The world’s wealthiest Jewish bachelor is no more. Sergey Brin, co-founder of search giant Google and worth over $16bn got hitched to his long-time love Anne Wojcicki earlier this month in the Bahamas, but so secret was the wedding, that it has only recently been confirmed.

According to a report in the San Jose Mercury News, the wedding took place under a chuppah with both Brin and Wojcicki confirming their commitment to the Jewish faith, though no rabbi is said to have officiated at the ceremony.

Jazz songstress and recent newlywed Amy Winehouse has scooped this year’s Best Contemporary Song for Rehab at prestigious Ivor Novello Awards.

The north London-born performer flew in especially for the occasion as she is working on a new video in Los Angeles.

Collecting her award, she joked to the audience: “Thank you all very much, I didn’t even have time to get drunk, I’ve only been here about 15 minutes.”

Hip-hop violinist Miri Ben-Ari escaped a serious car crash yesterday with minor injuries.

The Israeli musician, who has worked with rappers including Kanye West and Twista, suffered minor head injuries when her Mercedes C Class 550 was struck by a courier truck from behind.

Doctors have ordered Ben-Ari to rest for 48 hours, reports AllHipHop.com.

Actor and writer Stephen Fry has launched a scathing attack on the popularity of reality TV shows, insisting the format is “picking over the remains of life”.

The Gosford Park star, currently appearing in British small screen drama Kingdom, is disgusted by much of the competition his Sunday night show faces.

Speaking to The Stage he says of reality programmes: “I would rather skewer my own eyeballs out of their sockets with a blunt bodkin than I would watch (them). I thrive on creativity, energy and excitement.”

Former Dire Straits star Mark Knopfler is re-releasing hit single Brother In Arms to raise money for veterans of Britain’s Falklands war.

The rocker is donating all new royalties from the 1985 song to charity Sama 82, which sends traumatised soldiers back to the islands to conquer their demons, to mark the 25th anniversary of the conflict against Argentina.

“I’m touched my song, written during the war, was picked to help those still suffering,” he says.

Veteran actor Tony Curtis is reviving his acting career after fighting death in December.

The 81-year-old Some Like It Hot star spent three days clinging to life in hospital after developing pneumonia just before Christmas, but the prayers and support of his family helped him pull through.

And now Curtis is returning to the big screen - as an elderly hospital patient who dishes up wise words to a struggling young friend in David + Fatima.

Disturbia star Shia LaBeouf is fighting fit for the upcoming Indiana Jones IV movie but regrets the fact his film career has ended his surfing obsession.

The young actor, who will play Harrison Ford’s sidekick in the new adventure movie, reveals director Steven Spielberg told him to get fit for the new film - but insisted he stayed away from the ocean.

Maroon 5 frontman Adam LevineE broke a band pact recently when he revealed to fellow musician and member of the tribe Billy Joel the meaning behind the group’s name.

Nobody but the members of Maroon 5 knows the reason for the band’s name, until Levine decided he had to tell Joel after the singer/songwriter unveiled a secret of his own.

Joan Rivers has hit out at veteran actress Sophia Loren for denying she has undergone cosmetic surgery.

The 73-year-old comedienne confesses she has had extensive work to help her fight the ageing process - and is baffled 72-year-old Loren continues to claim she hasn’t done the same.

Ian Ziering remembers his last day on Beverly Hills 90210 - he helped himself to priceless memorabilia.

The hunky actor, who played Steve Sanders on the 1990s TV series, refused to leave the set until he had acquired some of the famous props on the show.

Paula Abdul has spoken out for the first time since breaking her nose in a weekend fall, revealing she also fractured her toe.

The clumsy American Idol judge tripped over her pet chihuahua, Tulip, at home on Sunday and is now nursing a series of bumps, bruises and breaks.

Jazz songstress Any Winehouse is continuing her whirlwind wedding celebrations by flying her closest friends to Los Angeles for a boozy girls’ night out this week.

The Rehab star exchanged vows with Blake Fielder-Civil on Friday during a trip to Miami, Florida, and now wants her stunned pals to join her for some partying.

A video showing Chief Rabbi Sir Jonathan Sacks letting his hair down and dancing a Scottish jig at a wedding has surfaced on popular video sharing site YouTube.

In the video, which was taken on a mobile phone, Sir Jonathan is seen dancing and laughing with a group of men wearing a kilt, Scottish flag and a multi-coloured cardboard crown.

According to the poster of the video, djacobson82, Sir Jonathan was attending a wedding.

David Beckham is set to make his first visit to Israel which will also see him play his last game for Real Madrid before moving to America to join Los Angeles Galaxy.

The 32-year-old former England captain will take part in a match between the Spanish club and a team of Israeli and Palestinian players.

Australian author Thomas Keneally, best known for the 1982 book Schindler’s Ark, is to appear on the BBC’s World Service programme World Book Club, where he will discuss the novel.

The programme will be recorded in front of a studio audience at The British Library on Thursday 24 May at 4.30pm and members of the public can attend as well as ask him a question.

American Idol judge Paula Abdul is recovering after breaking her nose in a weekend fall.

The Straight Up singer-turned-Idol judge tripped over her Chihuahua Tulip.

Abdul’s spokeswoman confirms the accident but reveals the break wasn’t serious enough for the pop star to be hospitalised.

Comedienne and Miss Great Britain host Joan Rivers has attacked the beauty pageant’s contestants, dubbing them “morons”.

The acid-tongued 73-year-old, who presented the ceremony yesterday, claims the finalists were stupid, too thin and “tramps”.

Former Will  + Grace star Debra Messing missed out on film and TV roles when she was a struggling young actress - because she looked like a clown.

The sexy actress took make-up tips from friends she had in the theatre and realised her “leading lady” looks were a little offputting to casting directors.

Rock matriarch Sharon Osbourne will never have cosmetic surgery again, insisting “I’ve had enough”.

The reality TV star, 54, who has already had a boob job and gastric band, regrets ever going under the knife for the sake of her looks.

“I was following a dream. I’ve had enough,” she reveals. “Surgery is agony - you don’t just wake up with huge breasts. That boob job was the worst thing I ever did. The op to remove my band really did me in too. I’m too old for all that.”

Jazz songstress Amy Winehouse’s wedding was such a big secret she didn’t even tell her parents.

The Rehab star exchanged vows with Blake Fielder-Civil on Friday during a trip to Miami, Florida, but neglected to tell her family about the ceremony until the nuptials were over.

“We didn’t know about the wedding until they phoned to tell us. To say we were shocked is an understatement,” says her father Mitchell. “I was with Amy last week in Canada and she didn’t mention it.

It seems that Joan Rivers has never been so in demand in the UK as she is at the moment.

The feisty senior citizen is spending a long weekend in London, during which time she performed at London’s G-A-Y club, appeared on Michael Parkinson’s ITV1 chat show along with fellow Semites Stephen Fry and George Michael, and glammed up as a guest as well as a prize presenter at the Bafta Television Awards.

Sexy actress Scarlett Johansson will star as tragic monarch, Mary, Queen of Scots in a new movie.

The Lost In Translation star, 22, will take the lead in director James Curran’s Mary, Queen of Scots - an historical epic about the 16th century Catholic ruler, who was beheaded at the age of 42 for attempting to take over the English throne from her Protestant cousin, Elizabeth I.

Jazz songstress Amy Winehouse has apologised to Sir Elton John for cancelling one of her London gigs earlier this year, after the veteran rocker bought a ticket for the axed show.

John and partner David Furnish bought tickets for the 8 March concert at the Shepherds Bush Empire and were dismayed when Winehouse pulled the plug at the last minute, citing “unforeseen circumstances”.

Movie mogul Harvey Weinstein has confirmed reports he is protecting Michael Moore’s latest movie Sicko from U.S. authorities.

The Oscar-winner’s latest documentary is an expose on the U.S. health care system and allegedly features a segment where Moore takes a group of former Ground Zero relief workers on a trip to Cuba.

Communist Cuba is under a trade embargo from the U.S. and most Americans are banned from travelling to the Caribbean island.

Kosher uberproducer Mark Ronson has wished his singer pal Amy Winehouse a mazel tov on her surprise marriage yesterday.

The Stop Me hitmaker - who worked with the star on her chart-topping album Back To Black - gave his blessing to the singer’s union to Blake Fielder-Civil.

“I’m so happy for her. She kept that under wraps,” he says.

The 23-year-old singer and her new husband, 24, celebrated their union at Miami’s exclusive Shore Club yesterday.

Movie star Michael J Fox is planning a secret trip to Israel in a last-ditch effort to find a cure for the Parkinson’s Disease that has ravaged his body.

The Back To The Future star’s hopes of finding a cure in America were dashed last year when politicians voted not to pass legislation allowing stem-cell research - something Fox and his supporters were fighting for.

Jazz songstress Amy Winehouse has wed her fiance Blake Fielder-Civil in a secret Miami Beach, Florida ceremony.

There was talk that Winehouse and Fielder-Civil would have a “Jewish-style” wedding in the UK following his conversion to the Jewish faith, but when the two wed, it was a small private ceremony.

Winehouse’s representative confirmed the singer is now Mrs. Fielder-Civil, stating, “Amy Winehouse did get married to fiance Blake Fielder-Civil this morning in a very private, intimate ceremony. They are very happy.”

Crooner Harry Connick Jr has become an early riser because he’s desperate to hit the golf course before anyone can watch him make swing errors.

The singer/songwriter has just started playing the game, but already he’s hooked on becoming an expert.

But unfortunately his golf game isn’t yet at a level where he can play with anyone else.

Maroon 5 frontman Adam Levine was flattered to be on the receiving end of British rockers OASIS’ derisory comments - as the bad words raised the band’s profile in the U.K.

Outspoken Oasis star Noel Gallagher took offence at having to share the stage with the American group at English festival V in August 2005, saying: “If we had a hand in picking the bill, Maroon 5 wouldn’t be on it.”