Bikini-clad Sarah Harding soaks up the single life as her ex admits jealousy of male dancers

Sarah Harding has escaped to Dubai for a girls' only holiday following her split her DJ boyfriend Tom Crane.

The singer, dressed in a skimpy animal print bikini, was spotted sipping cocktails by the pool of a luxury five-star hotel with a female companion.

Rest and relaxation appeared to be her main concern in the wake of her heartbreak and Girls Aloud's gruelling UK tour.

It comes as Crane, who had dated Sarah for a year and shared a £1million north London home with the singer, admitted they had gone for a month without seeing each other prior to their split last week.
In an interview with Closer magazine just a day before the couple's split was leaked to the press, Tom admitted their relationship was going through a troubled time.

He said: 'Sarah’s been super-busy lately. When she was on tour, she worked every single day for 12 to 15 hours.

'The problem is, that I’m working every night DJing, and with her working every day, we never overlap.

'We have a very good sex life – but I haven’t seen her for a month.

'We both work hard and it’s a bit of a downfall as you don’t get much time together. The hours are frustrating – that’s the bad side of it.
Sarah Harding Tom Crane

'We don’t have that normal ‘sit down and discuss the relationship’ thing. Sarah is 26 and wants to focus on her career, so she’ll work as hard as she can, for as long as she can.'

Reports last week suggested Tom had grown increasingly jealous of Sarah's close friendship with male backing dancer Jackson Williams.

Tom admitted he did struggle to watch her cavort on stage with the hunky male dancers: 'I have to see her with all these guys every single day of the week, so it’s just all part of it.

'I just have to swallow and accept she’s got all these dancers around her.'

Just last month, Sarah spoke of her love for Tom and admitted they had discussed marriage and children.

She said: 'We have talked about children. Tommy wants loads. More than I think I can pop out.'

Sarah and Tom started dating last June, just weeks after the singer split from showbiz journalist Joe Mott.

Prior to Joe, Sarah was in a high-profile on/off romance with Mikey Green, from the now-defunct boy band Phixx, who set met on TV talent show Popstars: The Rivals, where Girls Aloud were first formed.

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Love all: Kate Hudson and Lance Armstrong serve up romance on the tennis court

Kate Hudson and Lance Armstrong have taken their tour de love to the tennis court.

The couple were spotted cosying up between volleys during a doubles match in Brentwood, Los Angeles yesterday.

The actress took her eye off the ball long enough to wrap her arms around the seven-time Tour de France champion and shower him with kisses.

After the game, they slipped off for a romantic meal together in Laguna Beach.

The pair first began seeing eachother during a visit to the Bahamas in May, right after she broke up with the troubled actor Owen Wilson.

While they have tried to keep their romance low-key, they have increasingly been seen by each other's side in recent weeks.
They spent Father’s Day together in Brooklyn with Kate's son Ryder, 4, and Lance's children Luke, 8, and twins Isabelle and Grace, 6.

It turned out to be a rather unconventional family affair, with Kate's former husband, rocker Chris Robinson, also joining in the two hour brunch.

Lance, 36, who has turned his attention to anticancer charity campaigning since retiring from cycling, has developed a reputation as a playboy following a string of high profile romances.

After his two-year relationship with the singer Sheryl Crow ended in 2006, he swiftly moved on to fashion designer Tory Burch.

The he was spotted canoodling in New York's Gramercy Park Hotel Rose Bar nightclub with Ashley Olsen, who is 15 years his junior.

During an appearance on US talkshow The View last week, Lance dodged questions about his latest relationship, saying: 'I know you have to ask that question . . . and it's my right not to answer it.'

Kate has been equally as coy, saying: 'It's better to let ... people speculate as much as they want to speculate.'

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Back to the day job: Naomi Campbell returns to the catwalk after claiming she was called a gollywog

Supermodel Naomi Campbell returned to the catwalk yesterday after avoiding a prison sentence for an air rage assault on a British Airways flight.

The 38-year-old model appeared to be back to her best as she sailed down the runway at the Dolce & Gabbana lingerie at Milan Fashion Week.

Campbell had accused BA of racism, claiming cabin crew staff called her a ‘Gollywog’.

She branded the airline ‘disgusting’ – a day after pleading guilty to charges over an air-rage row.

The unrepentant star – now banned for life from BA flights – said: ‘I was called a racial name on that flight and that was part of my reaction.

‘I was called a “Gollywog supermodel”. I don’t think that’s really fair, do you?’

She spoke out before she flew to Italy on another airline.

On Friday, Campbell was ordered to carry out 200 hours’ community work for kicking and spitting at police officers.

She also screamed at the BA pilot when one of her bags went missing during chaos at Heathrow’s new Terminal 5.

But she claimed she had reacted to racist abuse by a member of the airline.

A BA spokeswoman firmly denied any racist remark had been made.

She said: ‘BA does not accept any allegations of racism.

'We have strict policies concerning dignity at work and longstanding training programmes on diversity and inclusion.’

Magistrates at Uxbridge, West London, heard how Campbell screamed and swore at BA captain Miles Sutherland after she was told about her missing bag as she sat in her £5,000 first-class seat waiting for her flight to Los Angeles to take off.

She lashed out when police arrived to remove her.

The model pleaded guilty to two counts of assaulting a police officer, one of disorderly conduct likely to cause harassment and using threatening, abusive words or behaviour.

Magistrates told Campbell that the community service was part of a 12-month order.

They ordered her to pay compensation of £200 each to the two officers she assaulted and £150 to the captain. She was also fined £2,300.

Campbell admitted after the court hearing that she ‘took it too far’.

But she added: ‘As for British Airways, I don’t apologise. I just think they’re disgusting because there are people still waiting for their luggage.’

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Now Britney Spears plans to quit Hollywood for good

Pop star Britney Spears is looking to escape the bright lights of Hollywood in favour of a quiet gated community following her troubled year.

The 'Toxic' singer is said to be ready to quit her Hollywood Hills home and move to an exclusive home on the outskirts of Los Angeles.

She is reportedly 'looking like crazy' for a house in Calabasas in the San Fernando Valley.

Sources say she has set her sights on a gated community that is home to several celebrities including Blink 182 rocker Travis Barker.

The community is so private it is protected by not one but two sets of gates.

Britney has reportedly been spotted at the community gym recently.

But she is not believed to have tied up an official deal for a mansion so far.

A move to Calabasas would bring her closer to ex-husband Kevin Federline's Tarzana home and her sons Sean Preston and Jayden James.

Her current home is was of course the scene of the 26-year-old's well-documented meltdowns.

She was taken from the house by ambulance twice in the space of a month in January.

First police were called after she refused to return her boys to Kevin.

Then she was taken to a hospital psychiatric ward with a police escort as fears about her increasingly erratic behaviour reached crisis point.

The star is currently in Las Vegas with her father and court appointed conservator Jamie, where she has been spotted cooling off in the Palms Place pool.

She is said to be in Sin City to continue work on new material for her upcoming album.

Coincidentally, Britney's ex-husband Kevin is also in Las Vegas to pick up the Father Of The Year award at a ceremony in the Prive nightclub in the Planet Hollywood Resort & Casino.

On Monday, Britney's father Jamie filed court documents seeking money to pay for his assistance of his famous daughter following her hospitalisation in January.

Jamie says he bought her daughter groceries, cooked meals for her, visited her in hospital in February and March and assisted in custody issues between Britney and Kevin.

Meanwhile, Britney has escaped charges over an incident involving her vehicle running over a paparazzo's foot.

An unnamed photographer filed a criminal complaint against Britney after an incident last year, but prosecutors threw out the case, claiming the paparazzo was to blame for his injury.

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Kate demands a botty double ... because (you'll never believe this) she thinks hers is too big

She has a slim, toned figure that most women would die for. But Kate Beckinsale has demanded a body double for her latest film – because she "loathes" her bottom.

Producers have had to hire a £1,000-a-day nude stand-in after Kate, 34, refused to bare her derriere in a shower scene.

In the past the actress, who earns £3.2million for a film, has not been shy of squeezing into sexy clothing and almost showed her bottom in Uncovered in 1994.

But a source on her new film Whiteout said: "Kate has a terrible self-image. She thinks she is fat and she is always complaining how certain outfits make her bottom look big. Of course, the reality is that she has the most amazing body.

"The script called for her character to be filmed nude in a shower, focusing in on her bottom and thighs. Kate insisted on a double being hired. She was quite open on the set about not liking her body and said she particularly loathed her bottom and was not comfortable baring it."

A last-minute call for a double went out on a Hollywood casting website last week for scenes that begin shooting tomorrow.

Silver Pictures advertised for a 5ft 8in brunette, weighing just under 9st. It added: "It’s a shower scene so there is no intimacy."

Kate plays a US marshal tracking a killer in Antarctica in the £25million drama.

The source explained: "Kate just didn’t want to show her bottom, even though everyone on the set was saying how good it looks in jeans. She said she couldn’t face the thought of seeing her butt up on a big screen. She will have the final veto over who stands in for her."

Oxford-educated Kate, whose father, Porridge star Richard Beckinsale, died aged 32 in 1979, suffered anorexia as a teenager and at 15 weighed just 6st.

She has openly discussed her body image issues and recently complained of the unrealistic pressure on women in Hollywood.

She told US Glamour magazine: "I don’t think you can aspire to the Hollywood 'look' and nor can I.

"Everybody is retouched, stretched, lengthened, slimmed and trimmed. I could look at a picture of myself from the past and think, 'Why don’t I look like that now?' It’s because I never have. If I could swap places for a day it would be with someone with gigantic, real breasts. I am fascinated by breasts because my mother didn’t have them either."

She is not the first star to have a bottom double. Keira Knightley had one in Atonement and Sarah Michelle Gellar demanded one for Scooby-Doo.

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