Essex girls Sam Faiers and Amy Childs dress as Honey Ryder and Jessica Rabbit for Harry's 17th birthday bash

With her red hair and ample cleavage, The Only Way Is Essex star Amy Childs has often been compared to Jessica Rabbit.

So to celebrate cousin Harry Derbidge's 17th birthday last night, the reality star, 20, decided to dress as the iconic cartoon character for his fancy dress party in Essex.

Wearing a skin-tight red dress and black gloves, the beautician joined best friend Sam Faiers, who showed off her hourglass figure in a white bikini as she dressed as a Bond girl.







Iconic pin-ups: Amy Childs (left) dressed as Jessica Rabbit and best friend Sam Faiers as Bond girl Honey Ryder as they headed off to Harry Derbidge's 17th birthday party

The glamour model, 20, paid homage to Ursula Andress's Honey Ryder character from the 1962 Bond classic Dr No.

But to get through security at the party venue, the fashion boutique owner sensbily substitute a real knife for a cardboard one in her waistband.


And there was no missing the birthday boy himself, who dressed as his idol Lady Gaga.



Birthday boy: Sam joined close friend Harry Derbidge, who dressed as his idol Lady Gaga for his birthday party

Wearing a blue leotard, gloves and blonde wig, the performing arts student hitched a ride to his party in a pink limousine with Faiers and Childs.


Since the ITV2 show started last autumn, the cast have regularly dressed up for fancy dress parties, included Sixties, Hollywood and fairytale.




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Other TOWIE stars expected to attend were Jessica Wright, Mark Wright, Lucy Mecklenbergh, Lydia Bright, James 'Arg' Argent and Lauren Goodger.


Lola singer Jessica, 25, wasn't too impressed with her outfit: 'On way to Harry's bday party. This outfit is jokes! Looks awful but it's all fun and games.'






Va va voom: Last night's party was filmed for a forthcoming episode of The Only Way Is Essex and is likely to be screened next week

Mecklenbergh, 19, admitted she wasn't a fan of wearing a wig for her outfit: 'Harry's bday tonight, can't wait to see everyone's outfits! .. Wigs are soo itchy!!'

Writing on his Twitter page ahead of his party, Derbidge enthused: 'It's my birthday ahhhhhh.

'OMG, so many birthday wishes, I love you all. It don't even feel like my birthday, Can't wait for tonight.'

Derbidge's choice of outfit is no surprise with the performing arts student regularly speaking about his love of Lady Gaga.

On his MySpace page, he wrote 'Lady Gaga is my life'.



Checking everything's in place: Childs makes sure her surgically-enhanced DD size breasts are still in her tight-fitting dress





Travelling in style: Harry, Amy and Sam headed to the party in a bright pink limousine

Live human heart grown in lab using stem cells in potential transplant breakthrough

Breakthrough: Scientists are hopeful their artificial heart will be beating within days

Scientists are growing human hearts in laboratories, offering hope for millions of cardiac patients.
American researchers believe the artificial organs could start beating within weeks.
The experiment is a major step towards the first ‘grow-your-own’ heart, and could pave the way for  livers, lungs or kidneys to be made  to order.
The organs were created by removing muscle cells from donor organs to leave behind tough hearts of connective tissue.
Researchers then injected stem cells which multiplied and grew around the structure, eventually turning into healthy heart cells.
Dr Doris Taylor, an expert in regenerative medicine at the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis, said: ‘The hearts are growing, and we hope they will show signs of beating within the next weeks.
‘There are many hurdles to overcome to generate a fully functioning heart, but my prediction is that it may one day be possible to grow entire organs for transplant.’
Patients given normal heart transplants must take drugs to suppress their immune systems for the rest of their lives.

This can increase the risk of high blood pressure, kidney failure and diabetes.
If new hearts could be made using a patient’s own stem cells, it is less likely they would be rejected.

 

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The lab-grown organs have been created using these types of cells – the body’s immature ‘master cells’ which have the ability to turn into different types of tissue. The experiment follows a string of successes for researchers trying to create spare body parts for transplants.
In 2007, British doctors grew  a human heart valve using stem  cells taken from a patient’s  bone marrow.
A year later, scientists grew a beating animal heart for the first time.
Dr Taylor’s team have already created beating rat and pig hearts. Although they were too weak to be used in animals, the work was an important step towards tailor-made organs.
In their latest study, reported at the American College of Cardiology’s annual conference in New Orleans, researchers created new organs using human hearts taken from dead bodies.
The scientists stripped the  cells from the dead hearts with a powerful detergent, leaving ‘ghost heart’ scaffolds made from the protein collagen.
The ghost hearts were then injected with millions of stem cells, which had been extracted from patients and supplied with nutrients.
The stem cells ‘recognised’ the collagen heart structure and began to turn into heart muscle cells.
The hearts have yet to start beating – but if they do, they could be strong enough to pump blood.
However, the race to create a working heart faces many obstacles.
One of the biggest is getting enough oxygen to the organ through a complex network of blood vessels. Scientists also need to ensure the heart cells beat in time.
Dr Taylor told the Sunday Times: ‘We are a long way off creating a heart for transplant, but we think we’ve opened a door to building any organ for human transplant.