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The dastardly Mr Deedes

- Mrdeedes@dailymail.co.uk

Chirpy ITV chairman Sir Peter Bazalgette’s decision not to bid for Endemol Shine rules out a return to his old manor. Baz was previously the production company’s creative director. Some felt British TV hit a nadir on his watch when 2004 show The Farm showed David Beckham’s saucy friend Rebecca Loos pleasuring a pig. Glinty-eyed Swiss boulevardi­er Arki Busson’s hedge fund is in deep schtuck. Lumx has filed losses of $4.5m for the period toward the end of June, putting it $37m down over the past three years. Financial News says UK fund manager Artemis wants rid of its 6pc stake. By contrast, Busson’s ex, Aussie supermodel Elle Macpherson, seems to be going great guns with her lifestyle business WelleCo. It opened its first US store last week. Three-Martini lunches are a thing of the past on Wall Street we are often told – but is a new trend emerging? From the finger- on-the-pulse New York magazine: ‘How to pair wine with your breakfast sandwiches.’ Controvers­ial former Halliburto­n chairman Dick Cheney is the subject of an entertaini­ng-sounding biopic, starring the combustibl­e Welsh actor Christian Bale. Known for famously being committed to his many high-profile movie roles, Bale, 44, has shaved his head, bleached his eyebrows and put on nearly three stone to portray the former US vicepresid­ent, 77. Wonder if he also waterboard­ed the crew members between takes? Marks & Spencer is struggling and faces an uncertain future says the New York Times, an overly harsh assessment of a firm which is healthily in profit. The Old Gray Lady seems to enjoy talking Britain down. The paper recently claimed London restaurant­s were until a decade ago still serving ‘porridge and boiled mutton’, while a doom-laden anti-Brexit piece last year – ‘Will London Fall?’ – made out Londoners were practicall­y hurling themselves into the Thames over the referendum result. Is Tesco Bank panicking about the fallout from the £16m fine the Financial Conduct Authority imposed for its 2016 cyberattac­k? It has commission­ed a poll to find out how people perceive it.

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