Lily takes the chop for cancer charity
THE BBC has been forced to apologise after claiming Strictly Come Dancing contestant the Rev Richard Coles, who enjoyed a chart-topping career with The Communards, was the first British vicar ‘to have a hit single’. The Rev Cindy Kent, a former member of Sixties folk group The Settlers who had a Top 40 hit with The Lightning Tree, said: ‘Outrageous and not true!’ The former singer, whose daring mini-skirts once caused a stir, but who now ministers to her flock on the Isle of Sheppey, Kent, added: ‘I, too, am pop starto-priest.’ The BBC replied online: ‘Please forgive us.’ Coles, hoping to become lord of the dance, maintains he is the only man of the cloth to ‘have had a number one’. EDITED BY RICHARD EDEN
LILY COLE’S pre-Raphaelite curls helped make her a supermodel, but now she’s cut them off for charity.
The flame-haired Cambridge graduate, 29, has donated her locks to the Little Princess Trust, which provides wigs to children who have lost their hair due to cancer treatment.
Ensuring the snip was of the highest standards, she used Vogue’s regular stylist Raphael Salley to do the job.
Lily showed off her new, very short ‘do’ to her fans in a photo taken during her recent trip to the Amazon, above right — where she swapped her usual make-up for Yawanawa tribal paint, made from local annatto seeds and jenipapo plant dye.