On the global Taff Trail

On the global Taff Trail

By Tom Bourton BBC News Online

Tom Jones is starting a world tour

Weather presenter Sian Lloyd has been installed as the favourite to win the second series of I'm a Celebrity...Get me Out of Here by a south Wales bookmaker.

Ms Lloyd, who is dating the leader of the Welsh Liberal Democrats Lembit Opik, has been quoted at 4/1 by Pontypridd-based Jack Brown.

Other stars on the show include cricketer Phil Tufnell, ballet dancer Wayne Sleep, TV chef Anthony Worrall-Thompson and footballer-turned-Barry Town chairman John Fashanu.

The contestants fly out to Australia for the survival challenge next week.

Meanwhile, Tom Jones is kicking off a series of six Welsh gigs over the Easter weekend.

The 62-year-old superstar will be enjoying the green, green grass of home with concerts at the Cardiff International Arena on 18, 19 and 20 April.

Could it be wedding bells for Charlotte?

He will then return to the same venue on 6,7 and 8 May before jetting off for a gruelling world tour for most of the year.

Jones' former co-collaborator Cerys Matthews could be pregnant, according to the Sun, which says she is "very happy".

One thing that is for sure is that she will be on the road this year, starting with a concert at Cardiff's St David's Hall on 14 June.

Matthews, who married producer Seth Riddle earlier this year in Pembrokeshire, will be touring with her new solo album Cockahoop, which is due out on 19 May.

The ex-Catatonia singer wrote five of the tracks on the album, which was recorded in Nashville, Tennessee.

Other stops on her UK trip include Brighton, London, Cambridge and Manchester.

Oscar star

Elsewhere, Charlotte Church could be walking down the aisle any day now - if the tabloids are to be believed.

It it the latest twist in the teenage singer's well-publicised relationship with DJ boyfriend Steven Johnson.

However, the reports have been flatly denied by Charlotte's mother Maria.

Another star who cannot escape the limelight is Oscar-winner Catherine Zeta Jones.

The Douglases are expecting their second child

This week it emerged that she and husband Michael Douglas have hired a child behaviour expert to stop her son Dylan becoming jealous of the couple's new-born.

The expert has apparently advised the pregnant star to buy Dylan a present from the new baby.

CZJ will no doubt hope that her children become as close as she is to her brother David.

According to Variety, David - who runs her production company Milkwood - will be co-producing her new movie, based on the stage play Getting and Spending.

The project means she certainly will not be bored, after her Oscar-winning performance in Chicago seems to have put her at the top of directors' wanted lists.

The one-time Darling Buds of May favouite could be teaming up with Steven Spielberg in the near future!