Recession? Blue Ivy won’t be feeling the pinch

Doesn’t it warm the cockles of your heart to know that little Blue Ivy, daughter of Beyoncé and Jay-Z, has already had £1 million of gifts lavished on her since her birth last Saturday?

Forget the fact that millions of people live in squalor and abject poverty, there’s surely nothing wrong with wanting your baby to have the best start in life, right? So, for this little girl, that includes:

• Three identical nurseries in three different houses
• A £10,000 Swarovski-encrusted high chair (which will be a joy to clean I’m sure)
• A £400,000 solid gold rocking horse
• Gold and platinum rattles
• Tiffany’s dummies

I didn’t even know those kinds of things existed….

Depp and Paradis hit the rocks?

After fourteen years together, it would seem that Vanessa Paradis and Johnny Depp may have reached the end of the road. There are rumours doing the rounds that the couple are going through a rocky patch and that Johnny Depp has even been consulting lawyers…

They are not married, but do have two children together. It may give hope to some and be depressing for others as seemingly being one of the only celeb relationships that could last for more than five minutes.

Although it’s just a rumour for the moment, it’s not the first time that the press has speculated about the state of their relationship. French mag Voici suggested that Depp and his publicist may be more than just friends a year ago already. So, one to watch there!

The rumours about Brand and Perry are true

Another short-lived relationship bites the dust as Russell Brand and Katy Perry have confirmed that they are ending their fourteen month marriage… After all the elephants and whatnot at their lavish Indian wedding, and the usual gushing about how amazing they both are, they have decided to go their separate ways.

Cue lots of speculation as to why they no longer want to be together. Katy Perry’s parents apparently think that God brought about the divorce in order to fill their church with rubber-neckers; one newspaper ‘source’ claims that Brand was rude about Perry’s bible-bashing parents, while another attributes the break-up to the fact that ex-addict Brand wants to settle down and have kids while Ms Perry wants to drink and party….

At last! Beyoncé gives birth

After months of speculation and rumour, it would appear that Beyoncé has finally given birth to a baby girl…

It looks like the bump wasn’t fake after all, as those close to Jay Z and the ex-Destiny’s child have taken to Twitter to welcome the most talked-about baby of last year. Gwyneth Paltrow, Solange, ‘Aunty Rih(anna)’, and others have made Blue Ivy Carter a global trending topic even though she was only born on Saturday night.

Relatives of other patients at the hospital in New York are already complaining they have been prevented from seeing their own new arrivals by burly bodyguards, while everyone scrambles to have any details of the event, the gifts and baby herself.

Harding’s New Year starts badly

After a pretty rough 2011, which saw her break up from her DJ fiancé and then check into rehab for alcohol addiction, it would seem that 2012 may not bring much more joy for Sarah Harding from Girls Aloud…

After apparently heading to Austria for a booze-free start to the year, police were called to her hotel when guests reported a violent fight breaking out in her room. She was then pictured returning home with a bandaged hand.

Both have now appeared in The Sun accusing the other of starting the fight and doing the most damage. The apparently alcohol-fuelled brawl between the recovering alcoholic and ex-crack addict is likely to result now in charges against both of them.

Needless to say, it looks like their short relationship is already over…