Former Spice Girl Geri Halliwell will step in as a guest judge on X Factor while Dannii Minogue is off having her baby, it’s been revealed.

Geri will join show boss Simon Cowell, Irishman Louis Walsh, and Cheryl Cole, as they kick off auditions in Glasgow later this week.

Geri, said: “I love The X Factor!”

An ITV source added: “Simon asked his celebrity pals to join X Factor and they didn’t need asking twice. They’ll all add something new and fresh to the panel.”

Halliwell was previously a judge on Popstars: The Rivals, the very show which discovered X Factor judge Cheryl Cole and her Girls Aloud bandmates, so it’s going to rather interesting to see how those two get on, now that Cole is the bigger star of the two… (Ouch, I didn’t really say that … Did I!?!?)

Other guest judges rumored to be taking part over the coming weeks are Lily Allen, Katy Perry, Natalie Imbruglia and Charlotte Church.

Hey Lil, why so blue?

These hilarious pics are the work of visual wiz Robert Paulson who’s given eighteen stars, including Lily Allen, Susan Boyle and Gordon Ramsay, an Avatar makeover.

And I don’t know about you, but I think Amy Winehouse looks pretty good as a Na’vi – the blue skin is a big improvement on the sallow complexion and scabby skin she was sporting at the height of her ‘troubles’ anyway!

Robert, 22, is a student in San Francisco who started the project after seeing the sci-fi smash, and each picture takes around two hours to complete.

He said: “I can never get the look of the yellow eyes, with their hypnotic irises and pupils and the Na’vi’s glowing dots to my satisfaction – yet. I must have spent over 200 hours on this project so far. But jokes aside, it has given me a huge appreciation of the skill and detail and genius of James Cameron and his team on a technical level.”

Robert says he’s just finished college and is now looking for a job. Maybe Jim can find him a spot on Avatar 2. You never know Robert… You never know!

I wasn’t at all surprised by seeing British singer Lily Allen, hanging around the nightclub toilets in the video for her latest single ‘22‘, the little madam looks right at home (ahem, nuff said)…

These days we are more used to seeing starlets falling out of cars sans underwear but class act Emma Watson wasn’t left red-faced (or red-cheeked) when she had a wardrobe malfunction on Tuesday.

Talking on the David Letterman show last night Emma was confronted with a picture of her adjusting the vintage Ossie Clark dress she wore to the London premiere for Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince…

In this pic: Lily Allen

My pal Todd Interland must be happy bunny today, his client Lily Allen rocked the Wiltern last night as her US tour hit Los Angeles and her show featured a very special guest – Lindsay Lohan.

Fashionista Lil donned various costume changes during her fab 50-minute performance, including Playboy bunny ears and sparkly hotpants, and then during a cover of Brit’s hit Womaniser, she enticed Linds’ – who’d been watching from the side to join her on stage…