"My favourite thing used to be to just sit on the subway and watch people, just walking by myself everywhere and living among people and watching them. And I lost that," says a wistful Jolie. "It was the hardest thing to lose, and I think that does affect you."

Personally, it would freak me out, never being able just to blend into the crowd. Then again, I'd be somewhat less freaked out by having a vast, vast fortune and Brad Pitt.

On to someone who should not be on the road. And – surprise! – it's a Hilton. Younger brother of Paris, Barron Hilton, has just got himself into the news. No, there's no sex tape launching Barron into the spotlight his sisters Paris and Nikki have long occupied.

No sex, just running over a petrol attendant.

Barron got arrested for allegedly knocking over Fernando Pellez while really drunk. "I was knocked to the ground. The Mercedes lost control as it was turning into the gas station and Barron got out of the car and he was totally drunk and couldn't walk straight," claimed Pellez.

Nice work, there, young Hilton. Following in the family footsteps…

Rather better work on Ryan Phillippe's part. He's hitting out at the ongoing talk that he cheated on ex-wife Reese Witherspoon with his former co-star Abbie Cornish, with whom he's often been spotted since the split.

But, insists Phillippe, "I had difficulties in my relationship, and in my marriage, long before I ever met her [Cornish]. As far as I'm concerned, it's a friendship, and we are getting to know each other in a really difficult situation."

Also not cheating… Eva Longoria. That's the word from Longoria's new husband Tony Parker. "What shocked me the most was the wickedness of people," said Parker — dismissing all the rumours that Eva had been unfaithful to him, talking to French paper Le Parisien.

But tabloid speculation isn't getting Tony down too much: "Right now we're enjoying the young married life."

And, finally, I leave you with a pairing you will not believe…

Back in the mists of time — the '80s, that is — Tom Cruise had a girlfriend a little older than his current 20-something wife. And now, as this ex-flame of Tom's gears up to come out of retirement and take over from the benighted Celine Dion as the resident act at Caesars Palace Las Vegas, her old dalliances are seeing the light again.

Yes, you've guessed it — it's the woman who believes in life after love… it's Cher! Amazingly enough, Tom Cruise reportedly once dated the singer, back in the decade when stone-washed denim was cool and poodle perms were seen as a good thing.

More celebrity horror hook-ups and perfect pairings — in next week's Bitch and Famous!