Following the huge success of Heather Mills and the improvement in the public’s opinion of her, former Spice girl Mel B has decided to join the cast of Dancing With Stars.

A source tells the Sunday Mirror, “Mel saw how positive the show was for Heather’s profile in the States and she’s keen to use it to reinvent herself.”

Jodie Marsh is thrilled to have have found 4 guys that she would be happy to marry as part of her new reality tv show.

Jodie is currently being flanked by MTV cameras as she tours the UK looking for Mr Right.

“I’m going into this with my eyes open. The four guys I’m seeing, I’d bet my house on it they don’t just want to be famous,” Jodie told Sky Showbiz. “They’ve got good careers of their own, I know they’re not all about that. They genuinely like the real me.” Read more & comment »

British born and bred, Gordon Ramsay and Cat Deeley have enjoyed the kind of success across the pond that most TV stars can only dream of.

It has been announced this week that both stars have been asked to front a fourth series of their show, Gordon will be doing Hell’s Kitchen USA, and Cat will be fronting yet another series of So You Think You Can Dance.

Both stars third series are currently airing on US networks. Hell’s Kitchen drew a whopping 8 million viewers last week and Cat’s dance show si the number one show in it’s time slot.

In the week when his wifes reality TV show flopped, it has been revealed that David Beckham will star in another similar show on American network, FOX TV.

David will star in a 13-week reality show called ‘David Beckham’s Soccer USA’ beginning next week on FOX Soccer Channel.

A Fox spokeperson said, Read more & comment »

Lily Allen’s rise to fame has been meteoric. Many have an opinion on who Lily is and what she does, based exclusively on tabloid pictures and her outspoken views. Filmed in London, New York and LA with unprecedented access, Lily Allen: Still Alright? documents Lily at the end of her controversial US tour. Former manager and old friend George Lamb takes the opportunity to get her side of the story. Lily talks frankly about some of the more infamous moments from the past year, from fights with the paparazzi to her alleged feud with Amy Winehouse, her take on fame, music and the cult of celebrity.

Channel 4, Sunday 15 July 2007 1:40pm

Big Brother producers Endemol are making a show about women who watch their weight obsessively and fight a daily battle to control their calorie intake.

If you would like to take part, email your details and a current photograph of yourself to superslim@endemoluk.com

This week’s episode focuses on the cult of the Hollywood wannabe, in the town where ‘fame is an epidemic’ and people will ’sell their souls’.

Hollywood Lives updates the story of a wannabe first featured in the early 1990s who had just ’stepped off the bus’ from the Mid West. Anna Nicole Smith was yet another Playm Read more & comment »

In the second programme of the series a tee-total, Egyptian loving family team up with a partying, patriotic family who love nothing better than a right old booze up in Tenerife.

The Wilson family from the Isle of Mann love to holiday in Egypt, and away from other tourists they immerse themselves in the ancient Egyptian culture. There is step dad Tony, mum Joanne, and 15-year-old Terrance.

They live their lives with the view to always helping others, and they carry this abroad with them too. They think Egypt is a wonderful place for a holiday because of the warm and friendly Egyptian people, and they return year after year to enjoy the culture and visit the friends they have made. Read more & comment »

As the Home Office announces plans to offer drug treatments to child sex offenders to try to stop them re-offending, this shocking and honest film examines the legal castration of child sex offenders in the USA, in a bid to rehabilitate them.

The film talks to five men who believe castration, whether chemical or surgical, is the only solution to their deviant behaviour. The Castration Cure raises difficult and controversial issues including: Can you cure a paedophile? And if so, is castration the answer?

Thursday 5 July 2007, Channel 4

Tough Gig follows one of the six comics as they are plucked from their day-to-day lives and totally immersed into a new world, where they will live, work, sleep and socialise. The series will also offer an insight into some of the most fascinating and often unknown communities flourishing in our midst.

This week sees Patrick Kielty (presenter of hit shows including Fame Academy and Love Island) getting down with a group of British rappers to try to find out what makes them tick. From hanging out at the pirate radio station, to 8 Mile style MC battles, he’s deep in ‘the hood’. At the end of the week, Patrick’s got to perform a stand-up gig that’ll make his new crew laugh. Read more & comment »

BBC are to launch a brand new Saturday night reality Tv show…hurray!!!

The show, which will be made by Endemol, will see pop tribute acts battle it out for the ultimate title. The bands will all live together in tru Fame Academy style!

A source told The Sun: “The aim is to find Britain’s best tribute act. There are hundreds of people out there who think they’ve got what it takes – and some of them are extremely good. Read more & comment »

Monday 2 July 2007 8:00pm – 8:30pm on ITV1.

Should British families get priority for council homes over economic migrants as raised by government minister Margaret Hodge? Mike Nicholson goes behind-the-scenes at a council housing department to see what pressures they face to accommodate immigrants and British families and speaks to those who will never be able to afford their own homes.

Shrink Rap is an antidote to the conventional chat show, presented by psychologist Dr Pamela Connolly – also known as actress and writer Pamela Stephenson. In this programme Pamela talks to Sharon Osbourne.

Famous as an X Factor judge, chat show host, best-selling author and even star of her own real-life soap opera, Osbourne is one of the best-known women in Britain. But her childhood was chaotic – and violent. Here, she talks movingly about her life then and now.

Monday 2 July 2007 Channel 4

In the week Live Earth parties for the planet, Dispatches reveals how attempts to buy our way out of climate crisis may be making things worse.

Channel 4 News science correspondent Tom Clarke dissects the many ’solutions’ to global warming being marketed to consumers, from tree-planting and carbon offsetting to green energy tariffs. Jetting off on holidays and mini-breaks, we’re increasingly turning to offsetting to alleviate our environmental guilt. But what are offsets? And are they really the answer in the fight against global warming?

Monday 2nd July Channel 4

As the country stubs out its collective fag, a one-hour, tongue-in-cheek tribute to the perilous, but also, for some, the highly pleasurable pursuit of smoking. Well-known smokers talk about their first drag, ex-smokers about their last and a few defiant stars who continue to puff away muse on how the ban will effect their lives… or not.

The programme features contributions from Motorhead’s Lemmy, Johnny Vegas, Joan Bakewell, Vic Reeves, Bob Mortimer, Charlotte Rampling, Michael Winner, Will Self and the late Bernard Manning

Sunday 1st July, Channel 4