London, England -- Gwyneth Paltrow has gone bananas with her diet ever since she became pregnant. She recently confessed to British talk show host David Frost that she binges regularly on banana toffee pie.

LONDON -- Music may be a universal language but Paul McCartney isn't taking any chances. "Women's Wear Daily" reports that the former Beatle is planning to tour Europe and wants to speak to each audience in their native language so he is currently working with tutors to learn Danish, Portuguese, Spanish, Russian, German, Italian, Czech, Finnish, French and Norwegian.

TEMPE, Ariz. -- Linkin Park frontman Chester Bennington has exactly what every nu-metal band needs: His own tattoo parlor. The singer is a business partner in a Phoenix-based chain of tattoo and piercing lounges, Club Tattoo, and recently celebrated the opening of a third location in Mesa, Arizona.

LOS ANGELES -- System of a Down will be back in the studio this summer to record the follow-up to their multi-platinum album "Toxicity." Guitarist Daron Malakian says the political events of the past few years have affected the group's music, so fans should expect "a record that will be heavy, but heavy in emotion, not just heavy in riffs."

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