The star, who won the Best Actress Oscar for her lead role in Monster in 2003, insists that she “can function” on such a small amount of time in her double bed.

Charlize’s career keeps going from strength to strength as she flexes her talent for all kinds of roles. She plays the evil queen in her new film Snow White and the Huntsman, and will star in Alien prequel Prometheus which is released on June 1st. The blonde beauty is also the face of Dior’s perfume J’adore.

Charlize insists her creativity and energy will not be affected by her sleep deprivation, and told The Sun (May 16th) that she is still wholeheartedly enjoying her acting career. “I love what I do,” she said. “I feel blessed. Most people grow up to work in an office and I get to play. I don’t take that for granted.”

The South African said the key was to put home life before work. “I’ve always been very aware of balance and, even before I had a child, my life always takes priority to my work.”

Researchers from the Stanford Sleep Epidemiology Research Center in California wished to find out how prevalent sleepwalking was in the US, so they called around 16,000 adults in 15 different states to collect data.

The study showed that people who have sleep apnoea or insomnia, as well as those who drink heavily, are among those most likely to sleepwalk.

Sleepwalking is the umbrella term for a range of nap-time actions from sleep talking to getting up out of their single bed and walking about. Neurologist and sleep medicine specialist Dr Timothy Young said sleepwalking becomes a problem when sleepers begin to make their way downstairs or leave their houses.

Dr Young gave advice about the best way to deal with a sleepwalker, saying: “Redirect the person and get them back to bed.”

Although the study examined the sleepwalking habits of people as reported by themselves, the researchers said the condition may be underreported as forgetting you have sleepwalked is a common characteristic of the disorder.

The study was published on May 14th in the journal Neurology.

Mr Sendak was also an illustrator for over 100 books, including many of his own. His death came about after he suffered complications from a stroke he’d recently had, according to Channel 4 News.

His books have been enjoyed by generations who have listened to or read the tales in their children’s beds, with “Where the Wild Things Are” being the biggest hit. In 2009, the well-loved characters were taken off the pages and brought to life on the big screen by director Spike Jonze.

Mr Sendak’s literary feats did not go unnoticed; his work was honoured with the Hans Christian Andersen Award, and in 1996 he received the National Medal of Arts.

His books are sure to continue to enthral children for generations to come.

Susan Katz, the president of HarperCollins, which published Maurice Sendak’s work, paid tribute to him as a “a glorious author and illustrator, an amazingly gifted designer, a blisteringly funny raconteur, a fierce and opinionated wit, and a loyal friend to those who knew him.”

She concluded by saying that the author had changed the world for the better.

The feeling of security a child gets from being able to spend the rest of the night in a parent’s bed, rather than being sent back to their children’s beds, could stop them eating as much throughout the day.

Children who were allowed to cosy up with their parents were three times less likely to be obese than those who were never allowed to do so.

Researchers at Copenhagen University Hospitals studied a group of 500 Danish children, aged from two to six years old, to find the link. Each child was considered to be at greater risk of being overweight, either because they weighed more as a baby, because their mother was poor, or because their mother was overweight before getting pregnant.

In the past, studies have suggested that children who are allowed to move into their parents’ bed do not sleep as well as those who are not allowed, and poor-quality sleep is linked to obesity. This study disagrees with these previous findings, however.

The study’s author, Nanna Olsen, said: “Types of negative psychosocial responses, such as feelings of rejection when not being allowed to enter parents’ bed, may lead to [being] overweight,” according to US News (May 9th).

The Real Slim Shady likes the windows of his hotel bedrooms to be covered in tinfoil, it was recently revealed, to stop any light creeping in and infringing upon his trip to the land of nod.

As a jet-setting star, the 39-year-old’s sleep is of great importance, especially as his schedule involves regularly crossing time zones.

A source told The Sun (May 9th) that as well as foil over the windows, Eminem has white noise coming through the TV to soothe him to sleep. “The noise and darkness gets Eminem the best night’s sleep”, the source explained.

Missing out on a good night’s sleep because you’re away from the comfort of your own bed is a common problem, but as Eminem has found, there are ways to combat the problem.  When booking a room in a hotel, guests can ask for a room away from sources of noise like lifts and ground floor reception areas. As long as guest’s requests don’t damage the hotel or cause problems to other guests, most hotels would be happy for visitors to do what they need to in order to get a good night’s sleep; good news for Eminem’s tinfoil habit!

The Twilight star was photographed in a less than glamorous combination of faded black jeans, a bunched-up stripy t-shirt and trainers as she walked through Los Angeles International airport this bank holiday Monday (7^th), the Daily Mail reported.

Kristen clearly hoped she would get a spare moment to sort out her unruly mane as she had attached a hair clip to the front pocket of her jeans. However, in a resourceful move the star used her locks, along with her white-framed sunnies, to hide her make-up free face from onlookers.

The 22-year-old may have just cause to be embarrassed by her get-up, as she was recently named ‘Best Dressed Woman in the World’ by UK magazine Glamour. However, her outfit mishap may have been down to a simple case of over-sleeping, as Ms Stewart’s schedule has been jam-packed thanks to filming for the last instalment of the Twilight saga recently.

The sleepy-looking star might not have beat fashion royalty like Angelina Jolie and Victoria Beckham, and actual royalty the Duchess of Cambridge, if her looks were judged by her latest ensemble. But Kristen usually offers up a slice of red-carpet glamour worthy of the Best Dressed title, so fans will surely let her off for this bank holiday style error.

If you haven’t managed to get your required amount of sleep at night, you may want some daytime shut eye. Sleep researcher and assistant professor Henry Olders from McGill University advises you keep them short. “Naps are definitely a good way to help you feel more rested, but keep them to about ten to 15 minutes, ideally,” he said, “any longer than half an hour and you risk sleep inertia, which will hurt your focus.”

Mr Olders explains that the best thing you can do is to get into a pattern that sees you sleep for the same length of time every day of the week, even weekends. This is a good way to feel rested.

To feel more awake at work, try to sit where you can see the sun. Natural sunlight tells your body to stay awake, so you should feel more on-the-ball.

The brain of a lucid dreamer was viewed using specialist imaging technology to allow researchers to see the activity in the brain that controls the body. By getting the dreamer to move their eyes in a prearranged pattern and clench their fists, the study demonstrated that lucid dreamers can exert control over their actions in their dreams, meaning they could do as they wish from the comfort of their white beds.

Neuroscientist Martin Dresler and his team of researchers found that ‘normal’ dreamers have reduced control over the areas of the brain used for attentional and executive abilities, but lucid dreamers seem to retain this control during sleep. This means they are able to access their memories and even control what is happening in the dream.

Set for publication in the journal Sleep, the study could mean lucid dreamers may be able to use their heightened awareness to prevent recurring nightmares.

In a Sleepio report on the study, Dr Simon Kyle said: “Although essentially a case report study, this work helps to define for the first time the brain correlates of lucid dreaming, and how this state differs from non-lucid REM sleep.”

With 30 per cent of those questioned claiming they are more stressed now than a year ago, it may be understandable that one in ten parents have been foregoing bedtime stories for two weeks at a time.

A quarter of the survey’s participants find someone else to read to their kids, while less than one third cosy up in their children’s beds for a daily story.

It seems that work and financial worries are two of the main stress causers; One in five fathers cited work as the reason they didn’t crack open a kid’s book, while 28 per cent of respondents said they were stressed over household finances.

The survey was commissioned by Munch Bunch, which has recently opened a competition that encourages parents to not only read bedtime stories, but to write their own.

Dr Richard Woolfson, a child psychologist who has judged Munch Bunch writing competitions in the past, explained why parents shouldn’t put off sharing a story with their kids. He said: “Story time, so key to childhood development, is under threat because of the stresses and strains today’s parents face.

“Yet, it is one of the most relaxing activities for both parent and child. We want to encourage mums and dads to reclaim story time as a little bubble of calm and happiness they can share with their little ones.”

In a post on Twitter, Rochelle shared a photo of the pair posing with a boiled egg among white bed linen. The picture was a sneak-peek of what to expect from their 2013 calendar which they were shooting that day.

In a tweet accompanying the picture, Rochelle Wiseman wrote: “Working hard in bed with a boiled egg!” (April 29th)

Although that photo may not have looked like very hard work, a following post demonstrated that the girl band had indeed put a lot of energy into one aspect of their photo shoot. Rochelle wrote: “This what happens when we get asked to pillow fight #hardcore”(April 29th), and accompanied the post with a picture of a room littered with pink and white feathers with a pillow on the floor.

Rochelle’s followers on Twitter were treated to snippets from her enviable lifestyle throughout the day, as she began the Sunday by sharing: “En route to @TheSaturdays calendar shoot. What a grim old day outside, thankfully we have a glam location to shoot in ” (April 29th).