Ja, that's what I really need — another reason to like Jonathan Rhys Meyers. The star of 'Alexander', 'Match Point' and 'The Tudors' isn't exactly hard on the eyes, and he's blisteringly honest (for a celebrity).

"All actors and performers, including myself, thrive on attention; otherwise we wouldn't do what we do," is Rhys Meyers' blunt take on movie stardom. "I read a lot of little snippets about people saying: 'I just want my private life'. But they can't have it! It's that simple."

"You've got the money and the fame, but you've had to give up that one thing - so accept that, as that's how your life is going to be. If you don't like it, find something else to do."

Good thing he does like the attention — I think I could probably stand to see him on the silver screen a few more times.

Brangelina, on the other hand... I've had my fill of them for the time being. Enough with the adding babies, Brad and Angie. Six is enough. Sell those monstrously expensive baby pics of the twins, get the whole thing over with and just hide out in your chateau for a while.

Of course, that's not really going to stop the flood of Brangelina news any time soon — even if they were to go to ground completely. But, I suspect that, for all their 'We just want to be humanitarians' talk, those two like the limelight rather a lot, too.

I mean, even her huge, twin pregnancy didn't stop Angelina Jolie getting out there on the red carpet so often that she managed to make this year's 'Vanity Fair' Best Dressed list. She and Brad Pitt were Best Dressed Couple, again — same as last year.

(David Beckham made the men's list, but, sadly, there's no sign of his wife Victoria on the women's. Poor Victoria, I think she's seriously misunderstood...)

To be fair to Brangelina, they aren't really given much of an opportunity for a private life. Take the recent arrest of two paparazzi who went to crazy lengths to try to get illicit pics of the twins before the sanctioned (allegedly $20-million — that's nigh on R150-million) photospread comes out.

Management for the Jolie-Pitt's current residence, Chateau Miraval, has put out a statement saying that: "The two individuals were in full camouflage gear and carried high-powered photographic equipment typically used by sophisticated paparazzi."

"When confronted by security guards on the Chateau Miraval property, the two individuals claimed they were just out on a hike." Hey, I know I love to hike wearing camo and carrying a super-valuable camera!

No, actually that's a lie; I hate to hike.

J.Lo doesn't strike me as someone who's at all fond of dropping out of the public gaze, but what with her own twins born and the tabloid cover feature come and gone... news of Jennifer Lopez has waned somewhat in recent weeks.

But she's planning to burst right back onto the scene, with a new movie filming later this year. Lopez has been hard at the obligatory Hollywood post-baby dash back to a perfect body, and she'll be showing it off in 'The Governess', as a thief pretending to be a nanny.

Parenthood is a swell thing and all, but sometimes you really get the desire to make people at least do some kind of exam before they're allowed to procreate. Perhaps the first question on the test could be: Is it a good idea to take your tiny newborn surfing?

Matthew McConaughey would, apparently, fail this test. He's all for taking little three-week-old Levi off to the beach.

"He'll be surfing next weekend. I can't wait to get him out there," says Matt. For the sake of my own sanity, I'm going to give him the benefit of the doubt and assume that he's totally kidding.

Sanity — something that seems to be in short supply in some circles. Circles such as that containing Ming Hai.

Ming Hai is a New York attorney who's gathered together a thousand survivors of the recent horrific Chinese earthquake, in order to help them (those attorney's fees are completely incidental, I assure you) sue Sharon Stone.

Yup, the suit against her suggests that Sharon owes these quake victims $1-billion for the emotional suffering she inflicted on them with her callous remarks at Cannes a few months ago.

Now, I think we can all agree that Sharon's insanely stupid and offensive comment, about the Chinese quake being some kind of karmic payback for China's treatment of Tibet, was pretty damn awful. But, she's a moviestar — not a politician or religious leader — and she did very shortly after retract and apologise for her ghastly blunder.

So, $1-billion! You think this could possibly have more to do with Ming Hai's desire for a vast, vast amount of money than concern "For the families who have lost their loved ones or lost limbs or suffered severe injuries"?

Even if this case gets thrown out, though — Sharon's not got an entirely free pass. The 'Basic Instinct' star has been ditched by Christian Dior in all their Chinese ads.

Back to the topic of celebs who, perhaps, are not ideally suited to parenthood. Okay, Kevin Federline seems to be the better choice when handing out full custody, but he doesn't fill me with unbridled confidence.

K.Fed tells us that he's "been having a good summer; I can't complain". No, I'm sure living off Britney Spears' money isn't all that onerous. "I've worked here and there a little bit," he says. Nothing too taxing for the dancer-come-rapper, though. "Definitely staying at home with the family," Kevin continues, adding of his and Britney's two boys that "They're good."

Hey, he may not be the most hard-working man on earth, but if he's putting some serious time into raising his kids I may just have to have a change of heart about possibly one of the worst new rappers to fail to break into the music industry.

Johnny Depp is, of course, well known to be an absolutely devoted dad - not, er, to mention pretty damn hot for a father of two. And the great news is that Johnny will be back on screen in another Tim Burton flick — though it'll only likely hit theatres in 2010.

Depp's set to star in Burton's big-screen adaptation of 'Alice in Wonderland', as the Mad Hatter. Perfect casting!

Finally, a note on one 'celebrity' who appears to have had parents who failed entirely to explain the concept of irony to her.

Khloe Kardashian is... well, does she qualify even as a D-lister? Her only claim to fame is that she appears in the brain-painingly awful reality show 'Keeping up with the Kardashians', and is the sister of Kim Kardashian who, you know, had a sex tape and used to be Paris Hilton's BFF.

Seriously, that's all there is. And when you think for a second about the tenuous basis for Paris' celebrity... it's a hideous house of over-privileged socialite cards.

None of this has make Khloe at all loathe to speak her mind to the media about things, though. In fact, despite her brief stint in jail a few weeks ago, for a drunk-driving conviction, she felt more than free to offer a sermon to an actual celeb — 'Transformers' and the latest 'Indiana Jones' star, Shia Labeouf.

Labeouf got injured in a car accident recently — allegedly due to driving while drunk. Khloe Kardashian has now, helpfully, advised Shia to "get smart". "Think about your actions and get a driver," suggests Khloe. "It's so much cheaper in the long run."

Hey, great idea! Why didn't I think of hiring a personal driver before now? I feel like such a fool.

More star idiocy — in next week's Bitch and Famous!