High School Musical pep rally in Oxford Street

Saturday December 1st sees one of life's greater pleasures befall London. Yes, they're closing Oxford Street down for a Very Important Pedestrian day.

In an effort to tickle the belly of the economy, and welcome the open wallets of London in the run-up to Christmas, the Main artery of London's shopping district will close down to allow free wandering,and, hopefully, liberal spending.

If you're planning to venture in, it's worth knowing that there will also be some entertainment throughout the day from the Wildcats, with an all singing, all dancing pep rally to coincide with the launch of High School Musical 2 DVD, to keep everyone entertained

East High Cheerleaders will be performing dance routines to favourite tracks from both High School Musical and High School Musical 2 and the Wildcats Basketball Players will be showing off their tricks and skills, kicking off at 12.10pm on Saturday 1st December.

Get down there!

Kelly Brook leaves Strictly Come Dancing

Devastated Kelly Brook has quit Strictly Come Dancing following the death of her father.

The BBC said she had decided to leave the ballroom dancing show today.

Brook, 28, attempted to continue rehearsing for the BBC1 show after her father died at the age of 57 on Monday night.

He had been suffering from cancer.

The former Big Breakfast host at first decided to keep dancing because her father, Kenneth, would have wanted her to.

But a BBC spokesman said: "Sadly Kelly Brook has taken the decision to pull out of Strictly Come Dancing following the loss of her father this week.

"Kelly has done some training as she had hoped to continue with the show in his memory.

"However, understandably she has found it too difficult. Kelly has been a fantastic part of the programme and she will be sorely missed by everyone on the show who would also like to express their deepest sympathy to Kelly and her family at this difficult time."

The model and actress has been secretly facing the sadness of her father's terminal illness while competing in the competition.

Brook, engaged to Titanic actor Billy Zane, has been one of the favourites to win Strictly Come Dancing with her dance partner Brendan Cole, alongside Alesha Dixon and her dancing partner Matthew Cutler.

Saturday's show is the first time that the couples will be performing two dances.

Stereotypically girly post alert: Brad Pitt to quit film nudity

Here's the thing, I've got a brain that works independently of my lap but even I care deeply about the fact that Brad Pitt has declared he will never get naked on film again. Look at him here, all chiselled and edgy.

It's not as though he's been naked recently, but Brad Pitt not getting naked just seals the deal on the end of an era. Brad Pitt getting naked was as dependable a fact of our youth as the change of the seasons, or BBC period dramas. (NSFW - see, um, all of him here. Good lord.)

The reason he's giving is that he doesn't want to embarrass his kids in the future, or be mocked at by the self-same spawn. "I don't want to be embarrassed when my kids get old enough to see my films," he said. "I can't see any more nude scenes [in my career.]"

HELLO? Dear lord, you're Brad Pitt for God's sake. Adonis was reincarnated in Troy, Thelma and Louise, Mr and Mrs Smith - name one of his movies and chances are his backside makes an appearance. If I were Brad Pitt I'd burn all evidence of my film career just so's I didn't give my kids a complex.

"Daddy, what did you do before I was born?"

"Well son, I was consistently voted the world's most attractive man, and women the world over cried themselves to sleep at night because they would never be able to get a piece."

"Aw crap."

Not that this nude ban affects me much. I'm a Johnny Depp girl myself.

Video of the Day: Enchanted trailer

The jury (ie, me) is out on the film itself, but trust me when I say this is the best trailer in months. Enchanted's currently pwning the US box office with its inspired story of an animated princess who's pushed out of dream land by a wicked stepmother, and into New York where she has the good fortune to meet Dr McDreamy (Patrick Dempsey, playing Lawyer McDreamy) and his spawn who look after her while she summons animals to clean the house. Keep an eye on those cockroaches. Brilliant.

X-Men and Hairspray star James Marsden steals every scene he's in as the enthusiastically labrador-stupidPrince Edward (geddit?!), and there are a number of scenes and lines that rival Shrek for wit and flair, but it all goes a bit sloppy and wrongly sugary in the last act. Also, eyes peeled for yet another lazy gay stereotype, albeit fleeting. Jeez, what year are we in, people?

Enchanted is out on 21 November.

Boris Johnson uses the force, turns to the dark side etc etc

Dear Bojo. Just when you think he can't get any sillier, he invites his supporters to a Star Wars-themed Tory Christmas bash on South Bank.

A Tory insider said: “He is throwing the party to thank all of those people helping with his campaign. “He loves Star Wars, light sabres and everything to do with the films. I guess he is seeing Ken Livingstone as the Darth Vader figure, but it’s all a lot of fun.”

I love the way Bojo is always referred to as a maverick, a renegade etc whereas in fact what he is is a Tory. Which leaves us with what exactly? Oh yes, lightsabres. Thank God for that.

Britney magazine brings out the actual pregnancy proof

US magazine In Touch isn't letting go of their Britney pregnancy exclusive any time soon: they've brought out a load of pictures of the text messages reportedly sent to them by JR Rotem.

My favourite bit is when the reporter goes "ok, awesome" to Rotem's confirmation in total relief at having landed the scoop and then just carries on going. Also JR's slightly wobbly spelling of "unpredicatable".

In Touch: "They are saying britneys pregnant and you're the father..."

JR Rotem: "Its true"

IT: "Ok awesome, do u think britney will keep it? shes already talking about it to people."

JR: "No clue on what she will do shes unpredicatable."

Seriously, they're asking if his kid will make it to full-term? Wow. That's totally classy.

Veronica Mars carried an episode on rigging text messages in season 1. Turns out, it's REALLY easy to do, so In Touch are going to have to do a bit better than this for their 100% total and absolute proof o'truth.

See more text pics here.

Spice Girls entire tour wardrobe made out of silver doilies

These are the sketches of the costumes for the Spice Girls tour. As you can see, they've opted for the tasteful Cavalli/toilet roll cover hybrid look.

Silver though, really? Silver's the kind of thing that makes 19-year-olds look elderly, and slapping Geri and her sausage legs into that napkin is a carcrash too far.

I like the way Mel C appears to have some kind of animal dangling from her right arm, and how Emma's left the front half of hers in a door.

Poor old Posh looks like she's been covered in glue and sent jogging through Topshop.

Nice shoes though.

Jordan wears her heart on her backside

Don't you just love how this picture even happened?  Jordan took the boys out for a fairwell tour to her sister's birthday party last night prior to their reduction in the next few weeks, and wore a lovely blue lampshade to show them off. Turns out the lampshade wasn't short enough because Jordan had to flash the paparazzi in order to show off these truly marvellous pants.

Bless Jordan and her absurd Blue Peter moments. Of all the ways to show your husband you love them, stitching their name in diamanté on a pair of undercrackers is not the first one I'd go for, but we should presumably be thanking God she didn't wear a thong.

Westlife and Neighbours get engaged

Two people I know got engaged yesterday so the misty-eyed force is strong within this one today, but even my goodwill can't extend to the theoretical idea of Brian McFadden and Delta Goodrem getting hitched. Eurgh.

Maybe it's because Brian's ex-wife Kerry Katona is such a monumental carwreck and hitching his wagon to Delta's pretty face just looks like trading up. Dude, you married that woman for richer or poorer, better or worse, in rehab and sober, a little drug habit and a fondness for promoting frozen products  doesn't cut it. Remember your vows dammit. Oh sure, pull the divorce card on me now, that's totally fair.

Katie Holmes's new hair makes me tingle

Bam! Marrying Tom Cruise clearly does good things for a girl's style - Katie Holmes looked straight off the pages of Vogway at an awards ceremony in Berlin last night.

Boys, think about pants or something. Girls, look at that shine. That's shine that you can only dream about, or acquire in soft water areas. Nice fringe too.

I made the appalling mistake of cutting my fringe while half-asleep at 7am the other day, now I look like a Shetland pony with Tourette's. Maybe if I married Tom Cruise, all my hair problems would be solved. Shame about the seven-inch height diff.

(FYI - that award Cruise is clutching is a Bambi award.  Sadly it's not really about deer at all but a longstanding German media shindig. Dammit.)