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GIRLS ALOUD star CHERYL COLE has slammed fellow British singer AMY WINEHOUSE, claiming the troubled star’s fondness for alcohol leaves her unable to perform onstage.
The 24-year-old - who recently announced she feels "no sympathy for drug addicts" - has criticised the Rehab hitmaker for her unimpressive performance to date at the MTV Europe Music Awards earlier this month (01Nov07).
Winehouse surprised fans by mumbling through a performance of hit Back To Black at the ceremony in Munich, Germany, and appeared to have forgotten the song’s lyrics.
Cole says, "You know what it’s like? When a pub singer’s pissed and they go ’shoobedoo waah’." (PAW/WNTSU/JC) WENN - SECOND - HOLLYWOOD, SHOWBIZ & PEOPLE NEWS - 10 NOVEMBER 2007

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AMY WINEHOUSE’s husband BLAKE FIELDER-CIVIL has been charged with attempting to pervert the course of justice.
Fielder-Civil, 25, appeared at Thames Magistrates’ Court, London, on Saturday (10Nov07) over claims he tried to fix a trial.
Fielder-Civil and pal Anthony Kelly have been accused of paying victim James King £200,000 ($400,000) to withdraw a police statement claiming he had been assaulted by the pair.
Winehouse appeared in the court’s public gallery accompanied by her father Mitch. Troubled rocker Pete Doherty was also in attendance at the hearing.
But singer insists her partner has been framed for the crime, saying, "Someone has set him up but whatever happens I’ll be there for him. He’s told me he’s done nothing wrong and I believe him. I love him and just want him home." Fielder-Civil and Kelly have been remanded in custody and are due to appear at east London’s Snaresbrook Crown Court on 23 November (07).

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Supermodel KATE MOSS was left red-faced after mistaking an eminent British politician for a plumber - and asking for his number so he could inspect her pipes.
David Cameron, leader of the U.K.’s Conservative party, met the beauty at a charity dinner, where the pair discussed the torrential floods in her neighbourhood.
He says, "I remembered she has a house in my constituency and we’d had these terrible floods in West Oxfordshire. I said, sorry about the flooding in your house. I know your local pub as been flooded and I know it’s going to re-open in six months. "So I went on like this, twittering on, and she turned around and said, ‘God, you sound like a really useful guy, can I have your phone number?’ "I went back to my table and said, ‘The good news is I met Kate Moss and she said she wanted my telephone number. The bad news is, I think she thinks I’m something to do with the drainage.’"

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MIRA SORVINO vets her children’s babysitters very carefully after the German minder who looked after her as a child scared the actress with her thoughts about the Holocaust.
The Oscar winner and her husband Christopher Backus feel they’ve found the perfect babysitter for their two kids, three-year-old Mattea Angel and 18-month-old Johnny Christopher King, because she’s nothing like the misguided nanny who used to look after Sorvino.
She recalls, "I actually had a very strange experience when I read The Diary of Anne Frank as a child.
"We had a German housekeeper babysitting for us, and when I’d finished the book, I was crying. In an effort to comfort me, she told me, ‘Oh no, this is all lies. Many more Germans died than Jews. Only 600,000 (Jews died), not six million. It’s lies, all lies.’ "She was completely indoctrinated in a denial of the Holocaust. It was very, very scary."

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Actress JESSICA ALBA hated growing up as a teenager - because she was ‘too mature’ for her age.
The 26-year-old Fantastic Four star struggled as a young actress, and insists she would love to erase the bad memories of her childhood.
She says, "I would omit my teens (if I could). They were really tough. I was always a grown-up in a child’s body, in my mind - incredibly opinionated, stubborn, strong-willed, very independent. I’m on videotape when I was three talking about being an independent woman! "Then when I was a teenager it was a little bit paralysing because I felt I was an adult but I didn’t have any right as an adult."

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Actress JENNIFER ANISTON has chosen American football star TOM BRADY as the male face of energy drink SmartWater.
The former Friends star was recently photographed by Mario Testino for a SmartWater advertising campaign - and Aniston, an investor in the company, now wants the New England Patriots quarterback, who is dating supermodel Gisele Bundchen, to do the same.
An insider tells American magazine OK!, "Not only does she think he can sell water, but he makes her want to take a cold shower!"

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Classic U.S. sitcom BEWITCHED is set to be remade for modern British audiences.
A pilot episode of the 1960s show has been given the green light by bosses at TV network BBC, which hopes the series will be a comedy ratings hit.
In 2005, the show enjoyed a revival when it was remade into a film starring Nicole Kidman as Samantha the witch.

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Actress KATE BECKINGSDALE loves working on horror movies - because she finds scary scenes extremely therapeutic.
The British star recently appeared alongside Luke Wilson in horror thriller Vacancy, and admits the shoot was hugely enjoyable.
She said, "There is a lot to be said about the cathartic value of screaming your head off and portraying sheer dread and terror.
"I’m sure some sort of New Age psychotherapy follows the same principle."

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A planned HARRY POTTER encylopaedia has been delayed after the publisher was sued by writer J.K. ROWLING.
The Harry Potter Lexicon volume, based on material from an internet fan site of the same name, was due for publication later this month (Nov07).
But the book was hit with an embargo after Rowling filed a lawsuit against the publishers last month (31Oct), which has seen a New York judge issuing an order barring completion, distribution, marketing or advance sales of the book indefinitely.
Harry Potter Lexicon will not be published until a judge rules on whether it violates Rowling’s intellectual property rights.
Roger Rapoport, the book’s publisher, has given a copy to lawyers at Warner Brothers - who hold the Potter copyright - to determine whether the encylopaedia is in violation of copyright.
He says, "I think they should drop it. I’m hopeful that they will." Rowling however insists she is disappointed by the situation: "On the contrary, I feel massively disappointed that this matter had to come to court at all. Given my past good relations with the Lexicon fan site, I can only feel sad and disillusioned that this is where we have ended up."

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SCISSOR SISTERS frontman JAKE SHEARS has written a musical - and credits the project with ’saving’ the band.
The Filthy/Gorgeous hitmaker - who has been working on the spectacle based on Armistead Maupin’s Tales Of The City series of novels for the past year insists focusing on the show has stopped him from lashing out at his bandmates and causing a split. He says, "Sometimes writing for the band makes you feel like you could explode, you’re so focused on making it good. That was a problem we had when we were making the second record Ta-Dah. "We had no lives, it was all we did. Writing the musical has been a really fun diversion because you’re not so focused on the one thing."

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GIRLS ALOUD star NADINE COYLE regrets ending her relationship with DESPERATE HOUSEWIVES star JESSE METCALFE - insisting her behaviour was "selfish".
The Irish singer believes she overreacted upon seeing the actor photographed with another girl - and admits she still feels guilty for abandoning the star while he was receiving treatment for an alcohol addiction at a rehab centre in Los Angeles earlier this year (07).
The 22-year-old says, "It was hard - he was in rehab. We were just about to go on tour. "I was selfish, I have to say. I really hurt Jesse over that whole situation and I’ve regretted it since."

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British pop star MIKA has been granted permission to perform in Brussels after a woman of the same name appealed to Belgian courts to ban him from entering the country.
The relatively unknown reggae singer sued the British musician - real name Mica Penniman - in a bid to stop him from further "ruining" her chance at fame.
But a court in Brussels rejected her claims and Penniman’s gig at Vorst National on Tuesday (13Nov) will go ahead as planned.
Belgian Mika says, "I am not suing him for any money, but for the principle and my name. I had it registered in 1983. He is ruining my career."

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Rockers LED ZEPPELIN are on course to break the record for the selling the most expensive concert tickets in British history.
Frontman Jimmy Page donated three pairs of tickets to be auction for charity - and the lots have been marked with a reserve price of £5,000 ($10,000) for a pair.
The ticket sale will go live on Tuesday (13Nov07) at auction website SeatWave.com.

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LATEST: Scottish star KT TUNSTALL has lashed out at award-winning country singer CARRIE UNDERWOOD - for winning a Grammy award.
The American Idol winner took home a Grammy for best new artist in Feb (07) but Tunstall is unimpressed by her fast-track to fame.
Tunstall was reported to be furious with the U.S. talent show for allowing a contestant to sing her song Black Horse and the Cherry Tree on the series, branding the programme a "money-making puppet show." And now the 32-year-old has declared the former American Idol contestant is unworthy of the prestigious prize.
She says, "It’s weird when the Best New Artist is someone from a reality TV show who sings other people’s music."

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Actor-turned-California Governor ARNOLD SCHWARZENEGGER is using his political influence to try and terminate the ongoing Hollywood writers’ strike.
Members of the Writers Guild Of America have been striking since Monday (05Nov07) after talks between the union and studio representatives failed to resolve a dispute over royalties.
And Schwarzenegger is worried about the financial fallout the strike will have on California.
He says, "I’m talking to the parties that are involved because I think it’s very important that we settle that as quickly as possible, because it has a tremendous economic impact on our state."

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The lawyer representing BRITNEY SPEARS in her child custody battle is suing the estate of the late ANNA NICOLE SMITH for unpaid legal bills.
Sorrel Trope claims his firm is owed $160,000 (£80,000) in legal fees for work carried out for Smith, who died in February (07), between October 2006 and March 2007.
In a creditor’s claim filed in Los Angeles Superior Court on Wednesday (07Nov07), Trope alleges the unpaid work was to do with finding out the paternity of Smith’s baby daughter Dannielynn - which a DNA test proved to be Larry Birkhead.
Trope is currently working for Spears as she battles her ex-husband Kevin Federline for the custody of their two sons.

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MICHAEL JACKSON made his first public appearance in his native California since his 2005 acquittal of child molestation charges on Thursday (08Nov07) night.
The Billie Jean singer attended a party at the Beverly Hilton Hotel in honour of his friend Jesse Jackson’s 66th birthday.
And the pop superstar led the crowd, which included U.S. TV veteran Larry King, through a spirited rendition of Happy Birthday for the civil rights campaigner.

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Pop superstar MICHAEL JACKSON has dismissed reports he is in danger of losing his Neverland Ranch in California after defaulting on a $23 million (£11.5 million) loan.
The Thriller singer was said to have been put on notice after failing to pay back the $23 million debt with Fortress Music Trust before 12 October (07).
However, Jackson’s spokeswoman Raymone K. Bain insists the 49-year-old refinanced the loan last year (06) with his former advisors, and that now the loan has matured, he is refinancing again.
She says, "Contrary to published reports, Mr. Jackson was never in default of the loan. Mr. Jackson is in the final stages of refinance and will not lose Neverland Valley Ranch." Jackson has not lived at Neverland since he was acquitted of child molestation charges in 2005.

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