OLD BROADS: She's got a fantastic figure, winning smile and an energetic personality and she's an amazing 67-years-old. Joan Collins may be a granny, edging towards her 70th birthday but she's still one of the hottest women around. In her latest film, These Old Broads, Joan sparkles and shines along with two other old-timers, Debbie Reynolds and Shirley MacLaine. With her perfect size eight figure and sleek hair she looks like a woman half her age who has had a much less troubled life. She is more famous for her four husbands and various affairs than her career which has included such turkeys as The Bitch and Empire of the Ants. But her line-free face (which she claims has nothing to do with plastic surgery and a lot to do with always wearing foundation) shows none of the traumas she has encountered. Now settled down with a man 25 years her junior, she is a great advert for older women living their lives to the full.

Hopefully, this latest film role will bring her some of the acclaim she deserves for simply staying at the top of the glamour stakes for so long.

POP STARS: There is a new reason to stay in on a Saturday night and shout at your television. Pop Stars is following three talent scouts as they try to create a five-piece pop band to take the charts by storm. The initial auditions were hilarious with groups of men and women who couldn't hold a tune in a bucket belting out endless renditions of Angels by Robbie Williams. Among all the dross were a few really good voices and these have been sent through to the next round where they will be judged on their dancing and personalities. Whatever happens to the final five band members, viewers are in for a treat as we watch the blood, sweat and tears as a pop group are formed. Some tears have already been shed by those unfortunate enough to get on the wrong side of judge Nigel Lythgoe.

He has asked tone-deaf contestants if they had ever had singing lessons and failed to hide his amusement at others' two-left feet dance steps.

Of course, all pop stars have to be used to rejection and harsh words but at times Nigel has crossed the line. One girl called Claire had a fantastic voice and a great personality but unfortunately Nigel thought she was too fat to get into the band. His defence was there are no overweight singers, but if someone at the heart of the industry can't change it who can?

TRUCK SHOW: The run of Big Brother-style programmes to hit our screens is about to hit an all-time low. Forget watching people living in a bugged house, on a deserted island or in a jail - the latest true-life TV idea sounds as interesting as watching paint dry. The new game show will see contestants clutching a lorry for five days without sleeping. Channel Five, who brought us the first naked gameshow, wants to find 26 people to play the imaginatively-named Touch a Truck. The gullible people will be asked to stay awake while keeping in touch with the £50,000 four-wheel drive - the one who keeps awake the longest will get to drive the van home. In America, the winner lasted five days, which is a long time for viewers to tune in to see a whole of lot of inaction. Contestants will be allowed hourly toilet breaks, which may be the most interesting part of the whole show. Channel Five bosses claim the show will push people to their emotional limits but it seems more likely to push viewers to the limits of their tolerance and having them switching off in their droves.

LOVE MATCH: Venus Williams has joined fellow tennis player Anna Kournikova by concentrating more on fashion than her forehand.

At the Australian Open she startled tennis fans by appearing on court in a peek-a-boo dress. When she stretched out for the more demanding shots Venus nearly revealed all her assets to the crowd who presumably had come to see her tennis, not her figure. The revealing top was sponsored by Reebok who had paid for Venus to play in the uncomfortable but exposing outfit. The company definitely got the publicity it wanted with lots of photos zooming in on Venus' chest and in turn showing its logo, but what did Venus get out of the deal? No doubt she was paid a lot for her discomfort but her game did suffer. She went on to her win her match but it was an erratic performance punctuated by her hitching up her straps and fiddling with her cleavage. Unlike Kournikova, whose looks outweigh her tennis skill, Venus is a gifted player as well as an attractive woman. It would be a shame if, in the pursuit of a sponsorship deal, she let her tennis suffer just to give some dirty old marketing men a thrill.