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BY Bibby Sowray | 23 May 2012

Rumours are abound that Gisele Bündchen may be pregnant with her second child by husband Tom Brady.

According to various Brazilian news outlets and the Boston Herald , the supermodel told Givenchy’s Riccardo Tisci, the designer of her Met Ball gown, that she was two months along so that he could adapt the dress accordingly should she gain any extra pregnancy pounds.

Tom Brady places a protective hand over his wife’s stomach on the red carpet. Photo: REX

The couple – who have been married since 2009 – put on a very tactile display for the cameras as they worked the Met Ball red carpet together, and Brady was photographed a number of times with a protective hand hovering over Bundchen’s belly.

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But, even if there is another Bündchen in the oven, Gisele shows no signs of going all mumsy on us. Just last week, she wore a sheer blouse (sans visible baby bump) whilst promoting her Gisele Bündchen Brazilian Intimates collection in Sao Paolo, and she covers the June issue of Vogue Paris wearing nothing but a pair of black bikini bottoms and a sandy derrière .

Gisele Bündchen launching her underwear range in Sao Paulo, Brazil, on May 15. Photo: AFP

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If the rumours are true, the baby would be a sibling for the couples’ two-and-a-half year old son Benjamin Rein, and a half-sibling to Brady’s son Jack form his relationship with actress Bridget Moynahan.

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The festival, held at the beautiful Dartington Hall near Totnes, will run until 16th July and features more than 150 speakers including Hilary Mantel, John McCarthy, Julian Clary, Jung Chang, Jenny Eclair, P.D. James, Claire Tomalin and Michael Frayn.

There will also be a Telegraph Question time event about the London 2012 Olympics. In addition, broadcaster Jeremy Vine will look back over a quarter of a century at the BBC, and David Lammy MP will explore the say of Britain in the wake of last summer’s riots.

The Ways With Words Festival is now in its 21st year and Festival President Roy Hattersley said: “Uniquely among British festivals, Ways With Words offers a chance for speakers and listeners to meet and continue the large variety of speaks and discussions which fill the days. And it all happens in the wonderful setting of Dartington Hall.”

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Former American Idol winner Jordin Sparks and John Legend performed a tribute to Whitney Houston at the event.

Bieber also sang his new track Boyfriend accompanied by dancers dressed as clowns and neon geisha girls.

Other performers included Kelly Clarkson, The Wanted, Carly Rae Jepsen, Usher, Carrie Underwood, Linkin Park and Nelly Furtado.

Swift was named Billboard woman of the year and picked up the award from New Girl TV star Zooey Deschanel and veteran country singer and songwriter Kris Kristofferson.

Bieber, 18, picked up the award for the most social artist, thanking his 22 million Twitter followers and 43 million Facebook fans, saying “the world wide web is where I got my start”.

LMFAO kicked off the show with an energetic medley of their hits “Party Rock Anthem” and “Sexy And I Know It.” They were followed later by a shirtless Chris Brown performing his dance single “Turn Up The Music” with BMX bikers doing stunts.

Perry, clad in a white dress, hung above the stage in a swing to sing her latest “personal and intimate” heartbreak single Wide Awake. Veteran soul singer Stevie Wonder, 62, was honoured with the Icon award this year and sang “Higher Ground” and “Overjoyed” with R&B singer Alicia Keys, wrapping the set with his hit song “Superstition.”

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Humperdinck remained calm and smiling as he was approached by BBC investigative reporter Paul Kenyon but his entourage, including BBC staff, were furious at the intervention.

The scene will be shown on tomorrow night’s programme despite pleas from other parts of the BBC not to do so.

In a furious exchange of emails seen by The Sunday Telegraph, Chris Hewlett, Humperdinck’s agent, wrote to Mr Kenyon in disgust.

“I wanted to drop you an email and just make very clear how surprised and disappointed we all were that Panorama felt it appropriate to ambush Engelbert Humperdinck on BBC property in order to force a reaction from him, without even giving him the courtesy of time to frame his thoughts” wrote Mr Hewlett,

“As you know Eurovision is a BBC show, and he was invited by the BBC to participate, and we feel that these actions by another BBC team were at ideal ill-judged.

“The brandishing of a T-shirt depicting a prisoner and the legend “please release me” seems incredible.”

Mr Hewlett stated Humperdinck had already made his views known in email correspondence and the decision to approach him was unnecessary.

Mr Hewlett concludes: “We believe that this footage therefore should not constitute part of your final edit as it was gained by acting in bad faith – to Engelbert, to us and also to BBC Radio 2 who unwittingly facilitated this.

“I am certain we’d all be interested in your response to this disappointing episode.”

In a second email to Panorama’s editor Tom Giles, Jackie Gill, who handles Humperdinck’s press relations, accused the BBC of a “student type political moment with a T-shirt”.

Ms Gill added: “You must put out a news story that you feel you must broadcast but do you really need to use Engelbert and abuse him in this way when he is obviously backing Britain and at this moment at the BBC’s bequest (or so we think) and backing going to Baku as a result of this.”

The Panorama investigation will highlight human rights abuses in Azerbaijan, which is hosting the competition having won it last year.

The programme will tell the tale of one local who was detained and questioned after last year’s televised programme just for voting for Azerbaijan’s neighbour and long-standing enemy Armenia.

Panorama defended its decision to approach Humperdinck. A spokesman said: “We’re satisfied that we’ve acted fairly and followed our editorial guidelines.”

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The film is to be called Martha and Mary. “It is about malaria, so not an especially funny topic, but there are some jokes in it,” Curtis tells me at an event in his beloved Notting Hill.

He has previously stated of the project: “I hope the malaria film will be entertaining, but also make the point that this is something we should do something about.” It is understood that shooting will start on the film in Africa and in America this summer.

Curtis, who wrote the screenplay for Bridget Jones’s Diary and the scripts for the sitcoms Blackadder and The Vicar of Dibley, has long campaigned for the eradication of malaria through his work for Comic Relief. The disease kills more than 750,000 people around the world each year.

“Malaria can and should be wiped out,” he stated last year. “The world did nearly get rid of malaria in the 1960s, but a bit stayed in Africa and now it’s killing all over again.”

The last film for which Curtis wrote the screenplay was War Horse, while the most recent picture he directed was The Boat That Rocked in 2009.

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Kuipers celebrated the 40th anniversary of Rocket Man by playing Sir Elton’s hit in the International Space Station. “Rocket Man came from those boyhood dreams of traveling beyond the stars and looking back on Earth,” the singer has written to the astronaut. “My thanks for keeping those boyhood dreams alive.”

The Marquess of Worcester is upset by the closure of Public, the Chelsea haunt co-owned by Guy Pelly, the Duke of Cambridge’s friend.

“It’s another example of the nanny state,” claims the heir to the Duke of Beaufort and his 52,000-acre Badminton estate in Gloucestershire. “Will have to find an alternative location for midnight renditions of rugby songs.”

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Bruce joined Radio 2 30 years ago and has become one of the station’s unsung heroes, pulling in audiences exceeding those of his higher profile colleagues.

He has hosted his present show, which includes popular music quiz Popmaster, since 1992.

Bruce said: “I’m absolutely delighted and a tiny baffled. Obviously I’m a late developer. Whatever it is we are doing right, we will keep doing it and I’d like to thank the ever faithful Radio 2 listeners.”

Other Radio 2 hosts to pull in record audiences include 83-year-old Brian Matthew with his Saturday morning show Sounds Of The 60s pulling in 3.7 million, 22 years after launching the show.

New figures also show that BBC Radio 6 Music – which beat sister service Radio 2 to the station of the year title at the Sony Radio Academy Awards on Tuesday – reached a record audience.

It now has an audience of 1.5 million, two years after it was told it faced the axe.

The station was saved by the BBC Trust after a high profile campaign and has more than doubled its audience since it was first earmarked for closure.

Radio 1′s audience for the first quarter of this year is down by 700,000 – at 11.1 million – compared with the same period last year.

Moyles – who has announced he is to star in a touring version of Jesus Christ Superstar – appeared in danger of being overtaken by Radio 4′s Today programme when the last Rajar figures were announced.

But the news programme has seen its audience sink back to 6.7 million.

Radio 3 is down 300,000 year on year, to 1.9 million, while Radio 4 has lost half a million listeners over the same period leaving it with 10.3 million.

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Model Kate Moss shows her charitable – and multi-talented side – at a fund-raising dinner at Claridge’s.

BY Olivia Bergin | 16 May 2012

Kate Moss is still popping up on the odd Vogue cover and can be seen on billboards modelling for Mango, but it appears she is spending the rest of her time homemaking in Highgate and enjoying food festivals at her country retreat (we’re not making that one up).

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Last night she diversified her hobbies one step further by auctioning off a painting by her good friend, Rolling Stones rocker Ronnie Wood. Kate was at Claridge’s hotel in London at a fundraiser in honour of Marie Curie Cancer Care, and dutifully posed with the portrait of Rod Stewart to the privileged guests, before selling it off for £12,000.

Kate helps auction an artwork by Ronnie Wood. Photo: Getty.

Bumping into her sometime collaborator, photographer David Bailey, it appears Moss was inspired to take a few snaps of her own, as she was seen toting an enormous camera and pointing it at the well-heeled crowd, which included Sarah Ferguson and her daughter Princess Beatrice.

With David Bailey at her side, Kate turns photographer. Photo: Getty.

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And where, amongst all this tomfoolery, was Mr Moss? Jamie Hince, Moss’s husband of nearly a year, casually mixed into the background, admiring his multi-talented wife…

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Perhaps wary of the critical response Fiona Bruce received from the art world after presenting a BBC documentary on Leonardo da Vinci last year, Yates is quick to admit he is not the most knowledgable on the subjects he wants to cover.

“I’m not an expert, I’m just a curious person, so I learn along with the viewer.”

Britain may have plunged into a double-dip recession, but at least George Osborne’s Treasury is keen to show it is promoting a growth strategy for the country.

According to the Government’s White Book, which details the name and direct number for every press officer in Parliament, the role of “Press Officer – Growth” is vacant in Osborne’s office.

My man in the press office tells Mandrake the job has only been unfilled for a few weeks and there are plenty more press officers who are able to “talk up Britain’s growth prospects” in the meantime.

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