But at least it wasn't at Planet Hollywood, and that the birthday girls actually knew most of their guests (mind you, they did mainly include former Girls Aloud singers Nicola Roberts and Cheryl Cole). And of course the guest of, er, honour, Kris Marshall (My Family? Those B.T ads?)

Oh and the Sugababes (the non-original, original ones) who always seem to just stand there and smile inanely. It gets on our nerves. Someone should have given her gentle shove again

Meanwhile it looked as though Harding had popped to Olympia stadium for Erotica 2009 to buy her dress, as the bottom half of Cheryl's £850,000 dress looked like the plastic thing our dog went home in after the vets. But in Pink.

Happy Birthday!

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