Executive producer Nikolai, Crown Prince of Mortanska, 29 and actor Moody St James, 24, will make a 24-hour flying visit to Japan to promote their TV hit Desperate Househusbands, which has just begun airing on national broadcaster NHK. Executive producer  and star will attend a one hour press conference in Tokyo, followed by lunch with several NHK head honchos. "I'm thrilled to be visiting Japan again. I was last in the country in 1998. It's a shame this will be such a short visit. I'm just so busy sometimes I can't even go to the toilet!"

Russian beauty Olga Stefanovovich, 51, has turned downed an offer to appear nude in Iran's Naughty Housewives Pictorial, the incredibly popular men's monthly magazine, says her publicist. "While Ms Stefanovovich is flattered that the magazine editors considered featuring a 51-year-old in their bumper January 2006 issue, Ms Stefanovovich must decline because she does not do nudity and never will." Magazine editor Mahout Habib expressed his disappointment in not securing Stefanovovich for next year's issue by jumping in front of a cross town bus.

Aussie Raeleen Smithwick, 50, whose life came up trumps when she won Australian Idle 2 in 2004 is back with ex-husband Howard Yalaikascroo, the mega-talented U.N. mine sweeper extraordinaire. "The sparks are flying again; it's palpable," said Shirley Yalaikascroo-Now, 35, eldest of the couple's ten children, in an exclusive telephone interview with Appalling Trash. "As you know, Mum and Dad divorced in 1975, so it's really special when you think about it. I saw them last week, just before they left [for their Caribbean cruise]. They seemed so happy. I hope there's a lot of sex on the cruise!"

Sir Lionel Bogcover, 79, is making a film comeback. Bogcover will produce and star in the film sequel Runaway Boobie Returns, due for release in early 2006. When released, this will set a new film record for longest period between an original film and its sequel. The original film was released in 1935!

Acclaimed Japanese actress Tatsuko Pussy Satou, 77, has been cast as Akiko in Busty Bambini's new film I Dream of Genie, due for international release in 2007

Canadian acting legend (and real goer at any Twister party: call 090 5674 7892 for details) Jeanie Crawford, 103, will star as Fifi in Take It From Me, a coming-of-age comedy/drama set in a sex shop in Houston. Filming begins next month

Busy Moody St James, 24, definitely has his hands full! He will soon start filming the 8th season of Desperate Househusbands, and also has three films in the works: St Cox Does Everybody (2007), The Hills Have Eyes and Lips (2006) and The Pose (2006) 

Outrageous and true, Dahlings! A close personal source has whispered in my ear that an unauthorised biography of 50s movie starlet Julee Carrington is being peddled to publishing houses in New York. As you probably remember, the ravishing Julee made two promising, albeit financially lacklustre, Drive-in films before disappearing under mysterious circumstances off the coast of Baja California in 1958. Ms Carrington was notorious for her numerous affairettes with assorted Hollywood well hung luminaries: read Olympic boxer Charlie "Big boy" Ferrelli, fellow actor Buddy Thrush and Lady-Fresh® Sanitation heir Conrad Hyde-Whapper. But it was being caught in the buff on the poop deck of Hyde-Whapper's 500-foot yacht Loose Lips that got the glamorous starlet plastered over newsstands from Heinzville to La Paz. Julee's nubile body was never recovered but her soggy diaphragm and whip were found days later washed up at Pervert Point, California. Ms Carrington's star though has never waned and her story is still hot, hot, hot after all these decades. Her two most famous films Tickle my Tonsils (1956) and Truck Stop Love (1957) have just been released on DVD - and who can forget the 1984 telemovie shlep-fest starring Estelle Tunkley as Julee's domineering ex-vaudeville mother Roberta? Loved that maternal screech, Estelle: "Julee, you %$#*@ bitch, get ya tush down here NOW!" The publishing houses I have approached for comment this week are remaining tight lipped, as you can imagine, and Julee's estate has long rejected offers for a biography of her short-lived career. Could be though that very soon we'll get to read some more explosive tidbits about a career that never really was. Stay tuned and ... stay glamorous!