Princes William (15) and Harry (13) took their friends to meet the Spice Girls at the world premiere of their film Spiceworld The Movie last night - and the cheeky group made a bid to recruit their father, the Prince of Wales, as their new manager.
The £16 million film is a starstudded comedy romp showing five days in the hectic, glamourfilled lives of Britain's pop phenomenon.
Prince Harry has met the group before in South Africa, but for Prince William it was a first.
A British hard-core porn star has been cast as Princess Diana in a new movie about her life, the New York Post said yesterday. Christina Hance, who resembles the late princess, will star in the movie financed by David Puttnam, the former business partner of Dodi Fayed. Hance has already appeared as the princess in a fake video that supposedly caught Diana romping with lover James Hewitt. The video was shown to be fraudulent as its makers were negotiating a sale to a London tabloid newspaper.
Kathy Burke is to retire her comic creation Waynetta Slob, at least temporarily, she said.
Wayne Slob, played by Harry Enfield, will have to do without his lager-swilling wife in the Harry Enfield And Chums Christmas special this year.
Queen Elizabeth is to open her account books for the first time for members of parliament to see how she spends the £20.4 million she receives from public funds, the Times has reported. The paper said the House of Commons public accounts committee was about to issue a request for clarification on the royal family's accommodation and staff.
Frank Bruno (36) has denied suggestions he beat his wife. Pouring his heart out in the Sunday Mirror, he says: "I still cannot believe that people think me capable of that. Can you imagine the damage I would do if I punched a woman?
"If I punched anyone, let alone a woman, they wouldn't be able to walk out of the room." He was speaking after his wife Laura (34) took an injunction against him last month, barring him from "assaulting, molesting, or harassing" her.
Bill Clinton's daughter Chelsea is back in Washington for the holidays after her first term at Stanford University.
Tz'unun, the two-day-old prematurely-born son of Guatemalan Nobel Peace Prize laureate Rigoberta Menchu (38) has died of kidney failure in Mexico City. The baby, whose name means hummingbird in a Guatemalan Indian language, died due to his premature birth. He will be cremated and his ashes buried in Menchu's hometown of Chimel in Quiche province.