Last week we reported on the conjugal crisis facing glamour model-turned-author Katie Price (aka Jordan), with her hubby Peter Andre complaining that the couple hadn’t slept together for six months. Now, in what must be an unhappy coincidences, comes news that Price wants to follow Madonna and Angelina Jolie and adopt her very own foreign baby. Apparently, she was so moved by a TV documentary about Bulgarian orphans that she desires one for herself. “We want to be able to help a child have a better life,” she told the Sun on Monday. If she decides to go ahead, Price, whose new novel — again, surely coincidentally — is out this week, won’t have any competition from serial adopter Jolie, who has just given birth to twins.
Amy Winehouse’s state of health is causing further concern. Her worried dad, Mitch, told Sky News: “Had she carried on [the way she was last summer] she could have been dead within six months.” While the chaotic songstress may be counting down the days until her jailbird husband Blake Fielder-Civil could become a free man again, her dad declared: “I would say it’s the last-chance saloon if he comes out and they go back to doing what they were doing before. She’s got a serious health problem and she can’t carry on like that.” As though that doesn’t make things sound bad enough, an undisclosed “source” told the News of the World: “Amy is far more at risk from drug-induced heart failure than emphysema.”
Meanwhile, Winehouse’s neighbours have had enough of the photographers outside her rented flat in North London and are starting to collect video evidence in an attempt to get her evicted.
Sir Alan Sugar, a self-confessed “keen fan” of Prime Minister Gordon Brown, has turned down the chance to spend a weekend advising him on “enterprise”. The Mail on Sunday reports the word from No. 10 was that there was a “diary clash”. My guess is Surallun may be washing his hair.
For anyone wondering what’s happened to ex-Big Brother housemate Ziggy Lichman, I have some answers. Since that embarrassing OK magazine shoot with fellow ex-housemate Chanelle Hayes — in which the pair posed in Posh ’n’ Becks-inspired wedding mode — the former boy band member has been pretty quiet. But now Lichman — who, incidentally, I think appears to be a jolly nice chap — has popped up on a Big Brother spin-off show, and has wasted no time in bagging himself another reality TV girlfriend. He has been spotted smooching with Stephanie McMichael — the first evictee from this year’s BB. An onlooker, who spotted the pair in a West London cafe, told The Daily Star that Ziggy was mouthing to the pretty blonde: “I’m the happiest man in the world.” Cue OK! take two? Please, no.
Iron Man star Robert Downey Jr — whose father has Jewish roots — has signed up to play the title role in the new Sherlock Holmes movie. This is not to be confused with the upcoming comedy based on the deerstalker-wearing detective which will, as we reported last week, star Sacha Baron Cohen.
Madonna’s brother, Christopher Ciccone, has decided he must protect the world from the inconceivable injustice of not knowing the “truth” about his sister. So, without the merest hint of bitterness, he’s spilled the beans in a new book. I’m sure Madge is chuffed. Among other things, the Mail on Sunday’s serialisation describes the time the siblings visited the Kabbalah centre in LA where Madonna and husband Guy Ritchie “are treated as if they are the uncrowned king and queen of Kabbalah”. Ciccone also reveals: “According to our sister Melanie, who still sees Madonna and Guy regularly, they often come over for dinner, but will only talk about Kabbalah. If the conversation strays to any other topic, they lose interest.”