Chris Martin, lead singer of Coldplay, whose album Viva la Vida is out this week, has told Rolling Stone magazine of the insecurities he feels because his wife, Gwyneth Paltrow (pictured), who once dated Brad Pitt; he said: "If your wife went out with Brad Pitt, you'd want to prove yourself, you know what I mean?"… Shami Chakrabarti, 38, director of the civil liberties pressure group Liberty, whose friendship with David Davis is thought to have been influential in his resignation, is to become the new Chancellor of Oxford Brookes university, replacing C4 news anchor Jon Snow… A Jean-Michel Basquiat painting owned by the rock band U2, after being spotted in a New York gallery by bass player Adam Clayton, is to be sold at Sotheby's next month; the work, Untitled (Pecho/Oreja), dating from 1982/83, which has been hanging in the band's Dublin studio, is expected to fetch £4-6m… A tuxedo Daniel Craig wore in the Bond film Casino Royale is among the movie memorabilia to be auctioned in London next week at a fundraising dinner in aid of the National Film and Television School...
