Marilyn Manson wants to break the world record for sharing a bath with snakes. The controversial rocker - who is famous for his peculiar obsessions with death and taxidermy - wants to beat the 'Texas Snakeman' Jackie Bibby, who currently holds the world record by bathing with 87 rattlesnakes for 45 minutes.

A source close to the singer said: "Marilyn is desperate to get into the famous book, and wants to do it for something people will associate him with."

Marilyn Manson has been accused of using his band's earnings to pay his lover the "highest salary ever" for an actress appearing in a music video.

Former Marilyn Manson and the Spooky Kids keyboardist, Stephen Bier, claims Manson gave his lover Evan Rachel Wood the "highest salary ever paid to any actress in any music video in history" for starring in his "Heart Shaped Glasses" music promo.

Evan Rachel Wood's mother believed her family were on drugs the first time they met Marilyn Manson.

Wood, 20, revealed her mother was shocked when her father bonded with her goth rocker lover over vampires.

Evan Rachel Wood is going to following in her boyfriends platform heeled boots.

The 19-year-old actress, who has been in a controversial relationship with 38-year-old Marilyn Manson since Christmas, has expressed a desire to sing.

Dita Von Teese stars in a raunchy new advertising campaign to promote spaying and neutering pets. The burlesque dancer donned a racy outfit to pose as a teacher in adverts for PETA's new Animal Birth Control (ABC) campaign, unveiled in Los Angeles yesterday.

Dita - real name Heather Sweet - is pictured standing in front of a blackboard in a pink and black corset, fish-net stockings and black stilettos as a seated older man gazes up at her entranced.