As has been noted by many a Celebrity Big Brother viewer Mutya Buena enjoyed her festive mince pies before entering the BB house.

One singer who appears to have laid off the Quality Street over the Christmas period though is Lily Allen who, if reports in the Daily Mail are to believed, is using a £300 a session regimen of hypnotherapy “to remove the desire for fattening foods”.

Maybe it was being called fat by Katy Perry that led Allen to seek alternative therapy. Whatever, it’s working, but isn’t it all a bit of a shame that an artist who once championed being happy with who you are rather than going on diets so you “can look like Kate Moss” is now as thin as a parking meter.