Caught & Social: Is this the real Keira Knightley?

Just a short time after finishing the play The Children’s Hour in London, Keira Knightley is back on the move. Yesterday she was giving interviews in New York about her new film, Last Night, revealing that director Massy Tadjedin had asked her to play herself in the movie. “It was terrifying,”she told the Today show. “That’s the last thing that any actor wants to hear … She was just like, ‘do that thing that you do’ and I was like, ‘No, please don’t make me do that’ but I did it.”In other tough news for Knightley, she has dropped to No 10 on the Sunday Times UK’s wealthiest under-30 list, worth a mere £30m.

Scene & heard

Twilight actor and magnet for screaming girls Robert Pattinson has revealed he has shelved plans for a music career until he’s sad again. “I have to be incredibly depressed to write songs and I’m not,”he tells this month’s Elle chirpily (we presume). “What makes me want to write songs is when I wake up crying. I would have no idea why I was crying, but it made me sad for myself.”

Also not making music is Angelina Jolie. The actress, right, has revealed that doing the voiceover for Kung Fu Panda has turned her off her own voice. “You know: when you hear your own voice, you can find it boring and uninteresting,” she tells Us magazine. “Suddenly, you get very shy that your voice is not enough, because I’m not musical and I don’t know my voice.”

An email arrives at C&S making us wonder whether we should be nicer to stars. “Celebrity could itself be considered a mental illness,” says mental health campaigner Robert Ashton. “Delusions of grandeur and a paranoia that prompts people to wear sunglasses at night.” But what’s the cue, doc?

Who’s for fish & Chipmunk?

When Chipmunk signed up to perform at Sainsbury’s Super Saturday – a concert in London later this year in support of next year’s Paralympics – we wonder if he knew he would end up smelling of fish. But the rapper did reveal he once turned down a job at his local store. “I was 16. My brother was working in Sainsbury’s. I had good grades so my CV was nice. I handed my CV in and they offered me a job in the fish department,”he said. “I just remember when we used to go into Sainsbury’s, we always walked past the fish area and thought… I don’t want to wear that hat!”And as you can see from the picture, Chipmunk is something of a hat connoisseur.

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“I’d been putting it off partly because I was too busy and also because it was too difficult trying to remember things” John Cleese on writing his forthcoming autobiography The Maintenance Memoirs

Garnering the love of big cricket fans

To Leicester Square for the premiere of Fire in Babylon, a documentary about the West Indian cricket team of the 1970s and 1980s. Walking up the red carpet to the sound of a steel band were celebrity cricket fans Hugh Grant and David Frost, players including Kevin Pietersen, and two of the stars of the film, Joel Garner and Michael Holding, to see a documentary as well-pitched and entertaining as the old Windies bowling attack. The one absentee was former captain Sir Viv Richards, who pulled out with a back injury. Maybe he was worried he would have to show off some of his old shots.

‘The X Factor’ exported to US

Simon Cowell did his bit for cultural exchange as he launched The X Factor in the US. It’s OK, America, you can thank us later. Joining him was fellow judge Cheryl Cole, who appeared to be wearing someone else’s hair as well as her own. In other related news, Take That’s Gary Barlow has signed up to replace Cowell as a a judge on the UK version of the show.

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