Troubled singer Kahara Tomomi (36, photo left) has had another...health episode. Currently on an extended break from her career, she was taken to a Tokyo hospital in the early hours of Sunday morning after a suspected drug overdose. Kahara got in the back of a taxi near the Kabukicho entertainment district of Tokyo around 1am on Sunday but was unable to tell the taxi driver where she wanted to go. As he was unable to wake her up, the driver called the police for help. They found she had a temperature and called for an ambulance to take her to a nearby hospital. She didn't appear to have been drinking.

The TV highlight of the weekend was the 33rd annual edition of NTV's 24-hour telethon, "24-jikan Terebi - Ai wa Chikyu wo Suku." And as usual, the main event was a long-distance run by a celebrity. This year, "new half" talento Haruna Ai (38) became the first transsexual to take on the challenge. She was reduced to tears when her father was surprise guest on Saturday night, and again when she was welcomed by her mother at the Nippon Budokan on Sunday having completed the 85km run in 25 hours 40 minutes. The gruelling run its toll not only on the knees but also on Haruna's makeup, and she arrived looking a lot more like the Onishi Kenji she was originally named.