IT'S funny how the lives of pop stars often differ wildly.

Veteran Spice Girl star and solo singer, Mel C, is touring Moscow and has been moaning again that she'd like to have a boyfriend, but she can't find the right man -- Russian men have now thanked the Army for the camouflage training!

Meanwhile, as predicted by me in this column last week, Hear'Say are on top of the world after scooping a prestigious number one slot with their debut single, 'Pure and Simple'.

But this week music television company MTV has banned Madonna's new video for the song 'What It Feels Like For A Girl' because it shows scenes of a crime spree and car crash -- probably because two things happening, within four minutes, is too much for some of their viewers.

With the showbiz news looked at, these are the news stories I've been watching this week. In Canberra, Australia, a conference has been told by a top academic that the Teletubbies are bad for kids as they make them aspire to be fat, jolly and stupid.

That's just outrageous, everyone knows that's Neighbour's Harold's job!

A new report is claiming that many of Britain's museums will have to close because they can't meet their running costs. That's apart from the Natural History Museum -- or Wales as Anne Robinson calls it.