Channing Tatum has said he would have gay sex with fellow Hollywood A-list star George Clooney.

The 32-year-old Magic Mike actor was asked who he thought the sexiest man alive was, The Sun newspaper reports.

He said: ‘Well I’ve spent time with George Clooney and he’s the most interesting man on the planet.

‘He can do it all. Yep, I guess what I’m saying is I’d have sex with him.’

When confronted with Trans Media Watch’s evidence to the Leveson Inquiry into standards in the British press, Dominic Mohan (the editor of the Sun) said on oath to the inquiry: ‘I think we have improved our reporting in these matters ... we’ve raised our game in terms of transgender reporting.’

Gay pop superstar Elton John and his partner David Furnish are expecting a second baby.

The couple are said to be ‘over the moon’ about the arrival due next year.

John, 65, and Furnish, 50, are thought to be using the surrogate who gave birth to their 23-month-old son Zachary.

As reported by The Sun, a source said: ‘Elton and David love this lady like a sister and they feel indebted to her for life.

Gareth Thomas has reportedly been signed for Dancing On Ice.

The Welsh gay rugby star and Celebrity Big Brother contestant is said to slipping on his sequins for the British ice-dancing competition.

Comedian and I’m a Celebrity Get Me Out of Here winner Joe Pasquale and soap actors Matt Lapinskas and Samia Ghadie are also said to be taking to the ice floor, as reported by The Sun.

London Olympians Beth Tweddle, who won bronze on the uneven bars, and Luke Campbell, won gold in the boxing, will also join the latest series.

Lady Gaga has snubbed fellow gay icon Madonna by refusing to perform a duet with her in New York.

The new queen of pop turned down the Material Girl's attempt to mend a rift between the superstars because she was too busy on her Born This Way Ball tour.

'Madonna called to ask Gaga to perform with her at Yankee Stadium,' Gaga's manager Vincent Herbert said, reported The Sun.

'Her manager reached out to us and said Madonna would like Gaga to perform with her.'

Brooke Vincent, who plays lesbian character Sophie Webster in UK television soap Coronation Street, says Rihanna is her secret girl crush.

Simon Hughes, the deputy leader of the UK's Liberal Democrat party, says The Sun newspaper outed him after obtaining his telephone records.

The Rupert Murdoch owned tabloid ran a front page splash on the MP in 2006, reporting he had made calls to a gay chat line.

The politician today told the Leveson Inquiry into invasions of privacy by the British press that his phone's voicemail messages relating to party business had gone missing or were unread during a period of 'systematic failure' between 2002 and 2006.