Rock god?

Tom Cruise is the latest cover of W magazine, appearing in just leather trousers and lashings of eye makeup to promote his new movie Rock of Ages. The film trailer is as bad as this cover.

Ken Livingstone: last year's model

Things are just going for bad to worse for Ken Livingstone. His wax work has already been removed from Madam Tussauds. A spokesman for the museum said it was 'unlikely to be seen again.'

Don't be an ass, Bob

Bob Geldof, father of daughters Peaches, Pixie and Fifi Trixibelle, hates the name Peaches has given her son - Astala Dylan Willow Geldof-Cohen. He worries Astala be abbreviated to 'ass' in the playground.

Nothing to be jealous of

Azerbaijan, host of this month's Eurovision song contest, has again been forced to defend its human rights record after recent criticism. Azerbaijan's president Ilham Aliyev said that people were "blowing up a couple of events" because they were jealous of his country's national and spiritual values. It seems unlikely Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International are motivated by jealousy...

A row is brewing

Brewdog recently won a prize for their craft beers. Or they were meant to until Diageo, sponsors of the event, demanded the award go elsewhere. BrewDog blogged about it. Now it's a fullscale Twitter row. Follow it at #andthewinnerisnot.