Melanie Chisholm insists that the Spice Girls reunion tour in December will not be a hot bed of partying.

Aside from the fact that four out of the five women will have their children in tow, Melanie explained recently: “Going on tour is like getting married. You have to look your best and prepare by exercising five times a week.”

“After a show we can’t really have drinks in our dressing room, we’ll be back in our hotel rooms and going to bed by 10.30pm.”

Over the weekend, Melanie was rumoured to be considering pulling out of the comeback tour with the girl group in favour of pursuing her own solo ventures.

Lindsay Lohan is reportedly set to meet with her estranged farther for the first time in over two years.

According to the New York Post, Michael Lohan is set to visit his eldest daughter in rehab in Utah in the next few days.

A source told the newspaper: “It was actually her older brother, Michael’s, idea. It’s a part of the healing process. Lindsay will see him later this week, but she will have counsellors with her. It will not be alone.”

Lindsay has not seen her father since he separated from her mum, Dina Lohan, and was set to jail in 2005 for drink-driving related offences. He has repeatedly tried to contact her before and since his release in March this year but Lindsay has refused to see him. Now that Michael and Dina have resolved many of their outstanding issues, including custody of Lindsay’s younger siblings, Dina has had her restraining order against him lifted and is happy about the dad-daughter reconcilation.

The source continued: “Dina thinks it is a good idea. Lindsay needs to deal with this and needs closure.”

• Angelina Jolie has flown to Iraq as part of her role as a United Nations Goodwill Ambassador. Angelina left New York for the Middle East on Monday, first flying to meet with Iraqi refugees and visit a UN Refugee Agency. She then travelled into Iraq yesterday to meet refugees in a makeshift camp at the border and US troops stationed in the region. She explained her trip is to “help draw attention to the humanitarian crisis .. to urge governments to increase their support for UNHCR and its partners .. [and] to highlight the plight of those uprooted by the war in Iraq.”
• While Kevin Federline is issuing subpoenas to all and sundry, and rumoured to be making phone calls to the DCFS, Britney Spears is reportedly launching an investigation herself. According to In Touch magazine, the singer has hired a California private investigator to keep an eye on Kevin, particularly when he is looking after their sons Sean & Jayden, to gather dirty for their upcoming custody case.

Owen Wilson was reportedly under a “cloud of depression” on the run up to his suicide attempt at the weekend.

Owen is currently in hospital receiving treatment after taking an overdose of pills (believed to be Oxycodone) and slashing at his wrists at his home in Santa Monica on Sunday morning. The local police department have confirmed they treated it as a suicide attempt, after Owen’s older brother Andrew called to say he had found his unconscious brother at noon.

A source close to the Wedding Crashers star told Us Weekly that Owen was had struggled privately with depression and took drugs recreationally: “We always thought he was just too fun-loving, but now it’s obvious he was just dealing with way too much to handle.”

A second source told the Sun that Owen had been expected at a number of beach parties in Malibu over recent weeks but not shown up: “He seemed to go into a cloud of depression. He was down and didn’t open up. He kind of changed.”

“He is seriously lucky to be alive - he was really close to death when he arrived and they had to do everything to keep him with us.”

“He’s such a wonderful person, such a great guy, so smart and nice. We’re just hoping he gets better.”

Owen was set to start filming Tropic Thunder with Ben Stiller and Jack Black in the next few weeks and is slated to star opposite Jennifer Aniston in Marley and Me. Dreamworks Pictures insist that Tropic Thunder with begin production as planned but Variety is reporting that Owen is no longer taking part. As for Marley and Me, a spokesperson for Fox said it’s “totally inappropriate at this time” to ask Owen’s role would be recast.

An entertainment insurance company source told the New York Daily News that the suicide attempt won’t necessarily render Owen “uninsurable” for future projects: “But you have to look at the artist as a whole, you have to look at their past, present and future.”

“Maybe something is an issue now, but will it be again in 60 days? We look at a whole range of time.”

• While mum’s away in Iraq, dad Brad Pitt took eldest daughter Zahara on a horse-drawn carriage ride around New York yesterday afternoon. And Zahara’s stuffed penguin went along for the ride too.
• Perhaps Britney Spears should get one of those horse-drawn carriages too since she’s not having a good time of it at the moment with cars - after getting stopped for speeding at the weekend, she ran out of petrol in Beverly Hills mid-journey yesterday then when she got to her destination, she got a parking ticket.
• Back in New York, Cameron Diaz and Ashton Kutcher continue their work on new film What Happens In Vegas.
• In Las Vegas itself, Mandy Moore launched her new clothing line at Project Las Vegas at the Venetian Hotel.
• And in another neat link, speaking of all things Venetian, Keira Knightley arrived in Venice, Italy yesterday ahead of the start of the 64th Venice Film Festival. Her new film Atonement will open the festivities this evening.

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Madonna has reportedly been giving the go ahead to adopt a second orphan from Malawi, even though she is still going through the legal process to finalise the adoption of her first child from the country.

According to the Sun, Madonna is planning to adopt a baby girl from the country next April. The singer met the girl, called Mercy, at the Kondanani Orphan Care Centre when she visited the country earlier in the year and while she has now been told that she can adopt the child, she has asked her lawyer to “cover all the legal bases” before they file the formal papers next February.

A close source told the newspaper: “Madonna’s over the moon that she’s been told she can take Mercy. She didn’t want another complicated adoption.”

“Mercy is a beautiful baby girl. She’s so joyful and happy and giggles every time she’s picked up. Madonna just loves the way she claps her hands and laughs constantly. She has huge, dancing eyes. Madonna calls her her smiling angel.”

Like son David, Mercy is said to have some family, including an aunt, but was handed over to the orphanage because they were too poor to care for the little girl. Madonna is said to have initially wanted to adopt another baby girl, Grace, but her extended family objected.

Madonna and husband Guy Ritchie caused controversy when they adopted son David from the sub-Saharan country last year and were at risk of losing him again after the adoption process hit a snag earlier in the summer.

The assigned government official, Penstone Kilembe, was suddenly removed from the case just days before he was due to fly to London to carry out the “home-study” section of the adoption after reportedly taking money and an air ticket from the family. Kilembe now insists that it was just a “misunderstanding [which] has now been resolved” and he will visit the couple’s London home for two weeks from next Tuesday.