Entertainment 28-01-2005 who: Happy Mondays sidekick Bez what: Wins £50,000 Celebrity Big Brother final where: The Big Brother house, LONDON when: Sunday night snippet: "I had had these mad plans what I was going to do," he says, quoted in the BBC responding to rumours that he had planned to smuggle drugs into the house, "but at the end of the day I couldn`t do it because this money I`ve got now means so much to me." The Mirror have been serialising excerpts from his life story, Freaky Dancin`. In other telly news, the BBC says Samuel L Jackson and Ben Stiller will guest star in Ricky Gervais`s forthcoming sitcom, Extras; The Times reports that Richard McCourt and Dominic Wood - better known as Saturday morning TV stars Dick and Dom - are reviving the popular 1970s teatime quiz game Ask The Family; The Mirror says that Pop Idol judge Simon Cowell has been "involved in a foul-mouthed bust-up with TV judge Paula Abdul"; The Guardian reports that veteran QPR star Rodney Marsh has been sacked by Sky Sports for cracking an off-colour joke; the BBC says Google has launched a new service that allows people to search the transcripts of TV programmes; The Sun says Jerry Springer has joined the bandwagon of Christians protesting against the comedy opera which bears his name; The Mirror says Sanjeev Bhaskar and Meera Syal - stars of The Kumars at Number 42 - have secretly married; and finally, the BBC pays tribute to former US talk show host, Johnny Carson, who has died from emphysema at the age of 79. [... more]

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