Actress Brittany Murphy died of pneumonia, a Los Angeles coroner has ruled.

The 21 year old passed away on December 20th 2009. Precription drugs and iron deficient anaemia have been listed as secondary factors involved in the death. Further details on the exact drugs involved are expected to be released in the coming weeks.

Her husband, Simon Monjack, and mother, Sharon Murphy have both denied that she had been abusing presciption drugs, although they have said that Brittany had been suffered from flu-like symptoms in the days leading up to her death.

The website that broke the news of the coroners report, TMZ, wrote; ‘L.A. County Coroner officials believe Brittany’s condition was ‘treatable’ but no one took her to the hospital in time, As for the multiple drugs found in her system, we’re told they were both prescription, including medicine for cramps, and over-the-counter medications, including cough syrup.
Our sources say the drugs “pushed her over the line” but the underlying problems were the pneumonia and anaemia.’

In other words, it seems Brittany’s death could have been prevented.

We were expecting a huge summer wedding, but it appears Katie Price and her CBB winning boyfriend, Alex Reid, couldn’t wait that long!

The couple tied the knot in Las Vegas on Tuesday, with only friends, family and her ITV2 camera crew present. The ceremony took place at the marriage chapel at the Wynn Hotel at 4pm local time. They then continued the party jumping from strip club to strip club all down the Las Vegas strip.

Alex and Katie after the wedding

A statement released by their agent confirmed: ‘Katie and Alex are delighted to announce that they got married in a private, simple ceremony at 4pm (PST) on February 2nd in Las Vegas. Their decision to marry has not been made with any pre-conceived commercial plan or media deal in place, and their reason for getting married is purely down to their love for each other.’

The newlyweds then release a statement saying: ‘We are very much in love and look forward to the future together. We can’t wait to get back and celebrate our marriage with our friends and family who we know fully support our wishes.’

The couple have said in an exclusive interview with OK! this week, ‘This year I will marry Alex and I’m going to have his kids, I wish I’d met Alex six years ago. He’s perfect in every way.’ Alex agreeded, adding that he would like an additional 2 or 3 kids.

Their marriage comes just 2 months after Katie Price humiliated Alex Reid on live TV last year, after I’m a celebrity! But Alex has recently won over the public during his stint in the Celeb Big Brother house.

Unfortunatley for Katie’s ex husband, Peter Andre, he had several interviews lined up on the day the news broke. He was out and about promoting his new Love Songs album and was quizzed several times during the day, at one point breaking down in tears as he was asked about how he’d feel about Reid adopting his kids. He eventually said, ‘I’d rather just stop this if that’s alright.’ and left the interview.

Awards season continues with the Oscar nominations…

Today, the nominations were announced, with James Camerons super flick Avatar and Iraq war hit The Hurt Locker leading the way, each with 9 nominations.

The nominations were revealed today in LA by actress Anne Hathaway and Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences President Tom Sherak.

Apart from the two films mentioned above, others to look out for are Up in the Air and Inglorious Basterds.

Colin Firth earnt his first ever oscar nomination for his performance as a gay university professor living in Sixties America. Although he will face stiff competition from Morgan Freeman (Invictus) and George Clooney (Up In The Air), Jeff Bridges (Crazy Heart) and Jeremy Renner (The Hurt Locker).

For the first time in 66 years, the Oscar category for best picture will include 10 films. The list inlcudes Avatar and The Hurt Locker as well as The Blind Side, District 9, An Education, Inglourious Basterds, Precious, A Serious Man, Up and Up In The Air.

This year the awards are also getting personal as James Cameron is directly up against his ex-wife Katherine Bigelow for their films Avatar and The Hurt Locker repectively. Both films have nominations in Best Picture and Best Director categories.

This years show will be presented by Steve Martin and Alec Baldwin, both of whom have been spotted recently in It’s Complicated; and will take place on March 7 in a ceremony televised from Hollywood’s Kodak Theatre. It is the 82nd Oscar Ceremony.

Quick Summary of Numbers of Nominations
9 - Avatar, The Hurt Locker
8 - Inglourious Basterds
6 - Precious, Up In the Air
5 - Up
4 - District 9, Nine, Star Trek
3 - An Education, Crazy Heart, The Princess and the Frog, The Young Victoria

It was a good night for the ladies at last night Grammy awards.

The biggest date in America’s music calender was dominated by Beyonce who won 6 awards, including Song Of The Year, Best Female Pop Vocal Performance, Best Female R&B Vocal Performance, Best Traditional R&B Vocal Performance, Best R&B Song, and Best Contemporary R&B Album. The star was then pipped to the post by husband Jay-Z who won best the best Rap/Sung awards for Run this town, a collaberation with Rihanna and Kanye West.

‘This has been such an amazing night for me,’ she said. I’d like to thank my family including my husband, I love you,’ Beyonce said.

She was also beaten in the award for album of the year, which was won by Taylor Swift for Fearless. Taylor became the youngest person to ever win the award, beting Alanis Morissette who was 21 when she scooped the award in 1996. She was also the first country singer to ever win. She said, ‘Wow, thank you so much! I hope you know how much this means to me.’ She took home four awards in total, the others being best country album, and a pair of awards for her song White Horse - female country vocal performance and best country song.

Beyonce performs If I were a boy

Lady GaGa also scooped up two awards, for best dance/electronic album and her 2nd single Poker Face took best dance recording.

Apart from the awards, there were killer performances from Pink, Beyonce and Lady GaGa who performed a stunning duet with Sir Elton John.

The night also featured a tribute to King of Pop Michael Jackson. Carrie Underwood, Celine Dion, Jennifer Hudson, Smokey Robinson and Usher performed, mixing their voices with Michael Jackson’s to his 1996 hit Earth Song. There was also a 3D tribute and Jackson’s children Paris (11) and Prince Michael (12) accepted his lifetime achievement award.

Other notable winners were the Kings of Leon, winning best rock song for Use Somebody and the Black Eyed Peas who won an award for thier summer smash, I’ve got a feeling and their album, The E.N.D.

The night was split into two shows, the main televised sho featuring the performances and main awards, with a smaller ceremony earlier in the day.

The key awards are listed below:

BEST NEW ARTIST - Zac Brown Band
BEST FEMALE POP VOCAL PERFORMANCE - Halo - Beyoncé
BEST MALE POP VOCAL PERFORMANCE - If You Don’t Know Me By Now - Seal
BEST POP PERFORMANCE BY A DUO OR GROUP WITH VOCALS - I Gotta Feeling - The Black Eyed Peas
BEST POP VOCAL ALBUM - The E.N.D. - The Black Eyed Peas
BEST DANCE RECORDING - Poker Face - Lady Gaga
BEST TRADITIONAL POP VOCAL ALBUM - Michael Buble Meets Madison Square Garden - Michael Buble
BEST SOLO ROCK VOCAL PERFORMANCE - Working On A Dream - Bruce Springsteen
BEST ROCK ALBUM - 21st Century Breakdown - Green Day
BEST RAP SONG - Run This Town - Jeff Bhasker, Shawn Carter, Robyn Fenty, Kanye West & Ernest Wilson, songwriters (Jay-Z, Rihanna & Kanye West)
BEST FEMALE COUNTRY VOCAL PERFORMANCE- White Horse - Taylor Swift
BEST MALE COUNTRY VOCAL PERFORMANCE - Sweet Thing - Keith Urban

Alex Reid, the cagefighting cross-dresser boyfriend of Katie Price has been crowned winner of the latest series of Celebrity Big Brother.

He beat ex-boyband member Dane Bowers, an ex of Katie Price, by securing a massive 65% of the votes. Footballer turned actor came third, with DJ Jonas AKA Basehunter in fourth.

Reid had initially been booed when he entered the house but was cheered when he left the house. In fact, boo’s only emerged when host Davina McCall turned the conversation to his girlfriend Katie Price.

Alex said: ‘Come on guys, don’t do that. I’m sorry guys… I’m not sorry, I really love Katie Price.’

He was clearly shocked to have won, ‘I’m very overwhelmed. What an amazing, fantastic start to a new year. Vinnie has been very inspirational to me. He’s transitioned from athletic to actor, which is what I want to do. I’m not getting booed now. That’s amazing… I’m speechless. My whole agenda in here was to be myself.’

Second place Dane and Alex developed a close friendship in the house, despite rumours of a New Years eve fight which took place just 3 days before the series began. Dane said, ‘I’m very, very happy that Alex won. The best line I’ve ever heard about him is he’s a lovable prat. He’s his own man. He’s a gentleman. The first week I thought he’s a Doris. But he’s OK. He’s a good lad.’ and Alex said ‘I was surprised by what a cool dude he is. I’m really looking forward to seeing more of Dane.’