DAME Maggie Smith, best known for The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, has received a British Academy of Film and Television Arts Fellowship from Queen Elizabeth at Bafta's 50th Anniversary Celebration.
Singer and actress Cher has told the Washington Post how she felt when she first discovered her daughter, Chastity Bono, was gay.
"I was really upset, I did all the stuff that parents do feel guilty and question `What did I do?' And `I'm Cher, what will this do to my image.' You are totally full of (it) in those moments. And I was, and got over it," she said.
Robbie Williams is to host the MTV Europe Music Awards next month. The former Take That star tapped his feet and mimed to his favourites Oasis, Pulp and Garbage when the nominations were screened at MTV Headquarters yesterday. "I will be an impartial host," he promised, but added: "As long as Oasis and Pulp win everything!"
David Jason (55), star of On Only Fools and Horses, is reported to have found romance again - 18 months alter the death of Myfanwy Talog, his long-time girlfriend.
According to the Daily Mirror, he has fallen for Gill Hinchcliffe, location manager of ITV's detective drama, A Touch of Frost.
Astronomer Patrick Moore yesterday used a recreation of the telescope used to discover one of Neptune's moons exactly 150 years ago. The 30 ft-high telescope which William Lassell used to explore the heavens was the most powerful in England when completed by Lassell in 1845.