Charles Saatchi has admitted assaulting his wife Nigella Lawson, and accepted a police caution after a five-hour interrogation at a central London police station.

His admission of assault comes after a day in which the multi-millionaire art dealer provoked outrage when he attempted to dismiss the incident as a 'playful tiff'.

During halftime of the NBA Finals Game 5 between the San Antonio Spurs and the Miami Heat, a three-minute black-and-white commercial piqued the interest of rap aficionados everywhere.

In the clip, mega-rapper Jay-Z is seen working in a recording studio with—at various points—music producers Rick Rubin, Swizz Beatz, Pharell Williams, and Timbaland. The clip is laid over a strident piano line that segues into cuts of several insane beats.

Oh dear.

During Sunday night’s Miss USA pageant, which was broadcast on NBC live from Las Vegas, Miss Utah, Marissa Powell, took the stage and, flanked by co-hosts Nick Jonas of the Jonas Brothers and Giuliana Rancic of E! News, picked a card from a fishbowl. She drew “Judge No. 3” to answer a question from NeNe Leakes, star of the Bravo reality series The Real Housewives of Atlanta.

Here’s a sure-fire way to get the No. 1 record in the country: engineer a fake controversy by making an unrated version of your video featuring strutting, mostly naked supermodels. That’s the route blue-eyed crooner Robin Thicke took with his single “Blurred Lines,” which sits atop the Billboard charts this week, ending Macklemore’s long reign.

The video, which was banned from YouTube at the end of March, continues to live on in its full naked glory on Vevo—coincidentally, a partner of YouTube—where salacious viewers can view three models, Emily Ratajkowski, Jessi M’Bengue, and Elle Evans, wearing nothing but shoes and nude-hued thongs, as they cavort and dance and flirt with Thicke, Pharrell, and T.I., who are all fully clothed. The group play with weird, nonsensical props—a needle, a lamb—and in between the screen intermittently flashes hashtags (i.e., #Thicke).

When Lauren Conrad first hit television screens in 2004 on the MTV reality show Laguna Beach, no one thought that the then-18-year-old would still be going strong at 27—but she is. It’s been four years since Conrad last appeared on one of the network’s quasi-scripted cinematic dramas, leaving Laguna’s spinoff show, The Hills, in 2009. But the consummate Cali girl is still booking major magazine covers: she was just announced as Marie Claire’s July cover girl last week, following massively successful covers for fashion titles like Lucky and Glamour. Last week also marked the release of Conrad’s eighth book, Infamous. And that’s not to mention the sustainable e-commerce site on its way, which will add to her already-successful fashion and beauty lines.

All this makes Conrad something of a reality-star anomaly—and it reflects her exhaustive campaign over the last nine years to get young women to love her. To be sure, she attracts more of the Pinterest kind of crowd than the type of girls found on, say, Bang With Friends. Her fans may not be the world’s edgiest, but unlike her fellow small-screen celebs’, Conrad’s fame is not one built on bitch-slaps and drunken sex-capades. The most controversial thing she has done was outrage literary purists with a DIY video on how to make a “Bookshelf Box,” where she slashed apart the entire Lemony Snicket series to construct a book-binding-embellished storage unit.

Conrad is the button-nosed poster girl for women who dream of dinner parties and white linens. She’s embodied that archetype from the moment she first appeared on Laguna Beach, with her perfect blonde ponytails. “Lauren Conrad markets herself almost as a Martha Stewart,” Katherine Riley, a Los Angeles-based Lauren Conrad fan, told The Daily Beast (she even once wrote a college thesis on Laguna Beach and The Hills’s effect on reality TV). “She just kind of seems disgustingly perfect sometimes.”

Extraordinary pictures have emerged of the British chef Nigella Lawson - host of the ABC TV show The Taste -  being physically abused by her husband, the billionaire art collector Charles Saatchi, while sitting outside a fashionable London restaurant. The pictures, which are printed on the front page of the Sunday People, appear to show Saatchi, 70, reaching over and squeezing her throat four times.

The shocking abuse saw Nigella, 53, leave Scott's restaurant in Mayfair in floods of tears. No-one intervened.

The paper reports: “It was utterly shocking to watch,” said one onlooker. “I have no doubt she was scared. It was horrific, ­really. She was very tearful and was ­constantly dabbing her eyes.

Think your dad’s cool? See how he stacks up against The Daily Beast’s list of the coolest movie fathers. Keep in mind, this list ranks the coolest movie dads, not the greatest, so you won't find Atticus Finch (To Kill A Mockingbird), George Bailey (It’s A Wonderful Life), or Captain Von Trapp (The Sound of Music) here. But we love them, too.

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