Mel B Launches Catty Couture Fashion Label

Mel B hosted a preview of her feisty new fashion line in LA yesterday.

The Catty Couture line was created by the Spice Girl in secret as her bandmate Victoria Beckham told the world her plans to make it in the fashion industry.

However Mel B's line is completely different from Victoria's DvB label.

Where DvB focuses on jeans and cool sunglasses, Catty Couture has frilly leopard print tops, flowing skirts and funky tshirts based on Mel B's own wardrobe, reports Hello magazine.

Mel B was also annouced as the new face (and body) of lingerie label Ultimo earlier this week.

Let the battle for the Fashionista Spice name begin.

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Bryan Adams writes new song about friend Amy Winehouse

Since Bryan Adams invited singer Amy Winehouse to his luxury Caribbean villa for the New Year, the pair have struck up an unlikely friendship. So much so that it is reported that the Summer Of '69 rocker has penned a song about Amy for his latest album.

Lyrics for the new track, which include the words "Nobody saw the tears in your silk and lace, the scarred little kid behind your face", show just how much the 48-year-old has taken Amy under his wing. Titled Flower Grown Wild, it appears on Bryan's recently released disc 11.

It seems that Bryan's song has hit a chord with Amy who, the Daily Mirror reports, has agreed to sing it on stage with the Canadian star when he begins his tour later this year.

Since her success at the recent Brit and Grammy award ceremonies, the soulful 24-year-old has been inundated with requests to perform. The jazz sensation has just been asked by Hollywood stars George Clooney and Julia Roberts to appear at a high-profile US event for a reported $1 million.

Ashley Alexandra Dupre's Family Heartbreak

Before she was known as "Kristen", the woman at the center of the prostitution scandal that forced New York Governor Eliot Spitzer's resignation, 22-year-old Ashley Alexandra Dupré was simply Ashley Youmans, a small town girl from the New Jersey shore who yearned for her father and struggled with her family's split.
After her parents, William Youmans and Carolyn Capalbo, broke up, Ashley "used to cry about that and say how much she missed him," childhood friend Erica Kane tells PEOPLE. Adding to the heartache was her older brother Kyle, 26, who was incarcerated after a 2000 drug arrest, according to the Asbury Park Press. (More recently, on Monday, Kyle pleaded guilty to heroin charges and is expected to be sentenced to probation on April 14, according the newspaper.)
But after her mother married oral surgeon Michael DiPietro, Ashley, who was in elementary school at the time, would say even more so "how much she missed her dad. She always used to talk about that," says Kane. "[Her life] looked perfect. She was a beautiful girl, boys thought she was pretty and she got along with everybody. But she wanted her real family. She wanted her real father and her mother together and her brother back in the house. She wanted everybody under the same roof."

A Comfortable Lifestyle

Still, friends say Ashley had a comfortable life with her stepfamily, in a spacious house in tony Wall Township, N.J. A popular student, former classmates recall that Ashley was driven to school in a Jaguar, that she dressed well and made friends on the cheerleading squad.
"Ashley was a good girl. She was a sweetheart, everyone loved her," says a childhood pal. "She had a good heart." And a good voice. Bringing friends to her house to play with the karaoke machine in her room, Ashley would belt out songs by Brandy, the source says. Adds Kane: "She made up this whole dance to Madonna's 'Express Yourself.' We used to hang out in her play room at her house and just dance around to that song."

Moving to North Carolina

But once in high school, something changed. In her sophomore year, she abruptly left home to move in with her dad and his new wife, attending Manteo High School in the Outer Banks in North Carolina. "It was my decision," Ashley wrote on her MySpace page. "And I've never looked back."
"She was a normal cool girl," says former boyfriend Wayne Hunter, who dated Ashley until 2003. "She wasn't a saint, but I would put her better than a lot of girls that I've known. [The recent scandal] has surprised me because she wasn't really like that."
While Ashley was popular with the boys, she had trouble making female friends while there. "She was the hottest girl in town when she was here and all the other girls gave her hell," says Hunter. "They were jealous. The girls wouldn't hang out with her. It was ridiculous. The girls here were really mean to her."

Big City Dreams

With hopes of a career in the music industry, Ashley moved to New York City after high school. "She told me she got a nice little apartment and was just starting out slow, trying to make her way up in whatever she could do," says Hunter.
Ashley took jobs as a cocktail waitress at hot spots like Retox and Pink Elephant to pay the bills while she recorded songs like "Move Ya Body" and "What We Want" in her free time, and booked gigs performing at clubs like China Club and Remote Lounge.
The aspiring singer became embroiled in the nightlife scene. "She'd roll around with an elite, older, upper echelon of men in Manhattan society, all the 'players' in nightlife and entertainment," says a source. "She would go out of town now and then but said she was working on music projects."

Unexpected Fame

Now that her alleged involvement with Emperors Club V.I.P. has been exposed, "she's just trying to work through it," says high school friend Joe Pawlak, who remains in touch with Ashley. "We're just trying to keep her head up and keep her strong, have her look at this as a positive. People make mistakes. All you can do is try to go on, grow from the experience."

Lindsay Lohan has fit over Paris Hilton

Lindsay Lohan with Claus Hjelmbak at the Scandinavian Style Mansion on March 14. Strauss/WireImage

Lindsay Lohan with Claus Hjelmbak at the Scandinavian Style Mansion on March 14.
Inviting a tabloid vixen to hype your product can be a risky business.
Let's start with Lindsay Lohan. Last week, the "Mean Girls" star was beckoned to an L.A. event to promote Scandinavian products. But instead of finding Birkenstocks and Viking helmets, she discovered the fete also touted the accessory line of her nemesis, Paris Hilton!
Lindsay looked like she was ready to hurl one of Thor's thunderbolts at the heiress, according to snitches. Lohan's handlers quickly asked organizers to take down backdrop ads with Hilton's name.
"Why would Lindsay ever walk down a carpet of another celebrity's fashion line when she was never told before the event?" a Lohan pal tells us.

Claus Hjelmbak, owner of the Scandinavian Style Mansion, tells Life & Style, "The drama was unnecessary."
Lohan's rep, Leslie Sloane Zelnick, says the actress has since received a letter of apology from organizers. Zelnick also refutes a claim that Linds pitched a hissy while shooting a Visa Swap commercial because someone served her a burrito with onions: "She doesn't eat on shoots."
Meanwhile, the owners of Room Service have discovered what it's like to work with Kim Kardashian. The reality star had received half of a promised $5,000 to appear at the Manhattan hot spot last Saturday, sources tell us. But after arriving well after midnight, Kardashian refused to pose for photographers until she received the $2,500 balance. No cash, no flash.
What's more, says a source, "They offered her entourage Veuve Clicquot; she wanted Perrier Jouet. They offered her Fiji Water, she wanted Smart Water."
Around 2 a.m., after getting her money, she finally posed. Says a spy: "She acted like she had just won an Oscar."
Finally, organizers of the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Costume Institute gala on May 5 might want to keep an eye on Amy Winehouse. A museum rep confirms to us that Winehouse has been asked to perform at the opening of the Armani-sponsored "Superheroes" exhibit, co-chaired by George Clooney, Julia Roberts and Anna Wintour. But perhaps organizers haven't seen that recent photo of the supposedly rehabbed Grammy-winner toting a bottle of vodka, or the one of her arms bearing curious scratches.
Winehouse's rep assures us that the marks are from her kitty. As for the vodka, well, maybe it's a good thing the Costume Institute has also reached out to other performers.