In Brief: Lily Allen expecting baby

Singer Lily Allen is expecting a baby with Chemical Brothers star Ed Simons, 37. The 22-year-old's BBC3 TV show Lily Allen And Friends will still go ahead next year as planned... Ex-model Susan Crossley, who is reputed to be worth £18m after her divorces from three previous husbands, has been described by her last husband, Stuart, as a "career divorcee" after she appealed a divorce settlement over his £45m fortune. Crossley was married to her third husband, racing magnate Robert Sangster between 1985 and 2000... Desmond Tutu, Archbishop Emeritus of Cape Town, is appearing in a series of ads for Woolworths on South African TV this Christmas; he is donating his fee to charity... David Beckham was yesterday stopped by Essex police, who thought he was a car thief after a spate of thefts in the area... The man who tried to sue David Chase, creator of The Sopranos, for compensation having given Chase a tour of New Jersey haunts, including a strip club and meat market, before he wrote the first episode of the TV hit series back in 1995, has had the case thrown out of court. "This was like a fly buzzing in my bathroom for seven years, and we finally swatted it," said a delighted Chase after the verdict… ·