• The Tony Award nominations for achievement in Broadway theater have been announced, and the Brits have made an impressive showing. The State Within's Ben Daniels (Les Liaisons Dangereuses), Mark Rylance (Boeing-Boeing), Rufus Sewell (Rock 'n' Roll), and Patrick Stewart (Macbeth) vie alongside American Laurence Fishburne (Thurgood) for the Best Actor in a Play award. The Stage notes that one-third of all the nominations come from UK-originated productions.
  
  
• Did Pete Doherty cheat a drug test by passing off someone else's urine as his own? (Guardian)
  
  
• Lily Allen is one lucky girl: Gavin & Stacey star James Corden strips off in homage to David Beckham. (Mirror)
  
  
• Minnie Driver clutches her bump while performing at a London concert. (Daily Mail)
  
  
• Jay-Z finally responds to Noel Gallagher: "We don't play guitars, Noel, but hip-hop has put in its work like any other form of music." (The Sun)
  
  
• Supermodel Agyness Deyn has formed her own band named Gene Jacket. (NME)
  
  
• Members of the band Glasvegas were involved in a car crash here in New York when the taxi they were riding in collided with another vehicle. No one was injured. (NME)
  
  
• George Harrison's widow has created a garden memorial for him. (Mirror)
  
  
• Budding diva Kelly Rowland defends Madonna: "Madonna can have anything she wants. If she only wants red Skittles then get her red Skittles, she's freakin' Madonna! And if she wants a huge trailer, get her a huge trailer." (Digital Spy)
  
  
• Kelly may follow Madonna's footsteps and settle down in London. (The Sun)
  
  
• Michelle Ryan admits she tried out for the role of Vesper Lynd in Casino Royale - but she says she "blew" her audition. "It's always when you're not bothered - the same as when it comes to guys - that you do best. If you try too hard it doesn't work." I love Michelle Ryan - she rocked it on Jekyll - but I can't see anyone out-acting Eva Green in that part. (Digital Spy)
  
  
• Talk about moving up in the world: after the Terminal 5 crisis, the head of Heathrow airport is being replaced, ironically, by the head of the London Underground. (Guardian)
  
  
• Why did Seinfeld flop in the UK? The Guardian's Dan Worth says it's the lack of resolution, stupid: "Episodes frequently ended in situations that were immediately forgotten at the beginning of the next, the characters starting with a clean slate once again, having learned nothing from their experiences. Larry David, the show's co-creator, famously insisted on a strict 'no hugging, no learning' rule on set and in one episode Kramer (Jerry's neighbour against whom all other wacky next-door neighbours pale in comparison) tells Jerry, 'You know the important thing is that you learned something,' only to be rebuffed, 'No I didn't!'"
  
  
• Dave Atkins, who played the landlord on the UK version of Men Behaving Badly, has died aged 67. (Guardian)
  
  
• Terence Davies will screen his new documentary - his first film in eight years - at Cannes this year. (Guardian)
  
  
• The Massive Attack guys talk to The Guardian ahead of their Meltdown festival. Can you believe they've been around 20 years?

"Every step of the way someone, sometimes seemingly for the fun of it, made life more difficult than it needed to be.

"If all that's not enough, at the end of the night when all you want to do is walk 20 yards to a bus, some witless wonder tells you that no one can go anywhere until one particular person out of 15,000 license fee payers has left the site."

• Heather Mills and Paul McCartney's divorce is officially official. (BBC)
  
  
• Oasis drummer Zak Starkey, son of Ringo Starr, has reportedly left the band after a row with Noel Gallagher. (NME)
  
  
• Has Amy Winehouse (God help her) nicked Sadie Frost's boytoy? (Daily Mail)
  
  
• Doctor Who's David Tennant and Pushing Daisies's Anna Friel are British TV's sexiest people. (Daily Record)
  
  
• The Sex and the City girls, who are oddly premiering their Manhattan-set film in London, want audiences there to keep the plot secret. Oh really? You're asking the home of The Sun newspaper to keep a secret? (Telegraph)
  
  
• The British TV movie Boy A won three BAFTA Craft Awards. Doctor Who scribe Steven Moffat won Best Writer. (BBC)
  
  
• Charlotte Church has come out as a breastfeeding advocate. (BBC)
  
  
• The Guardian's Caroline Sullivan does some case studies on some of music's "Next Big Things" who never were.
  
  
• Which Booker Prize-winning novel is the best of them all? (Guardian)
  
  
• Ray Winstone has some real gangster cred: he went pee-pee over gangster Ronnie Kray as a nipper. By the way, there's a more grown-up interview with Mr. Winstone in The Daily Telegraph today.

• Gordon Ramsay wants restaurants fined for serving out-of-season produce: "Fruit and veg should be seasonal. Chefs should be fined if they haven't got ingredients in season on their menu. I don't want to see asparagus on in the middle of December. I don't want to see strawberries from Kenya in the middle of March. I want to see it homegrown." (BBC)
  
  
• Gordon discusses his best and worst vacations. Word to the wise: don't ask him to join you for dinner while he's on holiday: "I'm always being asked to squeeze people in as a surprise for someone's birthday or wedding anniversary. People are also always inviting me to join them for dinner. I can't understand that one. Why would I want to have dinner with a complete stranger when I'm on holiday with my family? No, thank you." (Telegraph)
  
  
• Actress Liv Tyler has split from her British husband, Spacehog singer Royston Langdon. (Telegraph)
  
  
• Fatboy Slim's wife, TV presenter Zoe Ball, was almost hit by a car while filming a promo near their property. Her cameraman wasn't so lucky; he was hit, but he only suffered minor injuries. (BBC)
  
  
• The casting of Juno's Ellen Page in BBC's Jane Eyre has riled many industry insiders in the UK. One source says, "No one is doubting Ellen Page's acting abilities, but why a BBC movie of Jane Eyre couldn't have a British actress in the lead is pretty hard to stomach. It's not as if we don't have enough talented young actresses here who could play the role." (Digital Spy)
  
  
• Minnie Driver gives a hint on who her "baby daddy" might be: it's not Craig Zolezzi, a San Francisco musician and Driver's friend. (Digital Spy)
  
  
• The cast of the UK version of The Office have had trouble making the jump to films. The Guardian shows us just how much trouble they've had. Also: was Ricky Gervais right to snub the British film industry?
  
  
• That's one way to stop traffic: motorists on Britain's M40 freeway got an eyeful today - a cut-and-bruised Amy Winehouse wandering the side of the road. (Telegraph)
  
  
• Now Peaches Geldof could face charges for an alleged drug-deal video. (The Sun)
  
  
• Massive Attack and Portishead have just returned to the spotlight; now Tricky's back with his first release in five years. The Guardian asks, "Did all the trip-hop bands of Bristol sit down together over tea and biscuits and decide that it was time for a comeback? A life of organic farming and Tesco clubcards can get rather dull after all. And what do you know, Portishead only went and surprised us cynics by making one of the best albums of the year. We look forward to seeing whether a bit of time off has had a similar effect on Tricky. Album's out July 9th."
  
  
• Mark Ronson is No. 62 on this year's list of "the 100 most influential people in Britian's Jewish community." (The Times)
  
  
• Ronson steps out with his new honey-bunny. (The Sun)
  
  
• Super Furry Animals lead singer Gruff Rhys is waging a war against the saxophone: "I generally dislike the saxophone. I like saxophones if they're just doing basic notes, that's fine. But saxophone solos I don't enjoy. It has that vomit-inducing quality, it's a physical thing." (NME)
  
  
• Charlie Higson, author the Young Bond series, picks his 10 favorite 007 villains. (Guardian)
  
  
• Simon Fuller, Spice Girls manager and American Idol creator, will marry his girlfriend Natalie Swanson. (Mirror)

• Naomi Campbell has been cast in Catherine Breillat's latest film. Breillat is known for films that contain "graphic scenes of sex and violence." With Naomi starring, she should have no problem getting the latter. (Telegraph)
  
  
• Paul Weller talks about turning 50, making "the most ambitious album of his career," putting the past behind him, his clothes, and his children ("I don't want my kids coming home speaking like Ali G - I'm just not having it"). (Telegraph)
  
  
• John Hurt talks about playing Quentin Crisp 33 years after The Naked Civil Servant: "I shall play him with slightly more cynicism. More thoughtful this time." (The Times)
  
  
• After nine hours of interrogation, Amy Winehouse was released from police custody. She'll face no charges for drug possession. (The Times)
  
  
• After her release, Amy hit the streets in some scandalously short Daisy Dukes. (Daily Mail)
  
  
• Next Saturday, Pete Doherty will do his first solo show since his release from jail. He'll perform with Babyshambles on Tuesday. (NME)
  
  
• Hot Chip's Alexis Taylor says free downloads from folks like Radiohead and Coldplay are hurting lesser-known bands. (NME)
  
  
• Gang of Four is now Gang of Two; bassist Dave Allen and drummer Hugo Burnham have left the band. So, wait, the band has no rhythm section? Maybe they can recruit Peter Hook and David Potts...Monaco reunion, anyone? (Guardian)
  
  
• A fat-and-almost-naked Robbie Williams puts on a show for the paps. (The Sun)
  
  
• Was The Catherine Tate Show denied a British Comedy Award because of Robbie Williams? "ITV is claiming that the winner was changed as presenter Robbie Williams said he would only give out the award if Ant and Dec won," reports The Mirror.
  
  
• Meanwhile, ITV has been fined the equivalent of $11.3 million for various phone-in scandals. (The Stage)
  
  
• Bad seed Peaches Geldof has been cast in a Nick Cave video. (The Sun)
  
  
• Bob Geldof cracks the whip on his wayward daughter after a video appeared that allegedly showed her buying drugs. (Daily Mail)
  
  
• Gordon Ramsay has passed on his potty mouth to his 8-year-old son. (Mirror)
  
  
• Prepare to be grossed out: are Anne Robinson's armpits actually that hairy, or is she holding Russell Brand in a headlock in these Daily Mail photos?
  
  
• Stephen Fry doesn't want an "emasculated" BBC. (BBC)

• London police have just now gotten around to arresting Amy Winehouse for that alleged crack-smoking video from January. I guess the old bill is trying to even up the junkie-in-jail ratio: Pete Doherty got out yesterday. (BBC)
  
  
• Amy Winehouse gets nicked by the cops; Mark Ronson tours with Jay-Z. Who came out better, post-Bond theme drama? (Mirror)
  
  
• Stereogum bravely sacrifices hipster cred and posts a rave review about Coldplay's latest track.
  
  
• The Guardian talks to "seven Brits who have conquered Hollywood": Claire Forlani (clearly, they're using that word "conquer" loosely here), Idris Elba (hotness personified), Anna Friel (looking a bit like Emily Blunt in her photo), Michael Sheen (natch), Joanne Sellar (she drinks your milkshake), Edgar Wright (genius), and Graham King (money/power/respect).
  
  
• Ellen Page is set to play a *wicked* hipster Jane Eyre. (The Sun)
  
  
• Did Rachel Weisz turn down The Mummy, not because it's, well, The Mummy, but because her character in the film was "too old"? (Digital Spy)
  
  
• JK Rowling won her copyright battle. (BBC)
  
  
• NSFW: Kate Moss' boobs. (The Sun)
  
  
• Also: Natasha Richardson's knickers. (Daily Mail)
  
  
• When did The Daily Telegraph become Playgirl and how do I start my subscription?
  
  
• Kelly Osbourne makes out with a brick after a night of carousing. (Daily Mail)
  
  
• Liam Gallagher and Katie Holmes have the same haircut.
  
  
• The Times examines what went wrong during a driving stunt on the set of Quantum of Solace that left one man in a coma.
  
  
• Marianne Faithfull covers Morrissey's "Dear God, Please Help Me" on her new album.
  
  
• The Guardian's Gareth McLean talks about the casting of black actors in Dickens adaptations. (For example, Doctor Who's Freema Agyeman is set to play Tattycoram in Little Dorrit.) "In the novel of Little Dorrit, Tattycoram is described as 'a handsome girl with lustrous dark hair and eyes, and very neatly dressed.' I'm sure you'll correct me if I'm wrong but beyond that, there's little reference to her physicality. So why not cast a black actress in the role? It shows imagination and if, as is so often said, period dramas are as much about the time in which they're made as the time with which they are ostensibly concerned, it makes sense to have a diverse cast."
  
  
• The Royle Family is doing another Christmas special this year; the 2006 one won BAFTAs and high ratings. (The Sun)
  
  
• Are The Last Shadow Puppets better than Arctic Monkeys? (The Times)
  
  
• Simple Minds will perform for Nelson Mandela's 90th birthday party; they last sang for him in 1990 when he was released from prison. (Daily Record)