In the women's mags: Becks photos come with a warning - white speedos

Given David Beckham's role as a fashion trailblazer for the men of the world, the latest sightings will surely prompt a public health alert.

No new hairdo, but white speedos. We kid you not. They do exist, and the Woman's Day and New Zealand Woman's Weekly feature spreads of Beckham clad in the beasties.

He and Posh were on a launch off the coast of Italy, recovering from the strain of Becks' English football team coming, oh, absolutely nowhere in the World Cup.

The white speedos are his revenge on the world. Do not try this at home.

More modestly clad, and with less potential for causing the fashion equivalent of bird flu, is Petra Bagust on the cover of Woman's Day. She's preggers for the third time, and what's more the father is yet again her husband.

She doesn't intend to hide away in Namibia to give birth and she's even allowed to scream. There are no exes casting hexes.

How crushingly boring. The most exciting part was Petra's declaration that she didn't need a pregnancy test to tell her she was in the family way and that they practise natural family planning methods.

New Zealand celebrities just can't stack up to their Hollywood counterparts.

Woman's Weekly also does a catch-up on Nicole Kidman and country singer Keith Urban, who married a whole month ago.

They're still married.

Nicole jogs, gets her nails done and sometimes even plays pool in her new hometown, Nashville, Tennessee.

New Idea is the best bet for recycled rumour around Tom and Katie, and the Jennifer, Brad, Angelina thing.

Suri still hasn't been sighted and Tom has apparently put Katie under orders to get skinny so he doesn't have a fat bride.

He's flying organic food from Los Angeles to Colorado, where Katie is staying at a ski resort. She hogs out on low-fat grain quinoa, but is still allowed diet cola.

Meanwhile, Jennifer still isn't engaged to Vince Vaughan and Angelina still isn't married to Brad Pitt.

Woman's Day emerges with the disturbing news that Rod Stewart plans to forge ahead with his dreams to populate the world.

The bling-chested 61-year-old features in a series of photos with fiancee Penny Lancaster and his seventh child, 9-month-old Alastair.

He says he wants yet another, if only so he can get some amusement in his afterlife by watching the inevitable bickering over his estate, the Herald suspects.