London, Mar. 24 : Troubled former England football star Paul Gascoigne has revealed how he turned to TV chat show host Richard Madeley to “see if I was making sense”.

Gazza, who is recovering after being sectioned under the Mental Health Act, confessed he used to ring Richard at 3 a. m. and send him texts because he felt “so lonely inside”, Sky News reports.

The ex-England star turned to Richard, 52, who he had met several times, because he knew he would listen.

London, Mar. 24 : A Russian company has been heavily criticised for creating a racist ice-cream advert featuring Barack Obama.

According to Sky News, the advert for a chocolate and vanilla bar shows Obama standing in front of the US Capitol Building with the caption, Everybody''s talking about it - Dark in White.

The advert sparked mass outrage when shown on the Ads Of The World website, with one blogger asking, "Is the ice cream as tasteless as the ad?"

London, Mar 24: A new study has confirmed what many men and advertisers long believed: driving a flashy car really does make a person more attractive to women.

Psychologists at the University of Wales presented women with separate images of the same man sitting in a silver Bentley Continental, then a red Ford Fiesta.

The study involved 120 participants, reports The Scotsman.

After seeing the male, the volunteers viewed him as ''''more attractive'''' in the prestige car.

London, Mar. 24: While Smith and Jones remain Britain''s most popular surnames, new research has found that there are 1,48,498 residents in the country who carry the surname Patel or Singh, suggesting that Asian names are rapidly catching up.

The study claims that a century of immigration has seen the nation''s dictionary of names drastically altered.

The Chinese name Zhang was found to be the fastest growing name, having risen by 4,718 per cent in popularity in just 13 years.

People named Singh and Patel were also found to be at a record high, with 95,203 and 53,295 of them respectively currently living in Britain, reports The Telegraph.

London, Mar 24 : Emma Heming, who tied the knot with Hollywood actor Bruce Willis at the weekend, has been a model for sexy lingerie chain Victoria''s Secret for several years.

She currently features in a Top 100 list of the world''s hottest women, reports the Sun.

The `Die Hard' hero met Heming through mutual friends at the start of January 2008 and the pair began dating.

Heming - born in Malta but brought up in London - was first spotted in the actor's arm going to dinner with fellow A-lister Robert De Niro.

London, Mar 24 : Late reality TV star Jade Goody's husband Jack Tweed is terrified he won't be able to attend his beloved wife's funeral next week as he could be in jail.

The 21-year-old is due in court Thursday for sentencing after he was found guilty of assaulting a taxi driver last month.

If magistrates decide to jail him he will miss the former Big Brother star's funeral.