Showbiz Snippets

• The mother and elder brother of actress Jennifer Hudson, who won an Oscar for her role in Dreamgirls, have been shot dead at the Chicago home she bought for them. Hudson's brother-in-law is being questioned by police. (Independent on Sunday)
  
• Cherie Blair has earned £68,000 in a week of lectures in America that took in Aspen, Chicago and Houston. (Mail on Sunday)


• Leading stem cell scientist Professor Colin McGuckin is moving to France because he says British science gives too much priority to embryo experiments over "more ethical" alternatives, such as experiments on adult stem cells (Sunday Times


• TV chef Jamie Oliver is to launch his own monthly magazine before Christmas. The magazine will feature recipes by the chef and articles written by his wife, Jools. (Sunday Telegraph)


• 'Vice queen' Natalie Rowe has revealed how she and George Osborne bonded over his interest in her dominatrix paraphernalia and their shared feelings of exclusion during his Bullingdon Club days at Oxford University. She claims to have supplied drugs and prostitutes to a Bullingdon party at the Rothschilds' family home, Waddesdon Manor, in Buckinghamshire. (News of the World)


• Guy Ritchie has been left seething with anger after his son Rocco was photographed wearing a New York Yankees baseball shirt. Ritchie's estranged wife Madonna has been linked with Yankees star Alex 'A-Rod' Rodriguez. (Sunday Mirror)