Stacey Solomon edits GOSS

Forgot to say last week Stacey Solomon guest edited the GOSS column.
Most celebrities who do guest edits come into the office for an hour or so chatting about the day's news.
We flick through the paparazzi pictures, do a quick interview and have a few photos sitting on the Goss reporter desks.
However Stacey Solomon isn't like most celebrities.
She didn't come into GOSS HQ on the Thames, or even get a sniff of the GOSS desk.
No.
Instead she requested we meet her at a hairdressing salon just off Regents Street to conduct the guest edit, as she wanted to have her hair dyed and put in some new extensions.

We (myself and Sonja) arrived at 12pm, Stacey had already been there for 1 1/2 hours.
We're told she'll be at least seven hours. SEVEN HOURS.
Is she attaching the extensions strand by strand?
We had a quick chat with her, while she was wearing a plastic shower cap covered in cotton wool.
She also had brown hair dye all over her ears and even smothered over her eyebrows!
Hilarious.
Not many, infact probably no other celeb would let you seem them with dye all over their hair, let alone a naff plastic hat and eyebrows caked in brown goo, brushed the wrong way across your face.
God bless the Essex-ness of Stacey.

Anyway, we did the interview and went off to a coffee shop to type it up ready for print that evening.
We arrived back at the salon at 6pm - that's 7 1/2 hours after she arrived - and Stacey's hair was still as short, only three extensions have been added.
To cut a long and boring story short, she eventually walked out the salon at 10pm...
Her hair dying and extension took a whopping 11 1/2 hours.

Luckily for us Miss Solomon agreed to pose for a column shot with just three extensions in her barnet.
She just tied it all up in a bun.
There was no chance I was hanging around until 10pm.

Sonja, Stacey Solomon and moi

Stacey with her half done hair, fair play to her for not acting like a diva

She revealed to us that ...
She'd love to go cave out a Hollywood career.
Her debut album will be out this December and will be a mix of Eva Cassidy and Adele.
She would pose naked for PETA but not for Playboy
She would never date Olly Murs and never has
Dannii Minogue is the nicest person in showbiz and still calls her all the time
She loves getting drunk and silly at festivals, camping in the mud
She plays golf
She's doing a Triatholon
She's nothing like the rich kids on The Only Way Is Essex
She's never go back into the jungle as it was 'too much like hard work'

A list shoulder rubbing

Last week I was invited to the UK red carpet premiere of Morning Glory staring Rachel McAdams and ageing hunk Harrison Ford.

I've been a fan of Rachel ever since I adopted a lady crush on her in Wedding Crashers.

And Harrison, well it's Harrison bloody Ford, what's not to love?

I met Harrison for the first time and despite being a lot thinner than I expected, and greyer, he still oozed coolness.

The full-time poser leant seductively against the film's promo board with one foot bent against the wall a'la The Fonz. He's undoubtedly aware that, despite being 68, he's still got it.

I didn't get to meet Rachel, but as she stood at the front of the theatre welcoming everyone to the film I'm sure she looked at me and winked. The lady crush is obviously mutual.

(Disclaimer: Some of the above isn't true... mainly just the winking bit.)

Anyway, I bumped in Kerry Katona and Peter Andre at the premiere; the pair walked the red carpet, chatted to press, posed for pap shots and gave me a big hug. Who knows which they preferred more.

I also chewed the fat with Essex hyper-bomb Stacey Solomon. She wants to pull the rug under Konnie Huq's feet saying "I enjoyed presenting on the X Factor. It was wicked! I am in my element when I'm doing presenting, I wouldn't say no if they offered me to do the Xtra Factor."

Yep, I doubt Konnie would be tickled pink to hear that.

The film was good, by the way. Not brilliant, not rubbish, just good.

Go and see it if a.) You work in morning telly and need some inspiration or b.) You're bored and have a fiver to burn.

In other news I went over to Channel Five today (my boss Richard Desmond owns the channel) to sit in on Live From Studio 5. The crew over there are cool and the office makes ours look like a hostel. Not that I'm complaining ( I clearly am) but they had big sofas with kitsch cushions and wall paper. Thorton's toffee lying around, a drinks fridge full of nice looking beverages and posh black wine glasses. I felt like I was on a fully inclusive holiday in sunny Osterley.

The show went well, Boyzone's Shane Lynch was on (fiiiit) and that guy from Diversity (looks older than 22). Presenter Kate Walsh came over to say hi. She's really pretty, TV doesn't do her justice. She looked Hollywood glam with bouncy hair and flawless skin. But she's tiny, I mean, properly LA skinny. She'd eat a solitary mung bean and be full.

I was surprised. That is all.