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British singer JESSIE J paid tribute to late THE WHO legend JOHN ENTWISTLE during an appearance in New York by wearing a replica of the rocker’s famous skeleton suit.
The Price Tag hitmaker jetted into the Big Apple during her whistlestop tour of the U.S. to take part in a special handprint ceremony to celebrate her debut album going platinum.
And during the event at Planet Hollywood in Times Square on Thursday (19May11), the star showed her appreciation for bass player Entwistle’s contribution to rock ‘n’ roll history by donning a black top printed with a rib cage and arm bones.
But the singer’s trip to New York wasn’t entirely a happy one - as the late-running star made a dash for her flight out, she was abused by a fan for refusing to stop and sign autographs.

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KATY PERRY forbids the chauffeurs she hires on tour from speaking to her or staring at her, according to the singer’s concert rider.
The California Gurls hitmaker is currently preparing to embark on the U.S. leg of her world tour next month (Jun11), and a list of her dressing room demands has been obtained by TheSmokingGun.com.
The rider reveals Perry asks for a refrigerator with a glass door for her backstage area, which must be "draped in cream or soft pink", two cream-coloured "egg chairs", vases of white and purple hydrangeas as well as pink and white roses and peonies. Carnations are strictly banned.
Drivers taking Perry to her gigs are not allowed to "start a conversation with the client", her guests or fans, and are told not to "stare at the backseat through the rear view mirror". The 23-point "principle driver policy" also states: "Do not ask for autographs or pictures, and especially not while driving!"

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MICHAEL BUBLE is continuing his celebrations with new wife LUISANA LOPILATO by holding a third set of nuptials this weekend (21-22May11).
The crooner will exchange vows with the Argentine actress in front of 500 family members and friends in his native Canada.
Despite already having wed the brunette beauty twice in the last two months, the Home hitmaker admits he’s wracked with nerves ahead of his big day.
He tells Entertainment Tonight Canada, "We’re both nervous, but we’re excited. It’s just another excuse to celebrate our love, have a few drinks and to dance all night." The couple first became husband and wife in a simple civil ceremony on 31 March (11), before staging a more formal affair for 300 guests in Buenos Aires, Argentina on 2 April (11).
And the newlywed singer insists he’s more in love than ever, adding, "We were just saying… that everyone says, ‘Marriage - nothing changes. Oh, it’s just a piece of paper.’ But I love her more. It’s obviously more serious, and you make some promises that are more important to keep… I’m happy. I think she feels the same way, too."

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British singer KATHY KIRBY has died at the age of 72.
The 1960s star passed away on Thursday (19May11) after a short illness.
Famed for her blonde bombshell looks, Kirby made a name for herself with two top 10 hits and three other singles in the top 40 throughout her career.
She also represented the U.K. in the Eurovision Song Contest in 1965, coming in second place to Luxembourg.
A statement from her family reads, "She will be greatly missed by her family and her many friends who have stood loyal over the years."

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Country trio LADY ANTEBELLUM have been rewarded for their songwriting skills after scooping a top honour at the Broadcast Music Inc (BMI) Annual Pop Awards on Tuesday (17May11).
The band accepted the BMI Pop Song of the Year Award for their hit Need You Now, which was written by bandmates Dave Haywood and Charles Kelley, at the annual Los Angeles ceremony, which celebrates the year’s top songwriters.
Lady Gaga was picked to receive the Pop Songwriter of the Year honour, which she shared with R&B singer Jason Derulo and producer J. R. Rotem.
Legendary songwriter David Foster - who has penned classics for Whitney Houston, Madonna, and Celine Dion - was named a BMI Icon.
Brian McKnight, Keri Hilson and Chaka Khan each paid homage to Foster by singing a variety of his hits.

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EVA MENDES is set to portray opera star MARIA CALLAS in an upcoming biopic.
The actress will play the soprano in Greek Fire, based on a book about the singer’s tumultuous love life.
And she admits it’s a role she couldn’t turn down - because Gosford Park screenwriter Julian Fellowes penned the script specifically for Mendes.
She tells Britain’s The Independent, "Julian Fellowes wrote a script for me based on the relationship between Maria Callas and Aristotle Onassis, and as Julian Fellowes wrote it for me I couldn’t say no to it."

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JESSE EISENBERG, ERIC ROBERTS and COREY FELDMAN have come together in New York to call for increased compassion for farm animals.
Wendie Malick, Fred Willard and Ally Sheedy were also among the guests at the star-studded 25th anniversary of the Farm Sanctuary, the leading farm animal protection organisation in the U.S.
The animal-loving stars dined on a three-course vegan dinner at the Cipriani Wall Street restaurant in Manhattan, before Roberts, Feldman and Sheedy all got up on stage to champion the vegan bosses behind the Farm Sanctuary.
Gene Baur, co-founder of Farm Sanctuary, says, "This is as much a celebration as a recognition that we are in the midst of a major awakening about the food we put in our bodies and what it means for the world around us.
"Twenty five years ago I couldn’t have predicted the profound effect Farm Sanctuary would have on how our society views and treats farm animals. We still have a long way to go and events like this are important milestones on the road to renewing our empathy and compassion."

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Producers of the PLANET OF THE APES prequel movie were tempted to use real primates in the film - but they scrapped the idea because the beasts would be too difficult to direct.
Actor Andy Serkis plays chief chimp Caesar in the upcoming sci-fi drama Rise of the Planet of the Apes, but director Rupert Wyatt has revealed the Brit almost had to co-star with real primates.
Wyatt tells Total Film magazine, "The other Apes films dealt with talking apes and and apes that were humanoid in many ways. This film isn’t about that. It’s about apes as apes… We had a choice of using either live apes or CGI.
"Personally, I had moral problems with the idea of using chimps. And from a practical point of view it would be virtually impossible to get them to do what we need them to do within our schedule."

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DANNY DEVITO is throwing his support behind celebrity chef JAMIE OLIVER’s campaign to improve food in American public schools.
The British chef and TV personality has been trying to convince U.S. officials to revamp school lunches to include more nutritious options for students.
DeVito has now pledged to help Oliver on his food crusade, insisting it’s important for kids to adopt a healthy lifestyle at a young age.
In a series of posts on his Twitter.com page, DeVito writes, "Got up again to talk about Jamie Oliver and his passion about getting kids to start on a good diet and fight the sugar and salt. Let’s help! "Got to do something… Talk to kids and get them on board. We have to do it. We have to talk about the future. Let’s not suck our kids into an additive life of soda pop and candy. He wants our children to get with a correct program of health… We have to rebalance our lifestyles to fit the future."

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Filmmaker NICOLAS WINDING REFN has blasted fellow Danish director LARS VON TRIER for his "unacceptable" statements about Nazi leader ADOLF HITLER, insisting he was "very repulsed" by the remarks.
Von Trier hit headlines this week (beg16May11) after expressing sympathy for Hitler while discussing his German heritage at a press conference for his new movie Melancholia at the Cannes Film Festival in France. Festival directors subsequently banned von Trier from the event.
Now fellow Dane Refn has addressed the controversy, admitting the comments reflect a problem with attitudes in their native country.
At a press conference for his movie Drive, Refn told reporters, "I think that what Lars said was very unacceptable, and I don’t want to comment on his movie (Melancholia). I haven’t seen it.
"I think it just shows that in Denmark we have a very small mentality and we sometimes forget that there are other people around us.
"I was very repulsed by what he said, and for my family’s sake as well, and how it affects them and everybody else. I don’t really want to get into it. Whatever he wants to do, it’s his life. The man’s 60 years old."

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French actress MARION COTILLARD is a first-time mum after giving birth to a son.
The Inception star and her French actor/director partner Guillaume Canet welcomed little Marcel in Paris on Thursday (19May11).
A source confirms to People.com, "Mother and baby are fine. (Cotillard is) very happy." Cotillard began dating Canet in 2007 although they first worked together in the 2003 romantic comedy Love Me If You Dare.

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British rocker PETE DOHERTY was jailed for six months on Friday (20May11) for possessing cocaine.
The former Libertines frontman has been battling addictions to heroin and crack cocaine for more than seven years and has notched up a string of convictions for drug offences.
In January last year (10) he was arrested following the death of his close pal Robyn Whitehead, and was subsequently charged with cocaine possession. He pleaded guilty last month (Apr11), and at a hearing at Snaresbrook Crown Court in east London on Friday, Doherty was jailed for six months.
The rocker was in the midst of a U.K. tour but all remaining dates are now due to be scrapped.
The jail sentence came just hours after Doherty confessed the death of Whitehead has left him a "broken" man.

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WESTLIFE welcomed QUEEN ELIZABETH II to Ireland in style on Thursday (19May11) by performing at a special concert in her honour.
The British monarch was treated to a ceremony featuring some of the country’s most famous musicians during her first official visit to the Emerald Isle this week (beg16May11).
The Queen was given a standing ovation as she entered the National Convention Centre Dublin, where chart-topping boy band Westlife and Grammy-winning folk act The Chieftains performed onstage.
The Dublin Gospel Choir gave a moving rendition of You Raise Me Up before the stepdancers of the famous Riverdance troupe performed the finale.
The evening’s host Harry Crosbie later revealed the Queen was thrilled with her trip, telling the Belfast Telegraph, "She’s loving Ireland, and is really enjoying herself. I told her she had captured the hearts of the Irish people and she was chuffed (delighted)." Westlife star Nicky Byrne later took to his Twitter.com page to write, "Amazing day today..So proud to be Irish..We have all done ourselves proud on a global stage.. And ‘wow’ what energy Queen Elizabeth has..!", while his bandmate Kian Egan added: "What an honour it was to be singing for the Queen tonight, it truly felt like a historic moment. Brought a tear to my eyes. An amazing day."

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British rocker PETE DOHERTY has finally spoken out about his link to the deaths of his best friend and a budding actor, insisting the double tragedy has left him a "broken" man.
The former Libertines frontman was last week (beg09May11) cleared of any involvement in the death of Mark Blanco, who passed away in 2006 after plunging from the balcony of an apartment in east London following a bust-up with the rocker at a party.
In January last year (10), Doherty hit headlines again when he and fellow musician Alan Wass were arrested after the suspected drugs death of close friend Robyn Whitehead at his pal Peter Wolfe’s London home.
Doherty was subsequently charged with possessing cocaine and is awaiting sentence after admitting the offence - and now he has finally addressed both tragedies in a bid to "do away with the perverse and degrading silence" he’s maintained since the incidents.
In a post on his official blog, the singer/songwriter is adamant there was no "foul play" in either Blanco or Whitehead’s deaths. He insists he was not present when Blanco toppled from the balcony at literary agent Paul Roundhill’s home, and claims there is "no cover up" in the Whitehead case.
Doherty writes, "I have said nothing about any of this up until now. Even the words attributed to me are incorrect. I’ll tell you how I feel: Sick to my heart with sadness for the parents and family of both Mark and Robyn, for different reasons, although in both cases the relatives have suffered due to the unprincipled media’s insistence that foul play and the ‘evil junky Pete Doherty’ are to blame for two tragic deaths.
"Mrs Blanco. Your son was well-liked and well-loved and many respected him, for his wit and his talent and his intelligence. I met him on two occasions. The night that he died he was intensely agitated and extremely hyper-active and intoxicated. He was ejected from Paul’s flat because of his aggressive and loud attempts to belittle me and assert his view that I was a hyped up pop star and he was a talented actor about to star in a play called ‘accidental death of an anarchist’.
"Paul was dismayed that his friend was showing me this side of his character when in reality we could have been friends and exchanged ideas… When he left the flat he was alone and when he fell or jumped he was alone. THAT is what happened. He either fell or was making an extreme point about the nature of life imitating art.
"I need to think. I need to explain. I need you to know that these families are torturing themselves in the quest for sinister plots and answers that are not there. Robyn’s father texted me that I am a ‘coward and a runt’ and that I am to blame. She talked constantly of her father Peter Whitehead. She worshipped him… She would be broken hearted if she knew that I was not even invited to the funeral. She was my best friend you deranged old silly. There is no cover up. We are broken, me Alan and Wolfe."

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LEONARDO DiCAPRIO raised more than $200,000 (£125,000) for aid efforts in Haiti - by pledging to personally donate $70,000 (£43,750) and shaming business moguls HARVEY WEINSTEIN and VLADIMIR DORONIN into following suit.
The Hollywood heart-throb was at an auction for Sean Penn’s Haiti charity as part of the Cannes Film Festival in France this week (begs16May11) when he became frustrated at the slow pace of the bidding.
So in a bid to kickstart some large donations, DiCaprio leaped onstage, grabbed a microphone, and told the audience he will hand $70,000 of his own cash to the cause, according to New York Post gossip column Page Six.
And DiCaprio’s philanthropic efforts didn’t end there - he publicly called on millionaire movie boss Weinstein and Russian businessman Doronin to match his bid, and they both agreed.
The auction eventually raised more than $1 million (£625,000) for Penn’s JP Haitian Relief Organization, which provides cash for aid efforts following the devastating earthquake that hit the country last year (10).

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SIR ANDREW LLOYD WEBBER is donating $51 million (£32 million) to art and culture organisations through his charitable foundation.
The British composer raised the money for the Andrew Lloyd Webber Foundation by selling a Pablo Picasso painting in an auction last summer (Jun10).
The funds will be handed out to different U.K. organisations, including youth theatre company Chickenshed and music charity Nordoff Robbins, which specialises in music therapy.
Chairman of the Trustees, Mark Wordsworth, says, "Previously we have concentrated on fine art and arts education, but we have decided to help a broader scope of people and projects directly with the funds invested from the Picasso sale."

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Rocker GREGG ALLMAN is set to tell all about his colourful life in an autobiography.
The Allman Brothers Band star, who was married to Cher in the 1970s, has signed a book deal with bosses at William Morrow, part of HarperCollins Publishers.
The memoir is said to be an "unflinching" look at his brother and bandmate Duane’s death from a motorcycle accident in the 1970s, Allman’s substance abuse issues and his relationship with Cher.
Allman follows in the footsteps of rockers Keith Richards, Steven Tyler and Sammy Hagar, who have all recently published their memoirs.
The as-yet-untitled book is due for release in early 2012.

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CHAKA KHAN burst into an impromptu performance with STEVIE WONDER as she unveiled her Hollywood Walk of Fame star on Thursday (19May11).
The I’m Every Woman hitmaker was given the 2,440th plaque on a section of the Hollywood Boulevard in Los Angeles, and her proud family was on hand to see the singer accept the honour.
Stevie Wonder also attended the ceremony and teamed up with his pal to treat the crowds to a rendition of her 1974 hit Tell Me Something Good.
Speaking about the legendary singer, Wonder said, "We’re all very excited for Chaka." Khan also spoke of her pride at landing a star, declaring, "This is so fabulous. I am so honoured… do I deserve this? All I’m doing is what I love to do.
"Singing is my sanity. That is the way I stay as balanced as I possibly can, if you want to call this a balance. The best thing that you can do is to do something that you love and believe in.
"This is a blessing. This is another jewel in a crown of many jewels that I wear spiritually."

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