Britain's Queen Elizabeth is using $11.75 crown decorations to decorate her Christmas tree in a bid to save money.

The monarch is said to be so concerned about the global credit crunch she is introducing measures to keep her festive costs down and has ordered an entire range of the cheap decorations which will also be stocked in her shop in the Queen's Gallery at her London residence Buckingham Palace.

A clothed Anna Faris graces the cover of Playboy magazine's September issue.

Although looking as sumptuous as a Playboy bunny now, the 31-year-old "Scary Movie" star says it wasn't always the case when she was younger.

Pete Wentz is tired of being the victim of a "gay witch hunt." The Fall Out Boy rocker, who is expecting his first child with new wife Ashlee Simpson, insists he is happily married and only interested in women.

Pete, who has previously referred to himself as "half gay", told Out magazine: "When I'm going down the street I get called a fag all the time. I'm still getting called the same names as when I was 13."

An alleged sex tape that stars Vanessa Hudgens and Zac Efrons, which has been making rounds on the Internet today, is fake, it has been confirmed.

It has been verified that the so-called 'new' sex video was a brainchild of satirical website called pugbus.com in September 2007. That is around the time Hudgens was caught up in nude photo leakage on the Internet.