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Leona Lewis meets her songwriter, Arctic Monkeys fight – Daily Ligger

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Dirty Pretty Things, Girls Aloud, Red Hot Chilli Peppers – your music gossip stop

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Today’s top gossip:

Jesse McCartney, the man who wrote Leona Lewis's hit, 'Bleeding Loe', met her for the first time in Los Angeles last week. "It was good to finally meet her," he said. "She's lovely. We didn't talk much business really. I thought it was best not to seeing as she was chilling" (The Sun).

From the papers:

Girls Aloud's Sarah Harding walked around London sporting a pair of white sunglasses (The Sun).

Dirty Pretty Things' Carl Barat refused to take off his skinny jeans to don skiing gear at the Snowbombing festival in Mayrhofen, Austria (Daily Star).

Meanwhile Lightspeed Champion, aka Dev Hynes, got robbed while at the festival (Daily Star).

Red Hot Chili Peppers' Anthony Kiedis has hired a vegan chef to provide him with round-the-clock healthy food (Daily Mirror).

Arctic Monkeys' Matt Helders fled the Bungalows And Bears bar in Sheffield after a fight erupted (Daily Mirror).

The Spice Girls Geri Halliwell is dating her former backing dancer Ivan Velez (Daily Mirror).

E-mailed in from NME.COM users:

The Courteeners' Liam Fray swaggered around outside The Social in London. He bummed a few fags off the door-man but refused to pay a fiver to get in and see Kyte (from Nat).

Check back tomorrow for the next Daily Ligger. E-mail your spots to news@nme.com.

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