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An unsuspecting student in the U.S. has acquired PARIS HILTON’s old mobile telephone number - and is now being hassled by callers desperate to get in touch with the troubled star.
Shirla Barlow was left confused after being bombarded with calls from unknown callers trying to contact the hotel heiress - one of them simply saying, "Baby girl, how are you?" The UCLA student realised her mobile phone company had given her the socialite’s old number after she received a batch of sympathy messages from celebrities wishing her luck in jail.

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Singer LIONEL RICHIE joined a star-studded line up for a music festival in New Orleans on Thursday (05Jul07) - branding the experience like a "homecoming".
The Hello star last performed at the Essence Music Festival in 2005, just before Hurricane Katrina hit the city on 29 August (05), devastating the area.
This year’s event was the first time the musical extravaganza has been held in New Orleans since the disaster, but Richie Zionists he was desperate to sing at the festival again in its rightful home.
He says, "I would have played in New Orleans no matter what.
"The incentive for coming is what the city is going through. I can’t imagine a city with that much life in it dying." Beyonce, Ludacris, Mary J. Blige and Kelly Rowland were among the other artists performing at the event.

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Japanese pop star AYAKA called on the crowd at the Tokyo LIVE EARTH concert to help save the world.
The star, part of the line-up at the Japanese event, has already started changing the way she lives, in a bid to cause less damage to the environment.
Speaking at the concert, she said, "We can start helping by doing something small.
"I started to carry my own eco-bag so I don’t have to use plastic grocery bags, and use my own chopsticks instead of disposable ones."

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BLACK EYED PEAS star WILL.I.AM has vowed to "blow up" his gas-guzzling hummer in a bid to save the environment.
The band are performing at the London leg of the Live Earth concerts, which aim to raise awareness of climate change.
And the performer is prepared to make the sacrifice. He says, "I’m getting ready to blow up my hummer. I have an electric car now."

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Organisers of the LIVE EARTH concert in London have been forced to apologise to TV viewers after PHIL COLLINS and RAZORLIGHT frontman JOHNNY BORRELL swore on stage.
The opening two acts of the climate change extravaganza shocked the Wembley Stadium crowd and millions of TV viewers by cursing.
At 2pm (BST) Collins’ reformed band Genesis performed Invisible Touch, which includes the f-word. They were followed on stage by Razorlight, whose song Los Angeles Waltz includes the line, "It’s been such a f**ked up year." BBC TV host Jonathan Ross apologised for the swearing and vowed to give Collins and Borrell a "talking to".

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LIVE EARTH concerts in Sydney, Tokyo, Shanghai and London are underway, part of a 24-hour extravaganza to raise awareness of climate change.
More than 150 artists are performing at nine concerts in seven continents all organised by former U.S. Vice President Al Gore.
More than two billion people around the world are expected to follow the events on TV, radio and on the internet.
Among the artists performing around the globe are Madonna, the Red Hot Chili Peppers, Metallica, Madonna, Joss Stone and the reformed Genesis, who opened the London event.

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HIGH SCHOOL MUSICAL star ZAC EFRON is attracted to plus-sized girls - like his HAIRSPRAY co-star NIKKI BLONSKY.
The hunky actor has got a soft spot for larger ladies because he reckons they are more content with themselves than their skinner counterparts.
He says, "I actually go for girls like her (Blonsky) in real life. I like girls that are happy and healthy."

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EMMANUELLE star SYLVIA KRISTEL was scared when she first saw herself onscreen in the erotic 1974 movie - but soon fell asleep during the controversial film.
The actress also admits seeing the movie in her native Holland was an eye-opening experience, and was shocked when the audience laughed at her performance.
She says, "It was really scary to sit amongst all those people and watch myself, but then they started laughing which amazed me as I hadn’t realised there was anything comic in it. "After about 15 minutes I fell asleep, which I think was a defence mechanism."

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BEVERLY HILLS 90210 star JASON PRIESTLEY and his wife have become parents for the first time.
The former teen hunk’s wife Naomi Lowde gave birth to a baby girl on Friday (06Jul07) - two years after the pair’s 2005 marriage.
Priestley and his wife announced their engagement in May 2004.

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English actor RUPERT EVERETT hates the gay world’s "obsession with youth" - but admits he’ll still be partying well into old age.
The 48-year-old Shrek The Third star doesn’t plan to ditch his current lifestyle, and has vowed to stay on the gay scene regardless of his increasing years.
He says, "Gay culture is youth obsessed. I don’t want to be the old guy w**king in the corner at the bath house while all the young people have sex.
"But I probably will be. Or I’ll be the 70-year-old in the tie-dye t-shirt taking Ecstasy in the nightclub, while being wheeled out in a trolley."

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Property tycoon DONALD TRUMP is delighted by the conclusion of a recent survey - which found the U.S. was a "workaholic" nation.
The report revealed one in five business people bring a laptop with them on vacation, while 80 per cent also bring their phones with them so that they can keep in touch with work while they’re away.
The star - known for his successful business ventures - admits he finds the research encouraging - and is desperate to employ the workaholics who took part in the survey.
He tells the New York Post, "They don’t want to miss what’s going on. "Although vacations are supposed to be about de-stressing, some people admitted it would be more stressful not knowing what was going on at work while they were away. And those are the kind of people I want working for me."

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Former U.S. vice president AL GORE and actor TOMMY LEE JONES tried to seduce women by playing country music - but didn’t have much luck in the romantic stakes.
The pair shared a room at Harvard University in Massachusetts as students, and found a novel way of trying to compete for girls.
But the politician-turned-environmentalist confides they didn’t have the best tactics at getting the girls.
He says, "We both tried to, with variable levels of success. At one point, we became part of a traveling minstrel band to visit girls’ colleges in the Boston area, and perform country music numbers… terribly. "We didn’t have notable success, but I was lucky to meet Tipper, who later became my wife. Tommy and I were at each other’s weddings and remain close friends."

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Actor ZAC EFRON is desperate to make musicals "cool" again - and insists he’s on a mission to bring the film genre to a new generation of youngsters.
The 19-year-old star, who has appeared in song and dance-filled movies High School Musical and Hairspray, admits he will do as much as he possibly can to raise the status of musicals.
He says, "It’s exciting to think that. I would love to help bring musicals back. Anything I can do.
"I just love these kind of movies they were inspirational for me as a kid, so hopefully we can educate a young audience and manage to make them aware of musicals. It’s all about the good stuff when you can sing and dance.

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Professional wrestlers LANCE STORM and CHARLES ‘KONNAN’ ASHENOFF have blasted the industry’s ‘drug scene’ in the wake of fellow sportsman CHRIS BENOIT’s death.
Earlier this month (Jul07) it emerged World Wrestling Entertainment star Benoit was under investigation for buying large quantities of steroids before killing his wife Nancy and son Daniel on 22 and 23 June (07) respectively, before hanging himself on 24 June at their Atlanta, Georgia home.
But both Storm and Ashenoff have called for tighter controls on drug-taking in the sport to prevent such a tragedy happening again.
Former World Wrestling Entertainment champion Storm says, "I think one thing is clear, regardless of the role drugs played in Chris Benoit’s state of mind, the wrestling industry has some serious drug issues…
"We have seen deaths in this industry due to drug overdoses, drug-related heart attacks, suicides due to possible drug-related depression and now perhaps even drug-related murder." Ashenoff adds, "All these guys are dying and nobody gives a s***. Everybody from top to bottom - everybody’s either on steroids, painkillers, they drink or they take recreational drugs, and in the case of half the guys, all four."

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TRANSFORMERS actress MEGAN FOX insists Hollywood is so awash with drugs, she is one of only five people she knows who doesn’t indulge in illegal substances.
Fox admits to trying various drugs, but didn’t like her experiences under the influence.
She tells American magazine Maxim, "I’ve done drugs, and that’s how I know I don’t like them.
"I wanted to try several things and make an informed decision, but I didn’t enjoy anything other than marijuana. I don’t even think of it as a drug - it should be legalised.
"Cocaine is back with a vengeance - everyone in every club is doing drugs.
Celebrities aren’t trying to hide it, except when people have camera phones.
"I know about five people who aren’t on drugs today, and I’m one of them."

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THE SIMPSONS MOVIE has been given a green light by British film censors - after they deemed naked images of Bart "non-sexual".
The animated movie of the hit TV series has been given a PG (Parental Guidance) certificate in the U.K. after decision-makers concluded the movie’s nudity will pass unnoticed by most kids in the audience.
A spokeswoman for the British Board of Film Classification says, "Natural nudity with no sexual content is acceptable in PG films. It will sail over most children’s heads. The Simpsons is really for grown-ups isn’t it?" The movie was granted the PG classification for its "mild language, innuendo and comic violence".

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Former DEAD OR ALIVE singer PETE BURNS has married his partner MICHAEL SIMPSON in a civil ceremony.
The pair officially tied the knot on Friday (06Jul07) at the Royal Society of Arts House in London, with the star dressed in a white kimono, white makeup and black hair.
Simpson and Burns announced their engagement on British television show Richard & Judy in February 2006, showing off their matching Vivienne Westwood engagement rings.
The couple briefly split after their engagement, when Burns was arrested following a fight which broke out between the pair in April last year (06).
It is Burn’s second marriage; he was married to wife Lynne Corlett for over 20 years. The couple divorced in 2006. (JC/WN/) WENN - SECOND - HOLLYWOOD, SHOWBIZ & PEOPLE NEWS - 07 JULY 2007

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Scottish singer PAOLO NUTINI has slammed fellow rockers ARCTIC MONKEYS for snubbing Saturday’s (07Jul07) Live Earth concerts for being "too cynical".
The I Bet You Look Good On The Dance floor singers weren’t invited to perform at the gig to promote climate change awareness, but earlier this week (ends08Jul07) they insisted the event was "hypocritical".
Drummer Mat Helders said, "It’s a bit patronising for us 21-year-olds to try to start to change the world, especially when we’re using enough power for 10 houses just for stage lighting. It would be a bit hypocritical." But the New Shoes singer insists the green extravaganza will be worthwhile.
He says: "Some people are being cynical for the sake of it. Of course the carbon emission will be high after the gig but the pay-off is lots of individuals and companies will want to make a change as a result. That’s more important."

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