Singing legend Aretha Franklin is set to undergo emergency surgery for a ‘mystery illness’ in the US today. The 68-year-old singer announced she was cancelling all concert dates and personal appearances in May on doctors orders and recently spent a week in Detroit’s Sinai-Grace Hospital for a ‘serious illness’. A prayer vigil was held in Detroit for the singer, after which she released a statement thanking the City Council,... 

What do you get when you stick a bunch of ex-reality TV stars together? A bunch of ex-reality TV stars touring the UK in 2011, performing songs from GLEE, that’s what! Meet G*MANIA (nothing to do with comeback kid Peter Andre‘s ‘Insania’) – a group of singers, who between them, share appearances on X Factor, Grease is the Word, Britain’s Got Talent, Pop Idol and Last choir Standing. Oh hello Rikki Loney (he with... 

So we all know that Madonna‘s nut-cracking thighs flew into Mexico City on Monday to open her new Hard Candy Fitness Gym, but apparently regulars might not be able to pump gristle for long, as local officials are threatening to close it. We find this a tad hard to believe (because WHO builds a gym in a foreign country without the relevant legal permission?!), but apparently the club is missing a security plan and a land use permit, authorities... 

Britney‘s weave is angry. REALLY angry. So it has instructed its legal team to threaten legal action against gossip website RadarOnline.com after they posted audio files for public consumption which purported to be Britney Spears (weave’s Mama) disclosing details of domestic abuse from boyf Jason Trawick. So now Larry Rudolph, Britney’s longtime manager, has waded in to tell Access Hollywood that the voice on the recording is not... 

Comeback kid Eminem is leading the field of Grammy contenders, snagging 10 nominations, including album of the year, for the 2011 awards ceremony. The rapper was followed by hottie Bruno Mars who received seven nods, while Lady Gaga, Jay-Z and country trio Lady Antebellum (with that song you hum in the car) all picked up six nominations. Doing it for the UK, two of our favourites, Florence and the Machine and Mumford and Sons were recognised in the... 

So Taylor Lautner won the heart of actress Lily Collins after they met on the set of his upcoming thriller Abduction four months ago. Apparently. And now the beefcake of abs is doing that ‘impress the Pops’ thing, as he tries to get in there with Collin’s dad, who just so happens to be Genesis frontman Phil Collins. A gum-flapping source told Star Magazine (which probably means it’s shit): “He’s pretty tough on the guys... 

Gags is telling all of us little monsters that her upcoming album Born This Way will be the greatest album of the decade. Ego much? The singer blubbed at her Monster Ball concert in Pooland (yes we meant to call it that) over the weekend, promising her fans she would never let them down (but can’t promise she won’t be slightly pissed on stage…hence the happy tears). In that whole over the top way you say things when you’re half cut... 

We don’t remember Girls Aloud giving their permission for a Russian escort agency to use a picture of the band to endorse foreign hookers looking for rich British men. Ah, that’s probably because they DIDN’T. But if we’re honest, this picture of the girls is about as classy as one of those postcards you find in a phone box on a Friday after too many pints and a curry; and so is actually perfect for advertising light prostitution of your laydee... 

The lil’ lesbian with the wig appeared on X Factor last night to whip the crowds into a frenzy and send us all into baby Bieber spasms on Twitter. Except, he/she didn’t have quite that effect. The singer’s performance included lip-syncing, some seriously scary ‘this is the lil’ white boy MJ always wanted to be’ moves and a cringe-worthy ‘call me’ hand phone gesture thing to Chezza, which kind of made us gag…..and send Twitter... 

Ooof it’s all going off in the jungle innit?! First Shaun Ryder launches a verbal attack on Gillian, who to be fair did deserve it for being an annoying lil’ rat faced, lazy, selfish, lying, moaning arsehole… And then last night’s show featured Alison and Kayla in a head-to-head for survival bushtucker trial ‘The Dentalists Chair’  – which involved some big old bugs and their mouths (cue lots of Twitter jollity about Kayla...