Self-styled “good Jewish boy” Michael Sophocles came unstuck in BBC 1’s The Apprentice following his stunning revelation that he did not know what a kosher chicken was.

In Wednesday night’s episode, Sir Alan Sugar tasked his would-be junior to find a number of items in Marrakech, one of which was to buy a kosher chicken, while Michael’s rival team succeeded in getting a kosher chicken, his own team did not and to make matters worse, tried to pass off a halal chicken as a kosher chicken.

Five News anchor Natasha Kaplinsky is expecting her first child.

According to a spokesman for Five, the former BBC news presenter is three months pregnant.

The 35-year-old had previously worked for ITV and Sky News and maried investment banker Justin Bower in 2005.

“Everyone is delighted with the news,” said the Five news spokesman.

Channel 5 news anchor Natasha Kaplinsky has shown why she has star appear -  she wears magen dovid style earrings.

The former BBC and SKY news presenter wore the stylish earrings when appearing on the Jonathan Ross show in which she talked about her new news programme.

Actress Natalie Portman has revealed her all time favourite co-star is Stephen Fry.

“I wanted to spend all my time with him. He is awesome,” the Star Wars beauty revealed to The Times when they shared a screen in V for Vendetta.

Portman says she appreciates his intellect and believes they have a similar personality. “I would much rather read a book or write a letter than watch television or send an e-mail. And I value good spelling. Spelling errors are a total pet peeve, which is embarrassing.”

Jewish entertainer, MC Rebbe has been named as a finalist in the world’s largest blog competition, the 2007 Weblog Awards.

Known as “The Rapping Rabbi” and once described as “A cross between Jackie Mason, Mel Brooks and Woody Allen, with a bit of Lenny Bruce’s sharp tongue thrown in”, MC Rebbe’s three-year-old blog was chosen from a shortlist of several thousand to be selected as one of the final 10 in the Best Culture Blog category.

Police are investigating what caused one of London’s largest kosher restaurants to be severely damaged by fire.

Solly’s in Golders Green, north west London, was hit by a blaze on Monday which lasted into the early evening and saw 30 firefighters tackling the fire.

Solly’s, which has been a favourite kosher haunt for nearly 20 years, among the public as well as celebrities, suffered damage to its first floor and roof. No one was injured by the blaze which also saw nearby shops close while firefighters were bringing the fire under control.

Israeli tourist chiefs are hoping to gain permission from pop group Duran Duran to use an obscure song recorded by them to use as the background music for an advertising campaign to promote Tel Aviv.

Instrumental tune Tel Aviv, recorded by Duran in 1981 and released as part of the group’s debut album, is being considered as a potential song that tourist bosses would like to see used to help promote Israel’s club capital.