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England cricketer Freddie Flintoff has been voted Celebrity Dad of the Year, reported The Sun. Despite spending 200 days of the year away from his wife Rachel and their two toddlers Holly and Corey, Flintoff topped a web poll by Virgin Money. Incoming prime minister Gordon Brown came fourth in the poll. David Beckham and Paul McCartney also made the top five.

A television baby monitor is beaming a young family in Chicago satellitefootage of the NASA astronauts' latest mission aboard the space shuttleAtlantis, said the Metro. A local amateur radio rebroadcasts the liveonboard video which feeds down to the NASA website, and the Meilingerfamily's baby monitor picks up the frequency. But the paper said thatthree-month-old Jack and two-year-old sister Rachel are unimpressed.

Film star Eddie Murphy has promised he will 'do the right thing' bySpice Girl Mel B's baby daughter if a paternity test he took proves heis the father, according to LondonNet.com. He has not seen Mel or AngelIris since her birth in April.

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