Rachel Stevens waves from the crowd

Rachel Stevens is further out than we thought, and not waving, but drowning:

Rachel Stevens has revealed that she would be interested in collaborating with Lady GaGa.

I'm sure GaGa will be delighted that Rachel Stevens is prepared to consider a collaboration with her.

But Stevens must make it clear she's prepared to spread the love:

"I also love Rihanna, Florence and the Machine and Marina & The Diamonds. I think they all have such strong identities and they're really stylish, strong women."

"... and Amy Winehouse. Susan Boyle. Kate Bush - she isn't dead, is she? I'd be happy to work with Vera Lynn. Or Saffron from Republica. Anyone. Anyone at all... well, not Lisa Scott-Lee, obviously, but anyone else."

Decade Null: 2005 - Rachel Stevens

That was an odd decade for her, wasn't it? From kids TV star to whatever it is she does now, most of it supported through sitting in her pants for FHM, with a couple of cracking pop singles in the middle. No, really. I Said Never Again But Here We Are. Have you forgotten how great this is?



[Part of Decade Null 2005]

Rachel Stevens: Victim support

The Telegraph describes the nasty incident where Rachel Stevens was relieved of her stuff by a gang as a "mugging", although, given she was followed into her home and menaced by three blokes, that seems a little mild.

Not like the Telegraph to miss an opportunity to talk up a crime, is it?

Whatever you call it, it's a horrible thing to have happened, and while it won't do much good, Ms Stevens has our sympathy.

Gennaro Castaldo Watch: S Club 1

While Jo O'Meara is being bottled off, Rachel Stevens is being voted in, doing quite nicely on Strictly Come Dancing considering. The Daily Mail seems to think this might be some sort of character fault, although to judge by the long, catty, knocking piece this morning, we're suspecting that she's turned down an interview with them.

Still, the Mail is an enquiring mind, and wants to know why - despite all the sexy pictures of Stevens with which it illustrates its piece - why her career stalled. Who can explain such things?

HMV's head of talking, Gennaro Castaldo of course. Gennaro, why did Rachel Stevens fail?

'Her music career started incredibly strongly, but then she started to branch out into different areas and that was a mistake,' says HMV's Gennaro Castaldo. 'She spread her profile out too thinly, instead of focusing on making her music career a success.'

Yes, that non-speaking thirty seconds in Deuce Bigelow: Male Gigolo II really saw her taking her eye off the ball from putting out a record every six months.

Other people might think that Stevens was aware that her musical career was probably going to be a limited run at best, and tried to actually find something else to do. But not Gennaro - he knows she could have been the British Madonna had she not wasted her time doing that spectacles advert...

Rachel Stevens begs "save the popstar"

For some reason, Rachel Stevens is worried by the rock resurgence:

"It's changed, um, just a bit more rock 'n' roll now.

"Yeah, we need more pop acts in the mix, bring pop back.

"I feel excited about it, and I'm looking forward to getting back to doing music.

"And I will at some point, but right now I wanted to kind of do different things and challenge myself and try and then I'll be back, definitely."

Doing those contact lens ads must be taking more time than you'd expect, then.

Ever the consummate pro, Stevens even pretends that the prospect of an S Club reunion could be a positive thing, rather than a chance to hang out with Jo "it's not racist if it's a limerick" O'Meara and the others while contemplating how so much promise ended back at square one.

Rachel Stevens plans to park cars and pump gas

Rachel Stevens looks set to mess with a good thing as she's decided that, rather than being a pop singer (something she's rather good at), she wants to be an actor. In Hollywood. Like that Kate Beckinsale.

Don't do anything rash, Rachel, like sell up and move to LA on this whim...

Too late:

"Everyone knows me as a singer but my heart is in acting. "I am taking lessons because it is the best way to improve. I'm really serious about having a career in America and I am hoping to be signed to an agency soon."

Stevens, of course, is not well-known as an actor because, erm, she isn't very good at it. Two years ago, admittedly, she was in Deuce Bigalow II. A non-speaking part as "the dirty girl". And, let's not forget... erm, 2004's M&S advert and the bit part in a Comic Relief Spiderman spoof. At least it's not going to take casting directors too long to watch her show reel.

It's like William Hickey battling Nigel Dempster

They were always arguing in print about who had the first "scoop" on some story so far removed from the realms of interest, too. This morning, the 3AM Girls find room in their public service to provide a 'nyahnyahnyah' bit:

OH dear. Another boob from our low-rent "rivals". Last week, when we revealed P Diddy and Kim Porter's split they denied it, saying they had got him out of bed to "kill the rumour".

Sadly for the ill-informed team, Diddy's rep Keesha Johnson has confirmed they are no longer an item. Oops.

Fascinating.

So, what's the big stories on 3AM today?
someone has created a fake Liam Gallagher profile on Facebook, and a photo of Rachel Stevens kissing Alex Leigh - woman kisses boyfriend shock - which was on the Daily Mail website yesterday lunchtime and they haven't even put on the Mirror site. Well done, everybody.