Roisin And Celtic Spirit & other: May 2008

Whitney Houston Wows With Daughter Duet

Whitney Houston wowed fans at a charity concert in London yesterday with a spectacular duet with her 15-year-old daughter Bobbi Kristina.

The superstar headlined the Caudwell Children Legends Ball in the capital's Battersea Park, before a starstudded crowd including Destiny's Child's Kelly Rowland.

Audience members tell People.com Houston "looked and sounded amazing" - and they were stunned when she brought Bobbi Kristina onstage to perform My Love is Your Love together.

Just last week, an American tabloid claimed the teenager was hospitalised in February after attacking her mother and attempting suicide.

The gig is the latest step in Houston's comeback - following a battle with drug addiction and a messy divorce from Bobby Brown.

She is working on a new album with former mentor Clive Davis - and Rowland insists problems in the past shouldn't count against her, telling People.com before the London gig, "People should not judge her. She's done more than prove herself."

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Phil Collins - Model Trains Keep Collins Away From The Studio

PHIL COLLINS has been forced to put his new solo album on indefinite hold - because he's too busy creating a model railway world at his home in Switzerland.

The rocker insists he won't return to the studio until he's finished creating his sons' train set.

He tells Rolling Stone magazine, "I just got sidetracked with model railroads for the boys - or me, really.

"I'm building a model railroad in my basement. That seems to be an obsession. There really isn't any room for music at the moment.

"I'm sure when the railroad gets close to being finished and I go into my little studio, if something happens I'll keep going with it.

"I have one or two things finished and one or two things that are half baked, but nothing that's even close to being called an album yet."

The Genesis frontman isn't the only rocker with a model railway obsession - Rod Stewart featured on the cover of Model Railroader magazine last year (07).

His massive railway `city', which took him 12 years to create was called "one of the best train sets" editors of the publication had ever seen.

In the accompanying article, Stewart said, "I pity a man who doesn't have a hobby like this one."

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Kelly Rowland - Rowland Wants To Join Celebrity Book Club

Former DESTINY's CHILD star KELLY ROWLAND wants to follow in the footsteps of her pop peers MADONNA and GERI HALLIWELL - by releasing her own range of children's literature.

The former Destiny's Child star, 27, has already carved out a successful music career and has ventured into Hollywood - but she's got her sights set on hitting book store shelves with her very own kids' tales.

And she's determined to establish herself as a serious author and actress within the next three years - before she turns 30.

She tells WENN, "There's so much I want to achieve (before I'm 30). I want to write some children's books... (but) we'll see what happens.

"I'm excited about life, I'm excited about my new record... And hopefully another movie, some TV shows down the pipeline before I'm 30."

Madonna released her first children's book, titled The English Roses, in 2003, while Spice Girl Halliwell launched her own series of novels, centred around her main character Ugenia Lavender, earlier this month (May08).

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Spears sparks pregnancy rumours

Pop singer Britney Spears has sparked reports that she is expecting her third child after being photographed shopping for a pregnancy test.
The photographs, which appear on People magazine's website, show Spears and her new boyfriend, paparazzo Adnan Ghalib looking through pregnancy tests at a shop.
The pictures were reportedly released by Ghalib's photo agency, FinalPixx.
The rumours come in the same week that Spears fled a courthouse without attending the most recent hearing over custody of her two young sons.
The boys are currently in the sole custody of their father Kevin Federline after a judge stripped Spears of her visitation rights following a custody dispute at her home.
The singer later had to be hospitalised for evaluation after she was deemed to be under the influence on an unknown substance.