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Sir Jimmy Savile 71) was in good spirits and talking to doctors and nurses yesterday after undergoing major heart surgery.

Sir Jimmy Savile 71) was in good spirits and talking to doctors and nurses yesterday after undergoing major heart surgery.

The veteran broadcaster has had a three-hour quadruple by-pass operation. He has been moved out of intensive care and on to a general hospital ward.

Pamela Anderson Lee (30) appeared on Britain's TV screens yesterday in Pizza Hut's latest commercial in which passers-by walk into a lamp post. Pamela believes it is her charms that distract them - but they are all fixated by her dinner.

Cindy Crawford's greatest fear is to interview Madonna, she told Craig Kilborn of cable television's Comedy Central.

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"Madonna, she scares me," she said, adding that the phobia began "with the pointy bras and it got worse from there".

Sandra Bullock (32) says she didn't have an affair with Chris O'Donnell when they played the lead roles in a film about Ernest Hemingway.

"If I had had an affair with him, I would hardly have gone to his wedding," an irritated Bullock said. She said a picture of her lying in O'Donnell's arms during a break in shooting was only a friendly birthday greeting.

The film, In Love and War, opens in Germany next week.

Thousands of Batman fans were disappointed yesterday when rain turned a Hong Kong ice rink into a swimming pool, forcing the cancellation of a "Batman on ice" show.