Garden bragging is the latest (and phoniest) celebrity trend

When it comes to increasing their followers on social media, celebrities must look to ever more creative ways of appearing down-to-earth, healthy and wholesome.

It started with the early morning nomake-up selfie, where the rich and famous posted suspiciously groomed and styled pictures of how they supposedly look on waking. next came the baking with pampered stars you wouldn’t imagine knew how to even turn their ovens on, posing with their curiously perfect-looking ‘homemade’ cakes and pies. Recently we’ve seen them compete to contort their bodies into challenging yoga poses.

And now we have the green fingered gang. Whether they’re mowing lawns, pruning bushes or proudly showing off the produce they’ve grown — it seems celebrities are falling over themselves to boast about their Good Life existence.

CLAUDIA CONNELL takes a look . . .

A barrow of laughs: Ex-glamour girl Kelly Brook, 37, wants to be the next Charlie Dimmock with her own TV gardening show. But she doesn’t seem to be taking things seriously while tending the grounds of her £1 million Kent farmhouse

The X Tractor: She was the ultimate Uptown Girl, but now former supermodel Christie Brinkley, 63, claims she’s hooked on organic gardening at her £23 million home in The Hamptons, New York. She’s not even looking where she’s going . . .

White House to greenhouse: President Trump’s daughter Ivanka says she built these raised vegetable beds . . . and all without disturbing her perfect make-up

Britain’s got veg: BGT judge Amanda Holden, who caused outrage with a nearly-there dress on TV last month, tries to convince us she’s happier in gardening clothes

A gardening Dynasty: Joan Collins, 84, shows her granddaughter Ava how to water the plants. They look well maintained — just like Joan