In Brief: Jose flies in for FA talks

Jose Mourinho has flown in to England for talks with the FA about the vacant national manager position. His greatest rival for the post, Fabio Cappello, was interviewed last week... Ivana Trump is inviting 800-plus guests to her forthcoming wedding to Rossano Rubicondi, and will have 15 bridemaids... Jonathan Ross, who is reported to earn £4.5m a year from the BBC, upset corporation journalists by claiming at the British Comedy Awards that he was worth 1,000 of them... Turner Prize winner Mark Wallinger turned up at the Comedy Awards dressed as a bear, prompting a flurry of jokes about the British teacher recently jailed in Sudan for blasphemy... Victoria Beckham dressed actor Jack Nicholson for a shoot for US magazine Parade... Hillary Clinton has quietly ditched her campaign song, You and I by Celine Dion, replacing it with a song called Blue Sky by Big Head Todd and the Monsters. The Dion song had been chosen by Clinton supporters on her website... American homeowners seeking mortgage relief from a new Bush administration hotline were not impressed when they got a constant 'busy signal' after calling the number George Bush himself read out on TV. "I have a message for every homeowner worried about rising mortgage payments," said the President. "The best you can do for your family is to call 1-800-995-HOPE." It was the wrong number... ·