An unhappy Katie Holmes was caught sobbing in the upmarket US department store Barneys while shopping for ''tummy-control'' pants.



The humanising moment reminds us that while Christmas is the season when many gossip mags put their ''best of the year'' editions on show, some celebs are really hurting around this time.



And that pain can fill pages. So what was it that upset Holmes? The pregnancy rumours? Being married in the least-fun religion at Christmas time? The store's range? ''Whatever it was that was bothering her, it had to be major,'' a source told NW.



''She was so emotional that staff had to call a police escort.'' Speaking of calling the cops, New Idea risked being booked for ''criminal extrapolation of a story from one undated quote'' after it spun the following from Shane Warne's ex, Simone Callahan: ''Christmas is a big time of year for us and I love it - it's a time of celebration and happiness,'' into a piece about how they'd planned to remarry (or so a friend, insiders and pals say) and, of course, how she was blindsided by the so-called scandal involving Warne and Liz Hurley. Fair enough, she wasn't the only one.



Meanwhile, Woman's Day dredges up something more ho hum than ho ho with its report that when Simon Cowell tried to get the then Home and Away star Melissa George to make an album in the 1990s, she said no. Why? Because ''she really, really can't sing,'' says WD.



Unlike Holmes, however, George has a happy relationship with her smalls - having developed a device which lowers or raises hemlines.



''I'm a recessionista fashionista, so I'm always looking to save money,'' she said. Nicole Ritchie, on the other hand, was looking to make money from her wedding with Joel Madden.



However, NW reports the lavish day was a nightmare after Ritchie's A-list friends Christina Aguilera and Kim Kardashian were no-shows, $50,000 worth of loaned jewellery momentarily went missing and Ritchie couldn't get a good price for the exclusive rights to the photos - details of which were all omitted in Who's spread, where they ended up.



''She was the perfect bride,'' said Madden. She was a ''total bridezilla'' retorted NW, bent on airing dirty laundry - such as claims Ritchie confiscated guests' camera phones so as not to jeopardise the deal.

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