Ever wonder why Courteney Cox Arquette and Jennifer Aniston are such firm friends? Aside from the ten years spent working together on a hit sitcom, that is. Turns out they're both incredibly self-obsessed as well. Can you imagine their conversations?

"Enough about you, let's talk about me."

Courteney Cox reveals how much she really thinks about her looks in the new issue of US Marie Claire, where she expressed both surprise and disappointment at getting older in Los Angeles.

The 44-year-old says it bothers her that young guys aren't checking her out when she's our and about - despite being married for almost a decade to David Arquette.

"I'm kind of like, ‘Whoa! If I were single that person wouldn't want to hang out with me."

She adds: "I find myself going, ‘Wow, I can't believe I'm not the youngest one anymore. I can't believe that guy over there wouldn't be attracted," she told the mag.

Cox Arquette also admits to working out five days a week, being a self-confessed ‘product whore,' and ‘being obsessed with her looks.'

Dear Courteney, I have a first aid remedy for this which will both effective and easy to follow. First, apply an ice pack to reduce the size of that swollen head of yours. Second, eat a burger, drink a margarita, and chill the hell out. Third, apologise to that husband of yours for being desperate for young bucks to perv at you. What's he, chopped liver?

Sharon O calls it how she sees it

I love Sharon Osbourne. I don't know how she puts up with being married to a doddery old rock star, and I'm so not a fan of small dogs, but I love her regardless. She's loud, she's ballsy, and she's never been afraid to call it how it is.

This week Sharon appeared on Chelsea Handler's E! talk show and ended up talking about Hollywood's penchant for a bit of nip and tuck. Or, more specifically, the trend for getting work done and then denying it. A bit like Ashlee Simpson tried to do when her nose completely changed shape a couple of years ago.

Sharon, who's had everything from lipo, a tummy tuck, a boob job to having a gastric band fitted, has always been open about her cosmetic helping hand. I mean, if it's apparent, you've really got no choice except to ‘fess up.

Sharon didn't mince any words when it came to the Hollywood heavyweights who are less than honest about the work they've had done.

"Oh my God! Those liars! I hate them! Those bitches!

"They are like ‘I didn't do anything.' Meanwhile, their eyebrows are here. Lying bitches!"

She saved a special shout out for a certain flame-haired Aussie actress who's started looking more waxy than her figurine at Madame Tussaud's as of late.

"Nicole Kidman's forehead looks like a f**king flat screen TV!" she exclaimed.

For the record, Kidman sticks to the story that her creaseless forehead, stiff skin and dramatically arched eyebrows are entirely natural.

"To be honest, I am completely natural," the actress told Marie Claire magazine last year. "I have nothing in my face or anything. I wear sunscreen, and I don't smoke. I take care of myself. And I'm very proud to say that."

Is there anything this man can't do?

Just when you thought he couldn't get any more pleased with himself, graying humanitarian, wannabe architect and father of six Brad Pitt has added another string to his bow - that of photographer for a glossy international magazine.

You've no doubt seen the famous photo that made the rounds online last week, taken by Brad, of Angelina Jolie breastfeeding one of the couple's twins on the front cover of W magazine.

Now you can see all Pitt's snaps the magazine is running in its November issue on its website, www.wmagazine.com. They depict a week at the family's rented mansion in the south of France and accompany an interview with Angelina which took place shortly after the birth of twins Knox and Vivienne.

But the old point-and-shoot method wouldn't do for Brad and the Jolie-Pitt tribe, oh no! They've probably discovered that the combined effect of their gorgeousness melts regular cameras and dissolves rolls of film or something. Brad decreed that he would only shoot his family on a specific kind of film which hasn't been in production for four years.

After mag staffers couriered him 40 rolls to France, he called back several days later and said he needed more. After a frantic search 30 more rolls were sent from Israel to Provence. Need some practice with the camera, Brad? Seventy rolls of film implies a lot of thumb-in-front-of-the-lens shots.

If that wasn't enough, he then wanted to use a specialised kind of film popular in World War II, which, surprise of surprises, wasn't available. A W staffer had to suggest an alternative and hand deliver to Bradley in France.

And the results? The eight or nine photos you can see are, unshockingly, gorgeous. But he is taking pictures of Angelina Jolie, people. It's not like he's got to make Quasimodo look good.

As for the article Angie reveals within that she's helped Maddox start a knife collection (as her own mother did for her at 11), and that Zahara and Pax like to slow dance together, "imitating Princess Aurora and Prince Phillip from Disney's Sleeping Beauty."

The feature's author describes them as an ‘unusually well-equipped and glamorous gypsy tribe.' Yes, just like gypsies. Without the smell of mothballs, the pet monkey, the hexes and the pick pocketing. Although I wouldn't put that past Zahara. Girl works hard for the money.

A pair of bruisers

Holly Madison and Kendra Wilkinson may not have let the door of the Playboy mansion hit their perky asses on the way out - but they may be better off out of there. Hef's rumoured new girlfriends, 19-year-old twins Kristina and Karissa Shannon, who now live at the mansion with the 82-year-old perv, I mean, man, have rather a dodgy past.

The twins were both arrested for felony aggravated battery at a Florida house party back in January. The pair beat down a co-worker at Wing House (an ‘upmarket' version of Hooters, according to what I've read) with a beer bottle, leaving her with a cut scalp and concussion. They both escaped relatively lightly with a fine and probation.

But wait, there's more! Two months before the beer bottle beats Karissa was arrested for kicking her sister in the face.

I don't mind if they give Hef a whack or two, but they better leave Mary out of it.

A new kind of sugar high

Now, if you've ever struggled for a novel way to take class-A drugs, this item could be for you. The pipe and the nostrils are so last week. We all know Amy Winehouse's soft spot for both junk food and narcotics, so this was really only a matter of time.

The all-sorts-of-f**ked up singer recently purchased a $2000 candy floss machine, according to the News Of The World rag. One day chez Winehouse, Amy's friend Mik Whitnall, the guitarist for Pete Doherty's band Babyshambles, thought it a great idea to add a wrap of coke into the sweet sweet candy mixture to give it ‘a boost.'

Incidentally, Mik Whitnall was arrested earlier this week for possession of crack in London. Wino, Pete Doherty and Mik! The unholy trinity of British music.

Anyway, Amy munched merrily away on her new batch of candy floss for a while until her friends told her what they'd done. The singer now considers it ‘a hoot,' and invites friends round for ‘crack floss.'

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