*Demi Moore is still such a hot looking woman in real life. I caught up with the Ghost star and her hubby Ashton Kutcher at the Hollywood Domino Gala. She told me she’s loving Awards Season. “It’s such an exciting week,” she admitted. “It’s kinda crazy though. You have to pace yourself with all the parties.”
Ashton told me he’s been working flat out and revealed: “It’s been full on lately. I’ve not stopped working so I’m tired to begin with. I’ve just been in London too – it’s great over there. I love the way the British are. So proper.”
There were two brilliant moments of hanging with the pair. Firstly Demi bought the round of drinks. Ashton loves a vodka tonic and Demi drinks pints – but she tripped on her dress and spilt beer down herself! Secondly, when you do a snap with Demi she always has to check she looks good in the picture before she walks away. Amazing!

*So it turns out Cheryl Cole’s ‘pal’ Derek Hough from dancing With The Stars has been more than just hanging out with Chezza – she’s been giving him advice on the industry. My mole reveals: “Derek’s desperate to carve himself into a male solo pop artist. He can sing and dance so he wants to pursue that” Cheryl’s given him lots of advice.” I bet she has!

*Rachel Zoe (above) is the stylist everybody in Hollywood scrambles to work with at the Oscars. But the skinny lady herself is particular about who she dresses up. She told me at the Hollywood Domino Gala: “I’m working with Demi Moore and Cameron Diaz this year. They are the ladies I truly love to dress.” Other guests at the amazing Hollywood Bingo Gala event included Jamie Foxx, Matt Dillon, Lady Victoria Hervey, Eva Longoria and Nicky Hilton.

*A real highlight was meeting Queen of Pop Madonna as I trotted into LA’s newest exclusive private members club Soho House this week. I obviously told her she “raised me” (sorry mum) and she graciously shook my hand! Amazing.

*Dermot O’Leary sounds as if he’s ready and set to give the US a go as a presenter. I caught up with the X Factor host and he told me: “I’ve been out here looking at work options and having a few meetings. Nothing’s come up yet that would mean moving out here. But I’d love to work Stateside.”
Dermot also told me he’s hoping X Factor judge Dannii Minogue manages to come back to the show after she’s popped out her sprog in July. He said: “She’s one of the reasons the show’s so good so hopefully she’ll be able to be there after she’s had her little one.”

*Ryan Seacrest is preparing to cover the red carpet arrivals for the E! Entertainment Channel later this evening with co-host Giuliana Rancic (both above with me). But he couldn’t help but talk about Simon Cowell and his exit from American Idol after this series to start X Factor in the US. Ryan said: “American Idol will survive without Simon but we will miss him. He’s is the foundation to the show. I will personally miss sparring with him but I have seen the X Factor and I think it’s a phenomenal show.”
And he wouldn’t mind swapping over to the rival show as host – if the money was right. “I could always be tempted over depending on the money,” he laughed. “I would like to do them both, that would be great.”

*Myleene Klass was having a blast hosting the Oscars coverage for CNN in Los Angeles. But it seems Americans have a bizarre take on who Myleene’s a doppelganger of. Over dinner at the Mondrian she told me: “When I got to the airport a pap thought I was Minnie Driver’s sister and then yesterday I signed an autograph and he person looked surprised at my signature because she thought I was Jessica Alba.” One day they’ll know Leenie in the US! Ha!
The presenter also told me her two-year-old daughter has been hanging with rock and roll royalty Bon Jovi too. She revealed: “Ava had her picture with Jon Bon Jovi at our hotel. He fell in love with her – and we spotted him working out in the gym. I might have enjoyed that for a different reason to Ava though!” I hear you!

Above: Hanging with Kelly Brook at the Hollywood Domino Gala event at the Beverly Hills Hilton.

*Kendra Wilkinson doesn’t want her child growing up in the public eye. The former Girlfriend of Hugh Hefner, whose reality show Kendra is on the E! Entertainment Channel, says she doesn’t want her newborn son Hank growing up in front of the cameras. She told me: “I don’t want Hank growing up in the limelight. People already ask if I think he’s going to be a sports star like my husband or an actor or something. I want him to decide what he wants to be. That’s his choice. The reality show will stop – I don’t want him growing up for everyone to see.” Sensible girl.

Shhhh
WHICH star is getting a reputation for sleeping around? I hear this dude doesn’t mind if it’s a boy or a girl – but he needs them regular! Greedy!

*Lee Toland Krieger is the Writer/Director to watch out for in the future. After being nominated for Best Director and Best Screenplay at the Independent Spirit Awards for his brilliant film The Viscious Kind he’s about to start work on new thriller Land of the Free. Elijah Wood, Rachel Bilson and Sienna Miller are all wanted for roles….

*It’s not easy when you’re Oprah Winfrey and you fancy a bite to eat. You can’t just pop to your local restaurant in a low-key way. I saw the chat show host dining at the Beverly Hills Hotel with TV execs this week. While Oprah – wearing a black dress and black alice band – enjoyed a salad four bodyguards sat surrounding her table. She did seem down to earth as she left though and posed for snaps with fans. Nice!

*Jimmy Choo boss Tamara Mellon is making a concerted effort to be a little bit healthier. After years of puffing on fags Tam has decided to quit the ciggies – but she’s finding it tough to deal with her cravings and chewing gum non stop!

*Wherever I went this week for a bite to eat I seemed to bump into a celebrity. Nicky Hilton – who is immaculately dressed in her day-to-day life – sat next to me one day at the Fred Segal café while Geri Halliwell’s former movie producer lover Sacha Gervasi (and the father of Geri’s baby Bluebell) brought along an extremely attractive girl to eat on the other side of me. Then I was alongside Groundhog Day star Bill Murray at Cecconis the day before.

*Abbie Cornish appears to have started the heartbreak diet following her split from actor Ryan Phillipe. I spotted the star at a bash for Vanity Fair  and Dior looking disturbingly thin with her newly bleach blonde hair. Other guests mingling around at the bash included Dawsons Creek star James Van Der Beek and Brit TV host Louise Roe.

*Kelly Osbourne looked slick as hell at the Hudson Jeans and Vanity fair bash this week. Kel’s gone for a somewhat bizarre purple rinse on her former bleach blonde locks. The Osbourne offspring mingled the night away with June Sarpong and Rose McGowan.

*Leona Lewis was gearing up to attend Elton John’s wonderful Aids Foundation Oscar Viewing Party when I bumped into her last week. She told me she’s got a crush on Twilight star Taylor Lautner – in fact he’s the only person to have ever made her starstruck. She revealed: “I think Taylor from Twilight is the only person to have truly made me starstruck. It was at the Globes and I got a picture with him. I never ever get a picture with anyone. I never ask for one. He’s the only person I’ve ever asked for a picture with. My boyfriend Lou loved that one. He said: ‘Erm, what are you doing?’ Ha ha. I’m allowed to meet him though. I’d love to meet Stevie Wonder and Madonna. I’ve not met either. Madonna is another person who really inspires me.”

I sat down with Irish superband Boyzone recently to talk about their new album Brother, moving on from the death of their bandmate Stephen Gately and whether they will bite the bullet and tour again as a four piece band…..
Their single Gave It All Away is out today to download and the brand new album, Brother, is out next Monday!

How are you guys?
Ronan Keating: We’re doing well, we’re really excited about the record. We are here and the album is ready, finished. Artwork is done, the packaging is done and we’re ready to go

I’m feeling a lot of positivity going on here..
R: You know, we had a tough day today was our first TV performance with the song on GMTV pre-record for Thursday, we knew it was going to be tough and we went into it that way and there were moments but we got through it

You were dreading the first performance without Stephen too.
R: I’ve been dreading it for a long, long time and I think that its going to continue. I think that there’s going to be a lot of moments where that hits us when we perform because that is the one time where the four of us are standing together and he’s not there and its very evident, you know. And you can take a photo and you can do this, you can do an interview and not feel it but when you’re standing there performing for me anyway is the most evident.

And it’s not like its some band where Brian goes and does his solo stuff and then you’re just the four……
R: We have no choice. That’s the saddest thing.

So tell me about the album beause I remember speaking to you really early on and you were talking about going in quite a different direction.
Keith Duffy: I think that, for the first time we have really engaged all as a band. As youngsters, we did pop music and that was fine. We released some amazing, amazing radio records but I don’t know if we were all there with it all. We went on a journey and we were a train called Boyzone I think that this studio album is something that we would pride ourselves. We’re genuinely excited about it and we’re like ‘Oh my god, I love that record’ as if it were someone else’s.
Mikey Graham: We’re fans of the album, we really are.

Was it a case of when Stephen died that you guys put new effort into it? Or was it nearly done already?
R: No, no. This was an album that we all made. The five of us.
M: I mean that this album was the album that we were going to make with Stephen, and we continued with the same plan really but we continued with a different frame of mind. It was something that became a different dimension to us that it previously had been and I think that it helped us all as well in a lot of ways to express our sadness and memories. Its almost been a therapy of sorts and here we are, absolutely thrilled to be releasing Brother.
Shane Lynch: Its exciting times

What about touring?
R: Just to get back on the album a second it a very different sound this album. It’s not really electro, we went that way when were doing Can’t Stop Thinking About You and we felt that that was the avenue but its amazing how it had just changed and evolved into the record we made. There are no covers, there are no proper ballads, it’s more pop/rock now than electro, I would say. A lot of the other lads are taking lead vocals on the album as well which is obviously a whole new dynamic to band but the songs have elements of Snow Patrol, U2 and Coldplay, it is a real mix. Great songs, great radio songs as the lads have said and we are all big fans.

I guess it’s a natural progression to go down that route with older boy bands!
S: Its the first album that we have made as adults and its clearly reflected in the sound. Keith said earlier on that it’s the first studio album that we’ve made in eleven years. In those eleven years we have all learned so much about ourselves and the industry. We’ve all gone through an awful lot of metamorphosis, its just a wonderful album, its a great sound.

The future then – what are we looking at?
K: Who knows? All we can do right now is what we feel is right and Stephen never would have forgiven us if we hadn’t finished the album. We would all love to believe that there is a huge future for Boyzone. At this moment in time there is no plan to tour, we can’t plan a tour for the unknown. Its the first studio album in eleven years, the last few tours that we did in 2008 and 2009 were off the old catalogue which was obviously a certain sound they were very successful back in the day.
S: This is a new sound for Boyzone, this is a new direction for Boyzone and we’ve absolutely no idea of how successful or unsuccessful its going to be. If the album is a big success & people love it and they’re playing it on the radio then we will just have to wait and see.

Are you nervous about it then?
K: Well obviously, because cutting through the shit the four of us are all doing different things at the minute. Ronan is going off doing the solo tour, Mikey is obviously Mr. Ice Man, Shane has a new car being built at the moment and he is working on a TV show in Ireland and waiting for his race car to be finished for his new season this year and obviously I’m up in Manchester doing Coronation Street. So we are all very busy and we are all very responsible in our own lives at the moment. Our dream jobs are Boyzone but we have to be real to ourselves and to each other and we would love nothing more then to be a unit again for the foreseeable future which isn’t going to happen until we see the success of this album

And then work out where to go from there?
R: I mean we love the idea of doing a tour this year and that will only reflect on the sales of the album.

How do you feel now? Because I remember speaking to you specifically and you said ‘I’m not sure if I can actually do a full scale tour’ Has that changed?
R: We’re still not sure, but we got through this morning you know, putting one foot in front of the other and you see if you can do the next one and realise that you can do that. Steo was the colour in the band, there was no doubt about it and that was everywhere when you were on stage.
S: I think that originally we said that we were releasing this record but not doing the promo for it and not going to perform this record or anything – just going to release it and let it happen and then it turns out that we promoted the record and then performed the record. It shows that we are involved in it ourselves and I think that instead of being afraid of it, we have to embrace it.
M: I think that you know, apart from the obvious, we are maturely watching and enjoying the changes that are happening within all of us at this time but certainly we’re all kind of learning out about how each other honestly thinks and how each other works and who each man, as men have the strength to honestly speak your honest, open opinions about everything. I think that we are learning more about each other now then we ever did before.
K: We love an excuse to spend time with each other, I can’t think of a better one.

What is the future for you? Are you going to be in Coronation Street for a long time?
K: I’m in Corrie until such time that we can give up our jobs and come back to Boyzone.

So is Boyzone a priority to you then?
K: Boyzone is a priority to all of us but we can’t go out and buy 250,000 tickets to see ourselves. That’d be nice. Like I said, if you could have your dream job, my dream job is just doing what we do together, successfully.

Who would have thought that when you were kids growing up that you would still be doing this?
R: It is nuts! We were sixteen when we started.

Ok, what about getting older? Is it harder staying fit & healthy?
R: We are much healthier now.
K: Listen, it wouldn’t have been half as much work back then as it is now if we only knew that, you know. It would have made it a lot easier on ourselves now.
S: I think that funnier things are education and being educated to go on to do college degrees to know the simple facts of dieting and although dieting isn’t eating grass. It’s not extreme stuff and it’s not crash dieting it is just being that little bit more responsible for your own body and I think that we all took that on board on the first tour originally, we were like ‘Oh my god, we’re going on stage’. So we were all mad on diets, mad in the gym.
M: All apart from me. Now I’m forced to work out at the moment and I don’t have any choice to be there if you know what I mean? I mean that I do like the idea of having a fit body and all the muscles but give me a glass of wine and a hamburger or a slice of pizza and the diet starts tomorrow – that is my way of doing it. Oh its great, it keeps me fit. I’m the oldest, I know that you wouldn’t think it.

Would you get ‘man surgery’ any of you to look younger?
K: No, I don’t need it.
S: I’m not against it. One thing that I know for sure is that Stephen was always mad about skin. He knew everything.
R: he was our ‘on the road beautician’.
K: And I think that you know, he introduced us to looking after ourselves. So, personally, looking at the programmes and looking at how things go, I wouldn’t mind an old nip & a tuck if I needed one. I’m cool with all of that stuff. And just in case someone is offering – I am okay with that!
With Stephen, what is the future planned? Is there going to be a memorial planned?
R: We’ve a couple of things that we’re putting together ourselves for our way of dealing with it. We’ve got a special on the 1st March which is the launch of the Boyzone album and it’ll also be a tribute to Steo and that is our thing and its also a TV special. That is for us – that is our thing. We’ve also got a couple of things that are happening in Ireland at the moment which I think that we will have up and running by the summer, please God. There a couple of things, personal things that we want to do for his memory – so his legacy will live forever.

It seems that nowadays, when there is tragedy, it is turned into a whole song and dance concert.
R: No, we’ve got a record out and we’re trying to be the new band we want to be. We have to forget the band that we were and that was the most amazing years of our lives. We now have to go forward as this four piece – a new Boyzone. We don’t have a choice – we have to go on as we are.

When Stephen died did you think about calling it a day?
M: Yeah, we did, we didn’t know what to think. We had a multitude of confusing emotions going on at that time, it was just too difficult to imagine doing anything as a band together without Stephen but as time has progressed and we have certainly realised that we prefer being in each other’s company rather than not regarding our loss. Only the four of us understand how the four of us feel – there is a comfort in being with each other. Because only the four of us understand how the four of us feel.

And what about Stephen’s husband Andrew – have you been able to comfort him?
R: Andrew has dealt with this his own way and he is grieving his own way. He has travelled quite a lot, he has got his teeth stuck into a couple of things that he had planned for the memorial, that he put on, and also finishing his book. To be honest, we have kind of stood back, we asked if he needed help and he said “No, no. I want to do this”. He has had good days and bad days – we call, we text, we hear from him every now and then. He is trying to rebuild his life. You know, he is going through the hardest time that he will ever know.

And what about your solo career Ronan?
R: I start on Thursday & then I’m on the road for a month and then that’s it – I’m back with the boys and while the tour is going on we are doing promotion and so on. I’ve got a month left and that is it, I’m done, and then it is Boyzone for the rest of the year.

Are you going to LA to be an actor Ronan?
R: No, I’m just going out with the kids & Yvonne for July & August, just going on a holiday. Yeah, I’ve got a few bits of work while I’m over there.

Are you all still going to be going when you’re sixty?
S: I think so, yeah. Why not! The Stones did it!

You’ve got Boyzone mafia, did you know about that?
M: Yeah, that’s right, I heard about that on Twitter. Its a group of followers for Boyzone who are proper hardcore who will protect us.
K: That sounds cool doesn’t it?

I’ve always loved everything Amy Molyneaux and Percy Parker have done. Their PPQ designs have always been wearable, trendy and on the money; looking fresh and cool for the younger girl generation. Also – Amy and Percy are two of the nicest people in fashion.

Their Fantasia themed bash at new London club Runway following their London Fashion Week show turned out to be a total scream. Peaches and Pixie Geldof were there floating around, Amy Winehouse’s protege Dionne Bromfield provided the entertainment and Pixie Lott (above with Amy and Percy) wore a vibrant gown with a sleek hair do to match her mood.

Further entertainment was provided by The Cheeks, a young Suffolk art-rock five piece band. They were ace, I hear! Oh, and my mole tells me a number of the Skins and Shameless cast were also spotted celebrating another triumphant show for PPQ. Well done to Amy and Percy (yet again)!

I love a party. But after nine consecutive nights out on the trot for London Fashion Week I was barely able to keep my eyes open as I arrived at fashion designer Alice Temperley’s amazing bash. Fortunately it was pretty much the one and only party during the week that’s been truly fun! It was a full on bash with no expense spared and a celebrity guestlist that made a lot of the post-fashion show bashes look hugely inferior. It also made me immediately wake up with the incredible decor!

A neon sign pointed to the entrance of the party – a cloth lined ‘rabbit hole’ that you had to literally climb through. Inside waiters dressed in the style of the Mad Hatter served fruit punch and champers while magicians kept you entertained. Emilia Fox was first to arrive, Trinny Woodall turned out accompanied by Guns n’ Roses guitarist Slash (above), Alice Dellal span the tunes and Jade Jagger continued to party hard at Fashion Week. The real highlight was Courtney Love – pictured below with Miss Temperley – who got up and sang two songs as a surprise for the crazily dressed crowd.

Disney and Selfridges have now created five windows in the store on Oxford Street recreating the magic of the new Tim Burton film. Featuring loads of Temperley and Stella McCartney goodies. Go check it out now! It’s quite something.

Kate Moss is one supermodel who will do literally anything to avoid those dreaded wrinkles.
And Mossy took her beauty regime to extraordinary – and icy – new levels on a night out, when she decided she need a facial pick-me-up.
Kate, who revealed recently that her top tip to keep her skin clear is to freeze her face in an ice bucket, shocked star-studded onlookers with her devotion to the cause when she pitched up at Naomi Campbell’s brilliant Fashion For Relief in aid of Haiti benefit catwalk show this week.
The swish after-show bash, held at ­exclusive private members venue The Brompton Club in Fulham, saw Kate order a huge ice bucket to be sat in front of her before she hilariously started plunging her face in to the chilly water.
My mole tells me: “Kate was drunk and knocking back glass after glass of Laurent Perrier Rose champagne.
“She was dancing with her friends, ­including Naomi, to hits like Madonna’s Borderline and Jay-Z and Alicia Keys Empire State Of Mind.
“She was on brilliant form, but everyone’s jaw dropped when she started dunking her head in the ice bucket. At first everybody gasped a bit but then they just started laughing. It was totally bizarre. There were even rumours that she snogged a girlfriend of hers.”
Kate revealed in a recent interview that her top natural skin care tip to rid herself of lines and imperfections is to literally freeze her face.
She said: “Get some ice, put it in the sink, put some cucumber in there too and stick your head in it. Apparently, it’s an old-school thing that Joan Crawford used to do. It really wakes you up.”
Earlier in the evening it was obvious Naomi was making sure Kate, who ­arrived in a somewhat tipsy state ­before the fashion show, was kept in good spirits.
Pals tell me she’s struggling to cope with the loss of her friend Alexander McQueen. “She’s on a bit of a downward spiral right now and the night was very emotional for her,” says my source.”Naomi was making sure she was OK throughout the night – almost baby-sitting her, and Sir Philip Green even took her and Dame Shirley Bassey out for dinner in China Tang before the Brompton Club party. Kate’s got a huge capacity for partying so her pals make sure she’s not too out of control.”
And Kate can’t have overdone things too much – she was up at dawn for the Hakaan show at London Fashion Week. Where does she get this energy from!

Lily Allen seemed slightly down after winning her gong at the Brits for Best British Female. Lil told me at the EMI records bash Notting Hill’s Supperclub: “I’m fine – just tired. I was so nervous opening the show. Totally petrified but it all went well on the night. It’s an absolute honour to have picked up an award.”
Elsewhere at the bash Robbie Williams pitched up for just 20 minutes and was spotted enjoying a snog with wife-to-be Ayda Field. Fearne Cotton slipped off home early and sounded totally pooped when we caught up. I’m not surprised with all her Sport Relief training – she’s been cycling up to 2 hours a day in preparation for her 1,000 mile cycling challenge with Davina McCall and David Walliams.
Meanwhile the real party animal of the night was tea total Spice Girl Geri Halliwell who visited all three of the big record company bashes – EMI, Sony BMG and Universal. The funniest scene of the night for me was seeing her natter to JLS. She may be nearly old enough to be their mother but she can keep up with those young-uns!

Alesha Dixon told me after the Brit Awards that she’s preparing to start work on a brand new album with Take That star Gary Barlow. I wonder if all this music work will eventually lead to her ditching her role on Strictly. She revealed: I’ve been speaking to Gary Barlow a lot, he’s become a good friend. We’re going to be working again together on my next album, which I’m already busy working on.”
Leesh also explained why the Take That boys failed to show for the Brits to support former band mate Robbie Williams. “They really wanted to be at the Brits this year, especially as Robbie won outstanding achievement,” she revealed. “But they couldn’t make it as they are in Los Angeles recording a new album, which should be out later this year. I spoke to Gary and he was gutted he couldn’t be at the awards.”

*Carey Mulligan is one of the hot favourites to win at this year’s Oscars ceremony but it seems she’s had a spot of bizarre fashion advice from the Queen of Fashion, Vogue Editor Anna Wintour. The An Education star told me: “Anna was really, really lovely and it was great to meet her. I wasn’t scared of her in the slightest. She recommended that I wear a short dress at the Oscars but I’m not sure; that’s so not what I had in my head when I was six years old. I’d love to be on the cover of Vogue. That would be unbelievable. But sadly she didn’t ask.” It won’t be long, Carey.
The star also gave an insight into being an Oscar nominee and attending the LA Oscar nominees lunch. She giggled: “I was so excited. It felt like it was happening to someone else. It’s like being at a graduation. You get a jumper with ‘Oscar nominee’ on the sleeve and it’s all very equal. Like you’d ever wear it though!”

*Colin Firth needs to start enjoying life a little bit more I fear. The actor was duller than a dull to reporters on the red carpet at the 30th London Critics’ Circle Film Awards. When asked whether fashion designer Tom Ford – the director of A Single Man, for which Colin’s gained an Oscar nomination – would have him model his clothes he replied: “Tom Ford would never ask me to do any modeling for him – why would he? I don’t think I would have the desire to even if I was asked. Although I’m looking forward to reaching my landmark 50th birthday soon.”

*Quentin Tarantino is officially ready for the Oscars race. But before then his film Inglorious Basterds could emerge triumphant this weekend at the Orange Bafta Film Awards. He told me this week of who he hopes things get a little more unpredictable in the rest of award’s season: “It would be nice to cause an upset to Avatar. I’m reasonably excited. Carey Mulligan is a fantastic actress. I’m on the voting panel and I just can’t decide between her and Gaby Sidible for Precious I still haven’t made my decision yet. I don’t think I will know until the last second.”