Digital Spy has become part of Hachette Filipacchi UK, the leading publication group with titles including Elle, Psychologies, All About Soap and Inside Soap, as well as the digital sites Elleuk.com and Sugarscape.com.

The deal provides for significant investment in Digital Spy, allowing the site to increase the volume and breadth of its coverage. The management and editorial teams will remain unchanged.

Neil Wilkes, Editor of Digital Spy, says: "Everyone at Digital Spy is greatly excited by the new opportunities this deal brings. Having the resources of one of the UK's leading publishing groups and its global expertise to hand is a huge advantage in the next phase of our development."

Kevin Hand, Chairman of Hachette Filipacchi UK, comments: "I am delighted to have acquired DigitalSpy.co.uk to further expand our growing digital division. Operating in the entertainment news area Digital Spy is the perfect complement to our existing portfolio of brands. This acquisition will offer considerable cross promotional and content sharing opportunities for our current sites and our international network as well as enhance our advertisers' ability to reach a large, highly engaged audience."

Hachette Filipacchi UK is a subsidiary of global media organisation Lagardere Active.