"Scary Spice" Melanie Brown is the second member of the Spice Girls to become pregnant, the News of the World reported yesterday. The newspaper said Mel B and her fiance, Jimmy Gulzar, plan to marry after the Spice Girls finish their US tour this week.
A pizza chain famed for its big-name advertising deals has signed Ronnie Corbett. The comedian, who measures 5ft 1in, will appear in a series of ads for American-owned Pizza Hut - with his former partner Ronnie Barker providing the voice over. A six-figure sum has persuaded the Two Ronnies to resurrect their partnership, having gone their separate ways in 1988.
The Verve, scheduled to play at Slane Castle next weekend, deny they are breaking up. At the weekend they played to 100,000 people at the V98 festival at Chelmsford and Leeds. Leader Richard Ashcroft played both keyboards and guitar while insisting they will carry on with or without guitarist Nick McCabe.
US House of Representatives Speaker Newt Gingrich shook hands with 3,609 people near Seattle on Saturday, enough, he believes, to land him in the Guinness Book of Records under a new category of "most handshakes by a national figure."
The all-time official record, in the head of state category, is 8,513 handshakes by President Theodore Roosevelt at the White House on January 1st, 1907.
Robert Redford says he prefers not to watch his own movies after their premieres - and he does not like seeing himself on screen.
He spoke about his career via satellite link live from Utah to the Edinburgh International Film Festival, where the film he stars in and directed, The Horse Whisperer, had its British premiere.