Stone unhappy wearing shoes onstage

English singer Joss Stone is refusing to wear shoes on stage because she feels they cripple her feet. The 20-year old Stone rarely wears shoes on stage and admits that she is too clumsy to perform in heels, contactmusic.com reported. She said: "It's nothing to do with being grounded and it's nothing to do with a statement. I just don't want to fall over. I love shoes and I think they're sexy and gorgeous, but they hurt and you fall over a lot. I'm totally clumsy, especially when I'm on stage because you gotta get into it and sometimes your whole body is involved so you can't trust yourself to stay standing."

McCartney helping launch son's music career

The Beatles legend Sir Paul McCartney is helping launch his son James' music career by helping him record a debut album. James has already appeared in two of McCartney's solo albums but he is eager to launch his own solo album, contactmusic.com reported. The 65-year old McCartney said: "I'm actually doing some recording with my son. We're just looking at the idea of him making an album. He's doing it all. He's writing it all, laying it all. It's sensational. But there's nothing set yet. We don't know if it'll work. The plan is for me to just do some recording with him, and it's really exciting. I'm really loving it." James is the son of McCartney and his first late wife Linda.

Nicole finds perfect hideout - a tree

Oscar winning actress Nicole Kidman was happy sitting for hours on a tree on the set of her latest movie "Margot at the Wedding" because she considered it to be a perfect hideout and had to be lured down. Kidman confessed she is a child at heart and loved filming the scene where her on-screen sister, played by Jennifer Jason Leigh, challenges her to climb a tree, reported contactmusic.com. She said, "I love daydreaming. I spend hours up that tree and when they said, 'You can come down.' I said, 'No no, I'm ok.'"

Hilton site puts up more racy footage

Website Parisexposed.com has reportedly got its hands on some personal material belonging to Paris Hilton after a storage unit auctioned them off and they are putting more footage online.
The site got this stuff at the auction when she could not keep up with the repayments, Thesun.co.uk reported. Some of the footage is reportedly more racy than the recent one that showed her bathing naked in a tub. There is also a personal footage of Hilton where she is seen striping for an unidentified cameraman. Hilton is presently in China to attend the MTV Style awards.

Farrell helps homeless man

Irish actor Colin Farrell helped a homeless man in Toronto earlier this year and is now helping draw attention to a hotline for kids. The 4th annual Abkrakebabra for Childline Day is a hotline for kids, which gives advice on problems. The fast food chain Abrakebebra will donate all their earnings Sunday to the help line, People.com reported. In 2003, Farrell had helped a homeless man named Stress win $2,000 in a contest to bring him to a Toronto station and when he heard about it on the radio he grabbed the first homeless person he saw and took him into the radio station to claim the money. And earlier this year he was back in Toronto for the film festival and he ran into Stress again. This time Farrell took him shopping, gave him $1,000, offered him rent money. But the man declined and he bought food for others in his situation.

Guitarist Townshend is a trained ballet dancer

English rock guitarist Pete Townshend of the band The Who was once trained as a ballet dancer. Townshend, who is famous for his stage antics including along with his band mates destroying their equipment after every performance, said: "I did a short stint as a sort of 'Billy Elliot'. My father wasn't keen and the ballet mistress beat me." The 62-year-old was quoted by mirror.co.uk as saying that the band could have made many more albums but he chose to give priority to his family ahead of his music.