Beyonce Knowles Ain’t Making Versace Happy

Beyonce Knowles, the one who gave us the infectious Indian sounding ‘Baby Boy’, has just landed herself a lucrative GBP3 million deal to wear Armani clothes.

However, Armani weren’t the only Italian couture giants eager for Beyonce to sport their high-class gear. Versace were also keen to sponsor the ‘Bootylicious’ star’s upcoming ‘Dangerously In Love’ tour.

“Both were desperate for her to wear their clothes while she performed. Armani won with a huge cheque and everyone was happy, apart from Versace of course.”

Red Hot Chili Peppers Have Their Fortunes Faded

Red Hot Chili Peppers will issue a brand new single running up to the release of their Greatest Hits package next month. ‘Fortune Faded’ is due 10 of November on two formats backed by non-album tracks like the brilliant and “got every potential to be a single” ‘Eskimo’, ‘Bunker Hill’ and ‘Tuesday Night In Berlin’.

The band’s Greatest Hits will follow on 17 of November featuring material from almost every album of the Red Hot Chili Peppers’ 20 year career along with another new track, ‘Save The Population’.

Sugababes To Become A Duo?

Just as their latest single ‘Hole In The Head’ tops the UK charts, reports are quickly emerging saying that the Sugababes are on the verge of breaking up once again. Keisha Buchanan and Mutya Buena have told pals they can’t wait to get rid of bandmate Heidi Range and become a duo.

“Keisha and Mutya don’t get on with Heidi very well,” a source close to the fractured trio revealed.

“It’s hard because she joined the band after them. Plus they have been friends for ages. They want her out and would rather sing as a duo.”

Legally Jessica Simpson

According to MTV News, Jessica Simpson is going to Harvard and other Ivy League schools to perform and host a question-and-answer session with students in early 2004.

The trip will be filmed for the second season of ‘Newlyweds’, the suprise hit MTV show. Jessica’s manager and father, Joe Simpson, said the idea was inspired by ‘Legally Blonde’.

Before the Ivy League tour, the blonde vocalistress will warm up with a similar string of concert and Q&A events at high schools across the country.

That outing begins 23 of October in Atlanta and visits Dallas, Oklahoma City, Charlotte, Orlando, Tampa, Chicago and Kansas City before ending 11 of November in Minneapolis.

Along with the tours, Jessica has been busy meeting with movie producers about a number of projects, including a big screen adaptation of ‘I Dream of Jeannie’.

Sarah Whatmore Loves Shopping

Just what has Sarah Whatmore been up to?

Well, aside from recording her long-awaited album, the cute popstar has been indulging in her other favourite past time lately which is essentially shopping.

So tell us, Sarah, where does a girl like yourself with such exquisite taste in clothes find the best bargains?

“I love Mango and Zara,” she says. “I love that European and Mediterranean look. I also like H&M. They’re really good. Then there’s Burberry’s, Ralph Lauren and Escada. I get bits from there so if you are looking to get really fashionable stuff, you would need to get stuff from there.”

“Did you know I was a shopaholic? I’m really, really bad ain’t I!”

In the meantime, Sarah’s album should be out sometime early next year.

Kylie Minogue Jets Off To Canada

Kylie Minogue, on top of everything like her preparations for her new album, recently jetted off to Canada just because she wanted to be with her man, actor Olivier Martinez.

She visited him on the set of his latest movie but they didn’t really do much. Just looked into each other eyes, apparently.

A friend told the papers, “Kylie cancelled everything. It was exclusively spur of the moment and very unlike her. As you already probably know, she’s fallen for him in a big way.”

Meanwhile, it’s said that Kylie plans to bring out her new matrial early next year with ace pop tunes guaranteed.

Hear Nick Lachey’s Solo Debut Here

I’ve managed to hear an exclusive 2 minute promo of former 98 Degrees frontman, Nick Lachey’s solo debut single.

Click here to listen.

It’s called ‘Shut Up’ and it ain’t that bad actually. Quite refreshing. It was co-wrriten and produced by the Matrix Crew whose work credits include Avril Lavigne.

Nick also plans to having a R&B ballad he wrote for his pop chanteuse, Jessica Simpson make the final cut for his debut album. Called ‘Edge Of Eternity’, he said “I love this track because i wrote it with her in my mind. She loves it too. I want this to be found on my LP.”

Visit the singer at his official site www.nicklachey.com

Childhood Bully Sues Eminem For A Million Bucks

Yet another person calls Eminem a girl…

Us Weekly profiled the lawsuit filed by Eminem’s childhood bully DeAngelo Bailey, who is seeking $1 million for the rapper alleging Slim’s comments in ‘Brain Damage’ has damaged his own struggling music career.

DeAngelo’s mother Rochelle Bailey said, “People don’t understand this stuff never happened. That boy is such a girl. We can’t figure out why Eminem would put that in a song when nothing like that ever even happened.”

“DeAngelo was a good kid. He got along with everybody.”

Eminem’s mom Debbie insisted that because of DeAngelo, Emeinem begged not to go to school and had nightmares.

Why Do Acts Like Natural, LFO, Backstreet Boys Go On A Hiatus?

What has made 98 Degrees, Britney Spears, the Backstreet Boys, LFO, Natural, O Town and even N’Sync to go on a hiatus? Apparently, it’s the genre of their music itself.

Andy Greenwald, a senior contributing writer for Spin magazine, tells Larry Rodgers of The Arizona Republic that the changing tastes of young listeners over the past two years may well have prompted the above mentioned acts to disappear for a while.

“They call teen pop ‘bubble gum’ for a reason. It is because the flavour is eventually going to wear off,” Andy said.

“There’s only so far you can take the music and the genre. As the artists start to chafe against the limitations of it as they get older and their fans get older, they’re going to come to a parting of the ways. So essentially when that happens, they try to approach other styles of music in order to appeal to a wider audience and constantly try to change their sounds with perhaps a Latin-tinged flavour or a rock sound.”

P Diddy To Give Jennifer Lopez & Ben Affleck Rolls-Royces

Sean ‘P Diddy’ Combs tells People magazine that he is planning to buy ex-lover Jennifer Lopez and her fiance Ben Affleck a pair of Rolls-Royces when they marry.

“I heard they have some Bentleys. I want to upgrade them to Rolls-Royces. Am planning to give a gift exclusviely from the lovely me. Rolls-Royces – his and hers,” he revealed.

Still, don’t look for P Diddy to deliver them in person at the ceremony. “I don’t want to make anybody feel uncomfortable,” he explained.

Meanwhile, P Diddy has been spending a lot of time with That 70’s Show star Ashton Kutcher. They were spotted losing a bundle in the Atlantis casino down in the Bahamas.