That Desperate Housewives overlord, Marc Cherry said: "One of my actresses on Desperate Housewives is not funny. [I tell her,] 'Sweetie, if you raise your eyebrow here, you'll get a laugh'. She does, and she gets nominations. Daddy's little girl does comedy. I'm part daddy, part psychiatrist"... That after going to see X-Men:First Class, Lost co-creator, Damon Lindelof tweeted of January Jones' performance: "Emma Frost's THREE mutant powers: Telepathy, Transformation to Solid Diamond and last but not least, Sucking at Acting"... That Gary Barlow's been asked to play nice(r) while judging on the X Factor: "It's like Gary's evil twin turned up to judge. He's making Simon look like Mary Poppins. When he told singer Pebbles she looked like a man at her Birmingham audition, you could have heard a pin drop. She was mortified and immediately complained"... That Simon Cowell is talking about Cheryl Cole again: "I'm sorry. I hope we're still close friends. She's still a star. The hardest thing to accept is that everyone has painted me as a monster because I embarrassed her. But the truth was I was protecting her. I just want people to be in the best place at the right time... 'This was never personal or saying you were terrible'. It wasn't that she was terrible - she was good. I just thought she'd be happier in the UK. We noticed she was quieter than normal. The feeling was that she was slightly out of her comfort zone in America. The intention was to do it quietly and say to her she had an option to rejoin the UK show. At the end of the day we were saying, 'Move to another show for even more money'. There was an offer of around £2.5million on the table including bonuses. How is that sacking someone?"... That, surprise, surprise, Ronan Parke has been signed to Simon Cowell's Syco label: "The natural path will be for Simon's company Syco to throw together an album of cover hits to get it in the shops as soon as possible. Then there are personal and public appearances, commercial deals and endorsements to think about where Ronan could bring in a lot of money indeed. You're talking hundreds of thousands of pounds"...
