Lee Randall: Magazine surely has a million reasons to help cyclone families

SOMEONE called Ashlee Simpson is getting married this weekend to someone called Pete Wentz. The 23-year-old is one of the new crowd of "Siblebrities" breeding with the rapidity of fruit flies in the United States. Perhaps this is what is meant by the phrase "family values" – the whole clan has to get in on the act, even though any given member's lack of distinctive skills and abilities means their primary claim to fame is the gene pool (muddy as that may be).

Siblebs include the Hiltons, the Lohans, the Kardashians, the Spearses, and this youngster, whose older sister is Jessica, once the centrepiece of a reality show about being newlyweds, in which she starred with her then husband Nick Lachey. The show ...