Are you, like very few people, strangely captivated by the copyright saga currently surrounding Alex Lloyd's massive hit 'Amazing'? Yesterday Clem talked about how truck driver/musician Mark O'Keefe, the fellow who is suing Lloyd, has his updated recollection of how things went down and revealed he now believes he wrote the song with Lloyd up to two years later than he originally stated when he launched legal action.

A mysterious commenter named Sam contacted us and gave us a very, very lengthy version of events from "someone who was actually there".

It's just someone's opinion, and there's no way for us to verify it (thank GOD for the legal system, eh? Imagine if Defamer Australia was left in charge of running things!) but it may prove to be an interesting read.

Please get your facts right before you crucify a brilliant songwriter and singer. Mark was not a truck driver at the time, he had only started driving a truck in the last couple of years to support his family. Maybe if Alex had of come clean with the copyright, he would not have needed to. Mark O'keefe has always been, and still is, a professional musician. You make him sound like a truck driver leaning on the bar getting drunk. Mark O'keefe wrote the song "Amazing" and this was witnessed by many people at the Bridge hotel in 1991. At the time in question Mark O'keefe and his band "What's Next" were performing to a packed hotel. When the band had finished to a standing ovation, Mark was approached by Alex Lloyd, then (Slim La Beef) or (Slim) from his Band "Slim La Beef and the Spare Ribs" as he was known.

What's Next was not just your average mediocre pub band either, and had many guest artists, including Stevie Wright (Easybeats) Paul Day (Iron Maiden) and Laurie Marlow (Heaven), to name a few.

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You'll recall back in April that an average Joe piped up and reckoned he'd written Alex Lloyd's megabucks-earning hit Amazing on the back of a coaster in a pub's front bar. Well, Mark O'Keefe seems to have cooled his heels somewhat (you know, after waiting roughly 16 years to even take the matter to court in the first place), changing his story just prior to the matter hitting the courts. That's the spirit, Mark! Keep up the legal cats!

Mark O'Keefe, who originally said he wrote the song Amazing with Lloyd at the Bridge Hotel in Rozelle in November 1989, now says he got it wrong and it was up to two years later.

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You'll recall that a month or so ago it was revealed that Biggest Loser host Ajay Rochester was headed to court to face 23 charges of fraud (yes, 23).

Well, she had her day in court yesterday, and it was good to see the Daily Telegraph bringing out the sizeist adjectives once more to describe "the larger-than-life personality" of Rochester:

She is accused of receiving single parent payments for four years when she knew she was not eligible, Kim Arlington reports.

Rochester was a no-show - believed to have been in Fiji - when her case first came before the court last month.

But the larger-than-life personality appeared in person yesterday, with her lawyers telling the court she was formally pleading not guilty to the charges.

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There are some stars who are such tragic creatures of habit that reporting on their constant antics becomes something of an eye-roll-inducing event. Members of this elite squadron include Amy Winehouse, Shane Warne, and the topic of today's groaning, Naomi Campbell.

I've actually lost track of where we're up to in Campbell's history of belting people left, right and centre, but apparently she's set for some community service work after pleading guilty to going batshit crazy on a British Airways flight recently.

As well as the community service - which has to be completed within 12 months - she was ordered to pay £200 ($A415) to each of the two police officers she assaulted, and £150 ($A312) to the aircraft captain.

The 38-year-old subjected the captain of the British Airways flight and police to a barrage of foul-mouthed abuse, spitting and swearing and accusing them of victimisation because she was black, a west London court was told.

Campbell, who last year was handed community service and forced to undergo anger management therapy after admitting assaulting her maid in New York, pleaded guilty to six charges in relation to the incident on April 3 this year.

The catwalk star'slawyer said she was "genuinely apologetic" for her behaviour.

Given her history of confirmed and alleged assaults, Campbell's actual grasp of the concept of "genuinely apologetic" is perhaps open for discussion, but let's see if she can keep it together this time, shall we?

After all, if Amy Winehouse and Shane Warne can change their ways, anyone - oh.

Is Anna Coren some sort of Ashton Kutcher-esque plant for the celebreality-tinged series return of Frontline? Because she's starting to give Mike Moore a run for his money in the 'braindead current affairs host' stakes.

Remember how Mercedes Corby successfully sued Channel Seven for defamation a week or so ago, with the details of the settlement between Seven and Corby kept under wraps but forbidding anyone involved in the case from discussing the trial or outcome publicly?

Enter stage left, Anna Coren!

Coren was forbidden from discussing the case - as was everyone else involved - under terms of the top-secret settlement. She was also silenced by a settlement with Corby's mother Roseleigh Rose late on Thursday.

Mercedes successfully sued after Today Tonight aired claims from her ex-friend Jodie Power that she and her family - particularly her mother - were drug dealers and smugglers.

But Coren lasted less than two weeks on the vow of silence, telling ABC Radio host Spencer Howson on Wednesday: "Even though we did lose the defamation case we certainly stand by our story, without doubt."

She added: "We stand by Jodie Power and her allegations and in the court of public opinion we certainly still have people's support."

Needless to say, word is that Corby and her legal counsel are considering suing Seven again.

It's getting to the point where Today Tonight might as well change their intro music to the Benny Hill theme, such are the borderline pathological levels of idiocy that emanate from the show. Channel Nine must be delighted!

It's been quite a while since we've had reason to check in with Channel Nine's continued Underbelly woes, though it's always a pleasure to do so - and so I can't say I was disappointed to read that Nine has been ordered to pay the legal costs following part of their legal battle to get Underbelly screened in Victoria.

Wow, two-thousand-and-great just gets greater and greater, doesn't it, Team Nine?

A spokesman for the Office of Public Prosecutions yesterday confirmed Nine's failed appeal against Underbelly's ban in Victoria cost tens of thousands of dollars.

Nine has been hit with the expensive bill after already losing million of dollars of advertising revenue and wasted marketing when the 13-part crime drama - starring Kat Stewart and Gyton Grantley as Roberta and Carl Williams - was banned by a Supreme Court judge.

Nine's legal team clashed with the state's Director of Public Prosecutions Jeremy Rapke, QC, during an urgent appeal hearing in March.

The life and times of Nine - once the most impressive ratings beast in Australian network television - becomes more and more farcical every day. At this rate Chris Lilley's next show may as well be called Still The One; he wouldn't even have to write a word - it's all there for him!

No doubt Channel Ten would've preferred this particular story to stay quiet: Biggest Loser host Ajay Rochester (who is still contracted to the network) is headed to court next week to face 23 charges of fraud.

Yes, 23! Well done, Ajay, nice work for the blue team there.

Rochester, 39, is facing nine charges of receiving a financial advantage from a Commonwealth entity and 14 of dishonestly obtaining a financial advantage.

The TV personality, who has cultivated her celebrity status through penning several weight-loss books and fronting reality show The Biggest Loser, will begin the challenge of overcoming the next super-sized hurdle in her life on Tuesday.

While official documentation on the 23 charges is limited at this stage, Confidential understands they pertain to a period in Rochester's life which pre-dates her employment with Channel 10.

The Tele then goes on to use the phrase "larger than life personality" - kicking goals as usual!

Surprising that they didn't also find a way to fit in a few zingers like "Ajay is in big trouble" and "large amounts of legal issues"; really, why stop at one pointless dig at a famous woman's size, guys? Keep it coming!

Wow, who woulda thunk it? Apparently Amy Winehouse has been being really, really annoying at Blake's court proceedings (apparently she's also writing songs with some dude, but like that will amount to anything, if the past few months years are anything to go by).

The fit and active Blake has been in the clink for being alive attempting to pervert the course of justice, and assault.

Amy shouted to a judge "It's like Disneyland" during her husband's pre-trial hearing yesterday.

She made the remark after the prosecutor explained how the case against Blake Fielder-Civil might be delayed by juror holidays in the summer.

At another point the Back To Black star made a "yap, yap, yap" gesture as a lawyer spoke.

An usher had already ordered her to sit down and behave, after she stood up and made a big play of rummaging in her clothes.

The singer snapped back loudly: "I'm just tucking my skirt in" before slowly sitting.

Amy spent half an hour at Snaresbrook Crown Court, East London -- catching her husband's eye, blowing kisses and mouthing him messages.

Lord in heaven, I can't take much more of this. She'd better hope this apparently mythical James Bond theme she's working on with Mark Ronson actually a) exists and if so, b) is half decent, because she's sliding quickly up the scale of Most Annoying Celebrities to reside next to Angela Bishop and Jules Lund.

It's hard to imagine that a hospital drama with such high standards of dramatic and technical excellence as All Saints could ever stuff up their material, but it looks as though just that has happened: the "popular" Channel Seven medical drama has managed to offend just about everyone by essentially taking genetics and obstetric medicine into their own hands and inventing some new material!

To wit, that babies with Down Syndrome are pretty much all the result of incestuous relationships.

Awesome, All Saints, ten thumbs up!

In the "highly offensive" episode, which aired on May 27, a brother and sister who were having an incestuous relationship were told their unborn child was likely to have Down syndrome as a consequence.

"All Saints has stigmatised every person with Down syndrome and their families," said Dr Peter Sloan of Down Syndrome Australia.

"We already know of one instance where a child has been victimised because of this episode."

Producers of All Saints deny any wrongdoing.

But leading geneticist Dr David Amor at Murdoch Children's Research Institute said: "There is absolutely no increase in the risk of Down syndrome for the offspring of incestuous relationships."

Exactly, team All Saints, did the captivating story of John and Jenny Deaves teach you nothing?

It's not the children of incestuous relationships who are the problem, it's the parents!

I look forward to more advances in All Saints' medical research wing, such as babies being born through the belly button, and the red thing being connected to my wrist-watch. Uh oh!

Here's something from the totally shocking news department: Naomi Campbell has been charged with assault!

And here I was thinking she'd been spending her days looking after orphaned crippled children and playing with defenseless little kittens in a field full of daisies and baby animals under a pretty rainbow in Candy Land near the Sea Of Happiness.

I guess we all get misinformed sometimes.

Campbell, 37, was taken off a British Airways plane by officers on April 3 after she boarded a flight to Los Angeles in the United States and was told before takeoff that one of her bags was missing.

She is charged with five offences - three counts of assaulting a constable, one of disorderly conduct likely to cause harassment, alarm or distress and one of using threatening or abusive words or behaviour to cabin crew.

Campbell will appear in court in west London on June 20, her lawyer Simon Nicholls said, after she answered bail at Heathrow's police station.

If found guilty, she could face up to six months in prison and/or a fine of several thousand pounds.

So what does Naomi Campbell do when she's arrested as far as her 'one phone call' is concerned? Do they stick two Glad-Wrap core rolls to the phone (one for the ear, one for the mouth) and keep her handcuffed so she can't pick it up and throw it at someone?