Daily Mirror (Northern Ireland)

FAMILY BOND

007 is a dad in new film Fearne: The lesson of Caroline tragedy

- BY MARK JEFFERIES BY MARK JEFFERIES Showbiz Editor

FEARNE Cotton hopes the death of tragic Love Island star Caroline Flack will make people “more compassion­ate”.

Caroline’s friend said she “thought about her obsessivel­y” after she took her life in

February. Former Radio1 DJ Fearne, 38, told Stella magazine: “If one thing can change because of it, I hope it’s that people can be more compassion­ate and understand­ing – and judge less.

IT looks like one of James Bond’s underthe-cover missions has had unexpected topsecret consequenc­es for the super-spy.

Sources believe the silver-screen MI6 agent is now going to be a dad.

The cinema release of his 25th outing, No Time To Die, has been delayed by the coronaviru­s pandemic.

But when it finally hits the big screen in

November, 007 will have a daughter in tow.

Rumours began last week that he may have a family when call sheets – which tell actors their filming schedule – went up for sale on ebay.

One describes a scene shot in southern Italy last year, which featured Bond’s lover Dr Madeleine Swann, 00 agent Nomi and a child called Mathilde, played by five-yearold Lisa-dorah Sonne.

It also described a scene where “Nomi pilots Madeleine and Mathilde to safety with the island in the background”.

We live in world that’s often so unforgivin­g, and so unkind.”

Caroline, 40, took her life in February, shortly before she was due to be tried for assaulting her boyfriend Lewis Burton.

Over the weekend Ed Beltrami,

Reports yesterday said this was proof that Mathilde is the child of Bond and Dr Swann, played by Lea Seydoux.

Photograph­s taken on set show a young girl wearing blue dungarees, but it is not known if she is Mathilde.

The storyline is thought to have been worked on by Flea-bag creator Phoebe Waller-bridge after she was hired to jazz up the script. Insiders say it will help show how Bond has aged, with actor Daniel Craig now 52 himself.

“Making him a father opens up a whole new world in terms of drama and story developmen­t,” one source has said.

“Bond finding out he is a father is integral to the plot.”

The movie, Daniel’s last, was due out in April but is now slated for a November release.

It finds Bond retired from active service and enjoying a tranquil life in Jamaica when old friend and CIA agent Felix Leiter turns up asking for his help with one final mission. former head of the Crown Prosecutio­n Service’s North London division, said charging Caroline had been “right”.

He told the Wales on Sunday newspaper: “You cannot do what you think is popular.”

 ??  ?? DADDY COOL Bond and Dr Swann
FRIENDS Fearne, left, and Caroline
SPIED The young girl on film set
WRITER Waller-bridge
DADDY COOL Bond and Dr Swann FRIENDS Fearne, left, and Caroline SPIED The young girl on film set WRITER Waller-bridge

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