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TURNER Prize-winning sculptor Sir Antony Gormley says it doesn’t matter who wins the award — simply being shortlisted for the £25,000 prize is advertisement enough.

‘The Turner Prize has done a very good job. Now, it’s just an opportunity to see four extraordinarily accomplished artists together,’ Gormley, who won the accolade in 1994, tells me. ‘And, actually, who wins it is almost besides the point. The fact that people assume Tracey Emin has already won it, even though she didn’t, means job done. She doesn’t need to win it now.

‘Her not winning it hasn’t hindered her career at all. I can’t remember if Damien Hirst has won it.’

Hirst did win, in 1995, for Mother And Child Divided: a cow and calf cut in two and pickled in formaldehyde.

FORMER Bond star Pierce Brosnan is a hit with the ladies, just like his alter-ego. The Irish actor arrived at Cannes on his 65th birthday this week with his wife of 17 years, producer Keely Shaye Smith, 54, on his arm (left). That same day, Judy...