Charlotte has news for us

Singing sensation Charlotte Church, 16, has become the youngest person to appear on satirical news quiz show Have I got News For You.

She is said to have given a virtuoso performance, helping comedian Paul Merton's side to victory. She ticked off host Angus Deayton who made a series of cruel one-liners about Ulrika Jonsson's liaison with England football manager Sven-Goran Eriksson, and declared: "I want to stick up for Ulrika."

When asked by Deayton why she didn't find Eriksson sexy she quipped: "I shouldn't answer that because you are all old."

She also told of her meetings with world leaders. President George W Bush once asked her which state Wales

was in, and Bill Clinton oozed charisma but had a nose so big "you had to look around it", she said.

The Queen asked her if she "sang often", and Prince Philip had to remind the monarch: "Don't you know who she is? We listen to her all the time on Classic FM."

After the show, which is on BBC1 tonight at 9pm, Merton praised Church's "speed of wit".