Model Caprice Bourret will release her own brand of perfume early next year.

Hot on the trail of Jennifer Lopez, Britney Spears and Paris Hilton - who have all released their own fragrances - the star is hoping to cash in on the celebrity scent trend.

The model already boasts her own thriving lingerie range, and recently launched her own brand of hair straighteners.

Movie star Dustin Hoffman has revealed he fought Johnny Depp for the role of Willy Wonka in director Tim Burton’s movie adaptation of Roald Dahl’s Charlie + The Chocolate Factory.

The 69-year-old Tootsie star tells America’s USA Today newspaper he desperately wanted to play Wonka in the hit 2005 film.

He says: “I was told that it was Johnny and Tim’s (film) - and that was that.”

Actor Zach Braff is playing down his reputation as a womaniser, insisting he behaves just like every other eligible bachelor.

The Scrubs star, who has dated Mandy Moore and has been linked romantically to Jessica Simpson, admits he finds it amusing when he is linked to various beauties in the New York tabloid newspapers.

British model Katie ‘Jordan’ Price gave birth to a baby girl by Caesarean section at London’s Portland Hospital at 8.49 on Friday morning.

The six pounds and 13 ounce baby is Price’s third child and her second with husband Peter Andre.

Barbra Streisand has been awarded France’s most coveted prize after she was inducted into the French Legion Of Honour.

The diva was handed her accolade by President Nicholas Sarkozy at a formal ceremony held at the Elysee palace on Thursday, following a concert in Paris.

The induction is France’s most prestigious civilian distinction.

Streisand’s Tuesday night show at the Bercy venue was attended by 10,000 fans.

The 6th-8th July promises to deliver a funky weekend away in Wye in Kent.

100 acts, four stages and free camping make for a fun weekend in the South, based at the Wye Fayre and there’s something Jewish you can do at the same time.

‘Jewish’ and ‘Kent’ aren’t words that you’d usually find in the same sentence, but a short drive from Wye will take you to see original Chagall windows in Paddock Wood, the Salomons Estate, home of Sir David Salomons, the first Jewish Lord Mayor of London.

Angel Heart star Lisa Bonet is pregnant with her third child.

The actress, 39, who was once married to rocker Lenny Kravitz, is expecting 27-year-old actor Jason Momoa’s child next month.

Bonet has a teenage daughter with Kravitz and a son with her yoga instructor, Bryan Kest.

Starsky and Hutch star Paul Michael Glaser has filed for divorce from his wife of 11 years.

The actor, who played Starsky in the hit 1970s cop show, has cited “irreconcilable differences” for his split from writer Tracy Barone.

The divorce papers were filed in Los Angeles on Tuesday and obtained by website TMZ.com.

Glaser and Barone wed in 1996 and have a nine-year-old daughter.

Folk rock legend Bob Dylan has topped another music poll - this time for recording the angriest love song.

Dylan’s Don’t Think Twice, It’s All Right has claimed the top spot in an online Rolling Stone magazine poll.

The rock publication asked readers to vote for their favourite anxious love tunes and Dylan’s song narrowly beat Alanis Morissette’s You Oughta Know.

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Gavin Rossdale has fuelled speculation he’s reforming rock band Bush for the Live Earth concerts by admitting he misses the group.

The rocker is currently recording a new solo album in Hawaii but took time out to discuss reunion reports on a Los Angeles radio station on Monday.

“I kinda miss the band thing. I loved being in the band. It’s kind of like a team,” he told DJ Ryan Seacrest.

The Israeli consulate in New York is hailing as a success the latest issue of men’s magazine Maxim which features semi-naked photographs of women who are all ex-soldiers from the Israeli Defense Forces but others have slammed it.

According to the consulate, the move is aimed at raising awareness of Israel to young American men and the magazine was invited to Israel earlier this year to do the photoshoot.

Beloved US TV star and cancer survivor Fran Drescher is considering a run for Congress.

The Nanny actress-turned-activist has been approached by high ranking politicians who would like to see her taking a political role and now has until “the end of the summer” to decide if she wants to campaign.

British uber producer Mark Ronson has heaped praise on The Charlatans’ Tim Burgesss for making a Transatlantic trek to appear on stage with him at Glastonbury.

Earlier this year Ronson released an album of covers called Version, featuring a host of stars including Lily Allen and Amy Winehouse, but he feared he’d never get the chance to work with his number one idol Burgess.

Legendary old-school Jewish comic Sol Bernstein is back in London as part of the Spice Festival at the Hackney Empire on July 16.

The alter-ego of comic Steve Jameson, Bernstein hams it up pseudo American schlock style performing as a stereotypical Jewish comic with all the schmaltz you could ever want.

From gags about not understanding modern talk to his contribution to the rise of anti-Semitism, Bernstein covers all areas and nothing is off-topic for him.

The man who once managed current Big Brother contestant Zachary ‘Ziggy’ Lichman when he was in boyband Northern Line is part of a consortium which has bought a string of radio stations including LBC, Heart and Galaxy from Chrysalis for £170m.

Ashley Tabor, 29, who is a director of Global Radio which also includes former ITV boss Charles Allen as chairman, is also the chief executive of Global Talent Group, an entertainment company that is responsible for creating the theme to X Factor as well as managing a range of artists including Corinne Bailey Rae.

Academy-award winning director Woody Allen previewed his new film, Cassandra’s Dream, to an audience of 600 in a tiny Spanish town last Monday.

The drama, Allen’s third to be filmed in London, stars Ewan McGregor and Colin Farrell as brothers and will not premiere until the Venice Film Festival at the end of August.

Jewish comedians Simon Amstell and Mark Maier are among those taking part in a charity event next month to mark the second anniversary of the London bombings on July 7 2005.

Mim’s Comedy Night, at London’s Comedy Store, will be held on July 9, and honour the memory of Miriam Hyman a 32-year-old victim of the bombings.

Proceeds from the event will go to the Miriam Hyman Memorial Fund which supports the work of charity Orbis to eliminate avoidable blindness globally

Marlon Brando’s favourite self-help guru is returning to TV and this time she’s hoping to net a world audience via a Jewish TV station.

Hanala Stadner’s weekly cable-access broadcasts in Los Angeles in the 1980s and 1990s became a must-see for acting legend Brando, who attempted to woo the TV counsellor, and steal her away from her husband.

Dame Shirley Bassey has backed British soul star Amy Winehouse to sing the next James Bond theme tune.

Bassey has sung the title song for a record three James Bond movies - Goldfinger, Diamonds Are Forever and Moonraker - and is urging the film bosses to hire the Rehab hitmaker for the next spy-franchise installment.

“There aren’t many female artists of her generation with such an unusual sound. I can’t think of anybody better to sing the Bond theme tune,” she says.