But 45 years on and Raquel Welch could find herself upstaged by a tender sexy Australian who has brought the horny cave girl look at the 21st century.

Holly Valance is the face of this weekend’s EuroMillions draw and got her prehistoric groove on for the campaign, which sees her in a gorgeous fur bikini.

It was a scene recreated from the 1966 film 1,000,000 Years B.C. wherein the then 26-year-old Welch, now 71, played cave girl Loana.

And Holly showed off the result of her gruelling Strictly Come Dancing schedule in her own fur bikini, as she posed on some rocks along with her fingers crossed.

The actress, 28, was the face of the
campaign, called A million Pounds in homage to the film, so that it will
make sure that 25 British Euromillions players will win £1,000,000 in
tonight’s draw.

And it’s proved to be an excellent year for Holly, who was the face of Fosters lager this summer, a campaign which she said was perfect for her.

She said: ‘I was approached a little bit
while ago by Fosters and i’m a huge beer drinker. My friends were
giggling their butts off because they couldn’t think about a more perfect
person to endorse beer.’

She then revived her TV career when she signed up as some of the celebrity contestants on Strictly Come Dancing.

Paired with Artem Chigvintsev, Holly wowed the judges and audiences alike and came fourth within the competition once they were eliminated inside the 11th week.

But Holly’s year has still ended on a giant high – after her billionaire boyfriend proposed to her yesterday.

The former Neighbours star took to her Twitter page to announce the scoop after property tycoon Nick Candy got down on one knee and asked her to marry him.

Nick, 38, who have been with the star for 3 years, whisked her away to the Maldives on Wednesday for a
Christmas break, and proposed to her at the beach with the words ‘Will you marry me’ written in fire.

And Holly took to her Twitter page to post the photo of him proposing and wrote: ‘ ‘And I said YES!!! ♥
Happiest day of my life!!!!! Xxxx.’

Even though it’s warm within the studio, he has an enormous beanie hat which unfortunately for him would not quite cover the total of his face. Everyone can see how pasty skinned and red eyed he’s. ‘He’s really hungover,’ whispers another member of The Wanted (they’re interchangeably handsome).

And at the ‘snowflake stage’, going over their steps as though their lives relied on it are Little Mix. It’s their first day as fully fledged pop stars as they simply won the X Factor the night before.

They have had two hours sleep but you’ll find the determination on this band as they practice, practice, practice. Surprisingly, sweet little Jade Thirwell seems to be the bossiest member of the band. ‘We’re surviving on Red Bull today,’ she tells me.

I’m behind the curtain of this year’s Top of the Pops Christmas Special and there’s a palpable sense of pleasure. Top of the Pops itself was disbanded in 2006 after dwindling audiences but this generation of father stars are still the right age to be genuinely excited to look on it.

In between their sound checks lots of them have their pictures taken next to the old show’s signs which were dotted across the studio.

‘i’d watch it per week on a Friday and that i remember being really upset once they stopped it,’ says Harley Alexander-Sule of the Rizzle Kicks who’s walking around in a couple of big dog shaped slippers. ‘I’m so, so excited to be at the show. i’m actually looking to subdue my emotions otherwise i might burst.’

He’s not even being sarcastic.

For generations of Brits, since Top of The Pops had its first appearance with a risqué band called The Rolling Stones in 1964, appearing at the BBC1 show was a sure sign which you had made it.

‘There’s a real sense of occasion,’ says producer Mark Cooper, who oversaw the weekly show’s dying days and remains guilty for the Christmas specials. ‘When the acts are available in and notice the highest of the Pops neon signs they get really excited.

Because it’s only yearly here’s a fair more unique opportunity they usually all appreciate it. Once it was week in and week out but now in the event that they have made it onto Top Of The Pops, where we celebrate many of the year’s best singles, there needs to be an actual sense of accomplishment.’

Just like inside the old days there are dozens of screaming girls outside the BBC Television Centre. This year most of them are there for The Wanted.

‘I remember thinking that if someone was on Top of the Pops they were massive,’ says the band’s Tom Parker. ‘They should have made it; they were rich and famous. How wrong i used to be.’

Front of stage can be all glitz and glamour but that’s fascinated with show. Behind the curtain it’s pretty grim.

The old ‘Star Bar’ where once upon a time celebs would down champagne and snog one another have been revived for one night only.

Normally it really is now used to store costumes for Strictly Come Dancing. The ground is dirty lino and the corner couches show the odd little bit of foam. There’s even an Alan Titchmarsh sign propped up by the door.

But there are no less than mince pies and mulled wine which The Wanted boys jump on hungrily before initiating a food fight. Their tour manager bears the brunt of it, because the boys stuff such a lot of mince pies in his face that the poor man is left gagging. 

Once upon a time pop stars would get the appropriate VIP treatment on Top of The Pops.

When Jennifer Lopez appeared she had her dressing rooms (always a couple of for this diva) draped in white with dozens of orchids to embellish them. Now they’re lucky in the event that they have an old television of their grey shabby room.

‘That’s BBC budgets for you,’ says Mark the producer.

Indie band The Vaccines aren’t impressed: ‘The fridge was empty and we struggled to even get a bottle of water,’ says lead singer Freddie Cowan. ‘We did eventually get a tuna sandwich. Thanks for giving us this cup of mulled wine!’

The Wanted are equally miffed: ‘We needed to ask someone to visit Nandos for us or even then we needed to pay,’ say Max. They fight and exercise session how bands like JLS be able to get free Nandos.

They would all love Top of the Pops to come even The Vaccines who’re keen to distance themselves from the pop acts. ‘It’s this kind of British institution and is gloomy that’s not on anymore,’ says Marcus. ‘Music is intrinsic to all our lives but there are so few music shows on television.’

But once I mention this to Mark he’s sanguine. ‘There’s a sense of nostalgia about Top of The Pops but i believe it really is partly since it reminds people in their childhoods and they’re getting that confused with the show itself.

‘Bringing the show back is simple to need for but not o.k. thought out. It’s like Father Christmas. We’d all like him to be real, wouldn’t we? But (pull away now kids) I don’t think he’s.’

•   The tip of the Pops Christmas special might be on BBC1 at 2pm on Christmas Day.

They are not almost all people who would feel comfortable enough to broadcast their Christmas party to the nation.

But fortunately Fearne Cotton didn’t get drunk and embarrass herself like such a lot of others do at their work parties as she hosts a live bash during her Radio 1 show.

The 30-year-old invited celebrity friends McFly, Gok Wan, Rufus Hound and Made In Chelsea’s Ollie Locke to hitch within the festivities at her London home.

And the crew of her Live Lounge show had decamped from the Radio 1 studios to broadcast her lunchtime party live from her house.

Cotton and her mother were up bright and early to prepare for the combo of food, drink and radio equipment.

Ahead of the bash, she tweeted: ‘Early morning pre party panic. NO plastic cups and definitely not enough
glass ones to move round. 1 text to mother and he or she saves the day.

Australian singer/actress Holly Valance is ecstatic after her billionaire boyfriend Nick Candy asked her to marry him.

The property tycoon, 38, got down on one knee on a beach within the Maldives with the words ‘Will you marry me’ written in fire.

He had whisked her away to the Indian ocean island on Wednesday for a Christmas break, following the finale of Strictly Come Dancing last weekend.

Uploading a photograph of the intimate moment
on her Twitter page, an excited Valance, 28, wrote: ‘And I said YES!!! ♥
Happiest day of my life!!!!! Xxxx.’

A close friend revealed: ‘They’re a really lovely couple and are so happy together. We couldn’t be happier for them.’

Among those to congratulate the couple was Valance’s presenter friend Lisa Snowdon, who tweeted: ‘Congratulations!’

Rather tellingly, in an interview published just days ago, Candy was rather coy when it came to marriage.

When asked about marrying Valance, he told Today Online: ‘I always get asked that. No comment.’

The couple started dating in late 2009 after meeting at a mutual friend’s banquet.

Recalling their meeting in an interview last year, she said: ‘I didn’t know anything about him. I just
thought “Cor, if I didn’t fancy you rather a lot, we’d be the handiest of
friends. Instead, I just intend to make out with you on a regular basis.”‘

They soon moved in together last year and became regulars at the London society scene.

During Valance’s recent appearance on
Strictly Come Dancing, supportive Candy was often seen on screen
cheering her on from the audience.

Last year, Valance admitted being in love with a billionaire sometimes irked her friends.

She said: ‘I’ve got this type of disgusting, wide, smug grin on my face at all times that my friends just desire to slap me. I’ve never been so happy…

‘I am a spoilt brat. My friends and my sister say: “I hate you!” after I show them what he’s bought me.’

The couple’s Christmas holiday comes once they spent last weekend in Blackpool for the Strictly Come Dancing final.

However, while the vast majority of the forged and crew went as much as Blackpool in a coach, Candy took Valance and her fellow competitor Nancy Dell’Olio up north in his private jet.

Melbourne-raised Valance leaped to fame in 1999 when she was cast as Felicity ‘Flick’ Scully in Australian soap Neighbours.

In 2002, she quit the Aussie soap to maneuver to London, where she signed a record take care of London Records.

She released four singles over a 12
month period and scored a leading hit along with her debut Kiss Kiss, a
cover of a Turkish pop song.

After poor sales of her second album
Mind set, Holly parted ways with London Records and returned to
acting, taking roles in DOA: Dead or Alive, National Lampoon’s Pledge
This! and Miss Marple.

Prior to dating Candy, she also romanced Hawaii 5-0 actor Alex O’Loughlin and Peter Veveris.

Meanwhile, Mr Candy together with his
brother Christian and their firm Candy & Candy has become one in every of
Britain’s most successful luxury property developers.

Astonishingly, he and Christian turned a £6,000 loan from their grandmother in 1995 right into a £9billion global property portfolio.

Their most famed development is the
One Hyde Park: The Residences which link to the Mandarin Oriental hotel
in Knightsbridge, South West London. This development boasts the
country’s most costly apartment, the penthouse which sold for
£136million earlier this year.

In September, Mr Candy who has
opulent homes in London and Monaco in addition to a non-public plane and a
£50million super-yacht – was named entrepreneur of the year by GQ
magazine.

The 48-year-old singer, who were in Austria being treated for pneumonia, admitted he was still feeling weak following the illness, and said it have been ‘touch and go’ whether he would survive.

Michael, who wore a shawl and sunglasses as he spoke to the clicking outside his home in Highgate, thanked everyone for his or her support.

Asked how he was feeling, Michael – who was supported throughout his ordeal by his boyfriend Fadi Fawaz, ex-partner Kenny Goss and 75-year-old father Kyriacos Panayiotou and older sisters Melanie and Yioda – said: ‘i think amazing. I mean, I’m very weak but I feel amazing.

‘I got streptagotta-something – it was a sort of pneumonia they usually basically spent three weeks keeping me alive.

I don’t need to take you thru it all because a number of it i need to guard my family from, nevertheless it was by far the worst month of my life.

‘But I’m incredibly fortunate to be here
and incredibly fortunate to have picked up this bug where I did because
apparently the hospital in Austria that they rushed me to was the smartest
place on the planet i may were to handle pneumonia.

‘So i must believe that someone believes I’ve still got some work to do here.’

Asked what kept him dealing with his illness, Michael replied: ‘My family, and the idea of the entire people I still must play to.

‘The fact i have been so lucky and the truth that I still have plenty to live for – i’ve this amazing, amazing life and if I wasn’t spiritual enough before the last 4 or 5 weeks then I certainly am now.’

Michael also revealed he had had tracheotomy, a procedure which involves making an incision within the trachea to open up the airways, during his time on the AKH clinic in Vienna, Austria.

He said:’I'd say it was touch and go
for several weeks. We played it down because i did not like to worry
my fans an excessive amount of – I’m sorry i could not contact them prior to now but I
wasn’t in any state to take action.’

When
asked by journalists what his plan is now, Michael struggled to hang
back tears as he replied: ‘The plan is to play to each person that had a
ticket to work out me, and that i wish to play one more show for the
doctors in Austria who saved my life, because I actually have spent the last 10
days thanking people for saving my life – and that is the reason not something I
have needed to do before.

‘I really from the base of my heart thank everyone for sending messages, and everybody in that ICU unit who saved my life.’

Cancelled: The singer’s tour was postponed last month when he was struck down with pneumonia

As he made his long ago inside his home, Michael was asked if the illness had made him reassess things, to which he replied: ‘Yes, definitely – I’m a brand new man.’

Christina Hendricks, the actress who gives the television drama Mad Men various its heat, is growing fonder of the Sixties.

Hendricks, who plays Joan Holloway, the no-nonsense head of office operations within the Sixties-set TV show, is in talks to seem in Sally Potter’s anti-nuclear movie, Bomb, that is also based in that decade.

The picture makes a speciality of two teenage rebels, played by Elle Fanning and Alice Englart, who get entangled within the Ban the Bomb movement and the sexual revolution.

Potter and producer Christopher Sheppard plan to shoot the film in February in London and at the South-East coast.

Alessandro Nivola has also been cast in Bomb, and Annette Bening is thinking about a component within the film.

Hendricks’s Jessica Rabbit meets Marilyn Monroe hour-glass figure caught audiences’ attention when Mad Men took off.

However,
she has done lots of other good work — as anyone who saw her
gangster’s moll role opposite Ryan Gosling in Nicolas Winding Refn’s
terrific dark thriller, Drive, will attest.

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Dagenham musical strikes the suitable note

Everybody
out! The tale of the girls workers who went on strike for equal pay at
Ford’s Dagenham plant is being changed into a West End musical.

The
show would be according to the movie Made In Dagenham, which starred Sally
Hawkins as a machinist who becomes an unlikely workers’ heroine.

The
film boasted an array of top British actresses including Andrea
Riseborough, Geraldine James, Miranda Richardson, Rosamund Pike and
Jaime Winstone, with Bob Hoskins  and Daniel Mays within the leading male
roles.

But the musical wouldn’t be a straight lift. ‘One of the characters from the film might be dropped, and new ones introduced. Not the whole elements from the film can be on stage, and we’ll expand on things the film barely touched on,’ Rebecca Quigley, managing director of Stage Entertainment, explained. The corporate is producing the show with Stephen Woolley and Elizabeth Karlsen — who also produced the image through their Number 9 film company.

Richard Bean, who adapted Carlo Goldoni’s The Servant Of 2 Masters and turned it into the smash hit One Man, Two Guvnors (with lots of help from Nick Hytner, Cal McCrystal, James Corden and Grant Olding) is writing the book.

David Arnold, who has scored several James Bond movies, is writing the score, with Richard Thomas providing the lyrics. Thomas penned librettos for the Jerry Springer and Anna Nicole operas. Joining them often is the award-winning director  Rupert Goold.

‘It’s a purely original British musical,’ Ms Quigley declared.
She noted, accurately, that there haven’t been too lots of them since Billy Elliot. When you consider it, tons of recent shows akin to Ghost, Love Never Dies or even Betty Blue Eyes have had foreign collaborators.

Bean has work to do at the book, and just a handful of numbers were written. a unique reading of some scenes was held a couple of days ago and the creative team were happy enough to progress to a rehearsed workshop of Act 1 early in February.
Then, if everyone’s happy, the show would be developed fully, a cast assembled — and a gap night scheduled for a while in 2013, counting on theatre availability.

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Daniel Radcliffe admits to having his little addictions. He used to be a two-a-day Flake man, but has managed to drop the chocoholic habit.

Then he hit the Red Bull . . . ‘I was doing a 16oz can an afternoon and wondering why I couldn’t sleep at night,’ Daniel tells me, adding that he now satisfies his caffeine needs with one coffee a day.

He’s worried that he’ll lapse once he ends his barn-storming run in the Broadway musical How To Succeed In Business Without Really Trying on January 1. After that, he’ll travel to promote the spine-tingling Gothic ghost movie The Woman In Black (pictured), before starting two new movies.

‘On film sets, the joke is there are two options: you’ll either eat or smoke,’ he says. ‘I hope not to balloon.’

Daniel confesses to one other addiction — campaigning for his Harry Potter co-star (and good friend) Alan Rickman to get an Oscar nomination for his superb performance as Severus Snape in Deathly Hallows II.
It would be great for the Potter series to be recognised by the Academy Of Motion Picture  Arts and Sciences.
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Meet Tom, the new Errol Flynn

Steven Spielberg has dubbed actor Tom Hiddleston ‘the new Errol Flynn’. He meant Flynn’s heroic swashbuckling acting in classic silver-screen pictures such as Captain Blood and The Adventures Of Robin Hood — not his legendary swordsmanship, off screen, with the ladies.

And Hiddleston, 30, certainly cuts a dash as Captain Nicholls, the World War I British cavalry officer who purchases Joey, the red bay, and takes him to fight the Hun in Spielberg’s glorious big-screen version of War Horse, which opens here on January 13.

When we meet at Soho House in London, heads turn as Hiddleston walks by. Spielberg told me that when the British actor visited his West Coast office to discuss the role, all the girls were swooning over him. ‘They went all googly-eyed and I said: “That’s the next Errol Flynn!”.
‘He’s got honest charm,’ he added. ‘It’s not false. He’s very sincere. He’s the real deal.’

Hiddleston’s old-fashioned swagger is totally in keeping with War Horse’s nods to great movies from the past: Lawrence Of Arabia; Gone With The Wind; the films of John Ford and Howard Hawkes. Hiddleston — a Cambridge graduate — has about 15 minutes of screen-time, as one of  several people who take Joey’s reins for a while.

‘Captain Nicholls is not a soldier — he’s an educated gentleman, and he’s in the Army because he can ride,’ Tom told me. ‘For the officer class, it was almost summer camp for the generation that was fox hunting in the winter in red coats and in khaki in the summer.

‘They thought it’d be over by Christmas, but suddenly they’re charging across No Man’s Land with their sabres flashing in the sun, up against machine guns.’

One scene (right) shows Nicholls leading the charge on Joey. Spielberg wanted to capture the sense of confidence that abruptly turns to fear when Nicholls realises what he and his men are up against. The actor was 29 then; Spielberg told him to lop 20 years off his age.
‘He said: “I don’t want a look of shock and terror on your face. Show me the nine-year-old boy”,’ Hiddleston recalled.

You will know the moment we’re discussing because the expression on Hiddleston’s face is one you’ll never forget.
The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge will attend the London premiere of War Horse on January 8.

Hiddleston is about to ride another mount, in his role as Henry V in a BBC TV film. It’s part of a series of Shakespeare pictures based on Richard II, Henry IV, Parts 1 and 2, and Henry V. Tom also plays Hal in the two Henry IV dramas.

‘Hal goes from being a rebellious, drunken, irresponsible prince to one of the most courageous, charismatic kings of England we’ve ever had,’ he said.

He will shoot Henry IV, opposite Jeremy Irons, next month. Then, he’ll begin work on Thor 2, reprising his role as the dark prince Loki. Loki also crops up in The Avengers (out here in April).

Hiddelston has had a tremendous run lately: he’s also played F. Scott Fitzgerald in Woody Allen’s Midnight In Paris, and a former fighter pilot in Terence Davies’s sublime film The Deep Blue Sea.
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De Vito brings a little sunshine to the West End

Richard Griffiths and Danny De Vito have found their place in the sun. The two stars will open in the West End towards the end of April in a new version of Neil Simon’s comedy The Sunshine Boys.

Producer Sonia Friedman confirmed a story that this column broke a couple of months ago: that the two men have ‘connected’ and that rehearsals will begin in March, with an opening at a London theatre which will be finalised some time in January.

‘I think these two — Richard and Danny — and the play will be just what we need to give us all a lift,’ Ms Friedman told me.

The playwright has met director Thea Sharrock and is rewriting some of the play’s  40-year-old dialogue, inserting some new, up-to-date gags. Set in the early Seventies, The Sunshine Boys is a celebration of the art of vaudeville — told through the eyes of a successful, but now retired double-act called Lewis and Clark.

The funnymen performed together for four decades but grew to loathe each other. Clark, in particular, hates Lewis with a passion because he blames him for breaking up the act.

Griffiths, who appeared in the Harry Potter films, and who won accolades as the brilliant teacher Hector in Alan Bennett’s landmark play The History

Boys, will play level-headed Al Lewis. De Vito — who made his name in movies such as One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest, Terms Of Endearment and Throw Mamma From The Train — will play difficult, argumentative Willy Clark.

Although the role will mark De  Vito’s London theatre debut, the actor is not a stage novice. He’s very much of the theatre, having trained at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts.

He has appeared in many  off-Broadway productions, including the original stage version of One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest.
The Sunshine Boys is being scheduled to run until July. If it clicks in London, it will head to Broadway.
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It’s a good job New York has no Shame

When director Steve McQueen and screenwriter Abi Morgan were researching sex addiction for their new movie, Shame, they got nothing from zipped-up Brits, so they flew to New York and it all spilled out.

‘We were like Miss Marple and Columbo, delving into people’s sex lives the way detectives probe murders,’ McQueen told me.

The result of their labours is Shame, a scorching picture from McQueen, who also gave us the powerful drama Hunger.

Shame features a virtuoso performance from Michael Fassbender (also the star of Hunger) as a Manhattan-based advertising executive who needs sex the way a junkie needs a fix.

‘It’s an illness,’ McQueen asserted. ‘This man struggles with his sex life.’

Fassbender’s character has to clear out his porn videos and magazines when his estranged sister (Carey Mulligan) arrives to stay.

McQueen told me he hadn’t intended the part for Mulligan, but she wore him down. ‘i used to ben’t ready to give it to her initially, but she wasn’t going to let me go,’ he says. ‘I’m glad I did — she’s a terrific actress.’
Shame got slapped with an NC-17 rating inside the U.S., which McQueen thought was the name of a rap group.

‘They’re usually given to irresponsible movies, and this is a responsible movie,’ said McQueen. ‘It’s not as if we’ve got scenes with an assault rifle and heads being blown off. The elephant in the room is that people never talk about sex.’

I ask whether Fassbender had a stand-in, as it were, for his naked close-ups. ‘It’s all him and it’s all his own,’ McQueen replied.
The movie isn’t just about sex, though. It also looks at alienation and loneliness. It opens here on January 13.
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The third season of Downton Abbey starts shooting some time in February, and that i hear Julian Fellowes has already sketched out a storyline for a fourth series of the phenomenally popular ITV drama.

It has to be the most entertaining show on television, and even though I’ve already seen the 90-minute Christmas Day special (and it’s a cracker!) I will be tuning in on Sunday to have a second look. The show certainly deserves to scoop a few gongs at the Golden Globe Awards next month.

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Henry Goodman and Geoffrey Streatfeild, who portray physicists Niels Bohr and Werner Heisenberg in Copenhagen, Michael Frayn’s fictionalised account of an actual meeting between Heisenberg and his mentor in 1941.

Frayn offers us a gripping study of the politics and moral qualms surrounding the development of nuclear weaponry.

The play is running as component of Sheffield theatres’ Michael Frayn Season from February  29, with David Grindley directing. Benefactors, with Abigail

Cruttenden, and Democracy, with Patrick Drury, Richard Hope and Aidan McArdle, will also be part of the season.
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Sinead Matthews, who will play Millamant, the young widow who becomes the object of Mirabell’s (up-and-coming young actor Ben Lloyd-

Hughes) affections in Congreve’s The Way Of The World, being revived at the Sheffield Crucible Theatre from February 2.

Ms Matthews is such a fun, accomplished actress, and I always remember how good she was in Michael Grandage’s production of The Wild Duck at the Donmar several years ago.

Director Lyndsey Turner has assembled a first-class company that includes Deborah Findlay as lustful Lady Wishfort, Daisy Lewis because the tittle-tattle Mrs Marwood, and Samuel Barnett and Joel Gillman because the malicious gossips Witwoud and Petulant.

Congreve wrote The manner Of The area greater than three centuries ago, yet the scheming over money and love still feels fresh today. The young lovers have what we might describe as a prenuptial agreement — only their  pre-nup included what can be served at tea. Quite right!

 

All eyes i’m her involved in bump these days.

But a newly-published magazine shoot taken before Beyonce fell pregnant is reminding the world of her bootylicious beginnings.

The 30-year-old, who is due to give birth this month, shows off her sensational curves in an sexy fashion spread.

Rapper Jay-Z’s wife truly flashes the flesh as she appears without trousers for Jones magazine Winter Arts & Entertainment issue.

With dark make-up contrasting her blonde locks, the mother-to-be looks sensual on the shoot, which evidently took place before she announced she was with child.

In the Parisian photo shoot she can be seen relaxing against railings on the terrace of the Maurice in the French capital as photographer Greg Gex captures her best angles.

In one shot she flaunts her long legs and famous derri�re as she gazes over a balcony looking at a busy city skyline, merely wearing a body suit and what appears to be a tailored blazer with leather detailing.

In another snap Beyonce reclines on a large outdoor chair, going mad for buckles in an outfit festooned with fastenings around her midriff and on her
extravagant gladiator boots.

Beyonce’s
parents Mathew and Tina Knowles announced they were divorcing after 31
years of marriage on Tuesday, following claims that he fathered a love
child.

In regarded to
parenthood, their eldest daughter tells the February issue of Jones: ‘I believe that parents prepare their kids for the moment
that they’re on their own: at this point, I am taking everything my dad
and my mother have taught me, and I’m able to do things my way.’

Meanwhile as she prepares to welcome her baby into the world, Beyonce hasn’t stopped donning sexy ensembles throughout her final trimester of pregnancy.

The latest racy outfit from the star came in the form of a pair of animal print leggings, which she wore to
go shopping on Wednesday.

Although she wore a loose-fitting black shirt, a hint of her baby bump could still be seen as she picked up some gifts just in time for Christmas.

The singer strutted out of Curve boutique in New York also in a pair of black buckled booties and a leather jacket, and she carried a snakeskin Hermes handbag.

The clothing wasn’t the only animalistic quality in Beyonce’s outfit, she also flaunted red claw-style nails, which stars including Lady GaGa are currently wearing.

There will-they, won’t-they involved in kept viewers going throughout two series of Made In Chelsea.

And just in time for Christmas, Caggie Dunlop and Spencer Matthews finally got together in a Made In Chelsea special last night.

After a few kisses in Series 1, Caggie and Spencer ended up spending the night together during a pre-Christmas break to Finland.

And once back in Chelsea, it was quite evident to all their friends they were an official item.

Despite deciding to remain ‘just friends’ in Series 2, Caggie admitted once the pressure was off, she was finally able to let herself fall for Spencer.

Spencer headed to Finland with Hugo Taylor, Rosie Fortescue, Victoria Baker-Harber, Louise Thompson and Jamie Laing.

He had invited Caggie, but she declined, citing loyalty to best friend Millie Mackintosh, who was still smarting over the revelations in Series 2 that her ex Hugo had ‘hooked up’ with Rosie while they were still dating.

However after Spencer called Caggie
from Finland to say how much he was missing her – as a friend apparently
- the aspiring singer decided to surprise him.

But
her arrival didn’t go too well with Victoria, who blamed Caggie for
causing all the drama and ill-feeling between the group of friends
because she was the one who told Millie about Hugo and Rosie.

But
after Caggie defended her corner, insisting she told Millie to stop her
from reuniting with Hugo, it wasn’t long before attention turned to her
relationship with Spencer.

As the couple had been all over each other since Caggie arrived in Finland the previous night, Jamie asked her friends what had been their highlight of 2011.

A smug Spencer declared: ‘Last night was pretty good’.

Their over-excited friends asked: ‘Did you hook up?’ to which a bashful Caggie and Spencer nodded.

Once back in Chelsea, Caggie was grilled over the trip by Millie and her cousin Alice.

She giggled: ‘Something might have happened in Finland with Spencer… something did happen.

‘Once we established we were just friends, the pressure was off. When I got there, I was really happy to see him.’

And Spencer was equally excited when discussing their romance with his friends.

He said: ‘Our relationship is fairly complicated. I’m not gonna put any pressure on her at all… It was the best holiday ever.’

As they went public at friend Jamie’s Christmas party, they spoke about being separated for the holidays, with Caggie going to Australia for three weeks with ex-boyfriend Proudlock.

Caggie’s cousin Alice, who had been dumped by Proudlock after a short romance, sowed seeds of doubt in Spencer’s head by admitting she thought Proudlock still had feelings for Caggie.

However, Caggie assured Spencer they were just friends.

A gushing Spencer told her: ‘I’m the happiest I’ve ever been. I’m gonna really miss you when you go away.’

Caggie mused: ‘I don’t think we’re going to (hook up with Proudlock)… In fact I know we’re not going to.’

The party also brought together friends-turned-foes Millie and Rosie.

After Hugo had admitted the previous night that he had only shared a kiss with Rosie and she had stopped things from going any further, Millie looked like she was in a forgiving mood.

Rosie approached the make-up artist at the bash and was finally ready to speak about what happened after weeks of staying silent.

Rosie told her: ‘I just wanted to say sorry, I truly am sorry. Please don’t cry…’

Millie replied: ‘I’ve wanted to hear that for so long. I lost both of you in one night… I’m sorry for not talking to you first. It was a knee-jerk reaction at the time.’

A grateful Rosie said: ‘I’m so happy you’ve given me the time.’

Millie added: ‘Hugo explained the circumstances. I just want to leave it behind.

‘Everyone deserves a second chance. I know it must have take a lot to come and speak to me.’

She then offers a olive branch by holding hands with Rosie, before the pair join all their friends outside.

Also at the party, Jamie spoke about his growing feelings for Louise, who he had apparently grown close to again in Finland.

Taking her outside, he said: ‘You’ve become really special to me. I’ve never asked anyone out before… I wanna hang out with you everyday.’

And Edinburgh University student Louise obviously felt the same: ‘You mean a lot to me as well.’

The episode started with Rosie in a cafe with Hugo and Victoria discussing the fallout from their public shaming by his ex at Francis’s birthday party.

Chastising both of them, Victoria said: ‘You don’t deserve any presents at all. You behaved very appallingly… But it’s so much easier to blame the girl.’

Rosie admitted she was struggling to forget about their fling, which happened several months ago: ‘I made a mistake… actually we made a mistake, I feel absolutely terrible about it.

‘I feel like I’m trapped in the past for what happened. Just with everything and being in London, it’s been so intense.’

Millie was noticeably absent when all the gang united at Francis Boulle’s launch party to celebrate his new speed dating venture at Natural History Museum’s ice rink.

Although most of the group were single, Cheska invited her new boyfriend Rich E.

Her best friend Binky gave her seal of approval: ‘He’s fit babe.’

Caggie was besieged by her friends confronting her for telling Millie the truth about Rosie and Hugo’s fling.

Defending herself to ex-boyfriend Proudlock, she said: ‘She had a right to know. Hugo was never gonna do it. He had his opportunity.’

She then accused him of ‘dumping my cousin like a hot potato’.

Proudlock admitted: ‘I like her. But we’re both at different stages in our lives. She’s very young and she’s still at uni.’

And it looked like Victoria was blaming Caggie for creating all the drama.

She told Rosie: ‘It was Caggie who let the cat out of the bag… I actually think she’s a bitch for doing that.’

Then Caggie was finally confronted by Hugo: ‘I’ve been a little p**sed off with you. You could have come to me and said I’m gonna tell you or I will. Was it Spencer who told you?

After Caggie nodded, Hugo continued: ‘I’ve been incredibly supportive during your relationship with Spencer. you’ve stirred my s**t up.’

Caggie insisted she was in the right: ‘I’m sorry. I was standing by my friend.’

Rosie hugged Louise and talking to her friend and appeared to pretend Millie wasn’t there.

When Rosie excitedly talked about her trip to Finland, Millie said stony-faced: ‘You probably want to get out of the country for a bit.’

As Rosie spoke about everyone who was going, Millie said sarcastically: ‘That sounds cosy.’

Millie eventually confronted Rosie: ‘I’ve not heard from you for three weeks. I’m really annoyed I bumped into you. It would have be nice if you ask for us to meet up. I can’t believe you have no guilt.’

Rosie insisted she did feel guilty, but ‘don’t want to speak to you about it in this situation…

‘You should probably have more a problem with him.’

Millie hit out: ‘I was so shocked, you have such high morals, you’re so judgemental… I thought you were my friend and I don’t even know who you are. I can’t be around you.’

The glamour model posted a chain of images on her Twitter page as she went nude for her 32nd birthday besides a a furry hat and boots.

Jodie accompanied the shots with the caption: ‘Oi oi nakedness. What how to start my birthday. Haha x x x’

While a number of the pictures, which we
have censored, showed Jodie straddling her Harley motorcycle, others
showed her posed up with male model Rob Mead.

Jodie had originally put the shots on
her Twitter yesterday before removing them and reposting them as a
birthday treat for fans this morning.

She added: ‘There. That’s my present to all of you. Now what have you ever got me? Haha x x x x’

Jodie underwent a drastic new regime in a bid to prepare for the Natural Physique Association (NPA) Mike Williams Classic and Pro-Am Bodybuilding Championships in September.

She said on the time: ‘In just 50 days I actually have gone from 25
per cent body fat to ten per cent body fat, gained 8 pounds of muscle,
and lost 20 pounds of fat.

‘In 8 weeks i’ve got achieved what normally
takes 6 to 9 months.’

And the Essex-born model added that adopting the recent regime has meant she has regained the boldness to move naked again.

She said: ‘I feel pleased with myself. I’ve always been confident, but I’ve had moments where i have never wanted people to peer me naked.’

Jodie added to The Sun: ‘I’ve had a fantastic year. i did not know what to anticipate when my bodybuilding photos came out but people was so positive.

‘Their comments and encouragement have made me so happy.’

And Will, 43,  said involved in delighted to be able to see his second family in the run up to Christmas at a special charity event last week, before he shaved his head.

He said: ‘Got the Holiday season started right with a Fresh Prince of Bel Air reunion.

‘There’s nothin’ like spending Holidays with fam!’

The picture was taken last week at a luncheon for the charity Sweet Blackberry, which was founded Karyn Parsons, who played airhead weather girl Hilary on the show.

The other cast members there were Tatyana Ali, who played his little cousin Ashley, Alfonso Ribeiro who played his snobby cousin Carlton and James Avery, who was the Banks family patriarch Uncle Phil.

Sadly missing was Joseph Marcell, who played the Banks’ butler Geoffrey, and the two actresses who filled the role of matriarch Aunt Vivian.

Will posted the exciting photograph on his Facebook page earlier today, and it proved extremely popular.

It has already attracted almost 50,000 likes from fans on the social networking website.

Of course there are a few more grey hairs and wrinkles on display than during their 90s heyday.

On the whole however, everyone was looking remarkably well preserved,

The Fresh Prince of Bel Air followed the adventures of a fictionalised version of Will himself.

After getting into trouble with a local gang his mother decides to send him to stay with her wealthy and successful sister in the posh Bel Air area of Los Angeles.

It was notable for Will’s often eccentric choices of early 90s clothing, with the rapper displaying a particular fondness for dayglo pinks.

Amazingly the future movie superstar only agreed to appear in the show as he was in massive debt problems with the IRS, owing $2.8 million after overspending on the income he earned from his then successful career as a rapper.

It became a launch pad for his hugely successful acting career, which has saw him star in box office hits such as Independence Day, Men In Black and Ali.