Ronnie still loves Katia!

Katia Ivanova has revealed that her ex Ronnie Wood got in touch within hours of her leaving the Celebrity Big Brother house.

"Ronnie told me he thought I was great. He said he's been staying watching me in the house all hours," she told the Daily Star.

"He said he was really proud of me for being myself and that he really misses me. There's still a strong connection there, but that chapter is over."

The 21-year-old also confessed her feelings for Jonas Altberg, and said their brief romance in the house was more than just a fling.

"I really do fancy Jonas and want him; I watched him saying he was falling in love with me and it was so sweet, I just wanted to go back in - I think he's the one," she told the newspaper.

Katia - who said he was too "clingy" and too "clean-cut" - revealed they "struggled" with their feelings, and added: "I knew I was starting to fall for Jonas."

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UKIP calls for burka ban!

The burka and other face-covering veils worn by Muslim women should be banned, the UK Independence Party says.

Ex-UKIP leader Nigel Farage, who leads UKIP's 13 MEPs in Brussels, told the BBC's Politics Show they were a symbol of an "increasingly divided Britain". He also said they "oppressed" women and were a potential security threat.

But Schools Secretary Ed Balls said it was "not British" to tell people what to wear in the street, and accused UKIP of indulging in "unpleasant politics".

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Gordon Brown now claims to be a champion of the middle classes!

There's been nothing like it since the wolf dressed up as grandma in order to turn Little Red Riding Hood into pot-roast.

Gordon Brown now claims to be a champion of the middle classes. Apparently, only he can be trusted to look after their interests. And there were millions of us thinking that he was, in fact, the unreconstructed arch-enemy of the middle classes and of everything they hold dear.

For sheer unadulterated brazen gall, his pretence surely takes the latest of many mouldy digestive biscuits. Of course, we can all see the reason for this play-acting. After the recent failed coup against Brown, Lord Mandelson won his strategic battle to fight the election campaign on New Labour's territory of aspiration rather than as another front in Old Labour's failed class war.

In the circumstances, Brown had no alternative but to agree. Yet this is the man whose entire political persona rests upon constraining, punishing and extorting from the middle classes.

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Loloahi Tapui pleads guilty at court

The Tongan housekeeper who was illegally employed by the Attorney General today admitting using a fake British visa for more than two years.

Loloahi Tapui, an illegal immigrant who was housekeeper for Baroness Scotland, pleaded guilty to possessing a false document at Southwark Crown Court.

The charge relates to a Tongan passport with a counterfeit UK visa stamp. The 27-year-old admitted using the visa from June 2006 until September last year.

But she denied a further charge of fraud, rejecting the allegation that she used the counterfeit document to establish facts about herself and earn money as a cleaner.

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Heather Mills has her skating leg... Off!

She's already tried her hand at ballroom dancing across the pond, and now Heather Mills is putting her best foot forward by stepping on to the ice for a spot of skating.

Heather, who turns 42 this week, was spotted carrying her false limb as she headed into rehearsals for the show - however, she admitted that the leg has held her back.
She said: 'its ankle doesn't band and I fall 50 per cent of the time.'

Judge Nicky Slater has already expressed his concern as to whether Heather will be able to perform well after seeing her in rehearsals.

He said: 'Choreography should work to hide disability, and one-legged skating IS possible, but here it's how the other leg reacts that affects aesthetics. A challenge.'

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Pammy launches California Calling

California Tourism’s new campaign, California Calling, was launched today by quintessential Californian babe Pamela Anderson. The campaign is searching for a member of the UK public to star alongside celebrities including Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, Rob Lowe and David Beckham in the advert currently being screened in on UK television.

California Calling, invites members of the public to audition for this role of a lifetime by uploading YouTube videos to www.californiacalling.co.uk. Entrants should explain, as creatively as possible, why they should appear in the California ad. The public will cast votes for their favourite entries, and a winner will be selected in March 2010 from among the leading finalists. The winner will then be whisked off to California with Virgin Holidays and treated like a star whist filming the segment, which will debut on British television next April. Entrants must be aged 15 years or over.

A California Calling Pop Up Film Studio will be touring shopping centres around the country until Sunday 20th December to help people film their entry. Visitors to the Studio will have access to their choice of scenic California green screen backgrounds and Californian props to film their audition. There will also be California giveaways and money off holidays to California with Virgin Holidays.

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Wogan honoured as he signs off air

Sir Terry Wogan has told Jonathan Ross that he realises it’s time to leave his long standing role as presenter of the BBC Radio 2 breakfast show.

Speaking on Friday Night With Jonathan Ross, Sir Terry said: "My heart says stay, my head says go. There's never a good time to go but there's a right time to go."

Admitting that he’s dreading his last show on 18 December, he added: "It'll be emotional, a wrench, my whole life is going to change but it's about time."

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