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Amy Winehouse's mother hits out - The Observer, April 27, 2008

The police were criticised yesterday by Winehouse's mother for creating a 'public fiasco and circus'. Janis Winehouse said: 'What Amy has been accused of bears no relation to the way she is being treated and humiliated. Surely all the police needed to do was send a constable or a detective to her home and interview her over the allegations. That's what would normally happen, wouldn't it? But, no, that would be too low-key when someone like Amy is involved. Instead we have been treated to another surreal episode of the Amy show and that is unfair.'

Janis Winehouse said her daughter was being treated too harshly. 'Everything is being blown out of all proportion,' she said.'It's not as if anything fatal has happened. If Amy, and I repeat if, she has head-butted someone, it would be nothing more than a tantrum. I'm not defending what she might have done but that is all it was - a tantrum because she couldn't get her own way.There isn't a mother out there who wouldn't agree with me that this is all it was. Unfortunately, Amy is just like a teenager who is out of control. I don't think what might have happened warranted her being humiliated in such a public way'.

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David Walliams as Frankie Howerd - Daily Mirror, January 28, 2008

It's a sight that would have Frankie Howerd tittering in his toga...
David Walliams plays the part of the late comic for a new film about his life, and doesn't he look the spitting image? Here he is dressed as slave Lurcio from hit 70s TV show Up Pompeii.Landing the role in the BBC4 movie Rather You Than Me, out in March, was a dream come true for Walliams. Howerd was his boyhood idol. As part of his research he went to the actor's house in Cross, Somerset, to visit his partner Dennis Heymer.

Walliams, 36, tried on Howerd's trademark wig. He was moved to tears when he sat on the sofa where the star died in 1992 at 75. Walliams said: "I've been a life-long fan of Frankie."

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He'd never take Maddie - Daily Mail, November 24, 2007

He's the key suspect in the McCann case. But here, Robert Murat's ex-wife claims that although he cruelly betrayed her during their marriage, he would never hurt a child...
What makes Dawn's unswerving support for her former husband all the more remarkable is the fact that he doesn't really deserve it. She has every reason to hate him for the way he callously ended their marriage two years ago and for the upheaval his 'aguido' status has caused them since May. This summer Dawn had to stay with relatives in Devon after Murat received hate mail making threats against his own daughter.
'When Robert first became a suspect he was in a terrible state. I was really worried he might kill himself,' says Dawn.'But his thoughts quickly turned to Sofia when he got hate mail. He called me, and though he never told me exactly what was in the letters, he was obviously very frightened for her. I thought it safest to go and stay with my family.'...

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