That's not Nicole Scherzinger... This extremely cute creature may be staring adoringly at him, adorned in gold trim, but that's definitely not Nicole Scherzinger.
In the absence of Nicole (presumably she was onstage in the West End performing in Cats), Lewis Hamilton brought his bulldog Roscoe as his red carpet date to last night's BBC Sports Personality of The Year. Roscoe sings too!
Seemingly Twitter had something of a conniption that Rory McIlroy didn't win. I suppose, more people should've rang in for him... according to the BBC website: "The Englishman won 209,920 of the 620,932 votes cast, with Rory McIlroy getting 123,745 (20%) to finish second and third-placed Jo Pavey 99,913 (16%)."