Hugh Grant has spoken about being a father and says he 'likes' his baby daughter (and not as in Facebook 'like')...

"I like my daughter very much. Fantastic. Has she changed my life? I'm not sure.  Not yet. Not massively, no. But I'm absolutely thrilled to have had her, I really am; I feel a better person."

Wow, don't get too gushy about your little girl Hugh!

I'm sure she'll be thrilled to read that when she's older and would much prefer he'd said, 'I LOVE my daughter very much' - perhaps he's just underplaying things, who knows, but one thing Hugh definitely does know - he won't be setting up a trust fund for her.

"My other worry is about - and as I say, there are few things in life I believe in 100 per cent - but another one is not giving your children money. I see nothing but f***-ups among my trust-fund friends. It's like 99 per cent f***-ups. So I would not want to do that to my children, no."

Sorry, Tabitha (that's her name, by the way) - it looks like there's not going to be any unconditional love or cash from your father.  Okay, so maybe the unconditional love part is a bit subjective, but the cash bit it clearly set in stone.

Other Bits of Celebaby News

Tamzin Outhwaite - of EastEnders fame and that weird hotel drama, that I didn't watch - has revealed, on Twitter, that she's expecting baby number two.  Hubby, Tom Ellis, and Tamzin already have a three-year-old daughter called Florence.

Jessica Simpson is still preggars - she totally blew my prediction last week,  of having the baby before Sunday, out of the water.  I say she's 'still' preggars but when she appeared on the Ellen de Generes show recently, she revealed she still had a few weeks to go before she reached her due date.

Poor girl, she looks enormous; I dread to think how big that baby is in there!  She definitely wins the prize for the biggest celeb' baby bump we've seen for a very long time!

Things seem to have sorted themselves out in the world of Alex and Chantelle (PHEW! The world can start turning again now) and he's admitted to being a bit daft in sending Amy Willerton (ex-wife Jordan's reality model search contest winner) a direct tweet.

"'I shouldn't have done it and i regret doing it, but I didn't realise it was Amy Willerton. I get about 20 private messages a day, and I go through them and respond to as many as I can," he has explained. "'I thought it was harmless. Now I'm being portrayed as a cheat, which really upsets me and the gorgeous girl I'm committed to and love with all my heart.

It's caused nothing but misery and stress for my pregnant fiancée. I should have been more savvy."

Chantelle seems to have forgiven Alex for his less-than savvy behaviour and has this to say...

"Alex has now convinced me he is telling the truth, but he has lost some of my trust. Yes, he has been stupid but he is the father of my child and we have got something amazing happening in the next few months.  Our priority is the baby and not us two arguing any more.  We're looking to the future - we have got some really amazing stuff to look forward to."

Well there you go then - normal service has been resumed until the next Alex-Chantelle drama...which will probably be later today or tomorrow.

Poor Chantelle Houghton!  The words, "It'll all end in tears!" that she's heard goodness knows how many times since she got together with Alex Reid, must be ringing in her ears right now!

Well, if you believe the reports in the press that fiancee Alex Reid has been sending private tweets to another woman on Twitter that is.  And I suppose it might not have been as bad if it hadn't been to the girl who won his ex-wife's talent scouting show.

Amy Willerton (19) won the model search but the whole deal has subsequently turned very sour, with stories being sold and Katie's PR people issuing statements left, right and center (Pedder Andre will be getting in on the act next, you mark my words!).

According to Alex's 'people' he's simply been sending messages of support to Amy; you can just imagine the slagging off and backstabbing bouncing backwards and forwards in THOSE direct tweets can't you!

But, as you can imagine, the whole revelation has left Chantelle rather upset!  I would be too - if Alex wanted to show Amy some moral support as 'one who's tangled with Katie P and come off worse' then why not do it in public?  He does almost everything else in public!

What really seems to have 'done it' is the fact that one message Alex sent was signed off with an 'x'; all the fuss has prompted Amy to post a tweet saying there's nothing to anything and nothing going on...

"Just to confirm I've never met @Only1AlexReid ... My only message to him was to congratulate him and Chantelle. #sillystory"

Much as I cannot identify with Alex or Chantelle on any level (phew!) I do rather hope this really is a nothing 'something' that's been blown up by the press to take up column inches.

I hate the idea of anyone being pregnant and feeling their relationship and future is under threat and let's not forget the baby!  The poor little girly's already got enough on her unborn plate to face as it is!

Today's Celebaby has a bit of  'car crash morbid fascination' about it today; I knew I should have stayed AWAY from any article featuring Alex Reid and the words 'gruesome confession' in the headline, but I couldn't help myself - I think I threw up a little in my mouth, though, when I read it. You've been warned, maybe skip that bit if you're eating brunch!

Alex Reid

I know he's used to living in the reality spotlight and, I suppose, you could almost admire his frank openness but there are limits.  Learning that he intends to drink Chantelle's breast milk when she's had their baby later in the year is just something I really didn't need to know (and because I don't want to be alone in being scarred by that knowledge, I'm sharing it with you guys!).

The new parents-to-be were spotted looking at wedding dresses at the Wedding Show last month (we'll have to brace ourselves for yet another 'intimate portrait' on the pages of a certain glossy magazine) and have recently discovered they're expecting a little girl.

"I cried. It was so shocking. I felt like I knew that little boy. When I found out it was a girl, I missed him. It took a while to sink in... we didn’t have a preference," Chantelle said, "it was just that I had a strong feeling it was a boy. I didn’t expect it.'

I almost cried when I read they were pregnant - please let their public personas not be real, that they morph into the likes of you and me behind closed doors!

Jessica Simpson

In a bid to try and cleanse our collective minds, let's focus on Jessica Simpson being the next celeb' mum who's most likely to welcome their new baby into the world.

She is due any day know and is bound to be glad about that, her bump is MASSIVE!  She's even gone from wearing the most enormous pair of wedges at the beginning of the week, to wearing flip-flops now - much more sensible.

I don't know how these preggars celeb' mums do it!  I think they must have secret shoes in the car, or their oversized bags, because I couldn't do heels through any of my three pregnancies, no matter how hard I tried - mainly because my feet were more puffy and squidgy than profiteroles!

I think we'll have a Simpson baby announcement before the weekend is out.

What a mish-mash of baby news I have lined up for you today (I use the word 'news' very lightly by the way)!  Alex Reid has been to Parliament and had lunch with two MPs (I kid you not!), Michelle Heaton has had one of the most badly drawn tattoos I've seen in a very long time and Beyonce is hailed as being back in shape, I think she just looks overweight!

Alex Reid

I tell you, it's stranger than fiction - Alex Reid attended Prime Minister's Questions at the House of Commons yesterday, went and had lunch with a couple of MPs and then tweeted, "Fantastic lunch meeting with @sharongodgsonMP @robertawMP let's get this country sorted!"

Are you KIDDING ME?!  I know I've been out of the country for a month but to come back and find Alex Reid mixing with members of parliament, and wanting to change the world is all a bit much!

He attended PMQs and had lunch with MP Sharon Hodgson, Shadow Minister for Children and Families, and MP Roberta Blackman-Woods, Shadow Minister for Planning, because he has decided to go a bit Jamie Oliver on us and wants to improve the state of the nation's school dinners.

Who'd have thought it! It could be one of the biggest personality turnarounds in history - from cage-fighter and ex trollop's husband (I'm talking about Katie Price there, not Chantelle - although maybe in the future that might read 'ex trollops' husband!') to MP and fighter for national causes!

Michelle Heaton

Michelle Heaton had a baby girl back on 12 January and called her Faith - I tell, you that little girly's going to need a ton of the stuff as Katie Price is going to be her god mother!

To mark the momentous occasion she's had a tattoo - the name Faith with three red love hearts underneath - and it looks as though someone did it following a Tattooing for Dummies book, it really is very badly done! What do you think?

Beyonce

Now, Beyonce's always been curvy but to say she's back in shape (at least from the pictures I've seen) is jumping the gun a bit!

I. DON'T. SEE. IT!  She just looks overweight to me.  It's funny, if she was a different celeb' the press would be calling her fat - it seems there's one 'curvy rule' for one and a 'skinny rule' for another.  No wonder so many people just give up and eat chocolate!

And you remember the fake preggy belly rumours from a few months ago?  Well those whispers have started again in light of her 'back in shape' look- the entire celebrity world has gone MAD!

There's lots of little bits and pieces of Celebaby news today ranging from Shilpa Shetty, to Britney Spears, Bernie Ecclestone and Chantelle whatshername moaning about lack of fake tan.

Shilpa Shetty

Shilpa Shetty became to known to most of us when she was in the Big Brother house alongside Jade Goody, you remember?  A storm of bullying and racism brouhaha erupted between them, the flames of which the media were more than happy to flame into epic proportions.

I always thought Shilpa was incredibly dignified throughout; she's beautiful, she's educated and a Bollywood superstar.  Soon she'll be able to add 'mother' to her list of qualifications as she's expecting her first child.

There isn't any official news on the date but she's thought to be in her second trimester and, apparently, suffered a miscarriage earlier this year; fingers crossed all goes well for her this time.

The other bits and pieces

Bernie Ecclestone has been 'in my life' for a long time as my dad works in Formula One; he (Bernie, not my dad) has got the right strops with his daughters for squandering the £3 billion trust fund he set up for them and their children, when/if they have any - which will surprise me because then they won't be the babies any more *pout*

"The idea was that they’d buy super-quality property that would be long-term, for their children and everything else. It didn’t happen. They haven’t done that. So they’ve had access to money which they’ve spent."

Bernie, you should have made them work for pocket money instead! A £3 billion trust fund to play with in your early twenties...that's just asking for 'trouble'...and lots of Ferraris (although I'm a Lamborghini girl myself).

Britney Spears' sons have made a brief appearance with her on stage for the finale of her Femme Fatale (an oxymoron there I feel) show; I wonder if it's surreal for them to see all these people yelling and cheering for their mum..?

Chantelle Houghton - preggars with Alex Reid's baby - should be feeling happier now, last week she was complaining about looking like Casper the Friendly Ghost, due to lack of fake tannage, tweeting:

"Cannot wait until fake bake come to my house on monday, I'm looking very much like casper the friendly ghost right now! #badtimes."

If all went according to plan, she'll have been painted her back to her usual shade of orange, and looking much more like an Oompa Loompa instead pale and ghost-like.

I can't keep up with the Bieber baby story!  It's been one of the most fast-paced and 'gripping' Celebaby stories of the year - the plot thickens even more, or rather the seemingly thick plot seems to be getting thinner by the day.

There are a fair few baby bumps around too, and a suspected Kounikova-Iglesias one for the rumour mill to get their teeth into, after Anna was spotted looking a little baby bumpish on their yacht this week!

The Bieber Baby Plot Thickens

SO, this week the paternity case was on, then it was reported as being off but, apparently, never was and was very much still on and NOW who know whether it's on or off or what's going on!

According to today's press, the paternity case has been 'quietly' dropped but Justin is still going to submit to DNA test to prove things once and for all; his team have NOT been negotiating a settlement and categorically state they never will.

The new twist in the tale comes in the form of revealed text messages that Mariah Yeater sent to a friend earlier this week, which her (new) legal team are investigating (her previous attorney dropped her and her case - very wise move I reckon!).

Two of the messages in question are:

Now, I'm all for everyone having the right to choose what they do with their lives. But when those choices are NOT good and they impact on children, then I start to wonder whether some people just shouldn't be allowed to procreate at ALL!

"My daughter love Sandra more than me!"

This is the lament of Jesse James' ex-wife. Porn star and self-confessed drug addict, Janine Lindemulder, is currently fighting for custody of her six-year-old daughter, Sunny.

In documents lodged with the court late last week, she complained, "All Sunny talks about is Sandy, Sandy!"

She also went on to say, "I am so depressed. Sun is suffering. I can't even find the energy to play with her. It's 9:30 and I don't even know what she ate today... Not being awake makes everything better."

Lindemulder has also admitted she agreed to spend the night with a man for $25,000...yep, all looking GREAT there for winnng custody Janine and I can't possibly see why on EARTH your daughter would prefer to be with Sandra Bullock than you!

No Alcohol for Jordan

Talking of people who should procreate, Jordan and Alex held their umpteenth wedding farce at the weekend - I've lost track of how many weddings, blessings and curses they seem to have had already.

Jordan has fuelled the rumour-fire that she might be pregnant already by not touching a drop of alcohol for the entire day; I am truly scared, please let this not be true, please don't let another innocent  little person be born into this hateful pantomime.

I really couldn't care less, but apparently the day was full of the anticipated drama and digs at Pete - who must thank his lucky stars EVERY day he wakes up not being married to her anymore.

Oh, and 'behind the scenes' - would someone like to tell me when Jordan does ANYTHING behind the scenes..? - Katie is scared that Alex is going to cheat on her. That Source with the big mouth has been blabbering to the press again saying, "Alex insists he's in love with her but she's convinced he'll end up cheating."

You know, I wouldnt' be surprised if 'the Source' isn't one day revealed as being Katie herself...

(it also amuses me greatly that it looks like she's eating cheese and pineapple on a stick in the above photograph - class!)

IVF for Jordan and Alex

They say there's nothing money can't buy and ohhh how I wish this was the case with Jordan and IVF!  The thought of there being another child caught up in the circus that is the life of Ms Price and Co is just too much to bear.

Alex and Jordan have been spotted popping in and out of the Portland Hospital and a 'close friend' had this to say to the News of the World:

"Katie and Alex really want a child to cement their relationship. But he’s had a problem with a low sperm count and it is proving difficult for Katie to conceive. They’ve been practising a lot but it appears Alex is firing blanks, so Katie has turned to IVF to help make it happen.”  URGH, far too much information thank you 'close friend'!

I was in South Africa recently and thank goodness not many people there know who she is because quite frankly I'd deny my status as a British female citizen if anyone assumed us UK girls were all like her!  There's no denying she's a shrewd business woman but I wish she'd use some of her cash to buy some dignity and self-respect!

Baby No.3 for Gwen Stefani?

I like Gwen Stefani.  I like the quiet dignity that she has when it comes to her family; you don't see every second of her life splashed all over the papers or on the TV, she and Gavin just get on with their lives with their kids and their careers and shows there really are two different classes of celebrity:  the tacky desperate ones and the dignified secure ones.

As a celeb' who chooses to try and maintain some degree of privacy it's got to be tough when you're expecting, knowing that as soon as news of it gets out the world's media are going to be keeping an even closer beady eye on you.

Gwen was photographed in New York in very baggy clothes, sporting what looks like a baby bump and wearing a Sea-Band bracelet which is used to combat motion and morning sickness; an 'onlooker' has been reported as saying:

"She was pulling at her shirt to keep it away from her body. It seemed really strange -- but then, when she turned to the side, I could see why. She definitely had a baby bump!"

And a 'source' has added fuel to the 'is-Gwen-preggars?' fire by revealing to OK! magazine:

"Gwen is having a really rough time this pregnancy. She had all-day morning sickness for a while with Zuma, but she's sicker this go-round and has been feeling exhausted and dizzy."

Gwen's publicist is keeping mum on the subject so we'll just have to wait and see!