Nominees expected to attend the event include Oscar-winning British director Sam Mendes, actors Ralph Fiennes and Jude Law and American actress Julianne Moore. Michael Caine, who won the best supporting actor Oscar for his role in The Cider House Rules and is hoping to repeat his success in the same category at Sunday's ceremony, will be presented with the Bafta Fellowship. Westlife say their hectic, globetrotting schedule and the need to preserve their squeaky clean image has left them feeling lonely. The heart-throb band are riding high with Fool Again after smashing a chart record to become the first act to enter the charts at number one with all five of their singles. First of all we don't know if they like us for who we are or for what we are.
Life is so lonely sometimes.
The thing is we can't do it because of who we are and because we probably have to get up at the crack of dawn the next day. Diamonds may be a girl's best friend. For Elton John, it's rhinestones. The entertainer donned a tiara, dangling earrings and rhinestone slippers as he strolled onto stage accompanied by eight bare-chested chorus boys and sang, Diamonds Are a Girl's Best Friend. It featured such theatre performers as Betty Buckley, Sam Harris, Andrea McArdle, Linda Eder, Deborah Gibson and Sandra Bernhard singing the pop idol's music.