By Emily Sheridan



Glowing: Amanda Holden, pictured in London's Soho on December 21, and husband Chris Hughes are expecting their second child


Britain's Got Talent judge Amanda Holden is pregnant with her second child.

The TV presenter/actress, 39, announced she is expecting a baby boy in March with husband Chris Hughes, 37.

But Holden also explained she waited so long to announce her pregnancy after she tragically suffered a miscarriage last year.


The couple, who married in December 2008, are already parents to daughter Alexa, aka Lexi, who turns five later this month.

Writing on her Twitter page today, she said: 'Just to let you know. I am 6 months pregnant with a baby boy!! Have had to keep it quiet until now!'

A statement from her publicist said the couple are 'absolutely thrilled'.

Her publicist Alison Griffin added: 'They say they cannot wait to welcome the new addition to their family.'

In a statement on her official website, Holden revealed her secret heartbreak last year after losing her unborn child.

It read: 'Amanda Holden and her husband Chris Hughes are delighted to announce that Amanda is 6 months pregnant with their second child.

'Their delight is increased by the fact that last year she tragically lost a baby.

'As they are sure everyone will understand they needed to get the all clear from the doctor before they shared their very happy news.'


Doting mother: Holden with her daughter Lexi, who turns five this month


Sending his congratulations on Twitter was her former Britain's Got Talent co-judge Piers Morgan: 'OK - Amanda Holden's pregnant...

'She's 6 months pregnant too - how the hell did someone so indiscreet keep that a secret so long? Very excited for her and Chris.'

Her pregnancy comes in a busy year for Holden - she starts judging the new series of Britain's Got Talent this month and is set to play Princess Fiona in the new West End production of Shrek: The Musical, when it opens in the Spring.

But Holden today insisted on Twitter her pregnancy wouldn't affect either commitment: 'I'm still doing BGT and Shrek the musical.'

In an interview last year, Holden admitted she had started getting broody.
She said: 'I'd love to have more children.


Big announcement: Holden revealed she was expecting a boy on her Twitter page


'I'm 39 so I'd be very lucky, I've got lots of friends who have waited too long.

'If it happens it happens. But I'm blessed with one.'

At one point, Holden suggested she was prepared to try surrogacy if she couldn't have children.

She said: 'I can't see where I'd have time and I worry all my eggs will dry up. Some of my friends are struggling. Maybe I'd do a Sarah Jessica Parker.'

The former Cutting It actress married music executive Hughes at Babington House in Somerset in December 2008 after a five year courtship.

The couple announced their engagement in December 2004, but delayed their wedding after Holden fell pregnant with Alexa, who was born in January 2006.

Previously, Holden was married to comedian Les Dennis - 18 years her senior.

The couple split in 2002 - three years after Amanda's brief affair with Men Behaving Badly star Neil Morrissey was exposed in the press.



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By Daily Mail Reporter



Svelte: Clare Nasir was looking pretty in purple on a night out in London yesterday after losing all her baby weight, right, pictured in July


She's weathered the indignity of having unflattering pictures of her trying to lose her baby weight - but Clare Nasir has clearly hit a purple patch if these pictures are anything to go by.

The London Tonight weathergirl, 40, showed off her honed figure in a racy purple off-the-shoulder jersey dress.

The 5ft star weighed 12st 7lbs when she gave birth to daughter Sienna prematurely in November 2009, and weighed 10st 4lbs when she was photographed in her bikini.

She now weighs eight stone and wears size 6 clothing after losing 12 inches off her belly.


Striding out: The weather girl was wearing a tight crochet frock and nude heels
Nasir recalled: 'Seeing pictures of yourself looking like a lime green blob is a pretty good incentive to lose weight.


'I wanted to lose it quickly - as well as safely - and after four months and lots of sweat, I’ve lost nearly 3 stone in weight and an amazing 12 inches off my belly alone.'

Explaining her workout DVD, she enthused: 'Boxers in training burn around 8,000 calories a day, and with this combat style workout we calculate you’ll burn up to 1,000 calories every time you do it.


Pain for gain: The star's tough workout and diet regime has not only led to a trim figure, but an exercise DVD too


Happy couple: Clare was on a rare night out with husband, BBC6 Music DJ Chris Hawkins


'That combined with our amazing 5-meals-a-day diet will help you drop weight fast. If you follow the routine 3-4 times a week with the diet you could lose up 4lbs a week, which is incredible.'

Clare's workouts include kickboxing, lengthy runs, using weighted exercise balls and completing exercises such as push-ups and sit-ups on an inflatable balance ball.



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Breaking out: Kim Kardashian appeared to have come out in spots as she headed to the gym


We're used to seeing Kim Kardashian with flawless skin - even when she's on her way to the gym.

But the socialite appeared to be having an off day when she arrived for one of her regular workouts on Christmas Eve.

The 30-year-old was showing signs of having had a breakout of spots - which were particularly noticeable on her make-up free face.


And although she tried to cover up with a pair of oversized sunglasses, there was visible evidence on her forehead and cheeks that her skin was not at its best.

However Kim made up for her blemishes by wearing another super-chic stylish outfit for her workout.

Having attracted attention with an all-black ensemble earlier in the week, this time she opted for a tight-fitting white top and cropped black and white jacket, which she teamed with trendy black leggings and white trainers.


Gym Kardashian: The socialite was once again dressed stylishly for her workout in a black and white outfit


And she didn't forget to take along her phone or her bottle of Fiji water - artesian water favoured by celebrities including US President Barack Obama and actor Robert Pattinson.

After spending much of the year in New York launching her new clothing store DASH with sister Kourtney, Kim returned to Los Angeles for the festive period to spend Christmas with her family.

However she almost didn't make it back in time after the adverse weather left her and sister Khloe stranded in South Africa.


That's better: Kim displayed flawless skin at the Ultimate Engagement Ring contest in New York earlier this week


The pair were due to fly home via Paris last weekend but found their trip to Cape Town extended when all flights to the French capital were cancelled due to heavy snow.

They eventually flew out the next day, eventually making it home 28 hours later than expected - and as a result missed the annual Christmas party with their late father Robert Kardashian's family.



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By Daily Mail Reporter



Boxing Day beauty: Rihanna wears a black panther swimsuit in Barbados


Rihanna spent the day after Christmas relaxing on Sandy Lane beach in her home country of Barbados.

The singer hit the surf in a very eye-catching and unique panther-design swimsuit.

And even though the suit was a one-piece, it still managed to emphasise the 22-year-old's enviable curves.


The swimsuit is made by designer label We Are Famous and costs £195.00.

Rihanna is spending Christmas with her family in Barbados before jetting back to the U.S in time for New Year's Eve.

After doing her Christmas shopping in Los Angeles earlier this week, the Umbrella star jetted to Barbados's Grantley Adams Airport via Miami on Wednesday.

At Miami, she bumped into her mother Monica and her aunt so they boarded the flight back to Barbados together.


Wrapping up: Rihanna spent the holiday season in Barbados with her family


Writing on her Twitter, she enthused: 'I'm in Miami Airport...Guess who just popped up and surprised me @ my Gate???

'My mooooommmyyyyy....and my AUNTY. We all going home together.. Barbados I love you.'

After spending Christmas in the Caribbean, Rihanna will fly to Las Vegas for New Year's Eve, where she will see in 2011 performing at the Pure nightclub at Caesars Palace.

And she is clearly excited about it, posting about it on her Twitter on Wednesday.


Playful: Rihanna will be spending New Years Eve at Pure nightclub in Las Vegas


She says: 'Damn Its not even Christmas yet and I'm thinking abt NYE!Who's comin out to party with me @ PURE? FYI I'm NOT performing but I'm DEF PARTYIN.'

Meanwhile, there is growing speculation Rihanna has split from baseball star boyfriend Matt Kemp.

The couple were last photographed together in New York in November, with the singer spending most of the past few weeks travelling between North America and Europe promoting her new album Loud.

Friends of the singer said they were not expected to spend the holiday season together.

The couple started dating in late 2009.



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By Daily Mail Reporter



Changing shape: Coronation Street actress Debbie Rush shows how she dropped four dress sizes in her new fitness DVD


She's known on Coronation Street for playing dowdy cafe worker Anna Windass.

But in real-life, actress Debbie Rush is now cutting an impressive size 8 figure after dropping four dress sizes.

And, as expected these days after a celebrity loses a significant amount of weight, the 44-year-old is revealing her slimming secrets in a fitness DVD.


The soap star releases her fitness DVD, entitled Debbie Rush's Bulge Buster Workout, nationwide today.

The 5ft 2 actress's weight had crept up to 11 stone and a size 16, but after seeing paparazzi photographs of herself in a bra and skirt at a department store over the summer, she was prompted to act.

After enlisting the help of ex-rugby star Andy Titterall, Rush shifted two stone through a combination of circuit exercises and overhauling her diet.

Rush explained: 'After seeing some awful photos of my bulging and bloated figure I knew I’d really let myself go, I was so ashamed of my belly. I was in tears. It was so big I couldn’t see my feet and being short in height I was turning into a little barrel!


Transformation: A slimline Rush at the Inside Soap Awards in late September (left) and looking heavier in January (right)


'I knew I had to do something about it. Once I put my mind to changing the way I looked and found a routine I could do at home which I loved, it was surprisingly easy to get my figure back.

'Now I want to share my exercise secrets and show other real women just like me how to blitz away their body bulge.

'This workout can help you wear the clothes you really want, with results that last.'
Rush first showed off the results of her weight loss at the Inside Soap Awards in September, when she was a size 10, but revealed she was planning to drop another dress sizes in time for the Corrie 50th anniversary celebrations and live episode in December.


And as the DVD cover shows, she managed to achieve her size 8 goal in time for its release.

In an interview with Closer magazine in October, she blamed the temptations of the stodgy food on offer at the Corrie canteen on her weight gain.

She said: 'I used to have no breakfast, a massive lunch at the Corrie canteen - like chips with curry sauce and a dessert - and something similar for dinner. Then I’d sit in front of the TV and have chocolate or popcorn.'

Her DVD will do battle in the fitness charts with Kerry Katona, Clare Nasir, Chantelle Houghton, Davina McCall and Nadia Sawalha's fitness DVDs this new year.

Rush joined the cast of Coronation Street in November 2008 playing dowdy Anna
Windass, the long-suffering wife of mischevious husband Eddie Windass.

Her character Anna is set for a rocky 2011, with her marriage to Eddie seen to breakdown after the actor Steve Husion is to be written out of the ITV soap.

Rush lives in Manchester with husband Andrew and their three children Tom, 20; Poppy, 19; and William, 16.

• Debbie Rush's Bulge Buster Workout DVD goes on sale nationwide today. RRP £19.99.



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By Simon Cable



Hand in hand: Daniel Craig and Miss Weisz take a stroll in the Dorset countryside


Only months after saying that she wanted to be a Bond Girl, Rachel Weisz has got her wish.

The actress appeared hand in hand with 007 actor Daniel Craig in the Dorset countryside.

They are enjoying a Christmas break together at a secluded £1,000-a-week cottage after finally going public with their romance.


Miss Weisz, 40, grew close to 42-year-old Craig while the two British stars played husband and wife in the forthcoming thriller Dream House.

During filming in March, she said: ‘We’ve been getting on really well and yet I still haven’t had an offer to be a Bond girl – but if he asks me I’d definitely do it!’

As recently as four weeks ago, the couple were still denying they were an item.

Craig, who has an eight-year-old daughter with ex-wife Fiona Loudon, arrived at the bolthole last week in his £48,000 black Range Rover.


Licensed to beat the chill: Daniel and Rachel keep warm in woolly hats


Miss Weisz joined him after flying in from New York and driving down in her Fiat 500. The actress has left her four-year-old son Henry in New York with her former fiance Darren Aronofsky.

Wrapped up against the chill, on Christmas Eve Craig and Miss Weisz held hands as they took a two-mile stroll before stopping at a delicatessen to buy food and heading to a pub, where they spent the afternoon together.

Last night they were back at the picturesque property, which boasts a cinema, sauna, gym and a roof terrace. Craig, who sported several days’ stubble, again refused to comment on their relationship.

It is believed the couple now have plans to spend New Year together in the UK.
The actress announced last month that she had split from 41-year-old Mr Aronofsky after a nine-year relationship. They became engaged in 2005 but never married.

Miss Weisz, a Cambridge graduate who won an Oscar for her role in The Constant Gardener, had previously dated Men Behaving Badly star Neil Morrissey and Sam Mendes, now Kate Winslet’s ex-husband.

Craig had been engaged to film producer Satsuki Mitchell after proposing two years ago.


Tied: Daniel Craig had been engaged to film producer Satsuki Mitchell


He and Miss Weisz both own homes near to one another in north London.

There are no suggestions that she may move back to England from her New York home where she has been living near to her son.

It has also emerged that Craig, who has played 007 in Casino Royale and Quantum of Solace, has signed up to star in the next Bond film, scheduled for release in 2012.

There had been fears that he may have to cancel plans to star in the blockbuster after he agreed to play the lead male role in The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo trilogy and Steven Spielberg’s The Adventures of Tintin.


Split: Weisz with ex-fiance Darren Aronofsky at the premiere of his new film Black Swan in September, two months before they went their separate ways



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By Georgina Littlejohn



Betrothed Bunny: Hugh Hefner took to his Twitter page yesterday to announced he and his girlfriend Crystal Harris got engaged on Christmas Eve


He's had his fair share of women over the years and only got divorced from his second wife in March.

But Hugh Hefner knows how to bounce back in love, and yesterday he announced that he is set to get married again.

The Playboy tycoon, 84, Tweeted last night that he and his girlfriend Crystal Harris, 24, had got engaged.


In the early hours of Christmas Day morning, he wrote: 'After the movie tonight, Crystal & I exchanged gifts. I gave Crystal a ring. A truly memorable Christmas Eve.'

Then last night he added: 'When I gave Crystal the ring, she burst into tears. This is the happiest Christmas weekend in memory.'

Not to be outdone by her fiancé, Crystal then took to her Twitter page to say: 'The most memorable Christmas.'

And later on, to clear up any confusion, Hefner wrote: 'Yes, the ring I gave Crystal is an engagement ring. I didn't mean to make a mystery out of it. A very merry Christmas to all.'

She also added a photograph of a present she gave Hefner, a portrait of her and him and their King Charles spaniel, which was commissioned by playmate Victoria Fuller.


Announcement: Hefner took to his Twitter page to tell the world he had proposed to Crystal


Crystal was born to British parents in Arizona, who moved back to the UK after her birth, but then came back to the States a couple of years later and settled in San Diego, California.

While she was studying psychology at San Diego State University, she started modelling and was noticed by Playboy.

She met Hefner on Halloween in 2008 and started dating him in January 2009 while he was also dating identical twin glamour models Kristina and Karissa Shannon.

But he ended his relationship with the twins in January this year and has remained monogamous to Crystal since.

Crystal once said that she believes she and Hefner were able to bond because she lost a long-time boyfriend in Iraq and he was going through a break up with Holly Madison, whom he dated for 8 years.


Family portrait: Crystal's gift to Hefner, a painting commissioned by Playmate Victoria Fuller


Hefner, who founded Playboy in 1953 with Marilyn Monroe as his first cover girl, has been married twice before.

In 1949, he wed Mildred Williams with who he had two children, Christie, now 58, and David, now 55.

before their wedding, Mildred confessed to Hefner that she'd had an affair while he was away serving in the Army, so she allowed him to sleep with other women because of her guilt over her infidelity, but they divorced in 1959.

Then in 1989 he married Playboy Playmate Kimberley Conrad, who gave him two sons, Marston Glenn, 20, and Cooper Bradford, 19, but after 11 years of marriage, Hefner filed for divorce from Conrad stating irreconcilable differences, which was finalised in March this year.


More the merrier: Hefner and Crystal (R) and twins Kristina and Karissa Shannon



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