Courtney Love spent $300,000 on her daughter's birthday party. The Hole singer - who is the widow of the late Nirvana frontman Kurt Cobain - spared no expense in ushering Frances Bean into adulthood at her "RIP childhood" themed 16th birthday.

The event - held at Los Angeles' House of Blues restaurant - saw Frances sporting a dress previously worn by her father Cobain at a performance at Reading Festival.

Usher has re-hired his mother just over a year after he fired her.

The "Love In This Club" singer - who ditched his manager mom Jonetta Patton in May 2007 - has now employed her for a second time in a bid to kickstart the success of his latest record "Here I Stand."

Usher wants to be a good role model for his baby son. The 'Love in This Club' singer - who has a nine-month-old boy Usher Raymond V with wife Tameka - says he is taking the responsibilities of fatherhood very seriously.

He said: "Now I represent what he is to become. He's going to admire me, he's going to look up to me. He's going to say, 'I want to be' - or he should say - 'I want to be like my father. I want be a man of valor. I want to possess what my father has as a man.'"

Cheryl Cole was left terrified after a crazed fan grabbed her yesterday.

The Girls Aloud beauty - who is currently filming for hit U.K. TV talent show 'The X Factor', on which she is a judge - was posing for pictures when the man lunged at her and tried to hug her.

Usher makes love to his own songs.

The R'n'B singer - who is married to Tameka Foster - boasts his own music is a fantastic soundtrack for sex sessions, and one he has used on many occasions.