Comic Russell Brand dedicated his British Comedy Award for best live stand-up to Jonathan Ross, his cohort in a controversial BBC radio stunt. Brand and Ross have been in hot water over on-air prank calls placed to actor Andrew Sachs on Brand's popular show on Radio 2. The BBC reported Sunday that Brand,

By JANE SIMON THE first run of Alan's Ding Dong posed the all-important question: Whois better, celebrities or civilians? Well, I think that puzzler has been well and truly answered now because in the return of the series tonight, the civilian teams have been completely given the elbow.

"THEY say never work with children or animals and I am working with 100 children, camels, a donkey, pig, sheep ... and Alan Carr," laughs Debbie Isitt. The Coventry-based writer and director has been heading all over Coventry and Warwickshire with a film crew in tow for her latest movie Nativity.

By Mike Larkin HAIR dishevelled, make-up smeared and a bottle of Scotch in her hand - could this really be daytime TV queen Lorraine Kelly in an off-guard moment? Slurring her words, the mumsie presenter declares her love for comedian Alan Carr, stumbles across her dressing room then slumps drunkenly in a chair.