Hollywood power couple Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie are trying their hand at something new to dazzle their fans — designing a jewellery collection.

JAY-Z, Will Smith and Jada Pinkett Smith have officially signed on as co-producers of Fela! a musical about Nigerian Afrobeat pioneer Fela Anikulapo-Kuti that opens on Monday on Broadway.

YOU’RE UGLY! Britons are among the ugliest people in the world, according to a dating website that says it only allows “beautiful people” to join.

MONDAY night’s Big Brother Revolution nomination show saw the housemates’ nominations leave Angola’s Emma and Nigeria’s Geraldine up for eviction this week.

FOOD  writers and diplomats were fortunate enough last week to be invited to sample, comment on and criticise, if warranted, Meikles Hotel’s proposed Christmas/New Year festive menu.

MICHAEL Jackson’s father will not inherit any of his son’s assets, a judge in Los Angeles ruled.

SIMON Cowell, the acerbic American Idol judge, creator of America’s Got Talent and a record producer, is the top earning man on prime-time US television with an estimated haul of US$75 million, Forbes.com said this week.

BRAWLING BEAUTIES
BEAUTY pageant winner Miss England gave up her title on Friday after reports she had been involved in a nightclub brawl with another beauty queen.

BRITNEY Spears has spoken out over the miming row that has surrounded her first Australian tour, acknowledging it had created some “controversy”.

PARDON the cliché, but it is amazing how time flies…. especially when you have as much fun as we do in Ha-ha-ha-hare.

NEW YORK  — Rapper 50 Cent says former Destiny’s Child singer Kelly Rowland “never received the superstar treatment” that Beyoncé got in the girl group. And he’s doing his bit to fix that.

A HEARING has been scheduled for next month in director Roman Polanski’s effort to win dismissal of the 1977 sexual assault case that led to his arrest in September.

OOPS!: A passenger in an air force display team in South Africa shot himself 100 metres into the sky when he accidentally activated the ejector seat.

MARCUS Garvey Records — fronted by Shingirayi Sabeta of “Mau Mau” fame — has released a 10 track album which “reinterprets” some of the popular songs of yesteryear.

ELIZABETH joked with Emma about how the two of them will become the “widows” of the Big Brother House should Kevin be evicted –– with Kevin clearly still on a mission to develop a more personal relationship with Elizabeth and Emma having lost “partner” Jeremy at Sunday’s eviction.

A RHETORICAL question to Zimbabwean readers, but those perusing this piece online might think about it.

SUNDAY’S Big Brother Revolution eviction show saw off the duo of South African Quinn and Zimbabwean Kristal, dubbed “Quinstal”.

HOTEL RWANDA star Don Cheadle got a first-hand view of horror when he travelled to the devastated Darfur region of Sudan in 2005.

SHOWER DECREE:  Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez has instructed his citizens to stop singing in the shower.

DANIEL Mandishona’s White Gods, Black Demons is an anthology of 10 short stories published under the Weaver Press stable.