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Many of Paris Hilton's personal belonging - including photos, journals and clothing - have been removed from a Los Angeles-area storage facility without her permission, and are being sold for a reported asking price of $20 million. "We learned the items were missing last Thursday," her spokesman Mintz said. "The people who have the items claim they purchased them at auction.. because the (storage) bills were not paid. Our records indicate all invoices have been paid. Regarding the missing content, it was virtually all the items from the house. This included clothing, videotapes and private diaries. The current crop of pictures and videos mostly consist of "private photos of Paris with her friends and family. People will speculate about the nature of intimacy. The way it has been described to me is that there is not anything (of a sexual nature)." Mintz added, "The same with the video tapes.. (they do) not resemble the unpleasant tapes in the years past." On the legal front, he said, "She is moving with attorneys, and we are trying to come up with an equitable solution to the matter."

The agent who is now brokering the resale of the items, David Hans Schmidt, claimed the locker's contents were "a King Tut's tomb of scandal". He said an unnamed individual first bought the items for $2,775 at a public auction in December, not even knowing whose they were. Hilton insists the items are rightfully hers and is trying to get them back. Mintz said: "Paris is very angry. She's been victimised. These are private diaries and memories. It's an awful thing." So much for high security systems..

Explore the deep thoughts of Paris Hilton

Ashlee Simpson leaving "Radio 1" in London

Nina Persson from The Cardigans is starring in a Swedish film! Watch the trailer. And she's belting out a track from The White Stripes!

Dirrty no more? Xtina Aguilera is going to stop being sexy - so her kids won't be embarrassed. She has decided to cover up her curves and tone down her X-rated image. A friend is quoted as saying: "Now that she's married, she wants to come across as a more classy performer - she's thinking about her future family. She and Jordan have been talking about having kids for a long time now and Christina doesn't want to do any videos that could embarrass her kids in later life." I've always preferred Aguilera during her 'what a girl want' days. It is understandable that her profile can be improved by slutting it out but then that is not required. She can do the world a favour by telling Madon (only difference is that the pop queen lost her sexy status many years back) to do the same thing. And maybe to Kelly Osbourne(best is to stop appearing on MTV once and for all), who might get married one day to an 'Ellen Degeneres' type. That is, unless one day Timberlake gets tired of zippy Cameron Diaz.

Christina Aguilera hanging out with pals in 'InStyle Weddings' magazine article scans [ 1 2 3 4 5 ]

There is this new comedy show called 'The Date Movie'. It is like 'Scary Movie' where they spoof all the movies and of course this movie spoofs all romantic comedy and first date type movies. For example Mr and Mrs Smith. It stars the redhead girl from the American Pie movies. You know "This one time....at band camp" chick. Allyson Hannigan [ 1 2 3 ]. Her appearance is a good enough reason to watch the show.

The Diggs. This New York band sounds like they could fit right in on the soundtrack to the 90's movie 'Singles'...very good rock 'n roll! Stream songs on their myspace account, especially 'Everyone's Starting Over'.

Richard Ashcroft live concert audios from his recent gig at Gateshead, England (Jan 21st).

Once again hundreds of Arctic Monkeys fans gave Maximo Park the cold shoulder during their joint tour on Thursday night (Feb 2nd). The show was rammed to capacity when the Monkeys played their set at Liverpool University, but up to half the audience got up and left once they'd finished. It left Paul Smith and co. playing their blinding set to a partially emptied room. Such a shame for that to happen. It's not as if the support band was some rubbish acts like Mcfly or Yellowcard. The Arctic Army had been paying up to 100 pounds outside the venue to see their heroes, but many had no time for the headliners. The snubbing of Maximo Park has been a running trend of the tour starting on the opening night in Dublin. Amongst the celebs spotted in the crowd was Man City footballer Joey Barton who knew every word to the Arctic Monkeys. Wow. Didn't know Joey was that cool to master all of the lyrics. Wonder what's the reason for him snubbing a new contract offer of 28,750 pounds-per-week. I bet he wants to have a salary on par with the 'bigger boys' who look good on the grassfloor..

4 teams of four in Exile Island. Young men, older men, golden girls and spice girls. Misty is one smart player from the way she spoke about her strategies and she was also the first exile. Wonder where that immunity idol was hidden. Probably at the spot where Jeff was standing("ponder why fate brought you here as the first exile member" clue) or on the trees("you need fire to boil the water" clue).

Franz Ferdinand - Nick McCarthy & Paul Thompson video interview

The Libertines in the studios with Peter Perrett in Metropolis, 2004 video.

Babyshambles - Killamangiro (Top of the Pops) | (cd:uk) | (Tim Lovejoy) | Promo hi / lo

Some concert pics of :
Belle & Sebastian @ The Corn Exchange, Cambridge.(02/02/06)
Babyshambles @ The Junction, Cambridge. (23/01/06)

50 Cent will release his next album in the summer, according to lyrics on his new 'dis track' aimed at former protege The Game. The former buddies fell out last year following a shooting incident at infamous New York City radio station Hot 97 - and have been embroiled in a war of words ever since. The Candy Shop dude announces he will have a disc out on 18 July on new track Not Rich, Still Lyin'. He raps: "Y'all thought I was gonna let y'all eat?" The Game is a waste of time. Though impossible, the new album should try to be on par with G.R.O.D.T. G-g-g-g-Unit!

Gorillaz will release a double A-side, 'Kids With Guns / El Manana', will be released through Parlophone on April 10.

Gary Powell is sending his well wishes to Pete D who is currently behind bars awaiting sentence for a variety of drug offences. And Gary, who played drums in Pete's old band The Libertines, is worried about the troubled singer. "He's not got a death wish, although it could go either way," Gary said. "Prison isn't like sitting on the isle of Guernsey in a deckchair drinking cocktails. It's extremely intense. All we can do is wish him the best and hope that a ray of light will come out of it." Gary has been in Glasgow for the last three weeks recording with his new band Dirty Pretty Things. Frontman Carl Barat has chosen to remix their music at The Mixing Rooms, after learning it had better equipment than most of its London rivals. Gary said: "The new material is a bit less chaotic and ramshackle - there is more method to our madness to what we've done before. I have had less input than before because we are spreading our weight. It still has the Libertines scrappiness and maintains the spirit but we've kept the ethics and musicianship." The controversial boys say they have been touching nothing stronger than whisky and beer during their time in Scotland. Maybe Pete should be taking a leaf out of their songbook?

Arctic Monkeys defend their album cover. Cigarette Smoker pic not good for the indie kids?? Nonsense.

Spice Girls tour back on?? I think it is just speculations..

Kate Moss is back on Vogue (latest mag scans), where she is gracing the cover of March's British edition of the fashion magazine. The appearance - with Moss in a delicate white dress against a pink backdrop - marks the supermodel's 21st time on the Vogue cover. "It's one of the most important issues of the year, and we know that our readers are big fans of hers," Vogue editor Alexandra Shulman said. Those are fantastic shots.

Paul Weller just isn't in a good mood this week, fresh from saying he'd "rather eat my own shit than duet with him" over rumours he may perform with whiner J.Blunt at the Brits, the Modfather has gone on record attacking some of the biggest names in rock history. In a interview with 'Uncut', Weller didn't hold back when launching scathing tirades on some big names in the music industry.

First in the line of fire was Sting, of whom he said: "Fucking horrible man. Not my cup of tea at all. Fucking rubbish. No edge, no attitude, no nothing." I can't have any complaints about that at all.

Then on U2 front man Bono he fumed: "The whole thing of Bono becoming the Pope - what the fuck's all that about? Pseudo-American rubbish." Oh yes. This band has now become too overrated so maybe Bono wants to keep it alive by meddling with things he's not suppose to. Maybe some time in the future, Liam G will say the same thing about a guy by the name of Brandon Flowers.

Back to Weller. He also blasted Queen legend Freddie Mercury. "He said he wanted to bring ballet to the working classes. What a cunt." Now that is a queer statement by Fred. Does he want every man out there to wear his tight ballet outfits?

And finally Weller called the quality of David Bowie's output into question and his receiving of the Lifetime gong, saying: "Wrong! I like about three records of his. The rest of it's pish." Quite true. Some of Bowie's stuff are not quality. I think it's time Weller perform a duet with Mr Hunky Dory. That would be very nice,nice,nice,nice,nice,nice...