More Hollywood-friendly stars than ever are swapping screen for stage in 2013.

Don't tell me: you want somewhere super-glamorous. But you don't want to fork out a fortune. Thanks to celebrity overload, we appear to have cultivated A-list sensibilities, then been corrupted by deal-of-the-day offers. Ergo we demand VIP lifestyles on shelf-stackers' pay packets.

Katie Holmes will be returning to the Broadway stage in her first major project since announcing her divorce from Tom Cruise.

Katie Holmes has seized the initiative after her split from Tom Cruise

With its sandstone columns and Union Jack flag fluttering in the wind, Saint Hill Manor looks like a quintessential English country house. Nestled in rolling Sussex countryside on the outskirts of East Grinstead, it has served as the seat of numerous local moneyed families over the centuries.

With the Cruise marriage split, the 60th anniversary of L Ron Hubbard's cult movement is going from bad to worse

After six gossip-filled years, Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes are divorcing

The countryside around Henley-on-Thames is well-known for an abundance of red kites, large birds of prey that soar over the wide green fields and circle on the thermals of a summer day.

The upmarket Brazilian jewellery chain H Stern has chosen London's Sloane Street for its first-ever European standalone store.

Giorgio Armani Prive dedicated his collection of wildly expensive made-to-measure skintight column dresses and painted-on pantsuits to the victims of Japan's earthquake and tsunami.

Tom Cruise's daughter is working for Katie Holmes.

It's been a good hour since I watched Misbehaving Mums to Be and I'm still not quite sure how I feel. A bit... icky? Halfway between concerned and shame-faced? The former, because the facts presented really were alarming, the latter because, well, there's something terribly uncomfortable about poking one's nose into someone else's pregnancy. And then judging them on it. Still, it was riveting. Now, this might have something to do with the absence of a Y-chromosome in my makeup, but pregnancy – as far as I'm concerned – always is.

"You Brits will love the Kennedy story. It has all the pomp, sex, money and power struggles you expect from us colonials. Jackie was our queen, Jack our prince. All very royal in an American way."