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Lady Gaga godmother to Elton John's son...

BRITISH music superstar Elton John has revealed that he and his partner have chosen pop diva Lady Gaga to be their baby boy's godmother, as he spoke of his joy at being a father.

"Yes, yes she is," John told ABC's Babara Walters when she asked him if the outlandish singer was the godmother of his son, Zachary Jackson Levon Furnish-John, in an interview broadcast on Friday.

"When you get to the real person underneath, there's a very simple New York girl who loves her parents. I love her to death and a lot of people said, 'oh, you know, that's crazy,' but they don't know her and we do."

Zachary was born December 25 to a surrogate for John, 64, and his partner 48-year-old Canadian filmmaker David Furnish, and the couple told ABC of their delight in having a son, and their determination not to spoil him.

"I knew I'd feel joy but it was the most relaxing thing that's ever happened to me," John said.

"We change him, we bath him, we feed him and we read him a story every night," said John of the couple's routine. "And we take him to lunch."

But the millionaire singer said he was determined his four-month-old would learn about values, even though he was being brought up in the lap of luxury.

"The worst thing you can do to a child, and I've seen it happen so many times, is the silver spoon," John said. 

"Being the child of a famous person is very difficult and we're very well aware of the pitfalls of that."

Furnish, who married John in 2005 after 12 years together, agreed.

"Our life might be very luxurious, but it's all come from hard work," he said.

"Both Elton and I have sort of earned everything we've done in our careers and furthered our educations through our own drive and our own ambitions and we want Zachary to be exactly the same sort of way."

By turning to a surrogate mother, the couple followed in the footsteps of Sex in the City star Sarah Jessica Parker and her actor husband Matthew Broderick who had twin girls by a surrogate mother in 2009.

Latino pop star Ricky Martin also used a surrogate to have twin boys before announcing he was gay.

Elton John has sold more than 250 million records in a career spanning four decades and the singer-songwriter was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1994.

It was confirmed on yesterday that John and Furnish will attend the wedding next Friday of Prince William and Kate Middleton in Westminster Abbey.

John sang the hit Candle in the Wind at the funeral of William's mother Princess Diana in the abbey after her death in a car crash in Paris.

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Andres Iniesta..

If punished by Uefa on Wednesday, he would miss the semi-final, first leg against Real Madrid on 27 April.

The 26-year-old Spain midfielder was booked in the quarter-final against Shakhtar Donetsk, meaning he missed the return leg but would then be available.

Barca said the "good faith of the player" will help them in the appeal.

Iniesta was cautioned for not retreating the required distance at a free-kick against the Ukrainian side, with the Catalan outfit winning the game at the Nou Camp 5-1 on 6 April.

However, a Barca statement read: "The good faith of the player and the disproportionate nature of the proposed sanction will be sufficient to rebut the allegations."

Nigeria's Olubayo Adefemi dies in Greece car accident....

Nigeria international defender Olubayo Adefemi has died in a car accident, Greek police said on Monday.

The 25-year-old, who played for Skoda Xanthi, lost control of his car on the Egnatia motorway before the crash.

Adefemi was driving from Xanthi to Salonika in the Kavala region of northern Greece.

The former Rapid Bucharest player was on his way to finalise details of his wedding when the accident happened, police said.

"The Super League and the entire Greek football family would like to express its deepest condolences and sympathy for the family of Olubayo Adefemi who died tragically in a car accident," league organisers said in a statement on Monday.

Adefemi signed for Xanthi last summer and made 24 appearances for the club, scoring twice.

He has also played three times for Nigeria.

Kate Hudson: I’m Having A Girl!..

She’s super excited about the impending arrival of her new baby, and Kate Hudson told press that she thinks she and boyfriend Matthew Bellamy are having a girl.

The “Fool’s Gold” gal explained that while she hasn’t had any medical confirmation on the sex of her soon-to-be-born, an age-old practice called a pendulum reading suggests pink for the newborn’s nursery.

Kate also noted that she had a great time playing “wild girl” Darcy in her upcoming film “Something Borrowed.”

Ms. Hudson shared that she was definitely able to connect with the character because “she likes to have a good time and she definitely had her ‘Darcy moments.’”

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Peter Msechu Ndani ya Big Brother Africa...

DALILI za nyota mwenye sauti ya dhahabu katika Muziki wa Kizazi Kipya, Peter Msechu kutinga ndani ya Shindano la Big Brother Africa zipo peupe, baada ya kuanza kwa mafanikio makubwa hatua za awali za kuelekea kwenye kinyang’anyiro hicho.

Msechu ambaye nyota yake ilianza kung’ara katika Shindano la Bongo Star Seach 2009 na kuibuka mshindi wa pili, kabla ya kutwaa nafasi kama hiyo kwenye kipute kingine cha Project Fame 2010 Nairobi, nchini Kenya, alisema haoni kikwazo kitakachomwangusha kutinga BBA.

“Najiamini sana na ni nina vigezo vyote, naamini lazima nitaingia BBA,” alisema Msechu kwa tambo.

Alisema tayari ameshachukua fomu na kilichofanyika ilikuwa ni mchujo wa kwanza, ambao uliwapitisha washiriki wanaochuana ili kupatikana mmoja atakayekwaa pipa kwenda kwa Madiba.

Mubarak Hali Mbaya..

Former Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak is in intensive care after suffering a heart attack, say state media.

It happened as he was being questioned by prosecutors over allegations of corruption and the killing of hundreds of protesters, reports said.

The manager of the hospital in Sharm el-Sheikh was earlier quoted saying the 82-year-old's condition was stable.

Mr Mubarak stood down on 11 February following an 18-day popular uprising against his rule.

Mr Mubarak's two sons, Alaa and Gamal, are also under investigation and are being questioned at the prosecutor's office in the provincial capital of el-Tor.

"There is a state of confusion inside the hospital and only patients are allowed in," Ashraf Swaylam, a news reporter for the state-run station Nile TV, said earlier.

The hospital was accepting no patients except for emergency cases, another local media report said.

Protesters picketed the hospital, denouncing the president and carrying a sign reading "Here is the butcher", AP news agency reported. They scuffled with supporters of Mr Mubarak.

Media reports say the health minister is to give a statement on the matter.

Mr Mubarak underwent gall bladder surgery in the German city of Heidelberg last year and there were reports that he had remained in poor health, although his aides had denied this.    

Media roprts says it is understood that the former president's doctors had asked Egypt's ruling military council for permission to send him back to Germany for treatment, but that this was refused.

Mr Mubarak has been banned from leaving the country, along with his sons and their wives, and the family's assets have been frozen. He denies any wrongdoing.

Rihanna na Britney...

Rihanna, 23, and Britney, 29, have teamed up to collaborate on a remix of Rihanna's single S&M, which previewed on the internet yesterday.


And during a radio interview promoting the new tune the Barbadian beauty told of her kinky intentions towards Britney.

Speaking during an interview with New York's Z100 radio yesterday about whether the two women would be doing a video for the remixed track, Rihanna, said: "I hope so. I want to spank Britney."

She then went on to discuss how the collaboration came about.

The singer said: "It's very strange. Britney never does features. It was really amazing that she really wanted to be part of this song.

"She really liked the song to begin with, but it was a different story when she had to sing it, and she really wanted to be a part of it. It made it really, really special, because you never see two pop female artists doing songs together anymore."

The star added: "In order to do a remix, it had to be major. I asked my fans last week who they wanted me to collaborate with, and Britney was one of the most popular names."