Madonna compared the "painful" struggle of her adoption plans controversy with the suffering women go through in natural childbirth.

Amy Winehouse won a songwriting "Oscar" - but arrived too late to pick up her gong.

Take That were among the winners at the Ivor Novello awards.

Celebrity gardener Monty Don has suffered a stroke and will stand down from his presenting duties, the BBC said.

Raef Bjayou believes The Apprentice turned him into a "great leader", despite being axed from the show.

Phil Collins has joked he and the Cadbury's gorilla are best friends.

Simon Cowell apologised to David Cook as the 25-year-old rocker beat off David Archuleta to win American Idol.

Mia Farrow has revealed she joined Unicef's campaign to eradicate polio because of her personal experiences of the illness.

ITV has failed to meet quotas for the number of programmes it makes outside London, Ofcom has said.

A childhood friend of the alleged victim in the R Kelly child pornography case has said she recognised her long-time friend in the explicit video at the centre of the case.

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