Well, that’s just about it for 2007: just four hours left until 2008 kicks off and we look forward to another gossiptastic year!

Fametastic has continued to go from strength to strength this year and we’ve covered some really great stories. Here are some of our favourites.

• Lucy’s favourite stories
• Heather’s favourite stories
• Our hopes for 2008

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• Paris Hilton probably isn’t too bothered that she’s not going to get a huge inheritance from her granddad - because she’s making enough money of her own. Earlier in the year it was rumoured that she and sister Nicky Hilton were asking for $500,000 to host a New Year’s Eve party in Las Vegas but the older socialite is said to have exceeded that this weekend. According to reports, she was paid around $1million for hosting three parties this weekend ahead of the big bash this evening.
• It doesn’t look like Pete Doherty will be invited to join friend Amy Winehouse for her New Year’s holiday in the Caribbean - after he offered her and husband Blake Fielder-Civil support, she has reportedly complained about how the law has treated the two men differently. She’s quoted in the Mirror as telling a friend: “Why have they given Pete so many chances? It’s not fair that my Blake is locked away. I thought they would give him bail, just like they do with Pete.” Blake is currently on remand at Pentonville prison ahead of his trial-fixing case next year.

Jennifer Lopez is reportedly planning to follow Scientology guidelines when she gives birth next year.

Jennifer has previously dismissed suggestions that she is converting to the religion favoured by close friends Tom Cruise & Katie Holmes, and best friend Leah Remini, but according to the People newspaper, she recognises the potential benefits to Scientology’s preferred silent births.

The concept hit the headlines after Katie Holmes reportedly gave birth to daughter Suri Cruise in silence in April 2006 and the religion’s followers believe that newborn babies should spend their first week in a silent environment to avoid stress and trauma so early in their lives.

A source close to Jennifer told the newspaper: “Although she knows it will be hard not to scream, she understands why it will be good for the baby to have peace and quiet.”

Jennifer is thought to be six months into her long-awaited first pregnancy and the size of her bump, along with a recent shopping trip, have prompted rumours that she’s expecting twins.

Kevin Federline’s lawyer has confirmed that Britney Spears is set to give her deposition early in the new year - and if she misses this one, he’ll pursue her for contempt of court.

Mark Vincent Kaplan told People magazine over the weekend: “Britney Spears will have her deposition early this year. We’ve got a lot to talk about.”

Britney missed the previously scheduled session earlier this month, claiming acute anxiety but Kaplan was not convinced: “She was, in fact, out later that day and night. It’s not fourth grade where you get a doctor’s note and it’s all okay.”

“Kevin isn’t interested, nor am I, in punishing her. We just want to get information necessary to proceed further. I hoping remedies which include continuing hearings are all theoretical.”

He added that the two boys at the centre of the storm - two year old Sean and 16 month old Jayden - spent time over Christmas with both their mum and dad: “It was a good Christmas for all. They were great.”

“Kevin had all of his kids and it was a big, wonderful family setting. He was really happy, and the kids were happy.”

The next scheduled court hearing regarding the case will take place in February.

• Keira Knightley has said she could never move to Los Angeles because people in the city are so obsessed with the film industry. She told Cosmopolitan magazine recently: “It’s a funny place - I could never live in Hollywood, because there’s nowhere to escape to. You find yourself sitting around a lot and every conversation you have is about the movies. “I think you have to be in a city that has different walks of life that you can observe - and, for me, that’s London.”
• Dita Von Teese and Marilyn Manson’s divorce has been finalised just about a year after their marriage ended. Dita filed for divorce in December 2006 but wasn’t able to present the papers to Marilyn, real name Brian Warner, until January this year. She cited “irreconcilable differences” as the reason for the split but afterwards blamed his partying and friendship with now-girlfriend Evan Rachel Wood. Terms of the agreement - and any financial settlement - have not been disclosed for privacy reasons.

Heather Mills has reportedly been telling friends that she’ll have to sell her Sussex home to pay off legal debts accumulated during her divorce battle with estranged husband Paul McCartney.

Heather reportedly owes law firm Mishcon de Reya around £2million in legal fees and has been threatened with court unless she settles the bill in good time. She is said to originally have had a deal to pay off the fees when the financial aspect of the divorce was settled in February but after the firm dumped her as a client in November following her TV interview outbursts, they reconsidered their position, believing that the settlement might not cover all her debts.

An inside source told the Sunday Mirror: “Heather is telling friends that relations have broken down so badly between her and the lawyers she will have to sell her new house to pay the debt. This Christmas she’s been facing up to losing her home.”

After they separated in May 2006, Paul bought the £3.25million property for Heather so she could raise their now four year old daughter Beatrice near his Peasmarsh estate.

The source added: “She’s decided to fight her divorce without solicitors. But now the house has to go. It’s a shame because she and Bea have just started to settle in there.”

Heather will still own a sea-front property in Hove and is said to have been asking for either a home in London or the Hamptons in New York as part of the divorce settlement.