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Taylor’s the man!

Yes, this is pop superstar Taylor Swift! The 30-yearold sent social media wild when she released the video to her latest single, ‘The Man’, last week. She had to endure six hours of makeup to achieve the stunning transformation. The video is an indictment of toxic masculinity and sexist double standards and imagines everything she’d be allowed to do if she was male.

Duffy’s brave words

Welsh popstar Duffy bravely revealed last week that she’d been “raped and drugged and held captive over some days” at an unspecified time. In an emotional Instagram post, the 35-year-old ‘Mercy’ singer wrote: “The recovery took time. There’s no light way to say it. But I can tell you in the last decade, the thousands and thousands of days I committed to wanting to feel the sunshine in my heart again, the sun does now shine.” After spectacular success with 2008 album Rockferry, she released one more record, but no others followed. “Many of you wonder what happened to me,” she said. “You can only imagine the amount of times I thought about writing this. The way

I’d write it, how I’d feel thereafter. I asked myself, how can I sing from the heart if it’s broken?”

Spielberg’s daughter arrested

A few days after revealing she has become an ‘adult entertainer’, Steven Spielberg’s adopted daughter, Mikaela, was arrested this week for domestic violence. The legendary director was said to be ‘embarrassed’ when the 23-year-old gave an interview saying she had already started producing ‘solo porn videos’ and hoped to obtain her sex worker licence. “I got really tired of not being able to capitalise on my body,” she told The Sun. “Doing this work, I’m able to ‘satisfy’ other people, but that feels good because it’s not in a way that makes me feel violated.” After she was arrested, her partner said it had been a misunderstanding and “no-one is hurt”. She was released on $1500 bail.

Cass talks divorce

She knows from first-hand experience just how stressful a marriage break-up can be, so now Cass Thorburn, the ex-wife of Karl Stefanovic, wants to help others going through the ordeal with the Divorce Story podcast, which launched this week. “It’s a subject that’s fairly taboo, but shouldn’t be,” she says. The mum of three wants the podcast series, which she co-hosts with Annaliese Dent, to get women and men to think positively and take action. “I believe, having been through a divorce, that the biggest grief to deal with is the end of the marriage – not getting over the person you’re divorcing.” As for what she wished she’d known at the time: “I would tell myself when I was devastated by the separation that it’s an opportunity to write your own new life chapter.”

Bob Geldof ‘still grieving’

Almost six years after Peaches Geldof died from a heroin overdose aged 25, her famous father Bob has revealed the grief over losing his “clever, sweet, eccentric” daughter is still ever present. “Time doesn’t heal, time accommodates,” the legendary musician, 68, said during an Irish TV interview. “You’re driving along, and you’re at the traffic lights, and for no reason whatsoever I’ll cry.” The Boomtown Rats frontman added, “It is bottomless, the grief, the abyss is infinite.”

J.Lo sad at Oscar snub

She was widely expected to be nominated for an Academy Award this year for her much-praised role as a veteran stripper robbing rich businessmen in the move Hustlers, and Jennifer Lopez admitted this week she was disappointed to be overlooked. “I was a little sad because there was a lot of buildup,” she said during an interview with Oprah Winfrey. “I got so many good notices – more than ever in my career – and there was a lot of, ‘She’s going to get nominated for an Oscar … It’s going to happen!’ I’m reading all these articles going, ‘Oh my God, could this happen?’ And then it didn’t, and I was like, ‘Ouch.’ It was a little bit of a let-down.”

Jasmine unveils bump

Jasmine Yarbrough proudly showed off her growing baby bump for the first time on Monday to support Aussie fashion label Camilla and Marc’s Power and Solidarity initiative, which raises money for ovarian cancer research. The brother and sister duo behind the brand, Camilla Freeman-Topper and Marc Freeman, lost their mum to the disease 26 years ago. Yarbrough captioned the pic of herself and hubby Karl Stefanovic: “Ovaries. Let’s talk about them. If this campaign means that we could help one woman detect this early, if we could just save one life, this’ll all be worth it.”

Harry’s mugging terror

Popstar Harry Styles has spoken for the first time about being mugged by a gang of knife-wielding robbers on Valentine’s Day. The 26-year-old told US shock jock Howard Stern he was walking home from a friend’s house when the hooded group demanded he hand over his wallet and unlock his phone. “The other one pulls his shirt up and he’s got a knife sticking in his pants and I was like s--t,” Harry said. “I just said, ‘I’m sorry mate, I can’t. I can’t unlock my phone’, and the guy’s like, ‘You got 10 seconds,’ and he starts counting them down and I’m like, ‘F--k.’” Suddenly, two cars appeared and Styles ran into the road to flag them down. “Obviously a mad man runs into the road, so they don’t let me in. Usually when I’m out walking I’m wearing running stuff and this was the one time I was wearing corduroy flairs and shoes. I was like, ‘I’m gonna have to f--king sprint all the way up this hill!”

Touchy Pete

Fans at Aussie crooner Peter Andre’s gig in the UK’s Southampton on Saturday were surprised to see this notice (right) outside the venue ordering them not to have “any physical contact” with the star or take selfies due to coronavirus! But the 47-year-old later denied he’d become a pop diva. “OK this must be a wind up because I hugged everyone I met, ”he said, adding: “Brilliant. I am now officially a diva without being a diva. On a serious note though, don’t touch me.”

Bea’s new royal title

When Princess Beatrice marries Italian financier Edoardo Mapelli Mozzi in May, she’ll become a ‘Contessa’ as Mozzi is descended from Italian aristocracy. His father is Count Alessandro Mapelli Mozzi, and Edoardo will inherit the family’s ancestral seat, the 18th century Villa Mapelli Mozzi palace in northern Italy. The father of the groom said: “He is a count – his wife will be a countess automatically and any of their children will be counts or nobile donna.”