Jenkins takes a punt

SIR Harry Secombe was a popular Songs Of Praise host, but the late Welsh entertainer never made an entrance as dramatic as Katherine Jenkins did at the Latitude Festival in Suffolk yesterday. The Welsh mezzosoprano, 37, who will make her own Songs Of Praise debut next weekend, performed Leonard Cohen’s Hallelujah while travelling by punt.

‘Definitely my first time arriving on stage by boat,’ said Jenkins, who wore a backless floral ballgown, and small white flowers in her hair. The experience was, she added, ‘ more nerve-racking than singing at the Royal Albert Hall’.