Dean Piper’s World

Numerous outlets are banging on about Peaches Geldof and the fact she went out with Amy Winehouse’s pal Blake Wood last night to a champagne bash and trendy nightclub Bungalow 8. One headline reads: “What would Peaches Geldof’s husband Max Drummey say if he knew this pair hanging out?!”

Well I’ll tell you what Max would say. He’d roar: “Give a shit.” Let’s just say lovely Blake is a friend of Dorothy. And there’s nowt going down with those two.

I know people seem to love to hate Peaches but she’s just getting on with life and trying to make a marriage work.  Just last week she told me: “I married Max after a week or whatever of knowing him so it was always going to take a while to settle in - but it’s going well. I like the fact I have a husband and I’m enjoying my wifely duties.”

Good for her I say. She’s 19 years old and deserves a bit of a chance to grow up……

Battersea Evolution was the location for last night’s Capital Rocks event in aid of Help A London Child. I popped down to the dinner and dance where 600 guests managed to raise a whopping £150,000 for the charity.

And fortunately the event was jam packed full of some great celebrity guests. I caught up with Lisa Snowdon and Brendan Cole (above) who are still battling to keep their place in Strictly Come Dancing. Although both of them want to get into the final it seems they are starting to admit a little bit of defeat. Lisa told me: “Even though I’m getting top scores it seems the boys are still flying through the rounds with a huge amount of votes. Maybe it’s a case of female viewers voting for the hunky men.” Brendan added: “It’s getting incredibly tiring but we still want to make the final.” Good luck to them both. They even performed a dance for the crowd after a punter bid £1,000 for Lisa to don her dancing gear! Good on them - and how fit does Lisa look! The dancing has done her the world of good - she told me two weeks ago that she’s lost 2 inches off her waist from the training alone.

Also at the bash was GMTV’s Ben Shepherd who told me he was exhausted from all his early mornings on the sofa***X Factor star Brian Friedman who told me he can’t wait to return to Los Angeles in two weeks after his long stay in the UK for the show***Mutya Buena was out on the town with her So Solid pal Ashley Walters and she told me she’s working hard on her second solo album***Other guests included Caprice, stylist supremo Nick Ede and Atomic Kitten Liz McLarnon.

I was thrilled to meet X Factor contestant Ruth Lorenzo too - she’s a lovely girl in real life and looks far slimmer too. The telly doesn’t do anything for her great figure! She performed for the first time since being booted off of the show and got a standing ovation for her performance of Bon Jovi hit Always and Prince’s Purple Rain. Somehow I doubt it will be the last we’ve heard of her though. She said: “I’ve had so much interest from the latin music market - and record companies all over the world. I hope to sign a deal after the X Factor tour. I’m not giving up on making it in the music world just because I’m not on the show anymore. I want Alexandra to win the contest.” I couldn’t agree more on that one…..I don’t understand the appeal of Diana Vickers at all - all that squealing makes me want to put pins in my head!

To donate to Help a London Child or for more information click here.

Pics with thanks to Jon Furniss

What a treat it was to be taken out by Dannii Minogue last week to see her favourite Aussie comedienne Pam Ann live at the Hammersmith Apollo. Denise Van Outen sat nattering with X Factor winner Leon Jackson just behind me, H from Steps made an appearance to watch the show and Same Difference hung out at the after party trying furiously to plug their new album Pop. Pam told me after: “I f***ing love London – it’s like coming home performing here.” It was an awesome show!  Busy, busy, busy!!

Peaches Geldof flew in from New York last week and I caught up with her to talk marriage, Kerry Katona and fashion! See the full chat in the interviews section and a version of it in this week’s Closer Magazine (out tomorrow).

Simon Cowell is the gayest straight man ever what with his workout regime, love of botox and healthy eating! He’s been using power plates non stop to shape up and has even managed to shift a stone in weight thanks to his diet changes. But his close friend Sinitta is about to help him get even more super healthy with her Christmas present! I hear she’s bought him a super hi-tech soup maker for Chrimbo! A source tells me: “She’s so excited about the machine and knows Simon will love it.” I’m sure his private chef will love using that!

Leona Lewis is officially brilliant after her amazing performance at the American Music Awards. She told me recently she’s talking to Topshop boss Phillip Green about launching her own range of vegetarian accessories. She reveals: “We are talking about it now. I’d love to do a vegetarian line of accessories that don’t feature any animal products. I’m discussing it with him and ideas are still going about. We will see. Fashion’s certainly an avenue that I want to explore in the future.” Good for her!

Oh dear. The papers got it sooooo wrong this weekend saying Dannii Minogue was said to have split from her hunky man Kris Smith. They are fine! A source tells me: “It’s complete balls - as per usual.”

The X-Factor judge even stepped out for the first time with her man at last night’s Children’s Bafta Awards. And they make a fine couple indeed. Kris has been supporting Dannii throughout the series of the X Factor and she describes him as her “rock” in her column in tomorrow’s edition of Closer.

It’s so nice to see Miss Minogue happy and, dare I say it, in love.

Sam Sparro’s charity concert at Shoreditch House attracted a rather rock and roll crowd indeed! The evening – hosted by Sound Tribe Live and Pepsi Maxcast – managed to bag names including Kate Moss and boyfriend Jamie Hince, Stella McCartney and former singer Ms Dynamite.
Sam’s currently a curator for on Pepsi’s Myspace site and the charities Global Angel and the Carjuru Community Project in Brazil.

Obviously all anybody cared about at this bash was finding Kate Moss and rubbing shoulders with the ageing supermodel. And from the looks of these pictures Kate had a whale of a time. A source there tells me: “Kate was in a wild mood and spent much of the night dancing to Sam Sparro and throwing her arms in the air.”

But it was after that I would have loved to have been a fly on the wall. Kate went downstairs in Shoreditch House to the bowling alley and played a few games with none other than Sir Richard Attenborough. How random is that!

Find out more about Sam’s involvement with Pepsi at www.myspace.com/pepsimaxcast.

Holy cow. Leona Lewis totally killed it singing Better In Time at the American Music Awards last night – hit the link below and fast forward to the climax of the song at 2.35 ish. She hits notes that Mariah, Whitney and Christina can only dream of hitting nowadays.

UNBELIEVABLE! Click below…..

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qNUafD5Hqa8