Bollywood star Shilpa Shetty , winner of the Celebrity Big Brother, show has signed a mega-bucks deal to play the lead in a grand Bollywood musical, its producer said today.

Farhath Hussain said in London that the musical, yet to be titled, would be staged in September this year.

Hussain who has earned a name for himself in show business organising mega Bollywood concerts in around the world planned to sign a top leading man, choreographer and music director from the Indian film industry. (more…)

Jade Goody’s plan to have her photograph taken in a sari was ‘flatly rejected’ by a leading British Asian magazine, it was revealed today.

The 25-year-old, who outraged thousands of viewers when she picked on Bollywood star Shilpa Shetty during the latest run of Celebrity Big Brother, had hoped to wear the sari in an interview with Asiana magazine in a bid to recover her reputation, but the magazine vetoed the idea.

Shihab Salim, the magazine’s editor-in-chief, said: ‘The option of doing a photoshoot with her in a sari was flatly rejected. (more…)

Bollywood star Shilpa Shetty has said that she is keen to put the Celebrity Big Brother race row behind her, as she met Queen Elizabeth II and her husband Prince Philip at a Commonwealth Day event here.

Thirty-one-year-old Shilpa Shetty, one of the five speakers on the occasion at the Westminster Abbey last evening, touched on issues such as racism and AIDS.

Shilpa Shetty, winner of Big Brother show, told the congregation that as a child growing up in Mumbai she was acutely aware that “we have to cope with difference on a daily basis - but unless we do, we have no future”.

The Queen in her address stressed the need for mutual respect and understanding. (more…)