Celebrity Big Brother winner Shilpa Shetty has been arrested at an Indian airport after officials insisted she was still wanted in connection with recent obscenity charges.

The Bollywood actress reportedly burst into tears after being stopped at Mumbai Airport, on her way to the opening of the Miss Bollywood musical in Berlin.

Her spokesman, Dale Bhagwagar, said: “She called me in the middle of the night and was in tears.”

Shetty said: “I can understand something like this if I’d committed a criminal offence. Read more & comment »

One of the big reasons that many people enter ITV’s Britian’s Got Talent show is because of the promise of a prominent slot in the fully televised Royal Variety Show. However the future of BGT winners appearing in the show has been thrown into doubt after a BBC insider suggested that they would not welcome the winner of an ITV show on theior channel.

In 2008 the Royal Variety Show will switch from ITV to BBC One and it is reported that BBC bosses are considering banning Britain’s Got Talent performers.

An insider commented: “I would be very surprised if we let the winner of one of ITV’s most popular shows take pride of place on BBC1.”

An ITV source said: “There’s a meeting in the diary to talk about this with the BBC. It would be silly of them to turn this down as we’ll effectively be promoting their show.”

Academy Music Director – Matthew Barley
Cellist Matthew Barley trained at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama and the Moscow Conservatoire, and his activities in performance, improvisation, cross-disciplinary projects, composition and pioneering community programmes soon developed to form a unique international career.

Matthew’s musical world has virtually no geographical, social or stylistic boundaries and he lives and breathes music education, making him the ideal choice as Music Director for the academy. Read more & comment »

It had to happen, it always happens. Just before the launch of a new series of Strictly Come Dancing, someone else gets injured!

The latest casualty of the show has been Eastenders actor, Matt Di’Angelo, who has been ordered to take three days out from rehearsing after tearing his knee ligaments.

The Sun: “One minute I was dancing and all of a sudden I was in pain. I pulled some ligaments in my leg and I’ve had to have physio.

“I’m out of action for a few days, which is annoying as I’ve been practising hard. We’ve been doing four hours a day and it’s really, really difficult. It makes EastEnders look easy.” Read more & comment »

The Strictly Come Dancing results show will transmit on Sundays with a brand new 45-minute programme on
BBC One.

With a strong appetite for good entertaining family viewing on Sunday evenings, Strictly Come Dancing provides the perfect end to the weekend and a chance for all the family to find out who survives to train for another week and who is hanging up their dance shoes for good.

The new extended show – which will be an extra 15 minutes long – will be packed with more Strictly goodies include more behind–the–scenes footage, music performances and, most importantly, more dancing. Read more & comment »

Thirty-three-year-old conductor Jason Lai won the BBC’s Young Conductors Workshop in February 2002 and has conducted some of the world’s top orchestras including the BBC Philharmonic, Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, English Touring Opera, London Sinfonietta and the BBC Singers.

Jason started his musical studies at the age of 12 when he took cello, piano and composition lessons, which continued with the help of a scholarship at Chetham’s School of Music in Manchester. Read more & comment »

At the age of seven, Chi-chi Nwanoku discovered music on a neighbour’s piano and was so inspired by its sounds and possibilities that she began her education as a classical musician. She played piano and took up double bass at 18, after an injury ruled out her other passion – athletics.

Chi-chi studied at the Royal Academy of Music, in London, and has become one of England’s most sought-after double bassists – developing a worldwide reputation as one of the finest exponents on her instrument today. Read more & comment »

It cheesy, it’s pink, it’s Big Brother twins Sam and Amanda singing their all time favourite song, Barbie Girl.

One has to wonder if they went straight into the studio the minute they left the BB house to get this recorded, filmed and produced so quickly?

Watch Mel B dance her way into second place on the American equivalent of Strictly Come Dancing, Dancing With Stars.

She looks great, but isn’t the leopard print getting a little to old?

So this week was the last week of Auditions before they begin the first stages of boot camp and there were some really good singers.

Analise who I think sang ”And I am telling you” had loads of confidence and has a brilliant voice, but the one that surprised me was Rid’ because the ones that have all the confidence in the X Factor go into the Audition room don’t actually do as well as they think they will. Rid came in very confidant and began to sing an opera song. The judges try to catch him out with telling him that he may have to sing songs like dancing queen in the live stages he sings the song to prove that he could do it and so they put him through. Did you see Dani’s face when he walked out, don’t think they will be going on a date!

The other ones that were good this week were Cece who did very well, and there was a girl who sang Ben by Michael Jackson, I thought that she did sounded great and I think that she will do well in the competition. I also thought that Luke who was the boy who sang and was asked to come back and sing again the next day, sang the chorus of his song and the judges were a little disappointed in him, because he hadn’t learned the verse and the chorus. I think that Luke will do well as long as he sits down and tries to learn the songs the best he can and show the judges that you are working your hardest and the judges will respect that. Read more & comment »