I haven't bedded Hayley... yet: Pop star

Britain's newest pop star, Harry Todger, has spoken out over his failure to bed fifth-placed Pop Idol contestant Hayley Evetits.

Harry, who is currently at number 53 after selling 313 copies of his debut single Seven inches of pleasure, rang The Rockall Times showbiz desk yesterday to confirm showbiz rumours that he hasn't yet bedded the Brummie beauty were true.

"I don't know how my fans will take it, but it is true. I haven't slept with Hayley," he said, before adding: "But I will sometime, I reckon."

Hayley may have finished fifth in the talent race to find a new pop puppet, but she won first place in our Shag Idol contest, in which members of the public auditioned to win their chance to have sex with as many minor celebrities as possible.

"Many people thought she wouldn't last," said an expert yesterday, "but I think she has surprised people with her versatility and single-minded determination to ride every celebrity shaft she can."

Heartbroken Harry, 19, doesn't know what he is doing wrong. Clearly emotional when he spoke of his feelings yesterday he told The Rockall Times: "I just don't know why she hasn't been in touch. I have a record deal, a hit single, I've appeared on ITV2 in the early hours and my agent already has my panto gig lined up for Christmas 2004. What else can I do?"

Harry Todger's world tour starts next week in Norfolk, where he will be playing the Orchard's holiday village. "I'm excited about the tour, it's always been my dream to be on stage with Bradley Bear. Of course if Hayley plays her cards right, she could be sharing my luxury caravan," he said.

Meanwhile, celebrity cock-hound Hayley is on the US leg of her Shag Idol tour, where she is currently performing bedroom gymnastics with a minor cast member of Dawson's Crack, the hit TV show about a drug dealer and his friends growing up in a small town.

She started her tour in Bradford with a spiky-haired choirboy, but that relationship stuttered to a halt over communication problems. On the Irish leg of her tour, things looked disappointing until she wowed crowds with her oral work on butcher's boy Keef Simple. Next week, she will be in South America, where she will mostly be shagging Ricque Marglesias, who is tipped to be the new Enrique Iglesias, who was said to be the new Ricky Martin. After that she will swap partners as often as it takes to keep her name in the papers.