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It pains me to take Elizabeth Edwards to task for anything. She is suffering from terminal cancer and from assertions that her cheating husband fathered a child with a party girl. So my first instinct is to totally lay off. The only rap against her, it seems, is that she knew of an affair after John Edwards announced his presidential run and that she kept it secret. May I disagree? The ''cover-up'' was the good part. Some things are best left private. Elizabeth's book and Oprah outpouring drag the public under the couple's covers -- disclosure with no socially redeeming...

BRITNEY Spears and Kevin Federline reportedly fear a steamy home video is about to be made public. A member of the singer’s entourage is believed to have copied one of the couple’s personal video tapes – allegedly recorded while Britney was still expecting baby son Sean Preston - and is threatening to release it. A source told America’s US Weekly magazine: "He has threatened to release raunchy footage of the two taken before Spears looked pregnant.”

Seven per cent of Norwegian men and six per cent of women wear the same pair of undies for at least a whole week before changing to a fresh pair, according to a new poll. Norwegians with a high level of education change their underwear less often than those with a lower level of schooling, the survey of 1000 Norwegians, conducted by polling institute ACNielsen, showed. However, 65 per cent of those questioned say they pull on a fresh pair once a day, while 4 per cent say they change twice a day. Those least likely to change their knickers...