What's Hot:

TUMMY TUCK: Forget the big pants immortalised in the film Bridget Jones'S Diary, now there is a new equivalent to the modern day chastity belt. The tummy hugging girdle is making a comeback (if you've never heard of them ask your gran) only to send a shudder down the spines of every man in the land. But according to underwear retailer La Perla, the girdles, which have been flying off the shelves for the past two months, are shorter, lighter and more sexier than their 1950s counterparts. The makers say they squash in the parts other lingerie can't reach. What they will look like under hipster jeans and a cropped top though remains to be seen.

GOGGLE EYED: Thanks to the huge Harry Potter phenomenon, kids everywhere have been rushing to their local opticians so they can look like their wizard hero. Anxious to copy the trendy round-rimmed specs, scores have been flocking to have their eyes tested. It will be interesting to see what the craze will be when Disney's big-budget blockbuster Monsters Inc hits these shores.

BIG BUMS: Curvaceous actress and singer Jennifer Lopez has sparked a new craze among women - surgery to make their bottoms bigger. Plastic surgeons in America have been flooded with requests for the derriere boost like the Hollywood siren. The price for succumbing to the knife and having a more rounded rear is a mere £4,000. But there's a downside to this kind of surgery - patients who opt for the procedure won't be able to sit down for three weeks.

What's Not:

ROCK AND ROYLE: Royle Family star Ricky Tomlinson has hit the top 30 with his foot-stomping song Are You Lookin' at Me. As if we haven't had enough of the 62-year-old's constant belching and breaking wind on television and with various novelty toys, we now have to put up with promotional shots of him naked but for a strategically-placed banjo. Apparently the former plasterer, who used to play his banjo in Liverpool's pubs and clubs, has refused to let his new-found pop stardom go to his head. Not one for dieting, he celebrated his hit with a mug of tea and a bacon butty. And the only thing that worries him about his rock status is that lots of women might start throwing their knickers at him. Fat chance.

POT, KETTLE, BLACK: So comedian Frank Skinner has launched a scathing attack on women over the age of 30 branding them as "rough". On a bit of a roll, the star told a magazine interviewer that women who had not found a partner by the age of 25 must be ugly and that all females are thick. Surely Frank couldn't have been thinking about the likes of Liz Hurley, 36, Nicole Kidman, 34, and Kylie Minogue, 33. Worst of all the funnyman thinks Jordan is probably his ideal woman. "You could dismiss her as a bimbo but she might not be and also very bright women don't actually exist," he told the mag. Like when was the last time you looked in the mirror Frank.

BUM RAP: While Jennifer Lopez is taking the big bottom to the top, cry-baby Gwyneth Paltrow is shedding tears over the inclusion of her naked rear end in pictures for Bazaar magazine. This from the woman who has already revealed all for a number of blockbuster films! Gwyn claimed: "The photographer lied to me and said he wasn't going to put my whole bottom in the picture." I don't know what the nave one's complaining about. Not only is it a perfectly nice bottom, but the photographer hasn't shown her whole bottom - there must be a good inch or two on the other side left to the imagination.