stand-up in his drag make-up and costume.

Saturday, March 17, 2007

Michael Jackson in London to sell Beatles?


Michael Jackson

16 March 2007 - Michael Jackson, 48, jetted into London yesterday with sons Prince, 10, and Paris Michael, nine, reports Daily Mail.

The King of Pop is believed to be in town to negotiate sale of a part of his Beatles catalog to Sir Paul McCartney.

Jackson had outbid Sir Paul McCartney and John Lennon's widow, Yoko Ono, to buy the songs for £24million in 1985. The purchase gave him control over the Fab Four's repertoire and hits by artists such as Bob Dylan and Neil Diamond.

Jackson's rights to the music, which he co-owns with Sony, are valued at between 250 million pounds and 400 million pounds.

Jackson is being forced to sell off part of his catalog in a bid to stave off bankruptcy.

In the past, Sir Paul has evinced interest in acquiring the Fab Four's repertoire so a deal could be in the offing.