Doctor John

John Simm will reportedly take over the role of The Doctor from David Tennant, playing the eleventh incarnation of the popular Time Lord.

The News of the World claims that the deal has been signed, with the former Life on Mars star to play the coveted role in the fifth season due to be screened in 2010.

The tabloid cites a BBC insider as saying: "John is absolutely over the moon. He's got a six-year-old son who is a massive Doctor Who fan and he can't believe his dad is going to fly the Tardis at work."

Simm appeared in the final three episodes of the third season of Doctor Who earlier this year in a different role - as evil Time Lord The Master.

Rich Robbie

Robbie Williams earned a massive £32,200,163 from his world tour last year.

The singer performed at 44 gigs in 14 countries over a period of nine months in 2006, but the pressures of the tour resulted in him becoming hooked on anti-depressants and checking into rehab.

Williams' tour profits nearly equalled his earnings from the previous four years. He has earned £67,811,209 since his music business, The In Good Company Co Limited, was set up in March 2002.

Kanye's mom dies

The mother of rap star Kanye West has died at the age of 58 after cosmetic surgery developed complications.

Dr Donda West, who managed the star's businesses and educational foundation and was the subject of his song Hey Mama, died in Los Angeles on Saturday.

Her publicist Patricia Green said she passed away "as the result of complications from a cosmetic surgical procedure", but gave no more details.

In other news

* Penny Lancaster has become the sixth celebrity to be voted off Strictly Come Dancing.

* CBeebies is to leave BBC Television Centre for the Teddington Studios to cut costs.

* Playboy model and socialite Kim Kardashian may have said she wanted to ban it, but her sex tape is now being released in full.

* Sexy singer Nadine Coyle is looking for a ballsy man ‘to wear the trousers’.

* X Factor girl band Hope are sleeping in separate bedrooms following a series of rows.

* Arlene Phillips has warned Kelly Brook that she needs to "grow up" if she wants to win Strictly Come Dancing. The show's judge insisted that Brook and her dance partner Brendan Cole lack chemistry because Kelly has been acting like a "giggling six-year-old".

* Blue Peter is once again at the centre of a row over TV fakery after it emerged that it used child actors instead of website participants in a segment featuring Dead Ringers' Jon Culshaw.

* Samuel Preston has reunited with his ex-fiancée Camille Aznar.

* GMTV chief Clive Crouch has banned Lorraine Kelly from appearing in an advertising campaign for ASDA.

* The Spice Girls' comeback track 'Headlines' has been branded "not strong enough" by Radio 1's playlist team.

* Rik Waller, with the ego to match, has finally quit singing. A condition of his pagan marriage to Kelly Bliss was that he would finally put the microphone down.


Clip of the day

Spice Girls Tesco Ad

http://www.viralvideochart.com/youtube/spice_tesco_2007?id=WRGZ30-KfIs

Lion at party

http://www.break.com/index/arab-guy-brings-lion-to-party.html

One of my favourite clips of all time

http://youtube.com/watch?v=TAA6LZcJhjU

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Judgey