Don't think the looming world recession hasn't put the wind up celebrities, too. Eyeing the likely collapse of consumer confidence in all things frivolous, wasteful and fake, the globe's glitterati are scrambling to economise. First to cut costs are Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes who, according to Famous, have started taking their own coffee to work in matching mugs. Lindsay Lohan and Samantha Ronson - who according to NW have separated - have been spotted catching the New York subway. And Courtney Love is photographed hunched and gesticulating wildly with cash in hand in a street market, which denotes either keen haggling skills or a fame-induced incomprehension of the existence of wallets.

But don't be too concerned. Proof that celebrities live on, strong and often too long comes in the news that the former footballer Warwick Capper has enhanced his already aristocratic features with a facelift. Adding to this early Christmas gift to the nation, Woman's Day features a diary of Capper's $10,000 transformation, detailing collagen, Botox, liposuction and skin-tightening treatments he says make him look 15 years younger.

"People say I've got so many tickets on myself the concert's sold out," says the man who followed up his AFL career tackling stints as a porn star, a stripper, stand-up comedian, a model and as a "stop-go man" on a road repair crew.

"But the jealous ones are ugly and fat and don't look after themselves. My body's a temple."

To emphasise his point , a bare Capper poses raunchily between rumpled white sheets and, in another confronting image, comatose while fat is extracted from his neck.

In other news of questionable feats of physical tweakery, Tara Reid, a model and actor famed for not noticing her dress had fallen to expose her left breast while extendedly posing for photographers at a red-carpet event, has hit back at comments about her stomach liposuction. In an interview with Who, Reid says the "bumps" on her stomach from the surgery four years ago are "battle wounds" and she is no longer interested in Playboy covers or being "naked in front of a random person". Which may mean we never see her again.

In fashion tidings, NW has published a ravishing photo-feature called "Stars Are Loving Plaid". Tartan is an unforgiving fashion foundation at the best of times and it is interesting to note that it is the youngest stars featured - model Chanel Iman and her plaid trousers, Agyness Deyn and her black-and-white mini dress - who, with their cherubic faces, are best able to carry off a pattern as busy, loud and historically unrelenting as, say, Warwick Capper's ego.

Source: Magwatch, smh.com.au