Last week I had the chance to speak with Food Network's Guy Fieri. He's the host of three shows — Guy's Big Bite, Diners, Drive-ins, Dives, and Guy Off the Hook — and winner of the Next Food Network Star season two. Filming keeps him incredibly busy, but in his spare time, the celebrity chef — who prefers hot dogs to hamburgers and mustard to ketchup — continues to experiment in the kitchen.
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At the Jenny Packham show artfully folded tulle and delicately ruffled chiffon was encrusted with multi-coloured crystals for a show-stopping effect. The colours ranged from bright fuschia to orange, lilac, cerise and dusky pink. Whilst Packham's collections are always on the wearable side of glamour, there was a definite hint of 80's debutante in the short, fitted shapes and bright makeup. 
In the first part of our exclusive interview with fashion expert Caryn Franklin she shared her views on London Fashion Week's creative approach and the designers to watch this season. Here she chats to me about how the shows have changed since the 80's and how celebrity culture has affected what we want to wear.
Q: How has London Fashion Week changed since you first started out?
Fashion expert Caryn Franklin has been doing her bit to encourage young designers at London Fashion Week. With an illustrious fashion career that includes being Fashion Editor of i-D magazine in the early 80's; Caryn is most famous for her work as the presenter on The Clothes Show from 1986 until 2000. Nowadays Caryn acts as an expert for GMTV as well as various magazines and websites.
I was lucky enough to get an exclusive interview with her about London Fashion Week, exporting creativity and the designers to watch this season. 
On Monday I posted my Must Haves for September, and now I have some more for you – this time kindly contributed by ex-Heat editor Mark Frith! He's made a list of his favourite TV, radio, DVD, book and movie choices for you to check out this month, so without further ado it's over to Mark...
On hand at this weekend's Slow Food Nation was Momofuku chef David Chang, whose self-described "vaguely Asian" New York restaurants have catapulted him to celebrity status in the past several years. In a guest appearance at the festival's Green Kitchen, Chang showed the audience Momofuku's twist on caprese salad. As he was prepping for his demonstration, he was kind enough to talk to me about slow food, fast food (Chipotle and In-N-Out are his favorites), future plans, and his latest infatuation.
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There's a brand new comedy series starting on ITV2 tonight called No Heroics, which is about a group of superheroes living in London. Rebekah Staton (State Of Play) stars in the series as Jenny / She-Force, alongside other familiar faces such as James Lance (Teachers), Patrick Baladi (The Office), Nicholas Burns (Benidorm) and Claire Keelan (Nathan Barley). I recently caught up with the rather lovely Rebekah to talk about the series, here's what she told me:
Last night FabUK and I headed to Beach Blanket Babylon in Notting Hill for a party and screening of the fun and bizarre musical short The Town That Boars Me. It has cameos from familiar faces like Sadie Frost, Zandra Rhodes, Jodie Harsh and Kelly Osbourne (who was missing from the party due to her black eye), as well as the lovely Sophie Ellis-Bextor who we managed to have a few words with! Make sure you check out what she said about her expensive boots to FabUK, and here's what else she had to say to us:
As we headed over she was with her man Richard Jones (The Feeling) who she introduced as "her husband and sometime bodyguard", at which he jokingly said "I'm watching you two...". 
Here's the continuation of our interview with Tom Sheridan, the lobbyist who works with Bono on his ONE campaign to end global poverty. Liberty took in a ONE campaign panel with Ben Affleck, Madeleine Albright, and Tom Daschle at the convention yesterday — more details on that event soon! Here's the continuation of our conversation with Tom:
Who else do you work with?
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Parked in the intersection of politics and pop culture is the celebrity activist. There all kinds of ways celebrities get involved in causes from serving on boards to inspiring laws on Capitol Hill, and Tom Sheridan knows how to harness that fame and make the issue the real star. A lobbyist based in DC, he represents Bono and his work on the ONE campaign against global poverty.
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