George Clooney And Sir Paul McCartney have topped a poll of stars people would most like to take a vacation with. Pop superstar Madonna, U.S. presidential candidate Barack Obama, celebrity chef Gordon Ramsay and Angelina Jolie also make the top ten, voted for by 1,000 travellers and compiled by luxury travel company PIVR.co.uk.

US actors’ union rejects pay deal
The Screen Actors Guild says no to a pay deal from Hollywood studios and submits a fresh proposal of its own.

Today’s TV: Sasha: Beauty Queen at 11
All publicity is good publicity reckons Sasha’s mum, Jayne Bennington. So she’ll love the stink kicked up by this documentary about her mission to turn her 11-year-old daughter into the next Jordan and an American beauty queen.