Pick of the week’s Gossip
Keith Richards has apologised to his bandmate Mick Jagger for suggesting that it was time the 74-year-old Rolling Stone got a vasectomy. “Mick’s a randy old bastard,” Richards told The Wall Street Journal, referring to Jagger becoming a father again in 2016, aged 73. “It’s time for the snip – you can’t be a father at that age. Those poor kids!” Jagger’s eighth child – a boy called Deveraux – is younger
Barbra Streisand was so devoted to her dog (pictured together), she decided to clone it – twice. Shortly before the Coton de Tulear, Samantha, died last May aged 14, cells were taken from its stomach and mouth, and sent to a lab in Texas. The result was two new puppies, Miss Violet and Miss Scarlett. They are estimated to have cost Streisand $50,000 to $100,000. It’s not yet clear, however, whether the dogs will turn out exactly like Samantha (“the daughter I never had”). “You can clone the look of a dog, but you can’t clone the soul,” the performer explained in a New York Times essay last
week. “Still, every time I look at their faces, I think of my Samantha... and smile.”
Theresa May had an awkward moment while canvassing before the last election. “I was at the open door of a caravan and there was clearly some activity within, so I duly knocked,” she told lobby correspondents last week. “No answer, but the activity persisted... I knocked again and put my head around the door. There was someone lying down. In fact, two people were lying down. It wasn’t a good time to ask them if they were going to vote Conservative.”