Say what you will about Brian "Potato" McFadden and his music/taste in women/choice of hairstyle, but through the whole split with ex-wife Kerry "Chipshop" Katona/shack up with Delta "Postmodern Mermaid Fantasy" Goodrem thing, he has at least acquitted himself in a largely mature and sensible manner, refusing to stoop to the levels of press-baiting that Chipshop seems particularly fond of.

Until now, that is.

Brian, who lives with partner Delta Goodrem in Australia, told the News of the World: "Kerry is a disgusting human being.

"She manipulates people and plays the sympathy card for every stupid mistake she makes. Me and my family have been put through hell by her stupid games.

"She uses my two girls as a weapon in her childish games. She is an embarrassment to me, my family and my children."

Awesome! Eight thumbs up! Good to see Katona and McFadden are working hard to stay friends if only for the kids, too.

Potato goes on to report that the couple's daughters, Molly and Lilly-Sue, often report back to him about Katona's trips to the Priory, etc. Now all we need to know is what they then return to Katona and say, perhaps something about how boring Daddy's new girlfriend is, and how she always sings sitting down, as though she's sharted?

We'll just have to wait for that exclusive!

Sometimes we get so caught up in noting just how royally fucked Channel Nine seems that we forget there are just as many interesting things going on at the other networks.

To wit, a life-and-death struggle over at Seven, where network boss David Leckie remains in a coma - yes, a coma - which he fell into after developing a blood infection from little more than a badly cut finger sustained in an accident at his home (something rather grim-sounding involving his garage roller door).

Mr Leckie was admitted to St Vincent's Private Hospital on April 11 and slipped into a critical condition on Thursday after taking a grave turn for the worse.

His condition stabilised on Friday, and hospital spokesman David Faktor said today the network chief had made "a tiny improvement" over the weekend, although he remained precariously ill.

"He remains in a serious but stable condition. He remains in intensive care but all the signs show he is improving," Mr Faktor said.

Mr Leckie is being ventilated and is in an induced coma while doctors work to help his body fight the infection. His wife Skye and brother have been by his bedside.

Defamer Australia send their warmest well-wishes to the Leckie family and the extended Seven fraternity, and hope that the gnomes over at Nine HQ take a timeout from boning each other to offer the same sympathies to their rival network.

Poor nervous little Daniel Radcliffe - he might be worth $1008803 million (or whatever; possibly more like $50 mil), but it seems all that money and magic isn't enough to keep him lucky in love.

It seems Radcliffe made eye contact with a pretty local lass last time he was here, at an AFI event backstage, and has been living out the lyrics to James Blunt's You're Beautiful ever since.

"There was one girl there, oh my god, she had eyes that just looked at me like she wanted to pounce on me," Radcliffe said yesterday.

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