Matthew McConaughey has celebrated his newly single status by embarking upon a three-day drinking binge in Costa Rica.

After the Failure to Launch star split from long-time girlfriend Penelope Cruz last month, the pair issued a joint statement saying: "We have decided to take time off as a couple. Due to busy work schedules and so much time apart, we mutually decided four weeks ago that separating was the best thing to do at this time."

It now seems that the actor is relishing being a bachelor again, after he spent several nights partying.

During one drunken night out, McConaughey dominated the dancefloor at a local club and attempted to impress nearby women wearing only a pair of shorts before collapsing on the floor, and then making his way to the DJ booth.

Lily Allen isn't impressed after learning that The Kooks frontman Luke Pritchard has his eye on her.

The singer - who reached number one in the UK charts last week with Smile - has advised the star to "get a life".

"Him and Johnny Borrell (Razorlight) need to get a life. They're not very good for making children. All their children-making organs must be fucked by now."

Declan Donnelly is feeling nervous about Ant McPartlin's forthcoming wedding.

The I'm A Celebrity presenter is having sleepless nights due to worries about his role as best man at the ceremony.

"I think I'm more worried than Ant. Last night I had to get up at 1.30 in the morning because I thought of something for the best man's speech," Dec revealed as the pair appeared on This Morning. "I had to rush down to the kitchen for a pad and pen."

McPartlin will tie the knot with Lisa Armstrong at Cliveden House in Berkshire on July 22.

"Lisa has been brilliant and I've left her to look after everything," Ant added. "I don't know what she is wearing on the day but I know what I'm wearing."

Dec joked, "Yeah, and she even chose the colour of that!"

The pair are currently hosting Poker Face every night at 8pm on ITV1.

Justin Timberlake has identified Mark Wahlberg as a role model for his transition from pop star to serious actor.

Wahlberg started off his career as an underwear model and rapper, going under the name 'Marky Mark', but later managed to make a successful move to acting and producing films.

"He did it in a smart way. He took some time off from the music and took roles where he could show some real chops. I guess I'm close to doing the same thing," the 'Rock Your Body' singer told the Desert Sun.

"For me, I've had so many offers to do comedies, romantic comedies and slapstick. For me, I wanted to take it seriously and I wanted to be taken seriously. The roles I was really responding to were the dramas. I was lucky to work my way through them," the star added.

Timberlake will appear in three films in the coming year - Alpha Dog, Black Snake Moan, and Southland Tales - as well as lending his voice to a character in Shrek 3.

Angelina Jolie had landed one of the main parts in boyfriend Brad Pitt's latest project, a film about a reporter kidnapped and beheaded in Pakistan.

The Tomb Raider actress will play the role of Mariane Pearl, the widow of journalist Daniel Pearl who was kidnapped and murdered by Islamic extremists in 2002.

Made by Plan B, the production company owned by Brad Pitt, the film will be based upon Pearl's own memoir chronicling her experience of the incident.

Pitt revealed: "The film will focus on the deep collaboration between people around the world in search of Daniel in 2002. We hope the film can increase understanding between people of all faiths and portray the story and the people involved as honestly as possible without anger or judgment."

Pearl herself has expressed support for the project and the casting of Jolie in the role. "I am delighted that Angelina Jolie will be playing my role in the adaptation of the book. I deeply admire her work and what she is committed to," she stated.

However, according to reports, Pitt's former wife Jennifer Aniston is not so happy with the news. While they were married the couple ran Plan B together, and apparently Aniston intended to play the role herself.

A friend of the Friends actress said: “She’s horrified that Brad has handed the role meant for her to Angelina. It was Jen who persuaded Daniel Pearl’s wife to sell them the movie rights."

“She hoped it would win her an Oscar. It is heartless, but the bottom line is Brad got ownership of Plan B in their divorce settlement, so he can do what he likes," the source added.

KATE HUDSON refuses to cut her two-year-old son RYDER's hair, even though the tot is regularly mistaken for a girl. The HOW TO LOSE A GUY IN 10 DAYS star attempted to give her young son's hair a trim in the past, but found the process too agonising. She explains, "Actually it's funny, because I couldn't cut it. I couldn't get myself to cut it. "I'm part-Jewish, Hasidic Jews - they don't cut their kids hair until they're three. "I'm not very religious, but it's actually kind of beautiful, they compare the men to a tree and trees don't bear fruit for three years. "So I just figured maybe on his third birthday I'll cut it. I'm going to cry my eyes out!"

Mariah Carey tells "Access Hollywood" in an exclusive interview that she's ready to warble with Janet Jackson.

Mariah's exclusive Janet tip came during an "Access" interview that will air Thursday.

Jermaine Dupri, record producer and incidentally, Janet's boyfriend, had earlier revealed that he was hoping to record a duet with Janet and Mariah.

When asked about the possibility of a duet with Janet, Mariah told "Access Hollywood's" Nancy O'Dell, "Jermaine (Dupri) keeps saying this, but Jermaine has to call me and tell me about it. I love Janet. Janet is wonderful. I'm a fan. I'll totally do it, but he's got to let me know so we can write the song."

When Janet was asked if there was truth to the two multi-Grammy winners teaming up, she played coy with "Access'" Shaun Robinson on the ESPY Awards red carpet Wednesday night saying, "There may be truth to that."

A man named Miad J. says he was punched in the face by rapper Eminem early Thursday. He says he was hit 4 or 5 times while using the men’s room at a local strip club.

Witnesses say Eminem was at the Cheetah’s strip club on 8 Mile Road in Detroit Wednesday night, accompanied by an entourage.

Miad J. spoke to 7 Action News Thursday afternoon and said he was hit by the celebrity rapper at about 1 a.m. Thursday.

Miad says he was in the men’s room, using a urinal next to Eminem, when another man entered the men’s room and started to talk to the rapper.

He says one of Eminem’s bodyguards told the man to be quiet. Miad says he then asked the bodyguard to ease up on the star struck man in the restroom.

"Eminem got done and boom," Miad recounts. "He started swinging."

"I wasn’t even expecting it," Miad said Thursday. "I was just minding my own business, taking a leak."

Detroit police would like to hear Eminem’s side of the story and then they say they will present their case to the prosecutor’s office for possible charges.

No one from Eminem’s camp or from Cheetah’s strip club would comment on the alleged incident Thursday evening.

Miad insists it was Eminem who hit him and left him with a knot on the side of his face.

After he was punched, Miad says Eminem left the club and Cheetah’s bouncers threw the rapper’s bodyguards out of the club.

As one of the vehicles in Eminem’s entourage was pulling out from the club, witnesses tell police the rapper known as Trick Trick pulled out a gun. While Trick Trick did not point it at anyone, witnesses outside the club did see the weapon.

Naomi Campbell is being sued by another former employee, a young Florida woman who claims the supermodel abused her verbally and physically on three continents.

Amanda Brack, 20, accused Campbell of assault, battery, false imprisonment and infliction of emotional distress in incidents that started a month after she began working for her in February 2005, court papers say.

Brack's lawsuit was filed today while Campbell, 35, was in plea negotiations with Manhattan prosecutors about an assault charge. Campbell was accused of throwing a mobile phone at one of her employees in January in a dispute over a missing pair of jeans.

Campbell has called that allegation "completely untrue." But the housekeeper, Ana Scolavino, was treated for an injury to the back of her head, and prosecutor Shanda Strain announced that she and the model's lawyer were in plea talks.

Brack's lawyer, Gerald McCarthy, said his client and the model met in Paris in a nightclub ladies' room where Campbell was upset about a "costume malfunction." He said Brack helped and impressed the model, who then asked Brack to work for her.

Brack's lawsuit says, "Shortly after being hired, defendant Campbell initiated a series of verbal and physical and emotional attacks against (Brack) such that plaintiff suffered both physical and emotional injuries."

McCarthy said Campbell assaulted his client in several incidents that occurred in 2005 in Brazil, Morocco and in Campbell's apartment on Park Avenue in Manhattan.

McCarthy said his client stayed with Campbell as long as she did "because she was star struck." He said the model would take his client with her to meet and hang out with the rich and famous and Brack was impressed with the lifestyle.

McCarthy said a July 2005 incident was the last straw. He said Campbell said something that made Brack believe the model thought she was stealing from her and Brack quit a few days later.

Brack's lawsuit, filed in Manhattan's state Supreme Court, seeks unspecified damages for pain and suffering from Campbell and her company, OMI Ltd.

A spokeswoman for Campbell did not return a call or an email requesting comment Thursday.

The volatile Campbell has a history of problems with her employees. In 2003, she was sued by a former administrative assistant who said Campbell had thrown a phone at her during a tantrum in Campbell's apartment two years earlier.

In August 2004, in the same apartment, Campbell and her maid battled it out, with the worker claiming the supermodel slapped her across the face. Campbell accused the maid, Millicent Burton, of instigating the fight.

Last month, another maid, Gaby Gibson, filed a lawsuit accusing Campbell of personal injuries, employment discrimination, civil assault and civil battery.

Legendary British rock band The Who will launch its first worldwide tour in more than 20 years in September and is set to release its first studio album since 1982, the group announced on Thursday.

Singer Roger Daltrey and guitarist/songwriter Pete Townshend, the surviving members of the hard-driving British foursome that burst onto the music scene in 1965, will open the tour on September 12 in Philadelphia and perform across the United States and Canada into December.

Early next year, the group will tour South America for the first time before heading for East Asia and Europe .

The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame members will be joined by John "Rabbit" Bundrick on keyboards, Pino Palladino on bass, Zak Starkey, son of Beatles drummer Ringo Starr , on drums and Townshend's younger brother, Simon, on guitar and backing vocals.

At a press conference in New York via satellite from Berlin, Daltrey, 62, and Townshend, 61, said they had tried to record and possibly tour in recent years. But plans were derailed in large part by the drug-related death of bass player and original member John Entwistle in 2002.

"When The Who stopped making records in 1982, I felt I just couldn't do it anymore. ... It almost destroyed me. It destroyed one of the members of our band," Townshend said, referring to the 1978 drug- and alcohol-related death of original drummer Keith Moon .

Daltrey said Entwistle's death had altered the band's balance.

"Pete and I were two opposite ends of the globe, if you like, and John was the equator. It doesn't matter that it's taken 25 years -- however long it takes as long as it's good. And it is good."

PLENTY OF MATERIAL

Townshend, put on a sex offender list in 2003 despite being cleared of Internet child pornography charges after visiting a Web site for research purposes, said the delay in resuming studio recording and touring was not due to a lack of material.

"I could have put material together for what we would have called a Who record at any time," he said. "I've written about 450 songs and produced around 1,400 pieces of music since The Who stopped recording."

Townshend said the long delay stemmed partly from the difficulties of organizing a world tour. But he said the prodding of his teen-age son helped keep things moving.

"I had a son in 1989, that's why I'm here. He wants to come and see The Who at rock festivals," he said.

In addition to performing songs from the tentatively titled "Who 2" set for release on October 23, the band will draw on decades of hits like "Behind Blue Eyes," "I Can't Explain" and "Who Are You."

They are also exploring doing cuts from "Wire & Glass," a "mini-opera" that Townshend said is loosely based on a play he wrote for radio.

While The Who's early songs portrayed the disillusioned youth of the mid- to late 1960s, the most quoted line from their catalog probably being "I hope I die before I get old," from 1965's "My Generation," Townshend played down the notion that he was a spokesman for his generation.

"We weren't speaking for our audience, our audience was telling us what to say. My songs are your songs," he said, adding that the same holds true today.

"Meet the new boss, same as the old boss, and that boss is you," Townshend said, referring to the final line of the band's rock anthem "Won't Get Fooled Again."

Here are the Who's North American tour dates:

September 12: Philadelphia (Wachovia Center)

September 13: Wantagh, N.Y. (Jones Beach)

September 15: Ottawa, Ontario (Scotiabank Place)

September 16: Boston (TD Banknorth Garden)

September 18: New York (Madison Square Garden)

September 21: Holmdel, N.J. (PNC Bank Arts Center)

September 25: Chicago (United Center)

September 29: Auburn Hills, Mich. (Palace of Auburn Hills)

September 30: London, Ontario (Labatt Center)

October 3: Winnipeg, Manitoba (MTS Center)

October 5: Calgary, Alberta (Pengrowrth Saddledome)

October 6: Edmonton, Alberta (Rexall Place)

October 10: Portland, Ore. (Rose Garden)

October 11: Seattle (Key Arena)

November 5: Los Angeles (Hollywood Bowl)

December 4: Toronto (Air Canada Center)

BRITNEY SPEARS and KEVIN FEDERLINE have hired a counselor to help them save their marriage, according to US reports.

The couple has reportedly brought in a $1,000 (GBP555)-an-hour expert to help them solve marital problems they insist publicly are nothing more than petty disagreements.

Sources tell American magazine Life + Style the couple has agreed to meet with a marriage counselor twice a week at their Malibu, California mansion in a bid to get their relationship back on track.

Spears, who is almost seven months pregnant with the couple's second child, reportedly told friends, "We need this."

JACK NICHOLSON is still a party animal at the age of 69 - he pole danced during a recent trip to London.

British strip club impresario PETER STRINGFELLOW had to drag the Oscar winner from the stage at his Stringfellow's Cabaret of Angels club.

He reveals, "Last time Jack Nicholson was here he got up on that podium and danced on the pole. We had to ask him to get down."

The Bob Dylan musical 'The Times They Are A-Changin' is heading for
Broadway.

The show - which premiered in San Diego earlier this year - will be
choreographed by Twyla Tharp, who also worked on the hit Billy Joel stage
show 'Movin' Out'.

Dylan said: "I have no talent for flattery whatsoever but Twyla's
artistry knocks me out.

"Her production of 'The Times They Are A-Changin'' is the best
presentation of my songs I have ever seen or heard on any stage. It had a hold
over me from start to finish."

The show will revolve around a young man's coming of age, using Dylan's
music and lyrics to illustrate the events in his life.

The US songwriter has penned more than 500 songs during his career,
including classic hits 'Blowin' in the Wind', 'Like a Rolling Stone' and
'Knockin' on Heaven's Door'.

The show will preview at the Brooks Atkinson Theatre from September 25,
opening properly on October 26.

Chad Lowe is furious with estranged wife Hilary Swank after she detailed his substance abuse problem to the world in a magazine article.

Swank claims Lowe's problem contributed to the breakdown of their marriage.

A source close to Lowe tells Us Weekly, "Chad was pretty surprised that Hilary would bring (his problem) into the equation."

Swank didn't specify the exact nature of Lowe's substance abuse problem, but the actor is now sober.

Another source adds, "Chad has been sober for three years. He isn't ashamed of his struggle, but he really wishes Hilary wouldn't have talked publicly now."

Family friend Bob Balaban says, "Whatever problem he might have had didn't affect his work."

The Killers have confirmed the title of their second album.

The album, which is being released on October 2, will be called 'Sam's Town'. The name is taken from a casino in the band's home city Las Vegas, and is also title of track set to feature on the record.

Other tracks believed to be on the new album include 'Why Do I Keep Counting?', 'Bones', 'Uncle Johnny Did Cocaine', 'Read My Mind' and 'Bling'.

As previously reported, the album will be preceded by the single 'When You Were Young' on September 18.

During Montel William’s 50th birthday party the talk show host marked the milestone by proposing to his girlfriend Tara Fowler an hour before arriving to the party.

Good thing she said yes, because there’s nothing worse than getting rejected on your special day and then having to walk a red carpet event feigning happiness! Fowler was definitely not faking it as she gladly showed off her rock on their way into Pacha in New York.

The American Airlines flight attendant revealed how Williams proposed to her, getting down on one knee and popping the question in front of both their families.

Prosecutors will not file trespassing charges against a photographer arrested outside a Malibu preschool that Angelina Jolie's adopted son was attending.

There was insufficient evidence to prove that Clint Brewer stepped on school property while trying to photograph 4-year-old Maddox Jolie-Pitt, said Jane Robison, a spokeswoman for the Los Angeles County district attorney's office.

Brewer, 25, was arrested June 22 after he was seen hiding in bushes and photographing the church-based preschool, authorities said.

His arrest came about two weeks after Jolie and her partner, Brad Pitt, returned to Malibu from Namibia, where she gave birth to their daughter Shiloh Nouvel Jolie-Pitt.

The couple have two older children, 18-month-old Zahara, adopted from Ethiopia, and Maddox, adopted from Cambodia.

Both Maddox and Zahara's surnames were legally changed to Jolie-Pitt after Pitt announced his intention to adopt the children.