The 9 0'Clock News – Thu 13 Dec

Posted by heatworld on Thursday 13 Dec 2007

Filed under: Britney Spears, David Beckham, Denise Van Outen, Katie Price, Kevin Federline, Lee Mead, Peter Andre, Victoria Beckham

Britney "too ill" to attend deposition:
It’s all going from bad to worse in the world of Britney Spears. The troubled singer failed to show up for the deposition with K-Fed’s legal team yesterday, claiming that she was too ill. As heatworld reported yesterday, the 26-year-old was due to face some very tough questioning about her past drug and alcohol abuse and her alleged failure to follow court orders. Call us cynical, but we’re not convinced by her excuses. We remember being “ill” when we had that Maths test aged 14. Come on Brit, it’s got to be done and surely it’s just better to get it over with?

Posh and Becks spend night in strip club!
Days after we unveiled Becks in nothing but his pants (sigh), we can now reveal that him and the missus spent the night at a Las Vegas strip club. In the early hours of Tuesday morning, Posh and Becks strolled into the Spearmint Rhino club, surrounded by their entourage – and then spent three hours in the VIP area surrounded by half-naked ladies. One lucky female dancer said, "All the girls thought it was Christmas come early. I put on a really sexy show." Now Vic, we're not being funny but if we were married to Becks we wouldn't even let him leave the house, nevermind go to a strip club. Maybe that's just us...

Jordan loses court battle to nanny
The year 2007 hasn't been the best year for Jordan, what with Pete's meningitis and Harvey's trips to hospital. But now it's just got that little bit worse. The model has been ordered to pay her former nanny £4,000 compensation by a court, after sacking her on TV. Rebecca Gould was fired after her and Jordan fell out over a holiday she was taking, which resulted in Jordan stuffing her belongings into a bin bag and firing her – all captured by TV cameras filming for her show, The Baby Diaries. Rebecca was also kicked out of the cottage that she lived in as part of the job. 'She told the court, "I was very distressed by the events of the day. The presence of the television cameras added to this distress."

Denise hearts Lee Mead
They blatantly fancied each other when they were filming Any Dream Will Do, and now Denise Van Outen and Lee Mead have taken things a step further and started seeing each other. Sparks initially flew during the audition process of the show, but both stars had partners so they didn’t act on their attraction. Denise even admitted at the time, “Lee Mead is very handsome. But I have to be careful because he’s got a girlfriend.” When heat interviewed Lee in November, we asked him if he had any plans to see Denise now that he was single and he coyly replied, “Possibly, yeah. She’s very busy, as am I.” Obviously she wasn’t that busy. We hope it lasts – they’d have really cute babies with curly blonde hair.