Sorry, Donna, I don’t care about your rocky romance

MAYDAY, mayday! Sending out a Save Our Sisters SOS! Emergency one: Donna Air hits a pothole in her three-year romance with toy boy James Middleton.

Emergency two: BBC2 Newsnight presenter Kirsty Wark is going through the menopause.

Emergency three: What are you talking about? Could things get any WORSE?

Donna (pictured) was so undone about her struggling romance with the royal brotherin-law that she was diagnosed with stress, she reveals in a magazine.

She checked herself into a private Alpine clinic to ‘rest, re-set and re-boot’ and had vitamin infusions, liver compresses and quite possibly a manicure to mend her broken heart. She also did aerial yoga and learned how to chew more slowly, and if that doesn’t bring him back, what will?

Kirsty has made a TV documentary about her ‘hard menopause’, which one supposes is like a ‘hard Brexit’, but with marginally fewer trade deals. ‘The most disconcerting side-effects were disturbed sleep and nightsweats, waking up literally wrung out,’ says the 62-year-old. ‘The tumultuous nights have persisted, though to a lesser extent.’

Well, that’s one way of describing the Newsnight experience to its dwindling band of viewers.

Look, no one is saying that having a relationship break up or going through the menopause is a picnic, especially if you are on the cusp of middle age — or on the other side. However, millions of women go through the same challenges every day and, unlike celebrities, don’t feel the need to purge, splurge and urge us to feel their pain, too. Sometimes, you just have to put your big girl boots on, get out there and deal with it.

Look at teenager Emily Bonney, who has cystic fibrosis and has defied the odds of her condition to pursue her dream of becoming a cheerleader.

A member of the team Airborn Nitros, the 18-year-old, from Blackpool, will represent England in the world cheerleading championships in Florida. Her irrepressible zest for living in the face of a serious illness that means she has to take 60 pills a day and may need a double lung transplant in the future is inspiring. For all of us.