• Jessica Simpson and Nick Lachey have finally agreed their financial settlement, six months after their divorce was finalised. The couple jointly earned $36million during their three and a half year marriage - with Jessica earning the vast majority of it - but without a pre-nuptial agreement, the money could have seen that divided equally between the two of them. Under the new agreement, Nick will receive less than the potential $18million but “significantly more” than the $1.5million Jessica originally offered him.
• Rod Stewart, Hugh Laurie and Coronation Street’s Johnny Briggs are amongst the celebrities granted honours in the New Year Honours list. Rod has been made a CBE for 35 years in the music industry while Johnny will be an MBE for playing Mike Baldwin in the soap for the same amount of time. T4 presenter June Sarpong has also been made an MBE for broadcasting and charity while Hugh Laurie will be an OBE for services to acting.
• A Spice Girls reunion might be out of the question but Victoria Beckham has reportedly being trying to cheer up Melanie Brown by joking that their kids should form a supergroup. According to the People newspaper, Victoria has told Melanie they’ll leave space in the “Spice Kids” for Mel’s new baby. Mel’s baby, due in the spring, will be the sixth offspring of the former band.

Johnny Depp doesn’t mind being considered “weird” after playing a range of eccentric characters because he thinks everyone is different and should be proud about it.

Johnny has played cross-dressing B-movie director Ed Wood, a disturbing Willy Wonka in the Charlie and the Chocolate Factory remake and Edward Scissorhands and has recently signed up to star as the murderous Sweeney Todd in the forthcoming Tim Burton’s musical film.

He said recently: “I was given the weird badge but I think everybody’s weird and that’s the key to it. We should celebrate out individuality, not be embarrassed or ashamed of it.”

“We all have idiosyncrasies. People do themselves a great disservice by not allowing themselves to see who they really are because they are afraid of what others might think.”

An inside source added that Johnny is practising using cut-throat razor at home in preparation for his new role: “Johnny is always very conscientious in his roles. For this part he has to get into the mind of a serial killer. He wants to feel adept with the razor blades, to feel as if they were an extension of his arm.”

Lily Allen has hit out at Paris Hilton for a second time, saying people that buy her album should be killed. But this time Lily is blaming the music industry rather than the heiress herself.

Lily said recently: “Five years ago Paris Hilton’s album would have done really well [in the UK], because we didn’t have things like the internet; we didn’t have bands like myself or the Arctic Monkeys.”

“Now people can see [Paris] for what she is, and think, ‘Go away! What makes you think you have a life?’”

“Paris Hilton’s album did really badly over here and I just think it’s so boring and pathetic and it shouldn’t happen. It’s the f**king record companies that sign things like that, and you think, ‘What are you doing? Why are you ruining your own job?’

“It’s just laziness. People cheesy enough to buy albums like that should be killed.”

Sylvester Stallone has revealed he would love his daughters to follow in his Rocky footsteps and learn how to box so that he won’t worry about them so much when they start dating.

Sylvester has three daughters with wife, former model Jennifer Flavin: five year old Scarlett, eight year old Sistine and ten year old Sophia.

He said recently: “I wish my daughters would box. I’m so worried about the guys coming up to them that I would love them to be able to smack a man right off a bar stool.”

“I would feel very confident in them going out at night if they could take all the guys in the neighbourhood.”

He also added he finds raising girls to be a strange experience: “Girls are a lot of work. Boys, you just put a T-shirt on them and throw them out in a hail storm and say, ‘It’s OK, it’s good for you. Go chew on that tree. Fight that coyote.”

“With the girls it’s like, ‘Am I gaining weight?’ I’m like - you’re five years old!’ It’s crazy!”

Paris Hilton has revealed she wears coloured contact lens because she wants to be considered blonde-haired-and-blue-eyed “American princess”.

She revealed recently: I’m a brand, an entertainer. The brand Paris Hilton is like a fantasy life. I think people think of me as like an American princess fantasy.

“I want to be an icon. It’s just something I always wanted to be. Madonna is an icon and just amazing. The colour of my eyes is part of the image I want.”

Will Smith has revealed that he and wife Jada Pinkett Smith have been inspired to renew their wedding vows on their ten year anniversary next year after seeing the lavish wedding of Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes.

Will and Jada married in a small ceremony in 1997 but Will revealed recently that he felt it shrunk further in comparison to the extravagant Italian nuptials of his friends.

He said: “We had on OK wedding. We just came back from Tom and Katie’s wedding. So, that made me realise we didn’t have a big wedding.”

“They had a real wedding. It was just the most amazing, beautiful, wonderful, fairy tale experience ever and I was just sitting beside Jada going, ‘Phew!’”

“I hadn’t had too much success when we got married, so I couldn’t afford that. Ten years - we’re going to go back and do it again - renew the vows and all that.”