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the first to admit they make unlikely dining companions, but bonkbuster author Jilly Cooper reveals she is to lunch at The Ritz with football manager harry Redknapp. ‘It’s all part of my research for my new novel with a football setting,’ says Jilly at the Romantic Novel of the Year Awards. ‘I was very excited when he said yes. I think he’s wonderful . he’s like all footballers — built like an angel, broad shoulders.’ Look out!