Recently in gossip Category

Cherie Blair took her excellent autobiography to Lorraine Kelly's show this morning and promptly went about setting the record straight. Discussing how contraception and the ability of women to control their fertility was very important, she was apparently unaware that she'd told the whole world she was too embarrassed to take her contraception to Balmoral, and thus ended up getting pregnant.

• Supposedly Rush Limbaugh won Indiana for Hillary, just to be annoying [Guardian].
• Lindsay Lohan nicked some girl's mink coat and wore it for weeks. Girl then busted her wearing it all over the pap rags [Marina Hyde]
• the duck-billed platypus is actually made of 3 things now [Science News]
  
• Stanley Johnson, father of Boris, wants to stand to stand for the Henley by-election [Indy]
  
• a really excellent article on the Bullingdon, BoJo and David Cameron's hilariously unacceptable Oxford drinking club [G2].
• Miles Kington not letting death stop his column from appearing in the Indy.  Excellent writer and lovely man, but still. You'd think they were desperate or something.
  

• Russell Brand's cat is so bored by The Guardian's Jobs & Money section it won't even have it in its litter-tray. 'He'd become constipated rather than defecate on all those tedious career opportunities.' [Private Eye]
• Amyl Crackhouse back at the copshop, arrested over this cracksmoking video [BBC]. Why? Why would you get out your handycam?
• Kelly Osbourne a bit drunk last night [the always excellent Daily Mail].
• ALAN SUGAR SAVED MY LIFE. The Evening Standard led with this, rhyming with the glory days of The Sun's FREDDIE STAR ATE MY HAMSTER. Some chap was watching The Apprentice somewhere else when his house exploded [Standard].
• A £23,000 shirt has gone on display at Eton Shirts in Covent Garden. Can anyone get a picture? (and what is it with sticking diamonds on everything. Are they the new oyster fragments?)
• A glamour model is Berlusconi's new Minister for Equal Opportunities. Heh.
• Retired, Viagra-enabled Floridians have a new coinage: prune-tang. Yes very good [popbitch].