Pearl Lowe is expecting her fifth child, the fashion designer has claimed in a recent interview with weekly magazine Hello!

Lowe, who considers celebrities Kate Moss and Sadie Frost among her friends, admitted that the baby is by autumn. The 41-year-old star married Danny Goffey, drummer of alternative-rock band Supergrass in 2008.

“I'm sure a lot of people will think Danny and I have gone mad. Five kids! It is a bit mental. But Danny and I are over the moon”, Lowe told Hello! magazine.

She claimed that 21-year-old fashion model Daisy, her daughter to Bush lead vocalist Gavin Rossdale, was so happy to hear the good news.

“Daisy just screamed! She was thrilled. She just loves being a sister and to hear that she was going to have another sibling was the best news ever”, Lowe said.

The other children of the couple are Betty (4), Frankie (10), and Alfie (13).

Lowe chose to be a vegetarian for nearly five years but is now go back to eating meat. She explained that she was very anaemic and did the move for her baby, though it has not been easy for her.

Meanwhile, Goffey exclaimed that “everyone is really happy for us”.

He added that some might think that they were a little crazy over the news, but explained that they “are hardly the most conventional of families as it is”.

“Another addition to the Goffey Mad House", Goffey added.

Tributes have been paid to renowned boxing commentator Harry Carpenter, who died on Saturday at King's College Hospital in London. He was 84.

Dubbed as the ‘Voice of Boxing’, Carpenter leaves a son and a widow.

In his lengthy career, Carpenter became well-known for his rapport with boxer-turned-celebrity Frank Bruno, whose famous line ‘Know what I mean, 'arry?’ was featured during their post-match interviews.

Bruno ‘was clearly shocked and upset’ when his manager Dave Davies broke the news, the Sky News Online reported.

"Frank has many acquaintances but not many real friends. Harry Carpenter was a friend", Davies added

Carpenter’s career started as a national newspapers sports reporter before he joined the BBC, where he became a commentator in major sporting events such as the university boat race and Wimbledon. He became best known as the distinctive voice behind BBC’s boxing coverage.

Boxing promoter and manager Frank Maloney called him ‘the voice of boxing’ and “probably one of the greatest commentators of all time”.

Terry Edwards, the former national coach GB boxing team considered him ‘a true legend’.

“He was Mr. Boxing as far as commentary goes”, Edwards added. “If you were to ask me now who would take Carpenter's place there is nobody who could truly take his place - not with the same passion and professionalism.

Carpenter’s lawyer David Wills said the family funeral has not been scheduled, but confirmed that a memorial service in London is set to honour his contributions.

American pop singer Christina Aguilera feels she has become “more sexual” after giving birth to a son in January 2008.

Aguilera, whose husband is Jordan Bratman with whom she had a two-year-old son named Max, said that her self-confidence increased since she got pregnant.

”I'm more confident and comfortable in my own skin. I think I'm even a more sexual Christina”, said the ‘Dirrty’ singer.

Aguilera and Bratman both considered nudity as a normal part of a child’s life and regularly strip off during ‘Naked Sundays’.

The 29-year-old singer feels proud to be a highly sexual person and was insistent that the level of her sensuality remained though she is now a mother.

We're art collectors, there are a lot of female nudes around the house. It's only weird when you shame it”, said Aguilera.

While the pop singer would love to extend her family in the future, she insists that she considered her album ‘Bionic’, due to be released in June, her new baby.

Aguilera also counters the criticism that she imitates Lady Gaga’s music style.

During her interview on the Atlanta radio station Q100’s Bert Show, she said it is a waste of breath to give comments regarding the issue, adding that she had been around the music industry for more than a decade now and she thinks she had her own style.

Selected News Zealand celebrities will trade their day jobs for an apron and a serving platter at The Hayatt in Auckland on 21 May to support the Dress for Success Celebrity Waiters Dinner.

Famous faces including Tina Cross and Monty Betham will help serve an evening filled with entertainment, dining, celebrity performance, and unique auction items.

Some celebrities will sing for the supper, including entertainer and actor Shane Cortere, presenter Jayne Kiely, Olympic medallist and ‘Dancing with the Stars’ favourite Barbara Kendall, and actress Jennifer Ward Lealand

Dress for Success Auckland is a foundation aiming to help women who are going through economically difficult circumstances, bringing them back to the workforce by giving them free clothing of high quality and advising them in connection with job interviews and training.

The charity’s executive manager Julie Mackey considered the event a perfect opportunity of having a great time with a good purpose.

“The star studded Celebrity Waiters Dinner is set to be a fabulous evening and guests can enjoy the night knowing that the proceeds are going towards helping women in the local community”, Julie says.

The upcoming event is going to feature an auction where participants are allowed to bid for dresses designed by famous designers in New Zealand including Jane Daniels, Trelise Cooper, Annah Stretton, Stitch Ministry, and Liz Mitchell.

Guests will also witness the show stopping performance of The Ladykillers, composed of female entertainers of the country Suzanne Lynch, Tina Cross, Taisha, and Jackie Clarke.

Reality TV star and rock singer Bret Michaels remains in the intensive care of the hospital after suffering a brain haemorrhage, but has now improved to stable condition from critical, said his publicist on Tuesday.

The 47-year-old front man of the Poison band and a competitor on the latest season of the reality show ‘The Celebrity Apprentice’ had been in a serious condition when he was rushed to the hospital Friday. According to the doctors, he suffered a huge subarachnoid haemorrhage, a bleeding at the lowest part of a brain stem.

Michaels’ publicist said he was still going through medical examinations but his condition has now stabilised.

Wally Sychak, Michaels' father, told Extra news site Tuesday that he had talked with his son by phone. "He sounded a little slow, but fine.

The best as they could expect at this time", added Sychak.

Fans and celebrity friends of the star sent messages of support to his official website.

"It's devastating", stated Sharon Osbourne, British rocker Ozzy Osbourne’s wife and Michaels co-contestant on the reality show.

"Your heart goes out to his family, your heart goes out to him. He's the nicest guy in the world", she said to Us Weekly.

Michaels became popular in the 1980s as a member of the band Poison. He was then featured in the VH1's dating contest entitled ‘Rock of Love’ and appears on the latest season of the reality show ‘The Celebrity Apprentice’.

The book entitled ‘The Lost Battles: Leonardo, Michelangelo and the Artistic Duel that Defined the Renaissance’, which sets to find out who the better artist was between Leonardo Da Vinci and Michelangelo, will hit the shelves on Thursday.

Author Jonathan Jones said the 16th century competition was not new to art historians, yet to his knowledge this subject had not been put in a book.

Published by Simon & Schuster Inc, the book, which describes a defining and dramatic moment in the history of art, revealed that the rivalry profoundly influenced the legacies of Renaissance titans.

Nonetheless, Florence officials agreed that Michelangelo inched past his rival. This decision had helped the young British art critic launch his career and put him on glorious track with Rome’s key commissions.

Meanwhile, Da Vinci was sidelined in spite of being deemed as the Renaissance man.

"You are not left in much doubt that it was a competition", said Jones in a telephone interview. "The Florentine Renaissance was obsessed with competition".

The government of Florentine commissioned artists to create rival battle murals – the ‘Battle of Cascina’ of Michelangelo and the ‘Battle of Anghiari’ of Da Vinci – to be hang in the civic palace’s hall.

None of the paintings were finished and are both lost, though both survived to some extent through sketches and engravings. However, the British artist is in slight doubt that Michelangelo emerged as the winner of the dispute.

_For the first time, a book containing the seven unheard interviews of Jacqueline Kennedy months after the assassination of her husband will be released, said the publisher Hyperion on Tuesday.

In the interviews, former first lady Jacqueline Kennedy speaks of the plans of President John F. Kennedy to run for another term. The series of interviews were conducted by Pulitzer Prize-winning US historian and Kennedys’ chronicler Arthur Schlesinger in 1964 in the White House.

The former first couple’s child, Caroline Kennedy, made the decision to release the series of interviews on the 50th anniversary of the late president's inauguration next year, said The Walt Disney Co.-owned Hyperion.

Poised and graceful Jackie Kennedy had asked to keep the interviews secret for an uncertain amount of time, said Hyperion.

The interviews were made during that time for the oral history project in John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum that captured the people close to the president months after his assassination on 22 November 1963.

"My mother's passion for history guided and informed her work in the White House", said Caroline Kennedy in a statement. "She believed in my father, his vision for America, and in the art of politics.

The book deals’ financial terms remained unreleased.

"It is a privilege for me to honour the memory of my parents by making this unique history available", said Kennedy in the statement.

_Business magnate Bill Gates, former US Secretary of State Colin Powell, and Jordan’s Queen Rania have extended their helping hands as they joined a campaign on microblogging site Twitter that aims to end deaths caused by malaria.

Host Ryan Seacrest, actor Ashton Kutcher, and other Hollywood stars have also signed up to join the campaign. Beginning Wednesday, the stars will send ‘tweets’ to encourage the populace to donate. The proceeds will be used to buy bed nets, which offers protection against mosquitoes that spread mosquito-borne diseases such as malaria in Africa.

Last Wednesday, Gates also took part in American Idol’s fundraiser concert ‘Idol Gives Back’ to raise awareness about malaria as well as other health problems.

Organisers of the Twitter fund-raising programme are working hand-in-hand with Raymond Chambers, the United Nations Special Envoy for Malaria.

“It's one of the few campaigns I'm aware of where $10 buys a bednet which can save a child's life”, said Chambers. “

The UN targets to dramatically lessen the deaths caused by the disease to almost zero in the continent by 2015. To date, the organisation has over four billion dollars fund to eliminate the disease, mostly donated by Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, the World Bank, and government agencies.

Chambers said the UN aims to help 800 million individuals susceptible to malaria with the bed nets; however, their funding is still short by almost 50 million of those mosquito nets.

_Shaquille O'Neal of the Cleveland Cavaliers is the happiest celebrity on micro-blogging site Twitter, a recent study has revealed.

Researchers from the Business School Department at Edinburgh University analysed tweets of 13 stars using the social networking site. By using a computer programme, they examined word patterns to point out underlying emotions and figure out their relative happiness.

Based on the results, the 38-year-old basketball star came on top, followed by American cyclist Lance Armstrong and British TV and radio presenter Jonathan Ross.

Veteran comedian John Cleese closely followed on the fourth spot, whilst comedian Russell Brand and Scottish tennis player Andy Murray were tied in fifth. Meanwhile, Grammy Award-nominated American rapper Snoop Dogg came out as Twitter’s least happy celebrity.

The study also found that politicians, such as US President Barack Obama, California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, and environmentalist Al Gore, tended to show high emotions on single issues, such as healthcare or climate change.

TV presenter Philip Schofield, politician Boris Johnson, and pop star Britney Spears were also part of the study.

Researchers also discovered that majority of celebrities’ tweets were positive and happy, especially when they spoke about upcoming gigs or fellow celebrities.

The team now plans to use the computer programme to analyse the relations between important lifestyle issues and emotion. They aim to discover whether prevalent social problems like alcoholism and obesity have emotional links, which could be discerned by following the online communications of an individual.

_Football player and Today Show contributor Tiki Barber on Wednesday announced the separation between him and wife Ginny Cha, after living together for 11 years.

The couple, who separated in November, had two sons, a 6-year-old and a 7 year-old, and Cha is presently eight months pregnant with twins.

It was believed that the reason for the split up was an affair between the 35-year-old former Giants running back and 23-year-old Traci Lynn Johnson, a former intern of NBC who also looked after their children.

Cha “had no idea what was going on...There were no [apparent] problems in the marriage. Ginny is devastated by this. All of this came out of the blue,” a source told the New York Post.

The source also said that the affair of Barber and Johnson was more than a fling. The newspaper reported that the two started to sleep together in 2008, when Johnson was just a 21-year-old college student. The football star lavished her with gifts such as roses, jewellery, and designer clothes, and Last September, Johnson showed off her ”boyfriend's” blue Maserati on Facebook.

The two allegedly even ate lunch together publicly at the Manhattan headquarters of NBC.

”On her 21st birthday, he sent her 21 roses to her dorm. He also gave her a diamond and sapphire bracelet,” a source told the Post.

The representative of Barber refused to give comment apart from the statement issued on Wednesday.

”This decision was a painful one,” said Barber.