Britney Spears is single again after reportedly getting dumped by boyfriend Isaac Cohen after just one month of dating.

Cohen broke the news to the Toxic singer during a long-distance phone call on Sunday evening while she was in New York City and he was in Los Angeles.

Cohen’s agent, Brandi Lord, confirms the split to US OK! magazine saying, “They are no longer an item.”

British songstress Amy Winehouse has hit out at claims she is too skinny, insisting critics should turn their attention to other dieters like pop star Charlotte Church instead.

The slender Frank hitmaker, who used to sport a fuller figure, is fed up with criticism over her weight and claims the media should redirect its attention to curvy Church’s battle to lose weight.

Punk rocker Tommy Ramone is turning his hand to bluegrass music after teaming up with singer/songwriter Claudia Tienan.

The Ramones star, born Thomas Erdely in Hungary, has formed the duo Uncle Monk with Tienan and they will release their eponymous album in the US in May.

The 14-track LP sees Tienan on bass and guitar, while Ramone plays guitar, dobro, banjo and mandolin.

American Idol judge Paula Abdul is being sued by a production company who claim they had a deal to make a reality show based on her life until she secretly sold it to another network.

According to the lawsuit filed in Los Angeles County Superior Court, Pilgrim Films and Television (PFTV) met with Abdul and her producing partner David Russo in 2004.

Veteran film-maker Mel Brooks has coped with the death of his actress wife Anne Bancroft, by recalling his time as a soldier during World War II.

The Producers director survived life as an engineer in North Africa during the war by living from “one hedgerow to the next”, and he’s adopted the same attitude since Ther Graduate star Bancroft died of uterine cancer in August 2005.