Entertainment 28-01-2005 who: Sean `P Diddy` Combs what: Rumoured to be buying one of Andrew Lloyd Webber`s theatres where: LONDON when: This week snippet: A report in Monday`s Times reckons that Combs, who heads up a "£250 million clothes and music empire" is interested in purchasing either the Lyric, Duchess, Apollo or Garrick. Reporter Adam Sherwin says the rap star has recently "discovered a love for the smell of greasepaint" but speculates that in his hands the theatre is more likely to wind up as an "upmarket nightclub". In other music news, The Sun says former Libertines co-founder Pete Doherty has had Kate Moss`s initial tattooed on his arm and has vowed to give up drugs for her; The Financial Times reports the latest quarterly figures from Radio Joint Audience Research (RAJAR), which shows that "easy listening" is rapidly increasing in popularity; and The Times says a fan of The Charlatans infected about 500 people with winter vomitting disease when he or she was sick on the steps of Aberdeen`s Music Hall last May. [... more]

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