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Radio 1's Edith Bowman and Colin Murray are going their separate ways after three years.

There's no scandal attached, just a simple scheduling revamp at the station.

It will give both Colin and Edith, who currently host the 1-4pm slot, their own shows.

Edith's star profile is on the ascent as she is given the lunchtime slot, in Jo Whiley-stylee.

Colin, 29, will host a new evening specialist music show, from Monday to Thursday.

Edith, 32, said: "I'm ecstatic at the prospect of having my own daytime show on Radio 1."

But she says she'll miss her banter with Colin.

Colin said his show would be "exciting and personal and it's going to show a blatant disregard for musical pigeon-holing."

Although he admits he'll miss Edith, he says she "knows that I belong in the darkness".

New signings for the station include club music DJs Eddie Halliwell and the Trophy Twins.

Radio 1 controller Andy Parfitt said: "We believe this will help even more listeners to come and sample the wealth of distinctive specialist shows Radio 1 has to offer."

YOU'D think there would be a competitive spirit flowing between the likes of former boy-band members Robbie Williams, Justin Timberlake, Ronan Keating and their ilk.

And you'd be right. Keating doesn't back away from what could be dangerous territory.

"I think that Robbie is probably the best entertainer of all of us – us being Robbie (from Take That), Justin (N'Sync), myself and a couple of others that do that kind of thing. People like Brian McFadden as well, and he's a good friend.

"Of all the boy-band guys that came out of bands and became solo artists, I think Robbie's probably the best entertainer. He's got a certain charisma, and a tongue-in-cheek humour that really just works."

It obviously works in Australia, where Williams has managed to sell out nine huge outdoor shows in December, including two at Suncorp Stadium in Brisbane (December 13 and 14).

But in the US, he could barely draw the numbers required for a football team. The Yanks don't want a bar of Williams, which is astounding considering his domination in Britain and here.

"Americans," Keating says, "don't like that cheekiness and that tongue-in-cheek humour that Robbie employs. That 'ego has landed' thing just doesn't fly in the US.

"If they'd released Angel and went to radio with that, Robbie might have been a big star in America by now. But because several of his singles haven't gotten away, there's a sort of stigma attached to his name there at the radio level.

"Having said that, though, his Dublin concert that I attended a couple of weeks ago was an amazing spectacle. The stage is enormous – he's spent a lot of money on this rig.

"He opens his set with Rock DJ, which I think is a great pop record. It was very cool to open with that. Apart from the new songs from his next album, it's a show just full of hits."

SUPERSTARS in the mainstream music scene of the United Kingdom may hit the country.

Big Five Entertainment Company are working at bringing Westlife, arguably one of the European groups of the moment.

Information gathered yesterday is that the ‘massive show’ will be held at the Mavuso Exhibition and Trade Centre on September 30.

The four-member group consisting of Kian, Shane, Mark and Nicky is expected to be in the country for three days before going back home.

Big Five Entertainment Company’s representative Gcina Mthethwa, confirmed the show, adding that more information about the company and the event will be delivered the launch.

“I can confirm that Westlife is coming to perform in the country on September 30. We have already booked the venue and I am looking forward to the launch where everything will be revealed.”

Westlife History

After a brief interlude with their Rat Pack album of classic song sung in the style of Sinatra, ‘Face To Face’ is Westlife’s first collection of new songs since ‘Turnaround’ topped the charts in 2003.

A familiar blend of big ballads and mid-tempo tunes, balanced by the occasional up-tempo song, ‘Face To Face’ present Westlife playing to their strengths, passionate vocals and memorable tunes. It’s a straightforward formula that’s been winning hearts and ears since the dawn of popular music, from the doo-wop days of the Platters, through the timeless harmonies of the Drifters and Coasters, to the slick modern sounds of Backstreet Boys and *NSYNC, Take That and Boyzone. But no one's done it with so much success as Westlife - 54 million album sales are testament to that!

That freshness can be heard all over ‘Face To Face.’ The band have never sounded in better voice and they've rarely had a better choice of material on which to show it. "We know we have to raise the bar each time we make an album and be bigger and better," acknowledges Shane. After seven years together, their seventh album finds them at the top of their game, and it's a big game they play in, with six multi-platinum albums in the UK alone. Add to that the Brit Awards, MTV Award, 12 UK number one's; Westlife are amazingly one of the biggest brands on the planet.

Songwriting and production duties are equally divided between long-term collaborator Steve Mac and Swedish hit-makers The Location, returning to the Westlife fold after working on their first two albums (and for Britney Spears, Backstreet Boys and *NSYNC among many others), with recording done in Ireland, Sweden and London over the long hot summer.

England saw their World Cup hopes again ended in a penalty shoot-out after Portugal's victory in Gelsenkirchen.

Ricardo was again England's nemesis from 12 yards like he was at Euro 2004 by saving three of England's penalties to send Portugal into the semi-finals.

For Sven Goran Eriksson it was third time unlucky against Luiz Felipe Scolari as the Brazilian again got the better of the Swede.

Eriksson's reign as England boss ended in defeat to Portugal and he will be remembered as the nearly man as in three major tournaments he has guided England he has got no further than the quarter final stage.

England battled to get to the penalty shoot-out after playing from just past the hour mark with just ten men after Wayne Rooney was sent off.

Rooney was red carded for appearing to stamp on Ricardo Carvalho and then pushing Manchester United team-mate Cristiano Ronaldo.

Earlier in the game England captain David Beckham was forced to limp off with an ankle injury and in all likelihood it was probably Beckham's last World Cup finals chance.

England's defence worked overtime from the minute Rooney was sent off and they managed to keep Portugal at bay until full time.

30 minutes of tense extra time followed, but everyone in the stadium seemed to know this match was going down to the lottery of a penalty shoot-out.

In the shoot-out Frank Lampard, Steven Gerrard and Jamie Carragher all saw their spot kicks saved by Ricardo and the nation's hopes were again extinguished in the cruellest fashion.

Ronaldo kept his cool to sink the crucial penalty and make himself an unpopular figure in England.

For England and Eriksson the whole occasion had a terrible sense of déjà vu as England again failed from the spot.

So Eriksson leaves his post failing to achieve what he set out to do and England fans everywhere will be hoping his replacement Steve McClaren will have better luck with penalties.

Former "Baywatch" star David Hasselhoff had surgery after severing a tendon in his right arm in an accident in a London gym bathroom, his spokeswoman said Friday.

The 53-year-old actor, who played lifeguard Mitch Buchannon on the TV beach drama for 11 years, was shaving at a gym in the Sanderson Hotel on Thursday when he hit his head on a chandelier, showering his arm with broken glass, his publicist, Judy Katz, said.

Doctors operated to repair the injury and Hasselhoff spent one night at St. Thomas' Hospital in central London, Katz said.

"He's fine," Katz said by phone from New York. "He's out of the hospital and will resume filming tomorrow."

FREDDIE PRINZE JR is so fond of practical jokes, he has sickened celebrity pals by dressing as a serial killer and defecating in onset trailers. The actor is proud of his status as Hollywood's number one prankster and insists no trick is too low. Prinze Jr tells the New York Daily News, "CLAIRE FORLANI had watched a documentary on serial killers. So I dressed up as one of them - all in black with a T-shirt that I pulled over my eyes. "I knocked on her door with a kitchen knife. I apologised to her afterwards. Then there was the time MATT LILLARD once thought it was funny if he defecated in my hotel room - and it was. It made me laugh, so I defecated in his trailer, and it made him laugh."

As if working with Meryl Streep wasn't enough, The Devil Wears Prada star Anne Hathaway also got some one-on-one screen time with another legend: Chanel. "I'm so at the mercy of that brand and I love it," says Hathaway, 23, who plays Andy, the assistant to Streep's fictional Runway fashion magazine editor. "They're so nice to me and give me free stuff." The actress (The Princess Diaries, Brokeback Mountain) fills us in on her other fashion favorites and the sacrifice she made for the movie.

Have you drunk the designer Kool-Aid since being in the movie?
I will say that I've always loved high heels. My first pair of high heels I put on was a pair of my mom's, which were great. They were like faux-lizard beige sling backs, wooden heels, stilettos. I was 3, and I didn't take them off for three weeks and I never fell down.

Did you have a favorite piece of clothing you were dying to take home from the set?
I really wanted to keep the Chanel boots. Just amazing – I loved them.

Do you have a favorite fashion designer?
I'm not a brand person for everything, but the one fashion label that I swear is out of my control is my love of Chanel. I will look at a dress and say, "Oh, I really don't like that," then I'll find out it's Chanel and be like, "Oh, it's kind of cute."

Was there a brand you got turned onto by working on this film?
I really, really love Valentino. And now I'm getting to an age where I can wear it without looking like I'm raiding my mother's closet, which is nice.

What was it like working with costume designer Patricia Field (who dressed the cast of Sex and the City)?
Pat was really open to collaboration. She was really kind in the way she let me make suggestions and always let me have input as the actor. But her instinct for the character was better than mine.

You lost weight over the course of the movie. Were you asked to do that?
They actually asked me to gain weight for the movie. I had just recovered from surgery and I couldn't eat anything and I'd lost all this weight. I was really, really a twig.

How did you put on the pounds?
Just pizza, beer – just trying to condense your freshman year into four weeks. So then I go to my first costume fitting and Pat Fields goes, "Not gonna work." I'm like, what do you mean? And she's like, "You have to wear couture. You need to be 120." And at the moment I was 130. So I was like, "For the love of Pete!"

So then what?
It took about six weeks to lose, and it was actually easy because I was in Europe and I was just kind of living on fruits and vegetables and I really cut out pasta, cut out drinking, made the huge sacrifice of going out dancing every night. (In the movie,) we padded me for the earlier scenes because we wanted to show Andy losing weight. That was my really traumatic weight loss/gain story.

Janice Dickinson has found herself on the ugly side of the beauty biz.

Jeweler-to-the-stars Neil Lane is claiming the self-proclaimed World's First Supermodel made off with thousands of dollars of borrowed baubles worn in an August 2002 photo shoot.

Neil Lane Inc. filed the breach-of-contract suit in Los Angeles Superior Court Wednesday, seeking compensatory damages of at least $88,000.

According to the suit, the former cover girl was loaned several pieces of jewelry for use in the photo shoot, including a pair of diamond earrings worth $52,000; a turquoise, pearl and gold necklace worth $14,000; a coral and gold necklace priced at $17,500; and turquoise and pearl earrings valued at $4,500.

"Despite numerous requests," Lane says, Dickinson has failed to return the jewelry.

Pamela Anderson was spotted kissing handsome British TV presenter Steve Jones during a wild night out in London.

The pair - who allegedly had sex in 2004 after Steve interviewed her for his Channel 4 TV show - reportedly spent the evening together after meeting at the PETA Humanitarian Awards on Wednesday night.

Before hitting some of the UK capital's top nightspots, the pair went to an apartment owned by one of Pammy's pals.

A source told Britain's Daily Mirror newspaper: "The champagne was flowing and everyone was partying hard, but Steve and Pamela went off into a private room."

"They didn't come out for about 20 minutes and it was clear from the look on their faces they hadn't been discussing the weather."

Around midnight the couple and some friends moved on to London's Cuckoo Club for cocktails, before heading to the swanky Kabaret's Prophecy.

The source said: "Pamela was clearly wrecked but it didn't stop her having a good time."

"She and Steve were all over each other all night. They were kissing in a stall and were practically having sex on the dance floor. They didn't seem to care who was watching."

The pair reportedly left the bar in the early hours and headed back to Pammy's friend's flat.