Simon Cowell has said he will have a more hands-on role on The X Factor as he considers it to be his "baby".

Stars including Geri Halliwell will tread the boards in the West End to raise money for Children In Need.

My parents were… very determined and active. Work ethic is built into the family. None of us are lazy. Mum taught me manners, to give a firm handshake and to treat people as you would expect to be treated yourself, which is hard to do.

Celebrities rather than party leaders are the staple target of today's comedy impressionists, says Gerard Gilbert

Celebrities rather than leaders are the butt of today's mimics, says Gerard Gilbert

Katie Price divorced her second husband Alex Reid today over his "unreasonable behaviour".

ITV's hit period drama Downton Abbey will soon return to our screens. Gerard Gilbert visits the stately set to find out why we are so turned on by the Edwardians

Yesterday's newspapers featured a groomed and glamorous young couple dressed in identikit cowboy outfits, resplendent in ten gallon hats, "giddy up, pardner" shirts and rootin', tootin' belt clasps.

Sir Elton John and David Furnish have made the shortlist for Celebrity Dad of the Year.

The interesting question about Wonderland's intriguing film The Trouble with Love and Sex is whether its technique – documentary soundtrack of Relate counselling sessions paired up with expressive animation – added something or took it away. You could reasonably answer both ways, and in either case you might argue that the result was to be applauded or deplored. So – beginning with subtraction – it's self-evident that this approach deprived us our ability to judge by appearances. But did that make it more difficult for us to exactly interpret the nuances of meaning in the exchanges we heard, or did it oblige us to listen without prejudice? As for addition, did the fact that recalled psychological traumas were bodied forth on screen intensify their impact or simply force us to accept the animator's judgement of what was most significant? I'm not sure that there were conclusive answers to any of these questions but the result was steadily gripping, often very funny and sometimes very sad.

Peter Andre admits he's a "dirty little rotter" in bed.

Cop a look before you drop. British base-jumper Shaun Walters leapt off the 25th floor of a skyscraper in Chicago only to find a policeman waiting to arrest him at the bottom.

Katie Price has attacked the media regulator Ofcom for failing to demand that Channel 4 broadcast an apology for remarks made by the Glaswegian comedian Frankie Boyle about her disabled son, Harvey.