Elton John's mum: 'He cut me out of his life'

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Sir Elton John and his partner David Furnish might be enjoying life as new parents but for Elton's own mother things aren't quite so rosy.

Sheila Farebrother has revealed that Elton has cut her out of his life and she hasn't heard from him for three years.
According to The Sun, the 86-year-old said: "He has cut me off completely. It happened three years ago this June. He has had nothing to do with me since then."

Mystery surrounds the exact reasons behind the family feud but friends claim a row with Furnish was to blame.

Sheila admitted that it was "something like that" but added: "I don't want to go into what caused it. It is a painful subject. My son cut me out of his life for good."

Whatever the reason, the rift prevented Sir Elton from attending the funeral of his doting stepfather and Sheila says she knew nothing of her son's baby plans. She has yet to meet baby Zachary.

However, she confirmed that John still looks after her financially and insisted she would not "start mudslinging".

A spokesman for Elton told The Sun: "I have never had a conversation with him about whether he talks to his mother. She is a lovely lady but she is 86 and she is frail and old."

What do you think? Should Sir Elton make amends with his mother now that he has a child of his own? Leave a comment below...

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These two who were once inseparable seem to be BFFs no more. What started with a few veiled comments from Gwynnie about an argument with a friend, has now escalated to snubbing each other at gigs. Will they ever make up?

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The poor man's Simon Cowell has labelled Alan Carr a "stupendously mediocre" comic with a "whiny, repugnant" voice after Alan said he'd like to replace Morgan on the Britain's Got Talent judging panel.

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Liam made a bit of an a*se of himself at the Brit Awards, prompting Peter Kay to take the mick out of him - to which Liam has responded with a volley of threats and insults. And we thought northerners were supposed to be friendly!

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But then Liam does have a habit of rubbing people up the wrong way - including brother Noel after allegedly questioning the parentage of one of his children. Things got so bad between them that Noel left Oasis in the end!

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Two of the biggest egos in tellyland collided when Morgan (as editor of the Daily Mirror) published pictures of Jezza snogging a woman who was not his wife. Water and punches have both been thrown, although the violence has subsided in recent years.

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Piers obviously likes a barney though, because he seems determined to rile his fellow Britain's Got Talent judge - criticising her for talking about sex texts and claiming she would do anything for money.

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Twitter has been something of a godsend to the celeb feud connoisseur - bringing us such delights as Lily calling Courtney a "paranoid drug addled lunatic" after she claimed Lily had stopped anybody else wearing Chanel at the event. Needless to stay, it didn't stop there...

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If feuding ever becomes an Olympic event, we wouldn't bet against Sharon winning gold for Team GB. She's taken a series of pot-shots at Dannii since leaving The X Factor - all of which smells a bit of sour grapes to us.

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Gordon Ramsay knows how to cook up a tasty controversy, so it was no surprise when asked when he had last complained in a restaurant, that he said it had been the last time he ate in one of Jamie's. Ouch!

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Once they were BFFs, but Paris and Kim's friendship seems to have soured at about the point where Kim started getting more attention than Paris. The heiress was later quoted as saying that Kim's bum "reminds me of cottage cheese inside of a big trash bag". Lovely!

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Audrina Patridge, Ke$ha, Adam Lambert Share Prom Memories

'Me and my gay best friend just danced until 8 a.m.,' Ke$ha tells MTV News.
By Jocelyn Vena

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It's prom season, and that means high schoolers across this great land will be renting tuxes, buying fancy dresses and negotiating the details of their curfews with parents. So, before you take your pictures and get in your limos, we asked some Hollywood A-listers to recall their fondest prom memories.

"I had a great prom," Ne-Yo told MTV News. "I didn't get to go with who I wanted to go with. I got my second choice, but my second choice turned out to be the one I was supposed to be there with, so it turned out good."

Ke$ha, never one to say no to a party, had the best night of all her friends. "I went to prom with my gay best friend, and let me tell you, I had way more fun than anybody else at a prom with their boyfriends," she recalled. "Everybody else was, like, crying and drama and breaking up, and me and my gay best friend just danced until 8 a.m."

"Hellcats" star Aly Michalka doesn't have a favorite prom memory — because she never went to prom. "I was homeschooled, so I don't even think we had a fake prom," she lamented. "Like, maybe we had a home-school prom and I wasn't invited?"

While everything always seems to be in peril on "The Vampire Diaries," star Nina Dobrev had a less tumultuous night: "Having everyone get together and such a final celebration [is what I remember]."

Romeo went big for his prom. "My senior prom, I remember I pulled up in my red Ferrari. I was feeling like James Bond," he said. "And it was one of the best nights of my life."

"My favorite prom memory was probably going shopping for a dress, and our boyfriends at the time dressed up as 'Dumb & Dumber,' " Audrina Patridge laughed. "And so we were like, 'We can't dress up dorky ... we have to look good.' "

Roots drummer ?uestlove made a big decision on the night of his prom: "June 2, 1989, was my very last haircut; prom haircut, totally butchered my hair. He butchered my hair, and I vowed never again to ever get in a barber chair, so I grew that Afro on my prom night."

Adam Lambert said his prom date was a 10, so he definitely had a fun night. "I had a great prom. I had an awesome time," he said. "I went with one of my best friends in high school. Her name was Lauren, and she was really hot. She wore a really hot red dress, so I felt like I had arm candy."

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Katy Perry sues over affair claims

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Pop star Katy Perry has issued a writ against an Australian magazine that claimed she had an affair with a record producer AFTER her marriage to hubby Russell Brand.

The 26-year-old is reportedly seeking damages and aggravated damages from NW magazine over its allegation that she had an "intimate relationship" with Benny Blanco (pictured right) - which put her marriage in jeopardy.
She denies that any such thing happened, that she knows the "friends" quoted in the story and even that Mr Blanco was present at the mixing of her California Girls single - as claimed.

And her writ claims that the mag did not check the story with her and has refused to apologise "although it was clearly inaccurate".

And the magazine's editors had better watch out, because she's just arrived in Oz for the latest leg of her California Dreams tour.

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This writing life, by Richard Ford

'I write novels and stories and essays for a living. But is it work?'

I've always had uneasy loyalties about the relevance of the term "work" to the activities I perform every day, and which occupy the hours when most other people are in fact "working". I write novels and stories and essays for a living. And while I fairly mindlessly refer to what I do as "work" ("I'm working, I can't help you shovel the driveway;" "I start work every day at eight and work on 'til cocktail hour;" "I've been working way too hard, I need a trip to Belize"), it's hard for me to think that work is what I really do.

Work, after all ? to me, anyway ? signifies something hard. And while writing novels can be (I love this word) challenging (it can also be tedious in the extreme; take forever to finish; demoralise me into granite and make me want to quit and find another line of work), it's not ever what I'd call hard. A hard job, okay, would have to be strenuous and pressurised (writing's almost never that way). It would have to be obdurate, never offering me a chance to let up (I can quit writing any time I want to and come back tomorrow, or never). And it would have to be skimpy on personal-spiritual rewards (I'm always trying to do what Chekhov did . . . change the way some reader sees the world; so big rewards are always out there). In my view, being a first-year law student at Harvard would not be hard; but being a non-partnered associate at Skadden, Arps would be. Learning to play "The Flight of the Bumble Bee" on a Sousaphone would not be hard; but working on the dashboard assembly team for the Ford-150 would most certainly be. You see what I mean. Hard is staring into one of those mind-corroding x-ray machines at LaGuardia. Or taking tolls on the Jersey Turnpike.

A cavalier part of me would like to say that I endured the experience of hard work when I was young and quickly went searching for something better, possibly easier to do, and accidentally hit on writing. I'm not sure that's altogether true, of course. I'm not sure, for instance, I ever had a hard job. I worked on the Missouri Pacific Railroad as a switchman when I was 17. I cleared land for the Neighborhood Youth Corps in Arkansas when I was 21. I was a house detective and carried a pistol. I was a science editor for American Druggist Magazine. I even attended law school. But I can't say any of that was really hard. And writing's really no harder. Plus it's a lot more interesting.

Indeed, a smug, self-aggrandising part of me doesn't really understand how anybody who's not a writer gets along in life. Not only is writing easier than almost any occupation I know; but you also run your own operation; you have at least a chance to admire what you do and feel a kinship with the greats; you get to make excellent use (by sticking it in your work) of the constant flood of life's jetsam ? the daily freshet that drives most people crazy; and you have a chance to please total strangers with your efforts, and at least potentially, marginally make the world a better place. Plus, if you fail at all of that, nobody gives a fig ? but you ? and you soon get over it. True, you usually don't make a lot of money, which is a drag. But I associate making a lot of money with jobs that are so tedious (and hard) that only big money would make you do it. My little job I'd do for free ? and often have.

Why I routinely refer to what I do as "work" probably just reveals an old anxiety in me ? the uneasy loyalty I already mentioned (although these days I don't consider it very important). On the one hand, I usually refer to writing as work because I don't know what else to call it. "Work" just seems easier. As cavalier as I am, it'd be cumbersome always to be referring to what I do as "my oeuvre", or "my on-going inner confession", or even just "my art". In that way, "work" is my shorthand. Years ago, I was briefly a teacher of creative writing at the University of Michigan, and I had a young woman in my class who complained, sometimes caustically, about me always referring to writing as work. "Why do you have to call it work?" she'd say, scowling at me dismissively. "It's oppressive. It's demeaning and middlebrow. It's just wrong." This was 1973. My young writers were trying hard to affiliate their fledgling efforts with some kind of rare- fied, Pateresque art-for-art's-sake gestalt. I was getting in their way with my proletarian vocabulary. They wanted me to stop it. I quit teaching, instead.

But I think the truth was ? back then, when I was a young writer, myself, and maybe still is, now that I'm getting to be an old one ? my working-class origins were making their claim on me. Everybody worked in my family ? from the day they could fit a shoulder to the wheel to the day they virtually fell under it. My mother ran the cigar stand in the lobby of the Arlington Hotel in Hot Springs when she was 15 years old (her stepfather, who managed the place, saw to it). My father worked from his mid-teens, throughout the depression, and kept one job right through the world war and the 50s, to the day he died, whereupon my widowed mother went to work as a night auditor in yet another hotel. Not that this was unusual. Everybody we knew worked. My family initially recognised everyone we knew by the jobs these people held down. A job meant who you were, it gave early indication of what you were worth, it suggested something about your character as a provider and what you valued, about your hold on a secure future, about your grasp on moral responsibility and self-awareness. It was an easy index (probably too easy) for what the world needed to know about you. But if you didn't have work, well, the world would find another index ? which it sometimes did at your peril. "He doesn't have a job" meant something specific to us, and it didn't mean you were rich.

Me calling the writing tasks I undertake "work" is just, I'm sure, my effort to have it both ways ? the way we writers always prefer it: to have it easy; but also to pawn myself off as a credible working stiff, a wage earner, a guy who has coming to him whatever real work might entitle him to ? that modicum of respect, of self-esteem, of legitimacy in a culture where writers don't really have a comfortable, secure place other than the bestseller list, or some college campus, venues where I haven't spent much time so far. "Work" is my little assertion that when I do it, I mean it, and would like you to take it and me seriously. Just like a guy who works on the line at Ford, or who delivers babies, or who teaches in the inner city and comes home exhausted. Somebody who gives an honest day's work for an honest day's pay ? even if in my case that's not always what I do.

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Rooney confirms police visit over phone-hacking scandal

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Wayne Rooney has revealed that detectives paid him a visit regarding the phone-hacking scandal.

The new-to-Twitter footballer wrote: "Scotland Yard detectives came to see me earlier and showed me some documents, looks like a newspaper has hacked into my phone. Big surprise."
Police are currently investigating phone-hacking by the News of the World and, somewhat unsurprisingly, it seems Wayne may have been targeted.

And it looks like Rooney is considering taking legal action against the paper.

He added: "Gonna get my lawyers to deal with phone hacking until end of season. So I can focus on helping MUFC win trophies. Thx for all ur support."

Coleen expressed her own outrage, tweeting: "Newspapers hacking into phones!! Desperate and Disgusting!!!!"

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What does that mean?
It doesn't take a genius to work out that the word is a clever combination of "sex" and "texting".

Who is responsible?
It's hard to pin it down exactly when it first emerged into the public consciousness - but the name that jumps to mind is Ashley Cole. He screwed-up his marriage by sending rude pics of himself to blondes - who then showed them to tabloid reporters.

Anybody else?
Oh yes. Vernon Kay, Jason Manford and Tiger Woods have all been at it as well - and we only get to hear about the married ones!

Has it caught on?
Yes, because let's face it - celebs aren't going to be the only ones using technology for sexy purposes. You might even be sexting as you read this for all we know.

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What does that mean?
You really don't know? Or are you just trying to get us to say? Alright then, it refers to the decoration of one's ladygarden with Swarovski crystals.

Who is responsible?
The practice came to general attention via an interview Jennifer Love Hewitt gave on US telly, where she said it "shined like a disco ball".

Has it caught on?
It looked like it was going to die out, but then came The Only Way is Essex and Amy Childs and suddenly it's back, back, BACK!

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What does it mean?
It's a pun on Justin Bieber and "believers".

Who is repsonsible?
Who else but Canadian pop moppet Justin Bieber? The term was invented by his religiously devoted fans.

Any related terms?
Almost all "Beliebers" will have contracted a severe case of "Bieber fever" in the past.

Has the word caught on?
Definitely, but you know what they say about today's newspapers being tomorrow's chip wrappers. We're unclear on how that relates to showbiz websites though.

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What does it mean?
The term combines "faux" (as in fake) and "romance" - and is related to the kind of "showmance" intended primarily for public consumption rather than personal gratification.

Who is repsonsible?
The first time we heard it was referring to Celebrity Big Brother winner Chantelle and fellow housemate Preston.

Any other examples?
How long have you got? Pete and Nikki from BB, Jennifer Aniston and Gerard Butler, Chezza and Dezza, Peter Andre and anyone...

Has it caught on?
Yep, the phenomenon is definitely on the increase and we're not going to stop using the term anytime soon!

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What does that stand for?
Have you been living in a cave since the 1990s? It stands for "gay best friend", or sometimes "gay boyfriend".

Who is responsible?
Like a lot of these terms, it came from across the pond - in this case via Sex and the City character Carrie Bradshaw and her GBF Stanford Blatch.

Has it caught on?
Yes, the GBF is now a more highly valued fashion accessory than a Hermes scarf or a pair of Manolo Blahniks. Come to think of it, SATC has got a lot more to answer for as well...

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What does it mean
Perhaps related to, but not to be confused with, GBF - BFF stands for "best friends forever".

Who is responsible?
It was probably originated by some uncredited valley girl in California, but we first heard the term when Paris Hilton launched her My New BFF show in 2008. She actually did two series of the show, presumably seeing no contradiction in having two separate BFFs.

Has it caught on?
It was very popular for a while, albeit mainly with showbiz journalists and ironic twentysomethings - but seems to have died off a bit lately.

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What does that mean?
We're sure you've probably worked this out yourself, but it's a combination of Glee and geek - and refers to the more fanatical members of the hit TV show's fanbase.

Is it an insult then?
Not at all, fans are happy to refer to themselves as Gleeks - and do funny hand symbols as in this picture.

Has it caught on?
Oh yes, the show was a smash from the very start but still keeps getting bigger and bigger - and so the army of Gleeks keeps growing too.

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What does it mean?
It's a clever device which attaches to the wrist or ankle of a person on probation to detect whether they have a drink. Scram stands for Secure Continuous Remote Alcohol Monitoring.

How did we hear of it?
You may remember one or two stories about a certain Ms Lindsay Lohan last year?

Has it caught on?
The technology is sure to become more widely used, so expect to be hearing about the devices both in the news and at your local magistrates' court.

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What does it mean?
It seems to cover a multitude of sins - from drinking, drugs and sex to eating jelly and ice cream and then going on a bouncy castle, probably.

Who was responsible?
The word has been used as an adjective at least since the early '80s and has been applied to a series of famous faces - such as notorious party man Charlie Sheen.

Has it caught on?
In the last few years we have definitely heard more Brits using it in reference to their own activities. Eg. "I was partying with Tasha in Tipton on Friday night".

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What does it mean?
It's like a boy band, but with men.

Who was responsible?
Take That's renaissance brought the term into commen usage, with Gary and the boys being joined by Boyzone and Duran Duran among others (let's just forget about East 17 shall we?).

Has it caught on?
Yep, they are probably more man bands than boy bands at the moment - or they're definitely selling more records anyway!

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Tchaikovsky Cycle
8pm, Sky Arts 2

The Tchaikovsky Cycle is a sequence of six episodes, each dedicated to one of the Russian composer's symphonies: tonight's debut starts, reasonably enough, with the first Symphony No 1 in G Minor, reputedly the one whose writing stretched Tchaikovsky's abilities furthest. Throughout the series, the viewer is in the capable hands of Russian conductor Valery Gergiev, who leads St Petersburg's Mariinsky Theatre Orchestra. Each symphony is illustrated further with the views of those who have studied Tchaikovsky and performed his works, bringing alive the man as well as his music.

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Julia Bradbury's Canal Walks
8.30pm, BBC4

New series in which Ms Bradbury dons her sensible trainers and traipses along the towpaths of some of Britain's most picturesque canals, once the arteries that made Britain an international trading force. In this opener, she takes in eight miles of the Caledonian Canal, ingeniously devised by 19th-century engineer Thomas Telford to link the mountainous terrain between Inverness and Fort William and stem the decline of the Highlands following the clearances. A visual delight, with the Highlands looking all the more beautiful for being rain-soaked.

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Game Of Thrones
9pm, Sky Atlantic

Ned and his wife Catelyn are both in King's Landing taking care of separate bits of business; he's discovering what a chore the job of King's Hand can be, while she gets ever closer to tracking down the owner of the dagger that almost claimed her and Bran's lives. Aiden Gillan joins the cast, but the acting honours, in such an incredible cast, go to young Maisie Williams as Arya: her first "dancing lesson" is an extraordinary scene.

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The Unofficial Royal Wedding
7.10pm, Channel 4

Although billions will have been in thrall to Kate and Will's nuptials, a significant enough number are sufficiently turned off by the whole affair to merit this broader approach to the event. User-generated (also known as cheap) videos will capture the responses of ordinary people to the event, from as far afield as Calcutta and Brooklyn, while there is also time given over to a cast of characters including an anarchic ceramicist and artist who has been producing anti-royal wedding memorabilia. DS

Dambusters: Building The Bouncing Bomb
8pm, Channel 4

A baffling revisitation of the Dambusters legend. The back story is the ripping yarn of 617 Squadron, which destroyed

three dams on the Ruhr in 1943, equipped with bouncing bombs designed by Barnes Wallis. This interminable film attempts to "recreate" the mission by having likable Cambridge boffin Dr Hugh Hunt drop unexplosive decoys from a modern aircraft on a fake dam on a lake in Canada. We are apparently expected to be agog with tension vis-�-vis whether or not it will work. But we know that it did when it counted, so there's no reason we should care when it doesn't. AM

Case Sensitive
9pm, ITV1

In the first of a two-parter, detectives Olivia Williams and Darren Boyd arrive at an immaculate designer house in the country to solve the unsettling death of a mother and her daughter. Is it a suicide? How does a hotel employee fit in? And why are the detectives a bit tetchy with each other? Answers tomorrow.

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Ryan Reynolds Calls His 'Green Lantern' Character A 'Reimagining'

Star talks of the challenges of combining fanboys' wishes with his own.
By Eric Ditzian, with reporting by Josh Horowitz

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Ryan Reynolds knows his "Green Lantern" lore. He has committed Hal Jordan's signature oath to memory and can speak knowledgably about lesser-known characters like Bzzd. And as a devoted fan of the DC Comics series, he understands the pressure that comes along with a big-screen adaptation.

The weight of fan expectation was all the greater after the initial "Green Lantern" trailer was not exactly warmly embraced. But following the debut of fresh footage at CinemaCon last month, opinion has shifted. "I feel better," Reynolds admitted to MTV News, which is debuting a very cool character banner as part of our Summer Movie Preview week.

In a later interview, he expanded on those comments about the burden of bringing "Green Lantern" to the multiplex on June 17. "This one is particularly challenging because you want to get it right for so many people coming in with a built-in expectation," he explained. "It's one thing to do it for a film when you're inventing a character that nobody's heard of. That's great. It's another when you're reimagining a character that people have known for decades. So that's not an insignificant challenge.

"You want to come in there and bring them something that is truly memorable and is exactly what they want blended with exactly what I want, because I am the guy that's got to do it," he added. "It's exciting. There are challenges."

Yet Reynolds maintains that the film's story will be one that appeals not just to the fanboys but also to a broader audience: His Hal Jordan is an egocentric test pilot who transforms, thanks to a Green Lantern power ring, to a universe-protecting superhero. As Reynolds put it, "This is a guy that goes from a reckless, walking mishap to a guy with a higher calling, and he really rises to that occasion and experiences real humility and purpose for the first time in his life. That's a story I think a lot of people will gravitate toward."

It's Summer Movie Preview Week, and MTV News will be bringing you exclusive interviews, clips and photos for the most anticipated films of the coming months. Get ready to gorge on inside looks at "Captain America," "The Hangover Part II," "X-Men: First Class," "Cowboys & Aliens" and more.

Check out everything we've got on "Green Lantern."

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