Can you even feel your heartbeat in this senseless city, babe?

In news everyone needed to know, SL Õhtuleht reports that pop tart Charlene has been telling celebrity trash mag Just! that she is so obsessed by high heels that she is never without a pair of stilettos, even at home.

"I know it's not normal, but the first thing I do when I get out of bed in the morning is slip on a pair of stilettos with 10 cm heels and straight away I feel fantastic," revealed the one-time Eurolaul singer, in an article charmingly titled MTV reporter wears fuck-me heels around the house. "People have even said to me I don't know how to walk in anything less!"

Underscoring the wild side of the starlet's nature, and her love of 'extreme experiences', the piece - whose accompanying photo reveals she has as much fashion sense as ever - goes on to talk about Charlene's adventures in the Far East, where she once let an elephant sit on her. "Oh, that was cool! Such an amazing massage. And I didn't break a single rib!"

To witness one of Charlene's (and the nation's) most extreme experiences - her two minutes and fifty-eight seconds of fame during the 2004 national selection for the Eurovision Song Contest - visit https://www.etvpluss.ee/saated.aspx?id=791. Mind, you'll have to pay 6 kroons for the privilege.

Tits out for the trash mags

Mari-Leen, the original 'Disturbed Cinderella', is staring out at us from front-end displays once again as she graces (for want of a better word) the cover of the latest issue of Kroonika. Things have been sexed up though since the photo shoot for the equally intellectual Just! in July made her beau, Sietse Bakker - Dutch former supremo of the Eurovision website esctoday.com and current online something-or-other for the EBU - look like a total dork.

According to Kroonika, the "extraordinarily successful" singer has, at the age of 19, finally found true love - which in this case clearly involves a jeans fetish and penchant for bondage. But then, our Ms Kaselaan has never shied away from talking about her sex life. Earlier in the year she made front page news in the highbrow tabloid SL Õhtuleht, with a headline revealing what we all needed to know in that the "rock chick" lost her virginity at the age of 16: a perfectly reasonable age to do so, in her own words.

It's good to know that young girls, the aspiring glitterati of Estonia, have someone of their own to look up to as a role model for natural beauty and the truly important things in life - like how to fit a chihuahua into a Gucci clutchbag.

Clutch[bagg]ing at straws

It's nice to know that even on the slowest of news days you can find someone with their finger on the pulse. In the latest issue of the ever-topical Just!, editor Anu Saagim talks about things that really matter...

In America, expensive luxury items have been part of the everyday scene for years, as have ladies flitting about with designer bags costing thousands of dollars. More and more of Estonia's beautiful women dream of the cool luxury brands and designer clothes worn by their idols Paris Hilton and Nicole Richie in glossy magazines.

I don't mind at all if you call me a bag freak. I prefer to buy expensive bags than brand-name clothes. I wear the same cocktail dress once, twice at most, so it would be pointless to spend a huge amount of money on them. But I can carry around an expensive Gucci or Chloé slouch bag for years without ever getting bored of it. Some people think my lust for luxury designer bags is sick. And it is, given how expensive a hobby it is.
But when you're buying stuff like this, you have to bear in mind that true classics never go out of style. They go with any outfit, whether you're at work or at a party, and they bring a little bit of luxury to even the greyest of ordinary days. Go for luxury!

I think there's something in that for all of us.