Katie pops in for some Holmes comforts...

RUMOURS of Katie Holmes’s, pictured, split from Jamie Foxx have been dismissed by sources, but she certainly looked far from heartbroken as she strolled around Monkstown, in Dublin, this week. It seems she flew in from the French capital to enjoy a few days R&R, but before she left she called Jamie and asked if he wanted ‘cookies from Paris’. And, to judge by the shopping bag she had in her hand at the time, it looked like he might have ordered a nice bit of brown soda bread from Avoca as well. IT must be an exhausting business, trawling social media for reasons to take offence. Laura Whitmore handed the offence junkies a major hit last week when she tweeted a picture of a red-faced man at Wimbledon and made a harmless quip about the importance of sunscreen. Shame, cried the snowflakes, how very mean – he could have rosacea/high blood pressure/a naturally red face. To her credit, Laura wasn’t exactly flushed with embarrassment at her ‘gaffe’ – ‘he’s got the shape of sunglasses’, she tweeted in exasperation, ‘on his face!’ WHATEVER comes over Taoiseach Leo Varadkar, pictured, when he flies transatlantic? It seems that every time he visits the States he manages to drop some clanger or other. Last March, he made that unwise quip about Donald Trump’s planning permission, and this time he goes and disses the Irish media over ‘fake news’ and confesses some ‘sympathy’ with Trump’s barking paranoia over the American press. Apart from the world of indignation he stirred up at home, sympathising with Donald Trump at his maddest is hardly the smartest way of convincing the United Nations that you’re a safe pair of hands and deserve to be given a seat at the table. TENNIS star Serena Williams revealed this week that she had to stop breastfeeding her baby daughter because she was piling on the pounds – and, contrary to popular wisdom, she lost weight as soon as she put ten-month-old Alexis on bottle feeds. ‘For my body it didn’t work,’ she said and added that it was important to share the message that everyone’s experience was different. If anything, her honesty will be a comfort to new mums who are struggling to find what’s best for them – but that’s not going to cut any ice with the breastfeeding ‘lactivists’, I fear.