BLIND US singer Stevie Wonder has said that South African President Nelson Mandela is the world's president.
Mandela, holding Wonder's arm while talking to reporters, replied: "Steve Wonder is my son, and I speak to him with great affection."
Wonder, in South Africa for last Sunday's relaunch of state television, said he hoped to visit again next April when the country celebrates the second anniversary of the elections which brought Mandela to power.
Singer Robbie Williams, who last summer left Take That, one of Britain's most successful pop groups, is believed to be in talks with EMI Music about a multi million pound recording deal.
If negotiations are successful, EMI would agree to pay Williams a sizeable advance, in an agreement similar to one signed last year when George Michael's new record labels, DreamWorks and Virgin, bought him out of his old contract with Sony Music.
The former husband of Prince Charles's long time companion Camilla Parker Bowles, married for the second time yesterday. Andrew Parker Bowles and wealthy divorcee Rosemary Pitman (54) emerged smiling happily from a register office in London's Chelsea district after their 10 minute wedding service.
But they declined to kiss for the crowd of photographers waiting outside. "No we are middle aged," Andrew Parker Bowles told them.
Cezanne fever has spread from Paris to London, prompting record advance ticket sales for a major exhibition of an artist dubbed the "Father of Modern Art".
The travelling show by the French artist, who died in 1906, opens at London's Tate Gallery of modern art today and has already sold over 38,500 tickets.
Paul Cezanne is seen as a bridge between the Impressionists and the next generation of Modernists. He was described by Matisse as a god and by Picasso as "my one and only master".
The Duchess of York is to fight any attempt by former financial adviser John Bryan to claim a share of her multi million pound earnings from her cartoon character Budgie.
Bryan is reported to have threatened to sue her for 10 per cent of the global earnings of Budgie the Helicopter, claiming she had promised him a third of all income from TV, film and book publishing rights.
Comic Jim Davidson has retained the presenter's job for another round of The Generation Game.
Davidson (42) who also presents BBC1's snooker quiz Big Break, replaced original Generation Game host Bruce Forsyth last autumn with a reported £1 million contract.