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NIAMH WALSH’S IRRESISTIBLE SOCIAL DIARY

COLIN FARRELL is outnumbered by women for his next film, The Beguiled. But it didn’t faze the Dubliner one bit. ‘I grew up with two sisters, a strong mother, and strong grandmother who was a seamstress,’ he said. The film is directed by Sofia Coppola and stars Nicole Kidman, Elle Fanning and Kirsten Dunst. real name Faisal Abdalla, who says he can turn any beer belly into a chiselled six-pack.

Harry is being put through his paces at top London gym Barry’s Bootcamp. ‘Mr PMA has been training Harry to make him less of a waif-like Mick Jagger lookalike and more of a healthy hunk. Harry has seen the light and has started taking care of himself,’ a source revealed. HARRY STYLES has enlisted the services of a lifestyle guru nicknamed Mr Positive Mental Attitude to help him beef up ahead of the release of his debut solo single, Sign Of The Times, on Friday. The 23-year-old star, right, has been burning the candle at both ends for more than a year since One Direction announced they were taking a break, but he has now turned to the top personal trainer, PANTO queen Twink is planning a TV comeback. Known for her dramatics on stage, Adele King, right, has been busy ‘bigging up’ a mooted TV show, around town.

She is said to be ‘in talks’ with Shinawil for what she has described as the ‘greatest show’ in the autumn. But while she is happily boasting about her big TV role, she is keeping any details of it under wraps. And management at Shinawil have refused to confirm an autumn TV dalliance with the star. ‘I’m in talks with dozens of people all the time,’ said Larry Bass. ‘We are a TV production company, we cannot make shows without talent, but I will never confirm who unless we have a commission.’

INHERITING his mother’s good looks and his father’s passion for showbiz, it was always inevitable that Jay Duffy, pictured right, would forge a career in the spotlight.

The son of Boyzone’s Keith Duffy, who began his career in Hollyoaks some years ago, is now set to star in a French mini-series, Playground, about a teenage girl who joins a school for assassins.

But acting can be a fickle old career so Duffy has also just joined the books of Assets Model Agency. With his mop of blonde hair and dazzling smile, the Diary has heard that the ‘jobs are already rolling in’ for him. GOLFER Rory McIlroy is teeing up for the biggest few weeks of his life.

Next week he will be in Augusta playing for The Masters – the only Major golfing trophy that has so far eluded him.

But if he fails to take home the prize he will still have a ‘something new’ to look forward to.

After The Masters, Rory is jetting back to Ireland where he will marry fiancée Erica Stoll in the grounds of Ashford Castle – in what I am told will be a two-day celebration. PEOPLE are going loco for Poco, the Diary can reveal. Pippa O’Connor’s new denim range is being hailed a ‘massive success’ – so much so that when she opened her pop-up store in Dundrum Town Centre last month security had to be brought in to manage the crowds.

‘The store was so packed that security came in. But there was a great buzz about the store,’ said a source.

But with great fashion comes great responsibility and sources have told The Diary that the blogger and lifestyler, pictured, is already working on her next collection.