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STAR TREK actor SIMON PEGG has lent his support to pupils at his old scho= ol - offering them advice on bullying.
The British funnyman was contacted by a group of students at his former= high school in Gloucester, England and asked to join their anti-bullying= campaign.
Pegg sent a letter of support to Brockworth Enterprise School, revealin= g his own traumatic experiences with bullies and urging teachers to do mo= re to stop students suffering at school.
He writes, "I think most people experience bullying at some point. It i= sn’t just stealing lunch money. It can be mental or physical. It means us= ing strength or power to intimidate someone weaker or in a weaker positio= n than you. It’s important to send the message out to those who bully and= intimidate that their actions are unacceptable. I have complete disappro= val towards bullying, but also, to some degree, pity. Bullies are weak an= d pathetic. If you don=E2=80=99t (tell someone) it will simply continue. = Be strong. You are not being a snitch, you are protecting yourself and ot= hers. If you’re not sure who to speak to at school, speak to a parent or = even a friend. The important thing is not to suffer in silence.=E2=80=9D =

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American actor GARY COLEMAN has been arrested on one count of domestic as= sault.
The Diff’rent Strokes star was taken to Utah County Jail by authorities= on Sunday afternoon (24Jan10).
A police spokesperson tells RadarOnline.com, "He’s been booked. He’s in= the jail right now." Police have not revealed who the victim is but they confirm Coleman is = currently being held on a $1,725 (=C2=A31,078) bail.
It’s not the first legal dispute for the former child star this year (1= 0) - earlier this month he reached an undisclosed settlement with a disgr= untled fan who accused Coleman of running him over with his truck.
Last year (09) Coleman’s wife, Shannon Price, was arrested near the cou= ple’s Utah home for domestic battery and disorderly conduct.
No further information was available as WENN went to press. (KD/WNWCDAR=

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British singer CHERYL COLE is planning to quit reality show THE X FACTOR = at the end of this year (10) so she can start a family with her soccer st= ar husband, according to a U.K. report.
The Girls Aloud member, who judges on Simon Cowell’s British talent con= test, is rumoured to be one of the contenders to take a chair on the pane= l when the music mogul takes the programme to America in 2011.
But Cole only wants to film one more series of the U.K. singing show be= fore she follows in fellow judge Danni Minogue’s footsteps by starting a = family, according to Britain’s the Daily Mail.
A source tells the publication, "Cheryl has made it clear that she want= s to have a baby sooner rather than later. This is something she knows sh= e has to plan. She will be 27 in June and she really wants to start a fam= ily with Ashley.
"Cheryl has not been formerly approached about going on American X Fact= or. Of course she is flattered with all the talk, but she would think car= efully before signing up. She has Ashley to think about and America would= involve a lot of travelling. Also, if she was pregnant by then it would = make things difficult. But on the other hand, the show would make her a w= orldwide star." Australian singer Minogue announced earlier this month (Jan10) she is e= xpecting her first child with her British boyfriend.

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RADIOHEAD star ED O’BRIEN is adamant the internet is not "killing" the mu= sic industry - because fans who illegally download albums still spend cas= h on merchandise and concert tickets.
The guitarist, a member of the Featured Artists Coalition (FAC), has wa= ded into a debate over the British government’s proposal to launch a crac= kdown on internet service providers who refuse to ban illegal file-sharin= g.
He insists the record industry will not collapse as a result of online = trading - but bosses need to offer cheaper music in order to survive.
O’Brien says, "I have a problem when people in the industry say it’s ki= lling the industry, it’s the thing that’s ripping us apart. I don’t actua= lly believe it is… (Pirates) might not buy an album, but they’re spendi= ng their money buying concert tickets, a t-shirt, whatever.
"It’s an analogue business model in a digital era. The business model h= as to change. You’ve got to licence out more music - have more Spotifys, = more websites selling more music. You’ve got to make it slightly cheaper = to get music in order to compete with the peer-to-peers.
"I find it staggering that the industry seems to be really dragging its= heels on this - this is stuff that you could do in one week. Move quicke= r!"

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MOTLEY CRUE rocker NIKKI SIXX has ended his romance with TV tattoo artist= KAT VON D.
The pair began dating in 2007, following Von D’s divorce from fellow ta= ttooist Oliver Peck.
But Sixx has released a statement announcing the love affair is over.
He says, "I want to wish Katherine (Kat Von D) nothing but the best in = her life. She has loved and inspired the hell outta me and I know I have = done the same for her in these almost two years we ruled the earth togeth= er. We are taking a break from our relationship for reasons that we will = choose to keep personal. You won’t find me saying a bad word about her an= d I don=E2=80=99t believe vice versa=E2=80=A6 we have too much wonderful = history together to ever deface that."

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WESTLIFE singer SHANE FILAN is a dad for the third time - his wife GILLIA= N has given birth to a baby boy.
Shane Peter Filan was born on Friday night (22Jan10), weighing 2.98 kil= ograms (six pounds and nine ounces).
The newborn is a little brother for the couple’s elder children Nicole,= four, and one-year-old Patrick.
A source tells the Irish Independent newspaper, "Shane and Gillian are = over the moon with their new arrival. They’re thrilled it’s a boy and hav= e decided to call him after his dad, which Shane is chuffed (happy) about= ..
"Both mom and baby are doing great."

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Rockers KINGS OF LEON have blasted rumours they’ve switched labels, insis= ting they have a "great relationship" with Columbia Records bosses.
Reports on Friday (22Jan10) suggested the Use Somebody hitmakers had wa= lked away from their deal with Columbia to sign a new deal with Warner Br= others, which would have handed them more control over their productions,= and a bigger slice of profits.
But the band has released a statement that reads, "Kings of Leon have a= lways had and continue to have a great relationship with their label (Col= umbia)."

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Sport-loving BRIAN MCFADDEN is planning to marry Australian singer DELTA = GOODREM this summer (10) - as long as they can fit the ceremony around th= e year’s major sporting events.
The couple has been engaged since 2007 and had planned to walk down the= aisle last month (Dec09), but they decided to put off the nuptials due t= o their work schedules.
The former Westlife star admits they are still busy planning the ceremo= ny and they hope to fit a trip down the aisle in between the upcoming soc= cer World Cup, which ends in July (10), and the conclusion of the Formula= 1 racing season in November (10).
The singer says, "We’re trying to work out a date between the World Cup= and the end of the Formula 1 season. It’s messing all my plans up. I was= going to produce another album, but I won’t get any work done with both = events going on."

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Director PETER JACKSON has first-hand experience of the supernatural - he= ’s convinced his home in New Zealand is haunted.
The Oscar-winner suffered a spooky encounter while he was back in his n= ative country filming the Lord of the Rings trilogy, when he spotted a "s= cary" spectre in his bedroom.
And he insists the ghost is real - because his wife, Fran Walsh, has se= en it too.
Jackson says, "When I woke up in the morning, there was a figure in the= room. She had a scary face, like a silent scream, very accusatory. It wa= s terrifying. She was at the end of the bed then she glided across the ro= om and disappeared into the wall. I sat and wondered if I had really seen= it. Then, Fran came in. I said, ‘I think I’ve seen a ghost.’ I swear I h= ad never spoken to her about this before, but the first thing she said to= me was, ‘Was it the woman with the screaming face?’ "Fran had seen the same woman in the same room two years earlier." (LR/=

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Veteran British actor STEPHEN FRY is supporting the London Olympic Games = in 2012 - he’s in talks to boost the event with a role in its publicity c= ampaign.
The funnyman has been invited on a tour of the Olympic Village in the B= ritish capital while he negotiates his role.
Event organisers are reportedly considering giving Fry an ambassador po= sition, or making him the ‘official voice’ of the Games, according to Bri= tain’s Daily Mail newspaper.
Fry says, "I have been asked to have a meeting with the Olympics people= .. I am really behind it." A spokesperson for the London Olympics adds, "Stephen has been very sup= portive. We would love to have him involved."

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Blockbuster AVATAR has maintained its tight grip on the top spot at the U= ..S. Box office for the sixth week running - taking $36 million (=C2=A322.= 5 million) in the past week.
James Cameron’s 3D adventure has now earned $552 million (=C2=A3345 mil= lion) in America, putting it within touching distance of the current box = office record holder, the director’s 1997 epic Titanic - which took $601 = million (=C2=A3375 million).
Paul Bettany’s post-apocalypse thriller Legion took $18.2 million (=C2=A3= 11.37 million) to secure second place, ahead of Denzel Washington and Gar= y Oldman’s The Book of Eli.
The week’s big disappointment was Harrison Ford drama Extraordinary Mea= sures, which took just $7 million (=C2=A34.3 million) during its opening = weekend.

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British entertainer DARREN DAY has split from his wife of nearly three ye= ars.
The 41 year old, who was previously engaged to Confessions of a Shopaho= lic star Isla Fisher and Pushing Daisies actress Anna Friel, married Step= hanie Dooley in 2007 and they have a three-year-old daughter, Madison.
But the couple has now announced they have parted ways.
A spokesman for Day confirmed the news to British newspaper The News of= the World: "Stephanie and Darren have separated." Day is currently caught up in a drink-driving case after he crashed his= sportscar in Edinburgh, Scotland last year (Dec09).
He admitted the offence of driving while over the legal alcohol limit a= nd failing to stop to give his name and address after a traffic accident,= but is set to contest three other charges.

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Boxing champ EVANDER HOLYFIELD has locked horns with his ex-wife in a leg= al battle over child support payments.
The former heavyweight champion of the world wants a judge to scale dow= n the sum he pays Janice Itson - the mother of one of his eleven children= - because he’s poorer than he was when they divorced in 2000.
According to TMZ.com, Holyfield filed documents in Cobb County Superior= Court in Georgia last week (ends22Jan10), asking for his agreement with = Itson to be modified, because his "income has decreased".
The fighter also cites other children "for whom he is also responsible = to support".

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JULIANNE MOORE is still struggling to cope with her mother’s sudden death= last year (09) - because the actress wanted to be by her side when she p= assed away.
Moore’s Scottish mum, Ann Love Smith, fell ill at the end of April (09)= and died just hours later, while the star was on her way to visit her.
And The Hours actress, 49, will always regret not being there when her = mother passed away.
She says, "My mother got sick and then she died the next morning. I was= on a plane on my way there when she passed away. She was only 68, it’s b= een really tremendously difficult."

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CHARLIE SHEEN skipped the glitzy Screen Actors Guild Awards (SAG) on Satu= rday night (23Jan10) to tend to his sick wife.
The Two and a Half Men star rushed to visit his partner Brooke Mueller = when she was admitted to hospital in Los Angeles on Wednesday (20Jan10) s= uffering from pneumonia linked to a recent operation to remove her wisdom= teeth.
The actor was turned away because of a court order designed to keep the= pair apart following their Christmas Day (25Dec09) fight, which landed h= im in jail in Aspen, Colorado.
A judge subsequently relaxed the protection order to allow Sheen to vis= it his wife in hospital, and he has been spending all of his time tending= to her needs, according to Mueller’s mother Moira Fiore.
She tells People.com, "Charlie has been great, very attentive and nice = to Brooke. He is not even going to the SAG Awards… He wants to be with = her. Brooke’s liver and kidneys are better, but doctors are concerned tha= t she still has pneumonia. She is weak and trying to blow into a plastic = tube. She is having trouble doing that." A hearing to review the protection order was postponed until 8 February= (10) after Mueller fell ill.

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THE VIEW star PETE REILLY has been hit with complaints from neighbours wh= o have called in local authorities over allegations he has been making to= o much noise at his Dundee, Scotland apartment.
Residents claim to have called police five times over the guitarist’s a= ll-night parties, insisting the noise is making their lives "hell." They have now taken their grievances to officials at Dundee City Counci= l and Tayside Police, who have confirmed they are investigating the compl= aints.
Reilly’s neighbour, Grace Smith, says, "The noise started as soon as Pe= te moved in last October (09). After a week of really bad noise, with ban= ging and crashing, I was fed up so I went and spoke to him. I was very po= lite, but Pete wouldn’t hear any of it. Since then, life has been hell. I= t goes on every weekend, and most week nights."

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BOB GELDOF is celebrating a successful investment after pouring money int= o global blockbuster AVATAR - the rocker is set to make a massive profit = from his initial payment.
The musician is one of a number of celebrities who signed up to hand ov= er cash to a scheme which offers tax-relief to those who invest in films.
And Geldof’s decision to join the project, run by film finance house In= genious Media, has paid off - his investment in Peter Jackson’s animated = epic is set to bring him an estimated $80,000 (=C2=A350,000) profit follo= wing the film’s worldwide box office success.
The rocker, who has yet to see the movie, is delighted with the result:= "Thank you very much for the good news. I haven’t seen the film yet, but= I will now that I own a brief second of it. I’ve got even more incentive= to go see it." Other stars who signed up to invest in Avatar include soccer player Dav= id Beckham, director Guy Ritchie and musician Peter Gabriel. (LR/WNSTI/ZN=

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Teen sensation JUSTIN BIEBER was threatened with arrest if he failed to s= end an internet message to fans urging them to go home after a signing in= New York descended into chaos.
The 15 year old was forced to cancel an appearance at the Roosevelt Fie= ld shopping mall in Long Island in November (09) after thousands of screa= ming teens showed up to catch a glimpse of their pop idol.
Mall guards were unable to keep the fans under control and event organi= sers deemed it too unsafe to bring Bieber out, prompting the cancellation= of the event.
Bieber took to his Twitter.com blog and told his devotees to leave. He = also revealed a member of his team had been taken into custody by police.
And the singer has now admitted officials threatened to arrest him if h= e did not comply with their instructions.
He says, "They expected 1,000 fans, but 10,000 turned up. The stupid po= lice officers ended up threatening to arrest me for coming. They told me = to Tweet my fans telling them I wasn’t coming, otherwise they would arres= t me. It didn’t make sense - how could you arrest someone for not Twitter= ing?"

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