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" You gotta love a bit of glitz and glam to start the week off, and this week we weren&amp;#039;t let down by the celebrity fraternity as Hollywood&amp;#039;s A-list honeys donned their designer threads to attend the 65th Emmy Awards in Downtown LA. A typically Californian sweltering day played host to the annual awards bash, with a who&amp;#039;s who of the small screen turning out for their moment of recognition. Of course, no-one does red carpet glamour like Hollywood, and with the arrivals carpet jam-packed with celebs and their flunkies, the &amp;#039;interesting&amp;#039; outfits just kept coming and a coming - let&amp;#039;s be honest, the only reason we tune in to the hours and hours of pre-show droning on - TV &amp;#039;filling&amp;#039; at its finest. And nice to see a decent smattering of Brits muscling in on the action too. Winners in the style stakes included my girl crush Claire Danes, who not only looked stunning post-baby in a cream lace vintage number, but bagged her &amp;#039;Best Actress&amp;#039; award for Homeland. Joined by her Brit hubby Hugh Dancy and newly shaven-haired co-star Damian Lewis and his wife Helen McCrory, the new mum looked every inch the star she is.   A few didn&amp;#039;t get it quite so right. Model Heidi Klum seemed to have channelled the Jessica Rabbit meets Flash Gordon look in her red sequinned floor-length number, Cat Deeley with husband Patrick Kielty flashed a little too much side boob in a frock which frankly did little for her fabulous figure, and Downton star Michelle Dockery made a &amp;#039;boob&amp;#039; boo of her own, choosing to wear a Prada gown that should have worked but alas looked more like a drab two tone &amp;#039;cut and shut&amp;#039; job, which swamped her teeny frame.  Still, with the return of Downton Abbey last weekend pulling in a very respectable 10.5 million pairs of eyeballs, that will no doubt have sweetened the pill of winning just one out of its umpteen Emmy nominations. Like an old friend, the cast of Downton has returned to brighten up our Sunday evenings once again. Shame the same can&amp;#039;t be said for the aforementioned Michelle &amp;#039;Lady Mary&amp;#039; Dockery, whose stony-faced, monosyllabic and downright scary mourning dominated much of the opening episode. Six months on from her husband Matthew&amp;#039;s tragic death, the award-winning series has romped into the roaring &amp;#039;20s but poor Mary is struggling to move forwards.  All the old characters (those who haven&amp;#039;t been killed off!) are back with the addition of a few newbies to spice things up, with fireworks promised along the way. Finally, Sundays are worth staying in for again - welcome back Downton.  Three weeks on from the launch show, the Strictly teams are back on the box to showcase their foot-shuffling skills. Brucie&amp;#039;s back, corny one-liners to boot (but I won&amp;#039;t have anyone run the old boy down - legend!), and the dazzling dancing duos are fake tanned, spandexed up and raring to go! Soap star front-runners Ashley Taylor Dawson and Natalie Gumede have clearly been working their socks off between filming commitments, with a pecs-exposed, sweating Ashley flinging partner Ola Jordan around like a real-life Barbie and Ken. Meanwhile, a stunning Natalie towered over her partner Artem Chigvinsev as she cha cha&amp;#039;d her way to the top of the leader board.  My personal favourites, though, have to be newcomer pro dancer Kevin Clifton (the smiliest bloke ever!) and BBC Breakfast presenter Susana Reid. Hopping, skipping and jiving around like two Duracell bunnies, these two defined the word &amp;#039;energy&amp;#039; with the mum-of-three even executing a pants-revealing cartwheel landing on a sofa and &amp;#039;linking&amp;#039; back to host Bruce at the end! Phew. Susanna, for sheer gusto alone, in the words of Brucie himself - you&amp;#039;re my favourite.   And it&amp;#039;s congratulations to music mogul Simon Cowell, who has this week hinted in an interview that a baby boy is on the way when his girlfriend Lauren Silverman gives birth in the new year. With his insistence that an English accent is a must for his &amp;#039;heir&amp;#039;, it&amp;#039;ll be interesting to see how and where Papa Cowell will be bringing up the tot. At least he&amp;#039;ll have a plethora of babysitters on hand, not least from his cash cow supergroup One Direction, who this week have signed a new whopping \u00C2\u00A350 million three-year deal to continue working with their X Factor daddy. Things are looking better than ever for the lads, and with a potential \u00C2\u00A310 million pay packet each, it looks like Perrie Edwards won&amp;#039;t have to hold back on the canap\u00C3\u00A9 ordering at her forthcoming wedding to Zayn Malik. Well done, chaps.   And finally a huge thank you to celebrity hot spot, the five-star Imagine Spa in Thames Valley, London. After a hugely busy week prancing about on the telly, a bit of &amp;#039;me time&amp;#039; was much needed. What really impressed me about this place was unlike other spas you don&amp;#039;t have to book your treatments in advance, you can just choose what you want on the day and the fabulous therapists just make it happen - that&amp;#039;s my kinda place. Thanks to Hayley and the team for looking after us so perfectly; the &amp;#039;raindrop massage&amp;#039; was just bliss. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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