Jazz singer Natalie’s Zip-a-Dee-Hoo-Hah

SIR SALMAN RUSHDIE’S daughterin-law, jazz singer Natalie, was forced to fight back the tears when she joined him at The Booker Prize in London this week — not because the shortlisted author didn’t win, but because she suffered a lastminute wardrobe malfunction.

‘I burst out of my dress just before I left the house,’ she told me at The Guildhall, where the 32-year-old sported an Adrianna Papell gown (left).

She adds: ‘As I was walking out the door the zip burst. My husband Zafar looked at me and said, “Don’t cry, let’s go upstairs and pick another dress.” So I took my sad self up the stairs. A couple of years ago I would have cried. Life is too short to cry.’