Mid-week whispers

When a rumour just doesn’t give up, when you can’t avoid seeing it spread further and further, it usually ends up being true. Take the whole Brad and Jen divorce, then Angelina’s two pregnancies, and Ryan and Reese’s break-up…they were all denied but after weeks of media speculation they all ended up being true. The latest rumour going over-drive is that Ashlee Simpson is pregnant - you can’t avoid it! Ashlee just got engaged to her Fall Out Boy boyfriend Pete Wentz and they’re both saying she isn’t pregnant. Mmmm…Watch this space but I’d bet on this one being true!

When Paris Hilton and Benji Madden first came out as a couple - with

matching diamond encrusted initial rings - the world’s press screamed ‘media stunt!’ (after all his twin brother is the partner of her BFF Nicole Richie) but several weeks later they’re still together. This week Paris’ parents have told the world how in love their daughter is. Kathy Hilton said: "He’s changed her life—and I really think she’s genuinely in love for the first time. He’s so good to her and for her. We couldn’t be happier for them. This has honestly become the real thing.”

Earlier in the week I reported that Victoria Beckham’s dVb fashion line is being dropped by many U.S retailers, but Fraser Ross, owner of hip store Kitson, has said he’ll still be stocking the jeans but isn’t impressed with the Spice Girl’s business: "Contrary to reports, we haven't dropped the line but her line hasn't been performing due to her lazy attitude. She lives 15 minutes from the store and it's bad business that she doesn’t come in." So guess what Mrs Beckham did today? That’s right, she got herself down to Kitson!

Gwyneth Paltrow is the latest celebrity to reveal she struggled with post-natal depression. She told May’s issue of Vogue magazine: "I felt really out of my body. I felt really disconnected. I felt really down … I felt pessimistic”. The actress, who is married to Coldplay’s Chris Martin, suffered with the depression after her second child was born in 2006.