When you think of LA you think palm trees, sunshine and drinking cocktails by the pool. Not for me this trip!
I have spent the last two days in bed wrapped in three blankets shivering and sneezing! Im not good at having a cold ! I dont like sitting around and i especially dont like having to watch hours of american cheese ball adverts on tv whilst doing so!

I was fine at the BRITS the night before i left for LA. I had a blast that night ! The BRITS is always full of surprises and madness and it always goes too quickly for me ! It whizzes by and then your left all hyper and all dressed up with no where to go !
I thought the performances this year were incredible ! Take that in a UFO spaceship?? YES PLEASEEE!!! How gorgeous did they all look with those specs on too! Girls Aloud as showgirls with pink feathers!!!! Stunning !!! AND Kings of LEon...what can i say!!! I just flippin love them!

I was so hoping to interview the handsome kings. We captured them after they won their first award and i kept them mildly entertained for ten minutes before my next live interview was due backstage. Literally seconds before we were due on air their management dragged them away from me, the marginally stalker like fan disguised as a tv presenter! GUTTED !
BUT ...hey i got to interview the HOFF! We had an 'interesting' chat where his main focus seemed to be my dress! Then before he went on stage he asked me if he should wear his jacket buttoned or unbuttoned! Bemused by his concern i went for buttoned up for a smarter HOFF!
I was happy Girls Aloud won a BRIT and loved that they were so clearly over the moon about it ! Also Elbow who after years of slogging got their well deserved silver lady !
I thought MAtt and JAmes did a great job with Kylie! Their opening dance was stupendously brilliant ! All im saying is LEATHER LEGGINS! wow!

After the awards i skulked off home as i had an early flight the next morning and the threat of a dreaded cold looming ! As soon as i got on the plane my sneaky cold decided to show is ugly head! I was shivering one minute, sweating the next ! No amount of British Airways hot chocolate could cheer me up !
So i landed in LA thursday afternoon feeling horrendous. I thought perhaps a hot toddy would warm me up from my shivers and clear my head. Instead i got an instant whiskey sweat and had to go to bed! Yesterday is a blur as my head was still clouded with snot and sneezing (if there is such thing as man flu i have it !!) and spent most of the day in bed with short intervals of filming.

We were up at the crack of 6am to go and film with Taraji P Henson who is the great actress who plays Brad Pitss mum in Benjamin Button! We met her at her Pr ladies posh office in Hollywood and had a good old natter about dresses, jewels and all things oscars ! She is a lovely lady and i look forward to seeing which dress out of her three options she chooses for sunday !!! I have chosen a dark pink floor length Balenciaga frock with some black diamond jewels and converse underneath as no one can see my feet behind the restrictive 'dont-touch-the-movie-stars' hedge they put between us all!

Then back to bed before warming up to the fact i was going to hangout with PAris Hilton for the afternoons filming ! She didnt show up which i was a bit gutted about as i was planning a great new phone screen saver of me and her chillin together ! I also secretly wanted to meet her weird little dogs and her monkey she apparently has! SO instead we went and filmed at one of the Oscar gifting suits which is an odd concept where movie stars go to a room full of random things and they take it all home for free! You get different colour wrist bands showing your hierarchy in the celeb world to show HOW much free shit you get !! I ended up coming away with a stainless steal sharpie, a floor length coat for when ive 'been surfing!!!!' and some odd shoes you were to improve your posture!

Next it was off to the Four Seasons Hotel to interview lovely Dev Patel! If your yet to see Slumdog Millionaire, go do it now ! Its beautiful and clever! We had a nice chat on a sun lounger about how mad his life has recently become ! He is still so excited about the whole HOllywood way which is refreshing and good to see. Elton John waved at him last night which i was actually quite jealous about !

Then it was back to bed with another 100mg of vit C and a lemsip! I slept for ten whole hours and feel quite chipper this morning. Im still snotting all over the shop and sneezing but the general body ache of the cold has vanished thank goodness! I really dont want to be snotting all over Brad and Angelina, or my pink Balenciaga dress tomorrow to be honest !

The whole 2 hour LIVE show will be on SKy One tomorrow night (sunday ) at 11pm! Hopefully i get to see Mickey Rourke again!! I hope he wins the Oscar too!
So now im going to do some more research on my lap top then go and rehearse on the red carpet for a bit ! This involves random people walking up and down the carpet out side the Kodak Theatre with paper signs around their necks stating that they ARE Kate Winslette or Clint Eastwood and us presenters from all over the globe pretending to interview said fake celebs!!

Im back in blighty monday to get ready for the BIg BT rednose climb!! Its not too late to donate to Comic relief for ou climb of mount kilimanjaro! Just visit www.rednoseday.com and sponsor me !! THAnks if you already have !

Have a grand weekend Peace and Love
COTTON
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