Welsh actor Rhys Ifans is returning to his rock roots – he’s teaming up with his former Super Furry Animals bandmate Dadydd Ieuan to form a new group.

The pair has recruited fellow musicians Dic Ben, Kris Jenkins and Nick Hilton and named the band The Peth, and they will release their debut album The Golden Mile in September.

The Notting Hill actor was part of the original line-up of the Super Furry Animals, but left the group before they rose to national fame in the U.K. in the mid-1990s.

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Amy Winehouse has performed at her first concert since leaving rehab to a sold-out crowd – although the singer appeared almost an hour late to the Lisbon show.

Winehouse was at the Rock in Rio Lisboa festival in Lisbon, Portugal on Friday for the concert, the first of a series over the summer.

On her arrival, the 90,000-strong crowd that had been booing started cheering. But the singer warned her throat was hoarse and some of the songs were croaky, according to reports.

Although the song list was shortened, Winehouse had the crowd singing along to her hits, including Rehab and Valerie.

Fans also cheered loudly when she said she had recently celebrated her first anniversary with husband Blake Fielder-Civil, who is currently in prison awaiting trial, according to the BBC.

The set lasted for around 55 minutes before Winehouse left to make way for Lenny Kravitz.

A report from Associated Press said the crowd was “subdued” following the set, as the singer failed to perform an encore.

The singer is due to appear at several concerts in Europe over the summer, including one for Nelson Mandela’s birthday in London.

Although her singing career has gone from strength to strength, the star has been in and out of rehab in recent months. Winehouse was recently questioned by the police over footage of her apparently inhaling fumes from a crack pipe, but no charges have been brought.

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Madonna and husband Guy Ritchie are facing a challenge to their adoption of Malawian tot David Banda – the baby’s biological father wants to fight for visitation rights to the child.

The superstar couple’s adoption of the two-year-old was finalized at Malawi?s High Court in May – 20 months after being granted an ‘interim’ order allowing them to take the baby from a Malawian orphanage back to their London home.

David was left at the care home after his mother died in childbirth and his peasant farmer dad Yohane Banda was unable to provide for the then-seven-month-old baby.

But now Yohane claims government officials had promised him access his son every three to four years as part of the adoption arrangement and he is looking into his legal rights to see the child.

He says, “I love the boy and it was in his best interests to put him in the orphanage.”

“Because I support the adoption I would not want to put up a challenge that would reverse it, but I might challenge some aspects of the order.

“I am discussing with my family about following up on having access to the child. We will not leave things the way they are – we will do something about it.”

Madonna and director Ritchie’s adoption of little David has been marred by controversy ever since they brought him back to the U.K., with critics claiming the couple had been given special treatment to side-step the official adoption process.

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Hi everyone, this is Erin and I will be blogging live as Jocelyn sends me all the news, gossip and pictures from the MTV Movie Awards red carpet. The fires at Universal City have been contained and the show is on! I just got an update and Jocelyn is on her way out to the red carpet right now! As I get any news or pictures from her you will see it here first! Don’t forget to tune into the MTV Movie Awards tonight at 8pm PT.

(Photo of Jocelyn from our quick lunch before she hit the Award show)

Update: 3:33pm Jocelyn is now postion on the golden carpet. If you want to look for her when the show starts she is located right by the entrance next to the “RockBand” stage.

Update 4:00pm  People are just starting down the red carpet now. Jocelyn just saw the girls from MTV’s new Legally Blonde show.

Update 4:16pm Coldplay just walked by Jocelyn but didn’t pause for pictures. He was followed by Brody Jenner from MTV’s “The Hills” she caught him just in time to get the back of his head.

He was followed by Shane Sparks from my favorite summer show So You Think You Can Dance.

Jocelyn just meet Audrina Partridge from “The Hills” and took a picture with her, will update with picture asap.