Star Wars actor Ian McDiarmid, who played evil Emperor Palpatine in four of the classic hit movies, has suffered a suspected heart attack whilst performing in front of a theatre audience in London’s West End.

Despite falling ill half way through his performance, suffering from dizziness and feeling unwell, the highly distinguished Scottish stage actor stuck to the old saying “the show must go on” and concealed his condition from everyone so he could finish the play. He was so convincing that audience members were totally unaware he was suffering some sort of attack, and he even received glowing reviews from critics watching his performance.

McDiarmid not only finished his performance in Luigi Pirandello’s Six Characters in Search of an Author on Wednesday night, but he even took the curtain call at the Gielgud Theatre before calling an ambulance to take him to hospital.

Today his agent is insisting that Mr McDiarmid is perfectly well and will be continuing the role until the run at the Gielgud Theatre ends in November.

You will be able to catch this brilliant actor on television soon, he is playing the part of Dennis Thatcher in a forthcoming television dramatisation of the final days of Margaret Thatchers political career.

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In an interview on the BBC’s Breakfast News Edmonds not only strongly criticised the BBC and it’s TV Licensing policies, but also revealed that he believes his dead parents follow him around as glowing melon-sized orbs.

Noel Edmonds, the true King of British light entertainment, spoke out about how the BBC are funded and stated that he would rather go to prison than pay the licence fee to a company who ‘badgers, hectors and threatens people’.

But even more bizarrely Edmonds also explained how the souls of his deceased parents follow him around in the shape of “small planets” which can be seen using digital photography.

He said: ‘Orbs are little bundles of positive energy and they think they can move between 500 and 1,000 miles per hour.

‘They look like little round planets but they come in all shapes and sizes.’

He added: ‘Conventional photography can’t pick them up but digital cameras can.

‘My belief is that these are something to do with some form of positive energy.

‘And possibly because I miss my parents like mad, I like to think they are them.

‘I’ve got loads of photographs of me at home with two orbs that visit me.

‘The two that I have are about the size of melons. One sits on my arm and the other is usually in the back of the shot, sitting just over my right shoulder.’

Edmonds was introduced to the New Age philosophy of Cosmic Ordering by his girlfriend Liz Davies two years ago. Since following the strange lifestyle choice he has seen his career begin to soar once more.

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Henry Rollins has revealed in an interview with NME that he and celebrity criminal Charles Manson used to correspond by mail.

Punk star Rollins explained that Manson began writing to him in the early 80s after seeing him perform with Black Flag on MTV.

“He wrote me a letter out of the blue once and he said, ‘I saw you on MTV and I thought you were pretty cool’. Rollins told NME.

“So we corresponded a few times in 1984; I’d just tell him about what we were doing with our new record and he’d send back semi-lucid responses.

“He made references to The Beach Boys stealing his ideas, which sounded like sour grapes, and told me to tell everybody else to take care of wildlife. That must have been the old hippy in him talking.”

Rollins told the NME how the letters made him feel “intense and heavy”, and he always knew when a letter had arrived from Manson as the post office worker would give him strange looks. Manson’s letters were always marked with swastikas.

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Katy Perry, currently topping the UK single chart with her faux-lesbian smash hit “I Kissed A Girl” has had her boobs covered in plaster and a mould created of her ample 32Ds.

The “bust” will later be auctioned in aid of raising money for breast cancer research, Keep A Breast are behind the procedure they are a a unique non-profit organization creating plaster forms of the female torso, customized by fine artists and auctioned to raise funding for breast cancer. You can bid for Katy’s boobs by visiting their site.

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Sexy burlesque star Dita Von Teese has been revealing her brand new lingerie range, produced by Wonderbra.

The ex-wife of Marilyn Manson says the designs were inspired by 1940’s glamour models, and one kinky little number sports a quick release magnetic clasp so it can be removed at speed.

“I love it when you can go about your daily business with the knowledge that you have a little secret of your own on underneath,” said the model.

“Lingerie shouldn’t be something you just put on for your lover; you should do it for you.

“It’s not about seducing men, it’s about embracing womanhood.”

The underwear will go on sale on September 23.

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Former Big Brother babe Chanelle Hayes attended the premiere of the new X-Files film last night, accompanied by a dwarf model.

Chanelle, who is known for her rather desperate measures to snare some column inches, towered over her diddy-date on the red carpet. The unnamed model is the star of the latest Intercasino advertising campaign, where he plays a James Bond-esque man of mystery.

Chanelle is still playing on her tenuously vague likeness of Victoria Beckham and attempting a pop career, but this latest stunt only just out does her controversial sex tape where she has simulated sex with a puppet, to advertise MTV’s Fur TV

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American tennis star Ashley Harkleroad, currently ranked 61st in the world, has posed naked in Playboy Magazine.

The 23 year old tennis ace had an all time career high back in 2003 when she was ranked as highly as number 39 in the world. To date she has prize wins estimated at around $100,000.

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Doctor Who star Catherine Tate is set to appear nude in her latest part in a West End show.

The award winning actress will strip on stage and perform a graphic sex scene with an actor playing a “nerd”. Tate plays Michelle in Under The Blue Sky, a romantic comedy written by David Eldridge.

Tate’s character is a randy maths teacher who beds a nerdy colleague to get revenge on an ex-lover. Catherine agreed to bare all for the role to make it as believable as possible.

Tate isn’t the first of the Doctor’s former assistants to bare all, Katy Manning who played the sexy Jo Grant in the 70s stripped for an amazing photo shoot with a Dalek.

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Pop totty Jessica Simpson is going head to head in a lingerie war against supermodel Elle Macpherson.

Simpson is launching a new range of underwear using the name Jessica Simpson Intimates, but Australian hottie Elle has already built one of the most successful celebrity fashion lines using the same name, Elle Macpherson Intimates.

Who will win? You decide!

Jessica Simpson

Elle Macpherson

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The rumour mill has been running overtime ever since the penultimate episode of the latest season of Doctor Who when The Doctor began to regenerate and the death of one of his assistants was prophesied by a lunatic Dalek.

After that show speculation about the show spread like wildfire, but today’s rumour really takes the jellybaby!

A fan of the show who claims to have insider knowledge of the casting department involved in Doctor Who has claimed on the internet today that the legendary Tom Baker, who played The Doctor for seven years during it’s greatest period, will be returning to the show in the year 2010.

If this unlikely event takes place, please remember where you heard it first: Female First!

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