Pick of the week’s Gossip

When Penny Lancaster, the former model who is married to Rod Stewart, joined bobbies on the beat on the TV show Famous and Fighting Crime, she was confronted by a drug dealer who threatened to stab her. Now, she has decided to give policing a go for real and will serve as a City of London special constable. Lancaster said her brush with crime was “terrifying”, but that she belonged in the job. Stewart said: “No one’s ever been able to stop Penny if she’s decided she wants to do something.”

The Irish MEP Luke “Ming” Flanagan learnt the perils of remote working, after he appeared trouserless during a live official broadcast last week (pictured). Translators stifled laughs as he spoke of the importance of getting “the maximum bang for our buck” at a meeting on EU agricultural policy, unaware that his legs were on display. He later explained that the mishap had occurred because he had put his iPad in portrait instead of landscape mode as he rushed to join the meeting after a morning run. “Who could have known that my legs would be so popular?” he joked, after being nicknamed “Ming the Trouserless” on social media. “Should I get them insured?”

President Trump caused consternation when he stood outside a church holding up a Bible for a photo op during the US protests last week. But questions remain over whether he has actually read it. In 2015, he refused to be drawn on his favourite verse after citing the Bible as his favourite book. “I don’t want to get into specifics,” he said. Pressed on whether he preferred the Old or New Testament, he added: “Probably [ long pause] equal. The whole Bible is incredible.”