
Countdown of the year’s best water-cooler stories, featuring Charlie Sheen’s spectacular and very public meltdown, Ryan Giggs’s marital infidelities, Lindsay Lohan appearing in court – again – Cheryl Cole winning a job on The X Factor USA, only to be dumped not long after, and Kim Kardashian’s short-lived marriage. But it has not all been bad news and salacious gossip. Pippa Middleton’s rear also kept the commentators busy for a while.

























