BILLY CONNOLLY stole the show with a spectacular entrance to Princess Beatrice's eighth birthday party yesterday.
The Scottish comedian looked every inch the Highland Hell's Angel as he roared into the grounds of the former marital home of the Duchess of York on a gleaming blue and silver motorbike - wearing a dashing red and black tartan bonnet and cool yellow shades.
The party at Sunninghill Park near Windsor in Berkshire also marked the 10th anniversary of the marriage of Fergie and her former husband, Prince Andrew, Duke of York.
Sir Cliff Richard (55) is glad he split with Sue Barker and admits he was also once "in love with" Olivia Newton John.
He told Sky News his breakup with the former tennis star in the late 1980s was a good thing because she was free to find a man she was "mad about". Sue (40) married policeman Lance Tasker in 1988.
Former Coronation Street star Julie Goodyear (54) is joining the BBC's fight back in the daytime TV ratings war.
The actress who played barmaid Bet Gilroy for more than 25 years is to host her own chat show for BBC 1 from August 14th. The new line up results from the scrapping of Good Morning with Anne and Nick.
Tom Cruise, star of Mission: Impossible and his wife Nicole Kidman, helped rescue five people whose yacht caught fire off Capri.
A French couple, their seven year old daughter and two Italian crew members had sought refuge in a rubber lifeboat after a fire in the cabin of their yacht.