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We're sure Robbie still has some shagging left in him….ACTORS DAUGHTER'S PORN AMBITIONS: Actor Lawrence Fishburne ('The Matrix') is kicking himself about his parenting skills after daughter Montana announced that she has 'always wanted to be a porn star.' Montana Fishburne celebrated her 18th birthday by entering the adult entertainment industry. Montana moved out of the family home to pursue her 'dream career' and did not tell her father about her aspirations until after the adult flick was already filmed. "Being in an adult film is not a big deal to me," Montana Fishburne, 18, told People Magazine. "It's something I always wanted to do. I have always been comfortable in my body and with my sexuality." And we thought Lindsay Lohan's parents had it tough….LILY ALLEN PREGNANT: Lily Allen has a new reason to smile - she's going to become a mum. Lily, 25, is pregnant to her boyfriend of one year, builder Sam Cooper. The news is especially good for the singer who suffered a miscarriage during her first pregnancy 2 ½ years ago. Lily is said to be happier than ever after she decided to stop dating celebrities and start seeing 'more down-to-earth blokes' - it certainly seems to have paid off! OK but that's nine months off Jager bombs, Lily….LOSER TRAINER'S LETHAL DIET PRODUCT: Jillian Michaels, the hardcore trainer from the Biggest Loser, is being slapped with a multi-million dollar lawsuit over her brand of detox supplement that allegedly 'might kill you.' An unnamed woman filed the lawsuit against Michaels claiming that her 'Triple Process Total Body Detox & Cleanse' diet supplement contains a 'potentially lethal combination of toxic ingredients.' According to the lawsuit, these ingredients include: Irish Moss Powder which "causes gastrointestinal ulcers" and is "so toxic that it is the gel commonly applied to aircraft wings to dissolve ice"; Bearberry - "known to cause nausea and vomiting"; Yarrow - "a toxic lawn weed that causes dermatitis"; and Chinese Rhubarb, "a harsh laxative and dangerous diuretic that can cause severe dehydration and irreversible liver damage." Stick to killing people in the gym, Jillian….JUSTIN BIEBER ON CSI: He can't sing, so who on earth thought he could act? For some reason, pretty-boy Justin Bieber has been given a guest role on crime show 'CSI' where he plays a foster kid in trouble with the law. It's a very strange casting indeed, since of course Bieber looks much more like a choir boy whose worst crime was to steal a stick of Hubba Bubba than someone 'CSI' would be investigating. Anyway, since when do 14-year-old girls even watch 'CSI'? Please stick to Disney, Justin….BRITNEY WON'T APPEAR ON GLEE: The 'Glee' stars will soon be rolling out an episode dedicated entirely to the music of Britney Spears but it has been confirmed that Spears herself will not be appearing on the show. Recently, Brit's pash buddy Madonna also declined to appear on her own 'Glee' episode. 'Glee' star Lea Michele was recently photographed filming the gym scene from 'Hit me baby one more time.' Should be a good episode, even without Britney….KIM KARDASHIAN IS SHALLOW: Geeks, nerds and fatties - you may as well give up on getting a date with Kim Kardashian. Kim has announced, "I only date sexy guys. As long as you're in shape and have a good body, I'm interested," the curvaceous reality star says. "I love to work out so I think that's why I have dated athletes in the past. I just like that look in a guy." Kim's sister Chloe is married to a star basketballer too - so you can give up on bedding one of the sisters also. Paris Hilton's BFF shallow? 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MORE POPULAR PENGUINS ARE COMING

Penguin Books Australia has announced there are 50 more titles coming in the "Popular Penguins" series. The new books will be available in bookstores from July 2009 and include iconic titles such as 'A Room of One's Own', 'The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes', 'Brideshead Revisited', 'Dracula', 'Fever Pitch', 'Madame Bovary', 'One Hundred Years of Solitude', 'Persuasion', 'The War of the Worlds' and 'Wuthering Heights'.

There will also be 13 Australian titles, including work from some of our best known and loved writers such as Nick Cave, Marcus Clarke, Timothy Conigrave, Ruth Cracknell, Robert Drewe, Helen Garner, Sonya Hartnett, Henry Handel Richardson, Donald Horne, Elizabeth Jolley, Joan Lindsay, Ruth Park and Randolph Stow.

"With a mixture of fiction and non-fiction and a historical span that begins with Shakespeare and finishes at the end of the 20th Century, there's something here for every reader", according to Penguin's Sales Director Peter Blake.

"Popular Penguins" were originally developed to appeal to fans of the Penguin Classics series and to bring new readers to some of the greatest literature ever written. In keeping with the 1935 vision of founding publisher Allen Lane, the "Popular Penguins" deliver "intelligent books for a vast reading public" at an affordable price for everybody. Since their initial publication in September 2008, the series has sold over 300,000 copies.

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THE FIFTY NEW POPULAR PENGUINS:

9780141044880 … A Room of One's Own by Virginia Woolf
9780141045610 … And the Ass Saw the Angel by Nick Cave
9780141045184 … The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
9780141045160 … The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle
9780141045573 … The Age of Reason by Jean-Paul Sartre
9780141045276 … The Art of War by Sun Tzu
9780143180241 … The Bodysurfers by Robert Drewe
9780141045627 … Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh
9780141045399 … Cannery Row by John Steinbeck
9780141045429 … Casino Royale by Ian Fleming
9780141045443 … Cat's Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut
9780141045436 … The Chrysalids by John Whyndham
9780141045481 … Cold Comfort Farm by Stella Gibbons
9780141045641 … A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole
9780141045221 … Dracula by Bram Stoker
9780141045559 … Eva Luna by Isabel Allende
9780141045597 … Farewell My Lovely by Raymond Chandler
9780141045498 … Fever Pitch by Nick Hornby
9780143202691 … For the Term of his Natural Life by Marcus Clarke
9780141045115 … Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
9780143202707 … The Getting of Wisdom by Henry Handel Richardson
9780141045542 … Goodbye to all That by Robert Graves
9780143202752 … The Harp in the South by Ruth Park
9780141045108 … The Haunted Hotel by Wilkie Collins
9780141045566 … Hell's Angels by Hunter S Thompson
9780143202820 … Holding the Man by Timothy Conigrave
9780141045474 … How I Live Now by Meg Rosoff
9780143202738 … Journey From Venice by Ruth Cracknell
9780141045405 … Junky by William S Burroughs
9780143202813 … The Lucky Country by Donald Horne
9780141045153 … Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
9780141045177 … The Mayor of Casterbridge by Thomas Hardy
9780143202745 … The Merry-Go-Round in the Sea by Randolph Stow
9780143202714 … Monkey Grip by Helen Garner
9780143202615 … Of A Boy by Sonya Hartnett
9780141045351 … One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
9780141045634 … One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
9780141045146 … Persuasion by Jane Austen
9780143202721 … Picnic at Hanging Rock by Joan Lindsay
9780141045269 … The Pigeon by Patrick Suskind
9780141045511 … The Plague by Albert Camus
9780141045528 … Regeneration by Pat Barker
9780141045382 … Shakespeare's Sonnets by William Shakespeare
9780141045535 … Steppenwolf by Hermann Hesse
9780141045375 … Summer Crossing by Truman Capote
9780141045214 … Tender is the Night by F Scott Fitzgerald
9780141045412 … The War of the Worlds by H G Wells
9780143202769 … The Well by Elizabeth Jolley
9780141045603 … The Witches of Eastwick by John Updike
9780141045207 … Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte

Publication date: 29 June 2009…RRP $9.95 each.

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