Hollywood actress Scarlett Johansson insists she never dated Justin Timberlake, despite press reports that stated she came between the singer and fellow actress Jessica Biel.

The Lost In Translation star tells the new issue of style magazine Vogue she has often “hung out” with Timberlake, but people let their imaginations run wild when the pair locked lips in the pop star’s steamy new What Comes Around video.

Hollywood star Kate Winslet and director husband Sam Mendes have turned their backs on Britain for good - driven away by the country’s intrusive media.

The couple and their children Mia, six, and Joe, three, now live full-time in New York - and insist they have no plans to return.

Sandra Bernhard has hit out at American Idol judge Simon Cowell, describing him as a “greasy, stinky Englishman”.

The comedienne hates the way the show demeans wannabe pop stars, dubbing it “banal and horrible” - but she reserves most vitriol for Cowell.

She says: “He’s just pathetic. He’s like a greasy, stinky Englishman. He’s disgusting.”

The great nephew of Harry Houdini wants the legendary Jewish illusionist’s body to be exhumed - 81 years after he died - so it can be established if he was murdered.

Houdini died on Hallowe’en in 1926 at the age of 52, supposedly after receiving a punch to the stomach that ruptured his appendix.