Do put the big knickers on ice! They’re not so Klassy

THE one sentence we never expected Dancing On Ice celebrity and lingerie model Myleene Klass to utter after being twirled upside down last week by her partner: ‘I wish my knickers had been bigger.’ Can this be the same Myleene, right, who was in that memorable white-bikini, I’m A Celeb shower scene?

GOOD news at last, Bridgerton is returning with a second series and it will continue its proud ‘colour-conscious casting’. Hurrah! What would the first series of the Netflix hit have been without the magnificently muscled Duke of Hastings, Regé-Jean Page, and his beautiful torso?

Now tipped to be the next James Bond, his 4million or so Instagram followers would give anything to see him emerging from the sea in blue budgie smugglers.

HAVING caught coronavirus in March, TV presenter Kate Garraway’s husband and father to their two children, Derek Draper, is still recovering in hospital ‘ravaged by Covid’. Her family’s trauma seems never-ending.

We were all overjoyed when she revealed last summer that Derek had opened his eyes for the first time in months after being struck down. And yet, even today, he can hardly speak.

I know Kate a little and can tell you that she will never give up fighting for her husband and their two youngsters. Nothing could be more telling of her character than the title of the book she is writing, The Power Of Hope.

And if there’s one salutary lesson we should all take from her apart from her hope, it’s that Covid can affect anyone, anywhere, at any time.

HIGH hopes for the ITV drama Finding Alice, featuring three fine actresses, Keeley Hawes, Joanna Lumley and Gemma Jones.

Alas, it’s EastEnders on speed – husband Harry dies in their dream home. Alice breaks down, then uses a digger to bury him illegally in the garden.

The hitherto unknown son of dead hubby arrives. Alice’s daughter insists she wants to get to know him, while mum bonds with her beautiful black bereavement counsellor.

And the characters? A plus-sized sister-in-law, a gay brother, a headmistress in a wheelchair and an Asian businesswoman with a wife and two children.

What impressive diversity! But I can’t help feeling it will mean we end up Finding Alice too worthy to get to the end of the series.

SINGER Rihanna posts pictures of herself taking out the trash during lockdown wearing pink satin stilettoes and an End Racism T-shirt over her own-range skimpy black lace knickers. What near-naked opportunism. She should take the knee in shame, although that might ladder her own-brand sheer tights.