My bland date with Cilla I was reading in the press about Paul O'Grady on holiday in Paris with his best pal, Cilla Black. I'd like to be a fly on the wall when those two hit the town ...

If you're Happy and you know it... Well it was my 43rd birthday on Friday - thanks for all the cards and pressies - and anyone who knows me will be well aware that I'm very touchy about my age...

After the news broke about Prince Harry serving in Afghanistan for the last 10 weeks, I was hoping he would celebrate his return at my club Mission on Saturday night. Harry’s long...

I met Delia Smith last week when she was signing copies of her latest book for staff at ASDA Head Office in Leeds. The book entitled ‘How to Cheat at Cooking’ is an update of her original 1971 best seller of the same title...

Good times, tough times The businessman and philanthropist, Terry George, and his personal assistant, Nicola Davis, talk to our correspondent When the tribute web-site...

When Melissa Came To Stay… Michael and I were really flattered a few weeks ago when a TV Production company contacted us about the possibility of filming our house for a new Channel 5 show ‘I Own Britain’s Best Home’...

More tea, Sir Alex? Coming home from a jaunt can be pretty tedious. We're all guilty of acting tetchy when we've been killing time in airports and falling asleep in uncomfortable seats, then waking up with a severely cricked neck and creased-up face ...

Me, Jesus and the rain-soaked beaches of Rio When you're jetting off for a cheeky February getaway in exotic South America, the last thing you expect is non-stop rain. Not just...

What Beadle was really about I was really upset to hear about the death of the television presenter Jeremy Beadle. The sort of pranks that made him famous with Game For A Laugh and Beadle's About were my favourite type of joke...

I had the unexpected chance of a catch-up with Nikki Ann Sanderson when she turned up at Fibre on a quiet Thursday night. I was just minding my own business for once, chilling out with some friends, when in she trooped with a crowd of fellow Heartbeat cast members...

I had a great time at a celebrity preview screening of the bombastic new musical blockbuster, Sweeney Todd. A fellow star of Channel 4's Secret Millionaire, Margaret Heffernan, invited me along to this very exclusive RAD A event at Warner Brothers' head office in London...

Lee Sharpe, his mates and the £225 tipple The ex-footballer turned Celebrity Love Island canoodler turned ice dancer Lee Sharpe and me go back a long way. I first met him when...

Ice ice baby! Celebs get their skates on! I absolutely adore light entertainment, there's nothing better than new talent-fests like X Factor and prime-time personalities of Strictly Come Dancing, sequinned up the the max, doing a quick-quick slow with a fixed grin...

Christmas and New Year is a time for gathering your family and friends together and chilling out at home - and I've been doing plenty of that. But a highlight of the festive holidays...

Spare a thought for those troubled stars Some people seem to really relish seeing stars in the gutter, down on their luck - it seems to be a reflection on the sicker side of British society...