Celebrities

As ‘Strictly Come Dancing’ fever grips the nation for the fifth year running, Live Search uncovers that former Misteeq lady Alesha Dixon has already won the competition when it comes to online popularity.

The Spice Girls performance on BBC One's Strictly Come Dancing – due for transmission on Sunday 16 December – was postponed after Emma Bunton sprained her ankle and was unable to perform.

Katie Melua brings her European tour to Britain for a one-off concert at London’s Royal Albert Hall. The show sees the 23 year old return to the prestigious venue for the first time since October 2004.

If you’re looking for book ideas for Xmas why not take some recommendations from Hollywood? Tom Hanks has posted his best books of 2007 on his MySpace profile blog - myspace.com/tomhanks.

Girls Aloud star Cheryl Cole has told radio station 96.4 FM The Wave, that she has never spent Christmas with her footballer husband and longs to put on a pinny and baste his turkey.

Joe Calzaghe has been voted BBC 2007 Sports Personality Of The Year by viewers. Voting took place during the live programme (Sunday 9 December) on BBC One between 7 and 9pm, by telephone.

Real Radio's Breakfast Show presenter Angela Jay introduced Kristyna Bater from Pontyclun to her new found hero Rhydian Roberts at Cardiff's Welsh Millennium Centre yesterday and she cheekily asked the X-Factor favourite to sing at her daughter's wedding.

The legendary Joe Cocker will be the recipient of an OBE on Thursday December 13th. On that day Joe will attend Buckingham Palace with his wife Pam, his brother Victor (himself a CBE) and his wife Jennifer.

Letita Dean was the tenth person to be voted off the Strictly Come Dancing quarter-finals on Sunday night on BBC One – after failing to impress the judges in the dance-off. All the couples danced two different numbers again, one Ballroom and one Latin dance, but once again one of those couples had to leave.

Prepare to be seduced by Lindsey Lohan when taut erotic thriller I Know Who Killed Me debuts on DVD on 28th January from Icon Home Entertainment. Lohan plays the dual role of ‘nice’ girl Aubrey Fleming, a model student who gets abducted and tortured, and ‘bad’ girl Dakota Moss, a sexy pole dancing stripper who turns up in her place but claims to know nothing of Aubrey.