weed helps to keep george michael smiling.(Entertainment)

Pop star George Michael said smoking cannabis kept him "sane and happy" and appeared to light up a joint during an interview on Britain's ITV channel, ITV said last Friday.

The comments have landed the former Wham! frontman in hot water with mental health groups and drug charities concerned about the message Michael's comments will send to young people. "All drugs have potential to harm and that is the principal message we need to get across," William Butler, spokesman for a drugs charity, told London's Evening Standard.

Rock singer Melissa Etheridge and her partner, actress Tammy Lynn Michaels, announced that Michaels had given birth to twins.

The couple said on Etheridge's website that son Miller Steven and daughter Johnnie Rose were born on Tuesday.

"The creation of life brings about immeasurable love, and pours hope into the future," they wrote. "The joy will help carry us through our upcoming sleepless nights." Etheridge announced in August 2005 that she was free of cancer nine months after undergoing surgery to remove a malignant tumour in her breast.

In what amounts to joining the family business, Alexa Ray Joel, daughter of Piano Man Billy Joel and supermodel Christie Brinkley, is in the midst of a 16-city run in support of her independently recorded and distributed debut CD, Sketches.

The songwriter/pianist/vocalist's autumn tour includes her first West Coast dates and is set to wrap on November 11 at the Sellersville Theatre.

"It's going great," Joel said from the tour's stop in Los Angeles. She said a brief tour of Hard Rock venues last May was good preparation for this run.

Hotel heiress Paris Hilton is to model for an upmarket American fashion line in India next year despite her music video being banned in the country for being too explicit.

The 25-year-old heiress to the Hilton hotel fortune will shoot for her friend, Anand Jon, an American fashion designer of Indian descent who is introducing a line of high-end evening wear for India's stylish elite.

Said Jon: "Paris is a very close friend of mine. We have known each other for a long time now. So, when I told her about this visit, she was pretty excited," - Reuters

weed helps to keep george michael smiling.(Entertainment)

Pop star George Michael said smoking cannabis kept him "sane and happy" and appeared to light up a joint during an interview on Britain's ITV channel, ITV said last Friday.

The comments have landed the former Wham! frontman in hot water with mental health groups and drug charities concerned about the message Michael's comments will send to young people. "All drugs have potential to harm and that is the principal message we need to get across," William Butler, spokesman for a drugs charity, told London's Evening Standard.

Rock singer Melissa Etheridge and her partner, actress Tammy Lynn Michaels, announced that Michaels had given birth to twins.

The couple said on Etheridge's website that son Miller Steven and daughter Johnnie Rose were born on Tuesday.

"The creation of life brings about immeasurable love, and pours hope into the future," they wrote. "The joy will help carry us through our upcoming sleepless nights." Etheridge announced in August 2005 that she was free of cancer nine months after undergoing surgery to remove a malignant tumour in her breast.

In what amounts to joining the family business, Alexa Ray Joel, daughter of Piano Man Billy Joel and supermodel Christie Brinkley, is in the midst of a 16-city run in support of her independently recorded and distributed debut CD, Sketches.

The songwriter/pianist/vocalist's autumn tour includes her first West Coast dates and is set to wrap on November 11 at the Sellersville Theatre.

"It's going great," Joel said from the tour's stop in Los Angeles. She said a brief tour of Hard Rock venues last May was good preparation for this run.

Hotel heiress Paris Hilton is to model for an upmarket American fashion line in India next year despite her music video being banned in the country for being too explicit.

The 25-year-old heiress to the Hilton hotel fortune will shoot for her friend, Anand Jon, an American fashion designer of Indian descent who is introducing a line of high-end evening wear for India's stylish elite.

Said Jon: "Paris is a very close friend of mine. We have known each other for a long time now. So, when I told her about this visit, she was pretty excited," - Reuters

weed helps to keep george michael smiling.(Entertainment)

Pop star George Michael said smoking cannabis kept him "sane and happy" and appeared to light up a joint during an interview on Britain's ITV channel, ITV said last Friday.

The comments have landed the former Wham! frontman in hot water with mental health groups and drug charities concerned about the message Michael's comments will send to young people. "All drugs have potential to harm and that is the principal message we need to get across," William Butler, spokesman for a drugs charity, told London's Evening Standard.

Rock singer Melissa Etheridge and her partner, actress Tammy Lynn Michaels, announced that Michaels had given birth to twins.

The couple said on Etheridge's website that son Miller Steven and daughter Johnnie Rose were born on Tuesday.

"The creation of life brings about immeasurable love, and pours hope into the future," they wrote. "The joy will help carry us through our upcoming sleepless nights." Etheridge announced in August 2005 that she was free of cancer nine months after undergoing surgery to remove a malignant tumour in her breast.

In what amounts to joining the family business, Alexa Ray Joel, daughter of Piano Man Billy Joel and supermodel Christie Brinkley, is in the midst of a 16-city run in support of her independently recorded and distributed debut CD, Sketches.

The songwriter/pianist/vocalist's autumn tour includes her first West Coast dates and is set to wrap on November 11 at the Sellersville Theatre.

"It's going great," Joel said from the tour's stop in Los Angeles. She said a brief tour of Hard Rock venues last May was good preparation for this run.

Hotel heiress Paris Hilton is to model for an upmarket American fashion line in India next year despite her music video being banned in the country for being too explicit.

The 25-year-old heiress to the Hilton hotel fortune will shoot for her friend, Anand Jon, an American fashion designer of Indian descent who is introducing a line of high-end evening wear for India's stylish elite.

Said Jon: "Paris is a very close friend of mine. We have known each other for a long time now. So, when I told her about this visit, she was pretty excited," - Reuters