Jen sure knows how to rock an engagement ring
DESPITE declaring enduring love with a €4.4million engagement ring, Alex Rodriguez has separated from his unlucky-in-love fiancée Jennifer Lopez amid rumours he became enamoured with a reality television star.
Surely the canny J-Lo, pictured right, is having the last laugh, though – five fiancés, three of whom she wed, handed her a total of nearly €11million in engagement rings between them , including a €2million rock from movie star Ben Affleck.
I hope feminist icon Jen had the integrity to give them all back.
HOW shocking that Peaky Blinders actress Helen McCrory has died of cancer, aged just 52 and with two children, Manon, 14, and Gulliver, 13.
Her husband Damian Lewis said she died ‘surrounded by peace and love’. Until the end she was fighting for her charities, yet the family kept her illness secret.
Barely a year ago I passed her in the street and said: ‘You are wonderful.’
She gave me that dimpled smile, which we will all remember.
As her grieving husband said: ‘Go now, Little One, into the air, and thank you.’
AMANDA Abbington, 47, has revealed that her separation from her husband of 16 years, Martin Freeman, 49, has taken a terrible toll on their two children. We have given them ‘irreparable damage’, she said, while Martin strolls around with his new girlfriend, Rachel Mariam, 28. What a shame for his kids that the diminutive Freeman didn’t have the other qualities of Bilbo Baggins, the hobbit he played in the movie version of J.R.R. Tolkien’s novel – who was famously hairy and short, yet towering in his loyalty.
THE news agency Associated Press has decreed the word ‘mistress’ archaic and sexist, saying it should no longer be used when referring to a woman ‘in a long-term sexual relationship with, and supported by, a man who is married to someone else’.
Instead we must use non-pejorative terms such as ‘companion, lover or friend’.
Jolly good, but perhaps women whose husbands engage in such liaisons might prefer the much simpler and more apt term: home-wrecker.
DESPITE Idris Elba achieving huge success as Luther in the TV series of the same name, his character has been criticised by the BBC’s diversity chief for ‘not being black enough’ – among other sins, he didn’t eat Caribbean food. I am duly shamed as the last time my Jamaican friend Noel and his son came here for lunch we shared macaroni cheese and spag bol, at their request.
Next time they come over, it will have to be jerk chicken, whether they like it or not.