Katie Holmes apparently had a lucky escape on the set of her latest film when the stunt car she had just got out of caught fire. A little too close for comfort by anyone's standards.

Katie is currently in Australia with 'too-cute-for-school' daughter Suri, shooting horror film 'Don't Be Afraid Of The Dark'.

Although recent pictures of her chasing little Suri around the set show a happy looking Katie acting like any normal mother, the 30-year-old had earlier been accused of looking tired and dowdy. A mother looking tired and dowdy - never!

Observers suggested that, with Tom back in LA, she was struggling to combine her long hours on set with caring for her daughter. Pardon me for leaping to conclusions but given that she is living in billionaire friend James Packer's private suite in Melbourne, I doubt that things are soooo tough for her!

Not to be left out of the trip Down Under, Tom was with the girls for the first few weeks and was spotted shopping with Suri who picked out three lip glosses from a department store. Three? Should we assume this means one for Katie, one for Suri and one for the next little Tom-Kat kitten?

Yes, you guessed it. Some rumours suggest that Katie may be hiding the early signs of another baby bump. We shall keep a keen eye on that one.

In the meantime, let's hope Katie gets over her brush with danger and can enjoy what she does best: acting and playing chase with her little girl.

I never really followed Jade's rise to fame after she crash landed onto our screens in Big Brother, but how could anyone ignore the publicity surrounding her cancer, wedding and untimely death?

Love her or loathe her, Jade was, after all, a mother and it was impossible not to be saddened by her death and the fact that two little boys will now grow up without their mummy. Who could forget those heart-breaking pictures of them sobbing at her wedding to Jack Tweed?

It's hard to imagine how Bobby, five and Freddie four, pictured in March, are making sense of what has happened to them over the last six months.

Their father, Jeff Brazier, has maintained a quiet dignity throughout this extremely difficult period in his young son's lives. Speaking out for the first time since Jade's death, he says, "the boys were the best and truest thing she ever did. She loved them with everything she had".

He insists he is putting their interests first, settling them into their new home and trying to keep their lives as normal as possible. For a single man in the celebrity spotlight, he certainly seems to be shouldering the burden of responsibility for their up-bringing extremely well, and with great maturity.

Jade may be gone, but she will certainly never be forgotten and you can bet that everyone's favourite Essex girl is keeping a keen eye on her boys and their father. She can be extremely proud of them all.

Mercy James, the latest addition to Madonna's ever-growing brood, is reportedly settling quickly into her new, celebrity life.

As Madonna continues her Sticky and Sweet tour which will see her play in France, Belgium, Italy, Spain, Russia, Sweden and many other countries before finishing in Tel Aviv this September (not bad for a fifty year old!), she will be giving little Mercy a crash course in how to be the daughter of a major celebrity.

A struggle from the outset, things now seem to be settling down to normality for 'M and M' - or at least, what will become normality. A fairytale ending, we would imagine, for the little girl who, a month ago, was living a very basic existence in Africa.

In our willingness to believe the Cinderella story, let's not forget that Mercy is still just a four-year-old, whose life has been turned upside down. She is without anything or anyone familiar. In every sense imaginable, her world has changed beyond all recognition. Life doesn't come much plusher than the Ritz Hotel in Paris - Malawi must seem like a very, very long way away.

Whatever Madonna's reasons for fighting so hard to adopt this little girl, we will never really know, but something within her insisted on becoming Mercy's mum. She may have got the job, but it will take a long time and much more than a few fancy hotels for Madonna to become Mercy's mum in the truest sense of the word.

For Madonna and child, let's hope their new life together becomes old and familiar very soon.

So, the Jordan/Katie circus continues.

Not content with disgracing herself in Ibiza, Katie showed up on a night out in London this week.

As a mother, I am at a loss to understand her behaviour. In the middle of such an acrimonious spilt, what has happened to her sense of responsibility to her children? When, exactly, does she see them, apart from for a brief shopping trip in Brighton?

I'm sure this is a terrible time for her, but could someone please, please remind her of the three little children who are stuck in the middle of this whole debacle. Is it really surprising that they are suddenly very clingy? The poor little things are probably desperate for some security and stability.

Katie has, of course, defended her recent antics and insists that she is a good mum saying, "I work hard, I'm a mum, I'm a young woman and I'm going through a split. And I bet you loads of women would do the same."

Oh Katie - how naïve you really are. Actually, 'loads of women' would be much more likely to tough it out at home, put on a brave face and do everything humanly possible to make sure their children felt loved and secure at such a dreadful time for them.

To the general public, Ms Price may, first and foremost, be a celebrity. To her children, she is simply mummy. As she lurches from Katie to Jordan and back again, it remains to be seen whether, at some stage, the mother within also turns up.