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• Russell Brand has been scaring the neighbours in Hampstead, North London. He reveals: ‘I went out naked in the rain to cool off after I’d done some exercise recently. The neighbours didn’t like it. My cat was embarrassed. It was a silly thing to do, really.’

• Gina Yashere credits colonic irrigation with helping her lose weight – and says she was so enthusiastic about the process that she even took pictures of the waste being flushed out of her body. ‘You fast for seven days and you do two colonic irrigations a day,’ she said of her time in the Thai spa. ‘The great thing is that it just cleans out all the stuff that is slowing down your metabolism in your system. I lost a stone in a week.’ She says she’s lost four stone in 10 months, shrinking from a size 18 to a size 12.

• Video footage of Gavin and Stacey star James Cordon playing trumpet at his school more than 20 years ago has been unearthed. Want to see it? Course you do…
  

• Rowan Atkinson is auctioning off his 1968 Aston Martin V8 for an expected £90,000.

• Robin Williams and his estranged wife Marsha Garces Williams have promised to be ‘honest, cooperative and respectful’ in their divorce. He said: ‘I think a lot of times divorce can be like circumcision with a weed whacker. But the idea that it's going with love, I think, is important.’

• A couple of weeks back, we mentioned that Chris Morris had mentioned the particle accelerators at the CERN labs near Geneva. Well, he’s recorded a podcast from the site. Listen here.

• League Of Gentlemen star Steve Pemberton has sold his £800,000 North London home which, by comic coincidence, was used as the exterior of the house Ronnie Barker moved into in the Porridge sequel Going Straight.

SOURCES: The Sun, Liverpool Daily Post, Mail On Sunday, News of the World, Metro, CERN podcast, Daily Mail

Published: 9 May 2008