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ROGER DALTREY is stunned by the success of his annual cancer charity gigs in the U.K. - because the star was convinced he’d have to cancel the res idency at London’s Royal Albert Hall after just two years.
The Who rocker founded the Teenage Cancer Trust concert series in 2000, and has played with his band on four different occasions, as well as sig ning up stars including Noel Gallagher, Ronnie Wood and Chris Martin to p erform.
And Daltrey admits he’s shocked the shows have remained so popular.
He tells Britain’s Daily Star, "I’m amazed. It seems like yesterday tha t we started. I wanted to do something about the problem that teenage can cer sufferers have and I was determined to stick with it.
"Straight away we booked the hall for 12 years - you had to book it wel l in advance to be able to get it for the same week every year. We though t we could cancel it after two years, but go on as long as we thought we were able.
"Here we are, 10 years later, and I’m amazed at the support I’ve had fr om the music and comedy industry."

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Aussie singer KYLIE MINOGUE has stripped off for a new cancer awareness c ampaign, five years after she was diagnosed with the disease.
The Spinning Around hitmaker poses in just a bedsheet in the saucy shoo t for the Fashion Targets Breast Cancer 2010 fundraising initiative.
She joins Sienna Miller and Claudia Schiffer, who have also been snappe d for the promo.
Minogue says, "It means so much to me to be part of this year’s campaig n for Fashion Targets Breast Cancer. I wholeheartedly support their effor t to raise funds for the vital work undertaken by Breakthrough Brest Canc er." The 41 year old has been praised by medical experts for raising awarene ss of the disease after she opened up about her battle with cancer follow ing her diagnosis in 2005. Minogue has since been given the all-clear. (C

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The stepbrother of British singer JAMELIA has been jailed for shooting a man during race riots in the U.K.
Tobias Rowe will spend a minimum of 12 years behind bars after he was f ound guilty earlier this month (Mar10) of attempted murder in connection to a 2005 shooting.
The 27 year old was among a gang who targeted staff and customers in tw o bars in relation to a man allegedly raping a woman in Birmingham, Engla nd.
Rowe was also found guilty of rioting, conspiracy to rob, two charges o f possessing a firearm and possessing ammunition in relation to the riots .. He was found not guilty of another charge of attempted murder and an al ternative charge of attempted wounding with intent by a jury at Birmingha m’s Crown Court.
Rowe was arrested last year (09) over the attacks after three years on the run when he attended his own birthday party at an apartment in the ci ty.
It is the latest in a series of scandals to hit the singer’s family mem bers - Jamelia’s uncle is serving life for murder, her stepbrother was ac cused, but cleared, of murdering two women in 2003 and her step-brother w as stabbed to death.

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Actress HOLLY HUNTER knows her fowl - she finished eighth in a U.S. poult ry competition when she was a child.
The Piano star credits life growing up on a farm for giving her excelle nt chicken judging skills.
She tells the Los Angeles Times, "The worst-looking chickens are the be st layers. The ones that are the scraggliest… those are usually the one s that are really cooking."

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MILEY CYRUS is convinced watching her turn in new movie THE LAST SONG wil l make her take acting lessons - because she wants to develop her big scr een career.
The star shot to fame in Disney show Hannah Montana in 2006 and launche d a successful singing career from her popularity on the show.
She made the move into lead film roles last year (09) - but admits she’ s open to developing her acting skills further.
Cyrus says, "I=E2=80=99ve not taken like acting lessons or anything, bu t it doesn=E2=80=99t mean I don=E2=80=99t need to because I=E2=80=99m sur e I do. Once I watch this film in the theatre, I=E2=80=99m probably going to go book an acting coach.
"I=E2=80=99m kind of bi-polar in my acting choices because I just want to do a little bit of everything. One day I=E2=80=99m telling my mom I wa nt to do an action movie and then I was to be doing comedy and then all d ifferent types of things. I get a little bored so hopefully I=E2=80=99ll get a chance to do a little bit of everything."

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ANGELINA JOLIE is turning to the dark side - she’s in talks play the wick ed fairy godmother in a live action remake of SLEEPING BEAUTY.
Fantasy filmmaker Tim Burton will direct the modernised version of the Disney classic following the success of Alice In Wonderland, and Jolie wi ll add her star power to the project as famous villain Maleficent, accord ing to the Los Angeles Times.
Alice In Wonderland has become America’s highest-grossing movie of the year (10) so far after taking $116.3 million (=C2=A377.5 million) earlier this month (Mar10) in its first three days on U.S. release.
Jolie is currently shooting The Tourist with Burton’s frequent collabor ator and Alice In Wonderland star Johnny Depp.

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ABIGAIL BRESLIN’s Broadway show THE MIRACLE WORKER is set to close next m onth (Apr10), after it failed to win over critics and audiences.
The revival of William Gibson’s play, about a young deaf and blind Hele n Keller, played by Breslin, and her instructor, played by Alison Pill, h as earned mixed reviews since it debuted earlier this year (10).
One critic wrote, "Surely this production, the first revival of The Mir acle Worker to come to Broadway, could have highlighted the play’s streng ths more effectively… (director) Ms. Whoriskey’s production never finds its focus." And now show bosses have announced that the production will close on 4 April (10), according to Variety.com.

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EMMA THOMPSON opened up about her past family heartache on a U.K. TV show on Sunday (28Mar10), revealing her beloved grandmother was raped as a ch ild.
The Nanny McPhee star confessed that her nana, Annie Jackson, was sexua lly attacked by her employer when she worked as a maid during World War I ..
The unnamed man repeatedly raped Annie, then aged 12, and eventually le ft her pregnant - in the hope she would give up the baby to him and his w ife, who were unable to conceive.
But Annie fled back to her family home and went on to have the tot, who was Thompson’s Uncle.
The actress tells Britain’s The Andrew Marr Show, "My gran’s story is f ascinating, because she went into service when she was 12, and was used i n this strange sort of experimentation, as it were, in early surrogate mo therhood because she was in fact raped by her employer.
"During the First World War she would go and stay away, and the husband would make his way up into my grandmother’s attic room and have his evil way with her. She became pregnant and her father, a clergyman, said: ‘Yo u can come back and have the baby’, and it was my Uncle Fred.
"Then they found out this couple, who were childless, had done it to th ree other women who had all kept their babies. They were trying to have a child using a surrogate mother, but obviously in a very unsavoury and da maging way."

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Latin superstar SHAKIRA plans to settle down and start a family next year (11) after she completes her upcoming world tour.
The Hips Don’t Lie hitmaker, 33, is set to promote her latest album She Wolf with a trek around the globe later this year (10).
But she’s already looking beyond the live shows and admits she’s lookin g forward to taking a break from her career to have a baby with longterm boyfriend Antonio de la Rua.
The Colombian beauty says, "My plan is to do a world tour and then to t hink about having a baby.
"My body clock isn’t going crazy, but I feel ready. My body feels ready .. Antonio and I have talked about it and it’s the next step for us." (MT/

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Scottish singing sensation SUSAN BOYLE is so excited about her worldwide success, she’s convinced she’ll be worth $24 million (=C2=A316 million) b y next year (11).
Boyle shot to fame on Simon Cowell’s Britain’s Got Talent last year (09 ) when a clip of her singing spread across the internet and gained her le gions of dedicated fans.
She went on to release her debut album I Dreamed A Dream, which became the biggest-selling CD of 2009 in the U.K., and has now sold more than 8.
5 million copies globally.
Boyle has reportedly been living off an allowance from Cowell, but she will receive her first big payout from her worldwide sales when she turns 49 on April Fool’s Day (01Apr10).
And the singer is looking forward to buying a new five-bedroom, three-b athroom riverside property in her hometown of Blackburn, West Lothian, Sc otland.
Boyle says, "I’m no April fool - I’m going to be worth =C2=A316 million next year." Her brother, Gerry, adds, "Susan was teased from a child because of her birth date and told she would never amount to much in her life. She can still remember the taunts as if they were yesterday. But she rang me last week and was so happy. She said, ‘Gerry, if people look at me now they’l l realise I’m no idiot, no fool. I can buy whatever I want.’ I felt so ha ppy for her.
"She’s had a lot of knocks in life and deserves everything good coming her way… The figures are staggering - eye popping. When Susan was told she dropped the phone and danced a jig around her front room, even though money is not her god and never will be."

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Hip-hop mogul RUSSELL SIMMONS is leading a neighbourhood campaign in his native New York to put a stop to rising violence and crime activity in th e area.
The co-founder of Def Jam Records joined locals in the borough of Queen s on Saturday (27Mar10) to raise awareness about the Peace Keepers Moveme nt, which aims to curb crime by encouraging a strong presence of men in t he community in tough neighbourhoods.
Simmons tells the New York Daily News, "For me, this is significant bec ause I grew up here.
"Not too far from here, I sold drugs. I’ve had to change, and I’ve had leaders show me the way." The campaign comes as statistics for the number of murders in Queens wa s reported to have risen by 29 per cent since the start of 2010, compared to the same period in 2009.

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JOHN CIAMBOTTI, the man who turned down the chance to replace BILL WYMAN in the ROLLING STONES, has died, aged 67.
The former Clover bass player had quit the music business to concentrat e on a career as a chiropractor when the Stones invited him to step in fo r Wyman in the late 1980s.
As a member of Clover, Ciambotti helped Elvis Costello develop his soun d in the late 1970s. The band backed the Brit on his My Aim is True debut ..
As a chiropractor, Ciambotti was a specialist rock and pop stars turned to when they needed expert treatment for aches, pains and injuries.
The bassist was also an in-demand session musician, who performed with John Prine and Lucinda Williams, among others.

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Singer IAN HUNTER once feared he would be shot by ELVIS PRESLEY after sne aking into his idol’s Graceland home in Memphis, Tennessee while drunk.
The Mott The Hoople frontman gained entry into the King’s property in t he hope of meeting the superstar after flying all the way over from Brita in.
But Hunter quickly fled the scene after being warned about Presley’s ba d temper and penchant to shoot things when he was angry.
He recalls, "I burst into Graceland through the back door. I walked int o a room… knocked on a door and it was answered by Alberta, Elvis’ maid .. I told her I’d come all the way from Britain to see my hero but she sai d Elvis was in a bad mood.
"He’d just come back from a movie theatre and hated the film. She warne d me that he would bounce me off the walls - or worse. She said the last time he’d hated a movie, he’d grabbed a gun and put a bullet through the TV set. I was half-cut (drunk) but sobered up quickly. I was glad to get out of Graceland."

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NEW KIDS ON THE BLOCK star JOEY MCINTYRE has opened up about his struggle s as a father after revealing his baby boy Rhys was born severely deaf.
McIntyre’s wife Barrett gave birth to their second son in December (09) , but the tot was found to suffer from a serious hearing impairment after failing a series of tests shortly after he was born.
The couple admits it had difficulty coming to terms with the news at fi rst, but the family is gradually learning to deal with it.
Barrett tells People.com, "What’s wild is we will never really know how (anything) sounds for him. We went through a full range of emotions. As a mother you want to protect your kids. I thought, ‘How could I let this happen?’ I felt responsible." McIntyre adds, "You’re just shocked, and your stomach gets in knots. It feels like you’re holding your breath. And that feeling lasted for a few days, until you get educated. You go from, ‘Oh my God’ - fearing that so meday my son might be walking into the street and I’m calling after him a nd he’s not going to hear me - to ‘It’s going to be OK’ to ‘It’s going to be amazing.’ Rhys’ hearing loss is part of who he is. His life is going to be as special as Griffin’s. There’s just work involved." And the singer is determined not to let little Rhys’ disability affect his childhood.
McIntyre says, "We’re being totally proactive about the situation… He knows our voices now. He’s a sweet, responsive baby. He’s doing all the things he should be for a baby his age, and that’s beautiful. It’s all of the things you take for granted. His hearing aids make a huge difference .."

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Scottish actor GERARD BUTLER personally apologised to his former high sch ool crush - after namechecking her on a U.S. TV show.
The actor was a guest on comedian Jimmy Kimmel’s late-night show on Wed nesday (24Mar10) and was asked if any woman had ever shunned the 300 star ..
Butler pretended it was still a sore point, saying, "This girl, Julie M orrison… was the one you’d end up round the back of the bike sheds with …. I’ll never forget her walking up the stairs… and I said something t o her and then I gave her a long, lingering look… and she looked at me and gave me these come-to-bed eyes." But Morrison has revealed the star later called to apologise for naming her on national TV, insisting his comments were only meant as a bit of f un.
She tells Scotland’s Sunday Mail, "I have known Gerry for 30 years and we are great pals. We will be great pals for another 30 years. What he sa id was typical Gerry - he is just a fun, mischievous, cheeky chappy kind of guy…
"What he said has been misconstrued. He was making lighthearted comment s to amuse an audience. None of it was meant to be taken seriously. I kno w Gerry has been shocked by how people have painted him out to be a bad g uy and he got his lawyers involved. I keep in touch with him but I was su rprised to get the call out of the blue. He just told me what I knew - th at it was a bit of fun.
"I had never even heard of the show let alone seen it so I was really s urprised by this. I have people phoning me up to see if I’m OK about it b ut it was just a good laugh. I am not in the least offended… It was hys terical and I’m not taking anything to heart." (KD/WNSSU/ZN) ————————————————————————-

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EMMA THOMPSON vowed to use adult humour in the NANNY MCPHEE movies as a t ribute to her late father’s quirky children’s show THE MAGIC ROUNDABOUT.
The British actress adapted the Nanny McPhee stories from Christianna B rand’s Nurse Matilda books and they have become firm favourites for kids, with the 2005 original grossing $122 million (=C2=A376 million) at the i nternational box office.
Thompson confesses she took inspiration for the film - as well as the c urrent sequel Nanny McPhee and the Big Bang - from her writer/producer fa ther Eric, who courted controversy with his scripts for the U.K. version of The Magic Roundabout.
And the star admits she always aims to write stories which make herself laugh first and foremost.
She tells British chatshow host Jonathan Ross, "(Nanny McPhee) is an ho mage to my dad and to The Magic Roundabout and to the fact he’d done thes e funny cartoons for kids and he’d get letters from mothers saying, ‘How dare you use phrases like this for children, they’ll never understand it, ‘ and he said, ‘Well, why would you write differently for children? They’ re just children who haven’t lived as long as we have, what’s the point i n talking down to them?’ "I have to write something that makes me laugh that I like and then hop e everybody else is going to like it."

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JUDE LAW is reportedly fuming over his ex-wife SADIE FROST’s plans to rev eal all about their marriage and subsequent divorce in a forthcoming auto biography.
The Alfie star was married to Frost for six years before they split in 2003 and now the fashion designer is set to lift the lid on their life to gether in her memoir.
But Law is not impressed and is said to be seeking legal advice from hi s girlfriend Sienna Miller’s lawyers about the book.
A source tells Britain’s Mail On Sunday, "Jude has told Sadie that he w ants to know exactly what is written about him. He is very worried that s ome of the revelations could be damaging to his career and upsetting for their children when they are old enough to read it.
"Jude… has consulted Sienna=E2=80=99s lawyers for advice. Sienna is a lso concerned because she doesn=E2=80=99t know what Sadie will say about her either." The autobiography will also discuss Frost’s childhood, career and celeb rity pals, including supermodel Kate Moss.

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UMA THURMAN’s new film MOTHERHOOD has epically flopped at the U.K. box of fice - the film only made $132 (=C2=A388) in its opening weekend (05/06Ma r10).
Thurman plays a stressed mum who struggles to balance parenting and her career in the new movie - which only took $60,000 (=C2=A340,000) in the U.S. when it opened last year (09).
But the response to the film was even worse in Britain - where only one person went to watch the movie on Sunday 7 March (10), and the film only garnered an embarrassing $132 (=C2=A388) during the whole weekend.
And producer Jane Edelbaum can’t understand why the movie has bombed so badly, telling Britain’s The Guardian, "You’re kidding? We must have bro ken a new record for grosses! "Think about how much c**p succeeds at the cinema. Motherhood is not ba d. It’s a very decent movie. I’ve seen movies that are not half as good."

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