Celebrities

American music rights organization Broadcast Music Inc. (BMI) lauded U.K., Europe and Jamaica’s premier songwriters, composers and music publishers this month at the 2008 installment of the BMI London Awards.

Katie Price, aka Jordan, has come out on top as the nation’s favourite reality television star according to 40% of Brits in a poll of over 3,000 fans conducted by MSN Entertainment (entertainment.uk.msn.com).

As Sir Cliff Richard kicks off his bid to bag a 15th number one single with his new ‘Thank you for a Lifetime’ release, over half of Brits (56%) have voted him as their favourite guilty music pleasure, according to a poll of over 1,800 music fans on MSN Music.

Cheryl Cole has been voted the nation’s top style icon. The stunning Girls Aloud singer and X Factor judge has beaten self-styled ‘fashion expert’ Coleen Rooney into second place in a survey of 1400 readers of heat magazine and Heatworld.com.

With her stunning smile and curvaceous good looks, British beauty queen Kelly Brook has topped the stakes for this year’s hottest female celebrity beach body, according to a new poll of more than 1,500 fans by MSN Life & Style.

The original Pretty Woman, Julia Roberts, has the best smile of all time, according to research by smile, the internet bank.

As the Queen of Pop’s 50th birthday looms this weekend, the former cone-corseted singer’s dance floor filler ‘Like a Prayer’ has been voted her best song of all time according to a new poll of more than 1,200 Madonna fans conducted by MSN Entertainment (entertainment.uk.msn.com).

Gok Wan is the first celebrity expert to be named to Alliance & Leicester Bank’s Premier 21 Master Class Programme which launches today. The programme has been created to support 16-21 year olds who have left full time education to kick start their careers.

Bryan Ferry will be named a BMI Icon at the U.S. performing right organization’s annual London Awards, slated for Tuesday, October 7 at London’s Dorchester Hotel, Park Lane. The invitation-only gala will recognize the U.K., European and Jamaican songwriters and publishers of the past year’s most-played BMI songs on American radio and television.

Reuniting for the first time since they wowed the crowds with their Strictly Come Dancing routines, former EastEnders actress Louisa Lytton and her professional partner Vincent Simone will go back to the ballroom one more time as they represent the UK in this year's Eurovision Dance Contest airing on BBC One on Saturday 6 September.