Hollywood is famous for its movies and glamour and equally infamous for its many, many shocking scandals. Counting down all the Hollywood scandals is almost a leviathan task however here are some of my picks.

1. It would be a sin not to begin with Michael Jackson whose whole life has been nothing short of a scandal. The King of Pop, a well deserved title, and Hollywood’s very own Peter Pan has been no stranger to controversy. From a peculiar affinity to sharing his bed with minors to disfiguring surgeries, from an abusive childhood to his recent tragic demise, the moonwalking superstar has been erased literally and figuratively. In 1993 he faced charges of child molestation which was settled out of court for a whopping $15 million and landed up in court once again in 2005 for the same charges. The recent death of Jackson caused even more controversy as the superstar’s addiction to prescription drugs was exposed. His physician Dr. Conrad Murray has been held responsible for his death and charges of involuntary manslaughter are to be brought up against him.
2. Roman Polanski, the critically acclaimed and Oscar winning director, is no stranger to scandal. His pregnant wife, Sharon Tate, was murdered by the Manson family in 1969. In 1977, the then 44 yr old Polanski took a 13 yr old girl to Jack Nicholson’s house for a photo shoot. He plies the girl with Champagne and part of Quaalude before engaging in non-consensual sex.  Two weeks later, Polanski found himself in front of the grand jury. Upon hearing he could face jail time of 50 years, Polanski bolted for France. Of course, that did not stop Hollywood from bestowing him with an Oscar award for direction for The Pianist. He was not able to receive it though since he is barred from entering the U.S.
3. Ingrid Bergman, the Oscar winning iconic actress who was considered to be a devoted mother and wife shattered her impeccable image in 1969 when news of her affair with Italian director Roberto Rossellini got out. Rossellini, then married and Bergman, mother of a 10 year old daughter became pregnant with his child. What followed was intense public condemnation and religious groups calling to ban her movies. The then Senator, Edward Johnson, denounced the actress as “a powerful influence for evil” and went to the extent of asking for banning her from the country for “moral turpitude”. The couple however wed after Rossellini gave birth to their child and had twins later before separating in 1956. Rossellini did however lose custody of her daughter with her previous husband during the divorce proceedings. All was forgiven when she received the Oscar for the best actress in the movie Anastasia.

Another one of the grossest and most famous scandals is probably when Woody Allen married his ex wife, Mia Farrow’s adopted daughter Soon Yi. Perhaps what these scandal’s say about Hollywood is that no matter what your crime is that as long as you rake in the money, people can learn how to forget.

Peter Andre has made claims that Katie Price stopped him from speaking to his children for five days.

The ‘Behind Closed Doors’ singer has spoken out following recent reports that Pete got into an argument with Katie’s new boyfriend Alex Reid, claiming he only lost his cool as he was refused access to the three children he raises with the glamour model.

Explaining his anger that Alex posted details of the conversation on Facebook, Peter said, “What really annoys me is when something private happens, withing a minute, it is out there. The bottom line is, for five days I was not allowed to speak to my kids.”

Referring to Alex as ‘this man’ Peter then explained the details of the phone conversation.

He told UK daytime TV show This Morning, “Anyone close to me knows that I couldn’t speak to them and then on Tuesday night (13.10.09) I got on the phone saying, ‘I want to speak to my kids. I was handed the phone to this man who said ‘he’s the man of the house now’ and he refused to allow me to speak to my children.

“Now, I am not perfect, I am human, I am a father and I don’t know any father that would not react to some man saying ‘no, you are not speaking to them’ and I lost my temper. I admit it.”

Peter accused Alex of playing a ‘ridiculous game’ by barring him from talking to Harvey, seven, Junior, four, and two year old Princess Tiaamii.

He explained, ”I am tired of it, I just want to move on in every sense of the word. The kids are my life, I don’t care about anything else but them-I have that a million times, and everyone knows the only way to push my buttons is not to let me speak to my kids or see them and that is what’s been happening.”

It had been claimed that Peter rang Katie’s mobile to speak to the children, but she asked Alex to answer the call.

As Alex began shouting at Peter, the singer replied, “Look mate, there is a lot of people who want to break your legs.”

In response Kate has spoken out about Pete’s claims insisting that Peter’s version of the events are untrue.

She wrote on her Twitter page, “People got it wrong AGAIN, peter said IM GONNA BREAK YOUR F***ING LEGS watch your back >>nice pete in front of kids!

“I called him too speak to kids being nice…his true colours are starting to come out thank god !!

“Alex is calm a real gentle guy stop believing what you read and realise that pete is not the sweet guy that he always portrays (sic).”

Katie Price has claimed that estranged husband, Peter Andre, doesn’t really love his stepson.

The glamour model-whose divorce from the pop star will be finalised this month- is furious he has written a song about seven-year-old Harvey, entitled ‘Unconditional’ as she doesn’t think it represents the truth.

Price- a.k.a Jordan – let off her steam in Heat magazine, saying, “He only chose to see him two nights every two weeks and that is not unconditional love.”

Pter, 36, took on Harvey-who realy dad is soccer star Dwight Yorke- when he and Katie, first got together and has always regarded him as his own son.

Katie and Peter went on to have two children, Junior, four, and two-year-old Princess Tiaamii, before splitting in May this year.

Katie-who is now dating cage fighter Alex Reid- also revealed Pete has changed his mobile number so she can no longer contact him.

Katie, 31, said, “Pete told me two days ago that he is changing his number so I can never contact him again. He has got a phone for the kids, si when I have got the kids, he phones on that. When he has got the kids, I have to phone it too. Which I think is stupid of him because if the kids even have an accident, I have no one else to call.”

Sugababe Amelle Berrabah

Amelle Berrabah has reportedly quite the Sugababes.

The 25-year-old singer is believed to have left the pop trio and will be replaced by UK Eurovision entrant Jade Ewen.

However, representatives for the band, Amelle and Jade are yet to confirm any line-up changes.

Amelle’s decision to leave the groups comes after a series of bust ups with Keisha Buchanan, a third of the pop band,  earlier this month.

No one is able to contact the brunette beauty-whose recent collaboration with rapper Tinchy Stryder, ‘Never Leave You,’ topped the UK singles chart- for days, leading her family to fear she had been kidnapped.

Reports have stated she is deeply unhappy and very scared of Keisha.

A friend said, “She is deeply unhappy at the moment and is scared of Keisha. She still loves the band and the last thing she wants to do is quit. But the problem needs to be addressed because she feels she is being bullied.

“Keisha will criticise her throughout the day and it has been going on for months. It has got worse since Amelle had the Tinchy Strider single and featured big-time in the ‘Get Sexy’ video. Keisha is very dominating, while Amelle is quite placid.”

The Sugababes – Keisha Bucanan, Heidi Range and Amelle Berrabah are preparing to release their new ablum ‘Sweet 7′ which contains the hit single, ‘Get Sexy.’

The group have a history of bust ups within the band with Amelle the fifth member of the trio to quit.

Heidi replaced the original member Siobhan Donaghy in 2001, while Amelle was brought in after original member Mutya Buena walked out in 2005.

Megan Fox needs to “grow up” according to the Transformers director.

The 23-year-old actress criticised Transformers director, Michael Bay saying he focused too much on special effects rather than acting during the 2007 blockbuster, however Bay has hit back saying her comments are “ridiculous” and should be ignored.

Michael-who recently recast Fox into this summer’s sequel ‘Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen’ – said, “Well that is Megan Fox for you. She says some very ridiculous things because she is 23-years-old and still has a lot of growing up to do.

“You roll your eyes when you see statements like that and think, ‘Ok Megan, you can do whatever you want. I got it.’”

He further told Us weekly magazine, “Nick Cage wasn’t a big actor when I cast him, nor was Ben Affleck before I put him in Armageddon. Shia LeBeouf wasn’t a big movie star before he did Transformers -and then he exploded. Not to mention Will Smith and Martin Lawrence, from ‘Bad Boys.’

“Nobody knew in the world about Megan Fox until I found her and put her in ‘Transformers’. I like to think that I have had some luck in building actors’ careers with my films.”

Talking about her role in Transformers, Megan Fox, said, “I mean, I can’t s**t on this movie because it did give me a career and open all these doors in for me. But I don’t want to blow smoke up people’s a*s. People are well aware this is not a movie about acting.”