Madden's ex wishes him well with Hilton

Actress Sophie Monk has dismissed rumours that rocker Benji Madden dumped her to start a relationship with socialite Paris Hilton.
Monk told Australian newspaper Herald Sun that her break-up with Madden was amicable and that she wished him well for the future.
Monk reportedly said: "Let me make this as plain as possible - Benji did not leave me for Paris Hilton."
"Benji and I did not break up badly or anything like that. We both decided, as adults, our relationship had run its course and decided to move on."
She also said: "I feel no animosity towards Benji and Paris at all and am very happy with life at the moment."

Costa Awards winners are announced

Costa Awards winners are announced

The winners of the 2007 Costa Record Awards accept been announced in the UK.
Previously the Whitbread Awards, the Rib Volume Awards laurels writers in fivesome categories: First Novel, Novel, Life story, Poetry and Children's Book.
Catherine O'Flynn, born in Pittsburgh of the South to Irish whisky parents, is the winner of the First Novel Prize for her script 'What Was Lost'.
Scots writer and comic AL Jack Kennedy has north Korean won the Novel Awarding for her fifth book, 'Day'.
Paul Simon Sebag Montefiore is the winner of the Biography Accolade for 'Young Stalin'.
The Poetry Award has gone to Denim Sprackland for her assembling 'Tilt'.
Ann Kelley has south Korean won the Children's Book Award for her book 'The Arbor Bird'.
The basketball team authors ar now eligible for the 2007 Rib Book of the Year Honor, which volition be announced on Tues 22 January.

Anger follows Lennox label reports

Anger follows Lennox label reports

Music manufacture giant Vocal BMG has described as "ludicrous" media reports that it had dropped singer Annie Lennox after working with the creative person for 25 age.
Billboard reports that the Day by day Mirror had quoted the isaac Merrit Singer as expression that the company had ignored her calls and emails and that she was out of narrow following the October release of her album 'Songs of Volume Destruction'.
Sony BMG confirmed it no thirster had a cut with Lennox but the company said it hoped to work with the vocalizer in the future, and on her stream album.
In a command, Sony BMG said: "The quotes attributed to Annie's dissatisfaction with her label arose come out of a trip in Dec to South Africa and have no relevance to the death of her cut."
Sony BMG Music Amusement UK Chairwoman Ged Doherty said: "We ar immensely proud to have worked with Annie over more than deuce decades. She now has a alternative as to whether she wants to continue to work on with us in the future tense. We real much hope that she will."
Lennox's management fellowship, 19 Entertainment, suggested the singer's quotes had been taken out of context.




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