Katherine Jenkins – the Welsh lovely has been talking to the Daily Telegraph about her plans to have a family.

It appears that dominating the classical music charts may not be uppermost in Katharine’s mind anymore. She announced she would much rather be remembered as a family woman than a singer, claiming her headstone should read, “Beloved mother and daughter… who could sing a bit”. Katherine explained, “If you’re lucky enough to have kids, you want to enjoy it. I don’t want to compromise on that. I will make a decision to be a really good mum, that’s what I’d want to focus on”.

Katharine has released her 8th studio album today and is estimated to be worth around 13 million as one of the top classical singers in the world. It does now look as though she may be ready to hang up her posh frocks at last after all her travelling and success.

Jagjit Singh – the famous Indian singer of ghazal tunes has died at the age of 70.

Singh popularised the ghazal form in the 1970s and 1980s by pioneering a modern ghazal sound and using Western instruments alongside Indian classical ones.

He had been in intensive care for three weeks after undergoing surgery when he fell seriously ill with a brain haemorrhage and died in a Mumbai hospital today (Monday).

As well as the straight singing of ghazal tunes he also got involved with the Bollywood scene. He will probably be best remembered for his music in the films “Prem Geet” (Love Song) in 1981 and “Arth” (Meaning) in 1982.

He is survived by his wife, Chitra Singh, who is also a leading ghazal singer. They had commercial success with songs recorded together in the 1970s and 1980s.

Ghazal singer Pankaj Udhas said that Singh had made ghazal so accessible that his audiences “could sing along with him”.

Katherine Jenkins – the Welsh songstress has today announced that she and long-term boyfriend Gethin Jones are splitting up.

The couple got engaged last February whilst on holiday in Mexico but had not publicly announced a wedding date. They both announced the news about their break-up at noon today using Twitter.

Katherine said: “Sorry for being quiet of late, its just that I have some very sad news. Geth & I have decided to go our separate ways. ’We are both beyond broken hearted. All your hugs & support will be much appreciated xxx.”

Gethin said: “Hi everybody. I’m deeply sad to tell you that Kath and I have ended our relationship as a couple. We are both heart broken… Gx”

The couple first met when they appeared on an episode of Strictly Come Dancing back in 2007. They were seen as being an ideal couple both coming from Wales and both also used to being involved with the media.

Although Gethin has been involved in a number of tv projects it is Katherine’s busy work schedule that seems to have been keeping the couple apart this year. According to the latest Sunday Times Rich List the singer is worth around £30m and she has had a number of top-selling albums selling around 3m copies to date. She also has a busy performing schedule and is due to start her latest tour (entitled Daydream) in Oxford on the 7th January.

The couple shared a London home worth around £5m and it is unclear whether either will remain in the home. They are thought to have made the decision to part ways over the Christmas holidays when they spent time together and realised that they had been growing apart. Today’s news has been confirmed by Katherine’s management team. Katherine’s mother Susan has spoken from her home in Wales saying: ”It is very sad for both of them. It is a difficult tIme and the family will be giving Katherine all the support we can.”

Robert Pattinson – the Twilight star has done it again, winning the E! Celeb of the Year for the second year running.

We doubt it will cause too much friction at home but the person he was up against in the final round was girlfriend and fellow Twilight star Kristen Stewart. As well as Kristen Robert beat Kate Middleton, Justin Bieber and comeback queen Britney Spears. The title doesn’t come with a gong but for winning the title Robert gets the chance to donate $25k to the charity of his choice.

He has plenty of things to play with anyway as he was bought 2 rare guitars, a 1959 Fender Jazzmaster and a 1947 K&F Lap Steel, by girlfriend Kristen for Christmas. Robert is something of a musician and is rumoured to be looking to record an album of his own music. As well as playing the guitar and composing he also plays the piano.

His recent award comes as no shock to those who have followed his rise to fame since taking on the role of Edward Cullen in the Twilight series. He was named back in 2010 as being among the 100 most influential people in the world by TIME magazine. It is certainly a long way from his first big role playing Cedric Diggory in the film Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire back in 2005.

This year he was said by Vanity Fair in the US to have made $27.5m during 2010 which placed him at Number 15 on the list of Hollywood’s top earners. We could run through the awards that Robert has won for the Twilight films but we fear that this would put a strain on our servers. Let it just be said that there a lot of gongs he has won for the Twilight films which cover everything from Best Actor to Best Kiss and also other titles such as Choice Vampire.

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UK Snow Alert – the weather has certainly taken a cold turn as snow is forecast for much of the UK this weekend.

Temperatures in part of the UL hit -12C and snowfalls of up to 15cm are expected around the country. The east of England is likely to be the worst affected and London is expected to escape the biggest snowfall with 4 to 8cm expected in the capital.

Even though we are expected to be getting such cold weather and large snowfalls we have still escaped lightly compared to many other parts of Europe. Ukraine has especially badly hit and many people have been found dead on the streets after being exposed to severe weather. In Venice the famous canals have started to freeze over due to the cold.

Back in the UK we have been issued with an Amber Alert by the Met Office. The Amber Alert covers West Midlands, East Midlands, Yorkshire, Humber, North West England, East and South West England, North West England as well as the South East and London. For once England is expecting more snow than Scotland which has been issued with a Yellow Alert.

Motorists are advised to take extreme if they need to drive anywhere in the ice and snow but will be relieved to hear that the Dept of Transport has a million more tonnes of salt in stock than it did last year. Councils have their gritter lorries in action with many councils providing details on their websites. There are also several “gritter Twitter” feeds available to follow.

Another casualty in the weather has been the weekend’s sport with a number of football matches being called off as well as several horse racing meetings. In addition to this you can probably forget flying off somewhere to find some sunshine as Heathrow has already cancelled a large number of flights.

Prince Harry, David Beckham, Katherine Jenkins – who knew it, this unlikely trio have been spending the night out partying together.

The threesome were seen having a great night out together at the Arts Club in Mayfair and apparently didn’t leave there until 3am.

There were said to have spent the whole night together in the exclusive private members club but to avoid any photos they left separately.

We are sure that Prince Harry would have had no problem getting approved for membership as his grandfather is the Patron of the club. The club also has a good number of showbiz people on its membership register including Gwyneth Paltrow and SITC’s Kim Cattrall.

Katherine is of course recently single again after her split with boyfriend Gethin Jones. David is obviously impressed with the Arts Club as it was his second night out there in a few days as he previously spent a night out there with his friend James Corden.

David has been speaking this week about the possibility of he and wife Victoria adding to their family. He said on the Jonathan Ross Show: “We might have one or two more [kids], you never know. We’re not thinking about it yet, but if it happens, great. We’re enjoying the kids as it is. It’s always a thought. We might keep going.”

Katherine Jenkins  - the Welsh songstress looks to be in good shape as she posts photos off her preparation for Dancing With The Stars (the US version of Strictly Come Dancing).

She has temporarily relocated to LA to help her concentrate on her dancing for the series. As well as looking forward to all her dance training she is also looking forward to eating in all the sushi restaurants in LA. She follows a pescatarian diet, which is the same as a vegetarian diet with the addition of seafood also being allowed.

Katherine is paired up with professional dancer Mark Ballas and will be pleased to have something new to concentrate on after her split with fiance Gethin Jones in December last year.

With regard to the type of music she will be dancing to on the show Katherine says that although she sings from the classical repertoire her own musical tastes are much broader. She said: ”Because I sing classical and opera, people assume that’s all I listen to. But I’m like any other girl of my age. I like to go out and dance with my friends and listen to pop music. I love everything from hip-hop and rap to jazz, blues, R&B, anything. I love Nicki Minaj, love Beyonce, Rihanna and Lady Gaga.”

31-year old Katherine posted the photos of herself wearing a low-cut black and silver dress that not only shows off an impressive top half but also a great pair of legs.

Other contestants in this year’s series of Dancing With The Stars include: Gladys Knight, Martina Navratilova and William Levy.

Katherine is not that well-known in the US at present but if she continues wearing outfits like this we are sure it won’t be too long before she builds a new fan-base over there.

Freddie Flintoff – the English cricket legend has today been raising money for charity by claiming 12 separate world records in 1 day.

Although he failed in some of his attempts, including trying to wrap up Holly Willoughby in newspaper in 3m 7s, he did end up claiming the 12 different records inside the time limit. Our thoughts were that if he had to unwrap Holly Willoughby inside 3m 7s it would have been more of an incentive!

As well as his Holly near-miss he also failed in some other attempts including an attempt on the reverse bungee jump record. He did however have successes in:

• Most Likes on a Facebook account in an hour
• Drinking a cup of hot chocolate in 5.45s
• Fastest 100m time in a zorb (26.59s)
• Most cricket deliveries faced in 1m (19 balls)
• Most hot dogs made in 1m (9 hot dogs)

He also made a  good-humoured attempt on a pedalo record (remember his drunken escapade whilst on England duty?) where he travelled 100m in under 2m.

Sports Relief and Guinness officials confirmed that Freddie had taken the world record for most world records with his darts board bullseye achieved from a distance of 18ft (5.5m).

34-year old Freddie has been keeping himself busy all day with his record challenges in a bid to raise loads of money for the Sports Relief charity. although his record attempt has been successful it is not known yet how much money that Freddie has raised.

Jonathan Ive – the designer of many of Apple’s iconic products has today been knighted at Buckingham Palace.

Sir Jonathan is the senior vice president of industrial design at Apple and has worked for the company in California since 1992. It is Ive who is the man behind the design of the iPod, iPhone, iMac and iPad as well as a host of other products.

With the sales of Apple products so strong worldwide it would be hard to argue against Ive being the most influential designer in the world at present.

He had the total respect of the late Steve Jobs who set up Ive in the Apple hierarchy in such a way that he has full control of what he does and the only person above him is the CEO.

His first contact with Apple products was whilst he was at Newcastle Polythechnic (now Northumbria University) when he found that he could finally use a computer having previously been frustrated when trying to use a standard pc. He credits this as a turning point in his career when he realised that creativity could be brought to the world of computing.

He is a private man and due to the potential worth of new products very few Apple employees have ever been allowed inside his design studio at Apple’s offices in Cupertino near his home in San Francisco. The studio has tinted windows and is said to be full of all manner of design and manufacturing machinery to let the designer have full rein of his creativity.

Ive says he is humbled and honoured by the knighthood having been made a CBE in 2005. He says that his design knowledge comes to him courtesy of “a very British design education.”

In 2004 Ive was named as the “Most Influential Person on British Culture” by the BBC and in 2008 The Daily Telegraph described him as the “Most Influential Briton in America.”

Katherine Jenkins – the Welsh singer has narrowly failed in her bid to win Dancing With The Stars.

The show is the US version of our Strictly Come Dancing and Katherine has been right at the top of her game for the whole series.

The show has given Katherine a chance to get better known in the US and she has proved to be a popular competitor on the show. She has already mentioned that she would like to perform on a Broadway stage and from the reaction she has received she can expect to now get some offers from America.

Katherine managed to pick up perfect scores for her dancing during the final of the competition and just missed out on taking the title after American Football star Donald Driver picked up the most votes for his country music themed freestyle routine.

Katherine seems to have thrown her heart and soul into the dance competition after moving to the US temporarily following her break up with fiance Gethin Jones in December last year.

31-year old Katherine took to Twitter after the final to say: ’Being runner up on DWTS feels pretty amazing…Thanku to all who voted to put us 2nd! I never would have thought this possible at the start!’

Her professional dance partner Mark Ballas called the singer “an angel.”

It has just been announced that Katherine will be singing with opera star Jose Carreras at Preston Guild’s Proms In The Park this September. The concert is set for 07 September and tickets will go on sale next week.

Katherine Jenkins Affair with David Beckham, Twitter Denial by Singer – Katherine Jenkins has taken to Twitter today to deny rumours of an affair with David Beckham, although most people do not seem to have heard about the rumour until Katherine mentioned it!

It seems that rumours regarding an affair between Beckham and the 32-year old Welsh singer first appeared when she moved to the US for her appearance on the tv show Dancing With The Stars.

Katherine said on Twitter today: ’Dear Twitter friends, I’ve read some horrible rumours on here & want u 2 know I absolutely deny I’ve had an affair with David Beckham.

‘The rumours are very hurtful, untrue & my lawyers tell me actionable.’

She then posted later: ‘I’ve only met David twice: once at the Military Awards in 2010 & on a night out in the West End in Feb 2012

‘We were out in a group of friends & it was just a normal fun evening out. Just so we are clear I have never been on my own with him and never arranged to meet up.’

Although she has been linked in the media with a number of men Katherine has been single since December last year when she split from her fiance, tv presenter Gethin Jones.

Beckham meanwhile has been constantly plagued by stories of infidelity although he is most often seen as the perfect family man and only this week was shown out at an LA shopping mall with wife Victoria and their children. Perhaps he is just plagued by rumours as a result of being too handsome for his own good?

We reported here on this site that Katherine, David and media man of the moment Prince Harry were seen out together in February when they enjoyed an evening out at the exclusive Arts Club in Mayfair. Definitely not the sort of venue where you are allowed to play “strip pool”.

National Cleavage Day Honours List – this is the 12th time that National Cleavage Day has been celebrated since the event was first started in South Africa by lingerie company Wonderbra.

Although the actual National Cleavage Day is celebrated worldwide on 31 March, today sees the publication here in the UK of the Wonderbra Cleavage Honours List.

Wonderbra also polled 1000 women to find out what they considered to be their ideal cleavage with the following results:

Ideal breast size – 34D

Ideal place for cleavage to start – 15cm from the chin

Ideal depth of cleavage – 5cm from start of cleavage to where the breasts meet

Ideal breast shape for cleavage – circular

One celebrity whose cleavage ticks all of these boxes is 25-year old soap star Michelle Keegan. She was given a special mention by Wonderbra today when they announced their cleavage honours list. If the attention she gets is even a fraction of that gained by Holly Willoughby since she first won the Best Celebrity Cleavage title then we are sure both she and her agent will be absolutely delighted.

Talking of Holly Willoughby, she was named by the majority of the women surveyed as their current cleavage icon with Marilyn Monroe gaining the votes of half the women as the star with the most iconic cleavage of all-time.

Here is Wonderbra’s announcement today regarding the Top 10 British Cleavages:
“The following British beauties are awarded OBE (Officer of the Breast Empire), CBE (Commander of the Breast Empire) or highest accolade, a Cleavage Knighthood, for services to cleavage at the following occasions.

The committee chose these celebrities and memorable moments because they are a good representation of the different sizes and types of cleavage in the UK”:

Holly Willoughby – The Voice (Dame)

Carol Vorderman – The Pride of Britain Awards (Dame)

Cheryl Cole – her UK tour (CBE)

Pippa Middleton – in her Let’s Celebrate book (CBE)

Tulisa – Rylan Clark’s fancy dress party (CBE)

Rylan Clark – Celebrity Big Brother (CBE)

Helen Flanagan – I’m A Celebrity (OBE)

Lucy Mecklenburgh – on holiday in Barbados (OBE)

Katherine Jenkins – at the Derby (OBE)

Sam Faiers – at the BAFTAs (OBE)

Here are photos of the Top 10:

London Marathon Celebrity Runners Pay Respects To Boston Marathon Victims – after the terrible events of last Monday’s Boston Marathon there was increased security at today’s 2013 London Marathon.

However everyone was determined to show their solidarity with the runners and volunteers involved with this year’s Boston Marathon after the bombs that took the lives of 3 people and seriously injured another 176 people.

As well as all the elite runners, wheelchair entrants and the huge number of charity runners there were also plenty of celebrities who ran today, all of them showing their support for the city of Boston as well as helping raise plenty of money and raise the profile of a number of different charities.

Classical singer and Dancing With The Stars contestant Katherine Jenkins was running today in aid of Macmillan Cancer Support who helped her family when her late father Selwyn was suffering from lung cancer.Katherine later revealed that she had raised in excess of £22k for the charity after finishing the race in a time of 5h 26m.

Former TOWIE star Amy Childs was also running today and her run of 5h 47m helped raise money for her chosen charity of The British Heart Foundation. Amy looked pretty nervous before she started her race today and was accompanied all the way round the course by her boyfriend David Peters.

There was another celebrity dancing link with former Strictly Come Dancing winner and McFly drummer Harry Judd taking part. He opted to raise money for the Teenage Cancer Trust as when he was growing up his best friend suffered from cancer in his teens. He was also raising money for Eyes Alight on behalf of the Brain Injury Rehabilitation Trust. This charity is also close to Harry’s heart as his brother-in-law received much assistance when he suffered a brain injury after a nasty car accident.

From the world of food and cooking runners included Michel Roux Jr (Visually Impaired Children Taking Action). Tana Ramsey (Meningitis Trust) and Olly Smith (Rockinghorse).

From the world of fashion there was Red or Dead founder Wayne Hemingway and his daughter Tilly who were both running for Oxfam and also lingerie model Sophie Anderton who was raising money for The Children;s Trust in Tadworth.

As you would expect there were many representatives form the world of sport including former England cricket captain Andrew Strauss (The Lord’s Taverners), former sprinter Iwan Thomas (Macmillan Cancer), double gold medal winning rower Steve Williams (Sports Aid) and former heptathlete Kelly Sotherton (Age UK).

Another little celebrity group came from the world of television presenting with Sophie Raworth (The Prince’s Trust), Susanna Reid (Comic Relief) and Naga Munchetty (United Response) all taking time off from their normal BBC jobs to take part in the race.

Well done to all 36k runners who took part today and helped increase the money raised for charity since the first London Marathon was run in 1981 to over half a billion pounds.

Katherine Jenkins Celebrates Birthday With Style – the classical singer celebrated her 33rd birthday yesterday with family and friends and looked very stylish in a classy outfit.

Although she was actually 33 on 29 June such is the life of a celebrity that she didn’t have a chance to celebrate until yesterday.

It certainly hasn’t been all hard work for the Welsh singer over the last few weeks though as she has been seen at Royal Ascot, Glastonbury and over the last 2 weeks she has been a regular visitor to Wimbledon for the tennis championships.

Jenkins seems to be having a much more relaxing time in the last month or so after a difficult May when she lost her recording contract with Warner Music Entertainment. The talk at the time was the singer had been demanding £1500 a day from her management for styling, hair and make-up whilst she attended promotional events.

An industry insider said at the time that this was not an unusual figure to demand but the problem was that Katherine’s record sales did not back up her demands and it is estimated that her £5.8m record deal with the company may have cost them over £2m.

On a happier note Katherine seems to have found love again after she has started dating former London Wasps rugby player Adam Bidwell. It is her first serious relationship since splitting from long-term boyfriend Gethin Jones in 2012. As well as his rugby connections Bidwell is well-known as a close friend of Prince Harry’s.

Certainly any troubles seemed a long way away on Friday night as she hit the town with a group of friends and her family. The group started off their celebrations with some cocktails on the rooftop bar at Radio in the ME Hotel on The Strand. They then moved on to STK, the exclusive restaurant in the ground floor of the hotel.

Katherine is a girl who loves dressing up for a big occasion so she was sure to look stylish for her own birthday celebrations. She wore a grey and lime coloured illusion dress which she matched with a light coloured pashmina and nude heels and clutch bag.

She will soon be seen on tv as one of the star performers at the Buckingham Palace gala performances to mark the 60th anniversary of the Queen’s coronation. Katherine is a favourite if the Queen and was even invited to a private lunch at Buckingham Palace a few years ago.

Katherine has confirmed that she will be wearing some specially designed outfits from Suzanne Neville for the series of royal gala performances. We may have some interesting outfits to see in that case as Neville was responsible for the daring low-cut gown that Jenkins wore to last year’s Derby.

Women On Top In 2014 New Year’s Honours List - there were several big winners from the world of entertainment in this year’s New Year Honours List released today with the list containing more women than men for the first time ever.

Of the 1195 people receiving an award this year 51% are women which is a massive turnaround over the last 40 years. For example in 1974 of the total awards made just 17% went to women.

From the worlds of stage, screen and tv Penelope Keith and Angela Lansbury have both been made Dames. Penelope Keith is still best-known for her role as the social climbing neighbour Margo Leadbetter in The Good Life, the classic 70′s comedy about a couple embarking on a life of self-sufficiency. She also starred as Audrey fforbes-Hamilton in To The Manor Born and there is no doubt that both Margo and Audrey would be relishing a visit to Buckingham Palace to meet the Queen.

Angela Lansbury has starred in many movies over the years including The Manchurian Candidate (1962 version), The Picture of Dorian Gray and Bedknobs and Broomsticks. It is for her role as the detective novelist Jessica Fletcher in the tv series Murder She Wrote that she has received the most attention.

Ruth Jones, the co-creator of Gavin and Stacey, is awarded an MBE for her services to entertainment. As well as appearing in her own work she also played the part of Hattie Jacques in Hattie, the superb BBC production of the Carry On actress’s life, which was televised in 2011.

From the world of classical music Welsh mezzosoprano Katherine Jenkins is awarded an OBE, partly in recognition of her charitable work as well as her singing. Katherine works with many different charities but is a particular supporter of those involved with the armed forces.

Lynda Bellingham from Loose Women also receives an OBE mainly for her work with various charitable groups. She is also well known for her appearances in the long running OXO commercials, All Creatures Great and Small as well as being a member of the stage production of Calendar Girls. It is a great end to a difficult year for the actress as she revealed earlier in 2013 that she had been diagnosed with cancer.

One of the most surprising awards this year goes to Radio 1 dj Pete Tong who is given an MBE for his services to music and broadcasting. He said ‘I’m proud that it acknowledges a profession that I care about a great deal, and one that’s made a huge impact around the world.’

Actor Michael Crawford receives a CBE for his work with children’s charities and described the award as a ‘most wonderful surprise.’ He is still best remembered for playing the part of Frank Spencer in the hit 70′s comedy Some Mothers Do ‘Ave ‘Em although he achieved wider critical acclaim for his role in The Phantom of the Opera. Crawford performed all of his own stunts in Some Mothers… and although many people think it was written especially for him he was actually the 3rd choice for the role of Frank Spencer and only got his chance at his breakthrough role after it was turned down by both Ronnie Barker and Norman Wisdom.

These are some of the major showbiz awards but if you want to check out the Full 2014 New Years Honours List then you can see if any of your favourites have been honoured this year.