Pick of the week’s Gossip

During a visit to Scotland in the 1980s, Donald Sutherland (right) recently told Total Film magazine, he was greeted at Glasgow airport by an exceptionally pretty young air hostess wearing a miniskirt and knee-high boots. “You’re Donald Sutherland, aren’t you,” she asked. “Yes, I am,” he purred, only to receive the less than flattering response: “You’re not nearly as ugly as you are on the telly.”

Diana Rigg, who died aged 82 in September, won legions of fans late in her career for

playing the matriarch Olenna Tyrell in Game of Thrones.

She never watched the show herself, and on set, she was a fiery presence, according to a new book. She received director Mark Mylod’s careful instructions with the words: “Thank you! Go away!” And her co-star Jessica Henwick recalls that she once “stormed off” set after a disagreement, in her own unique way – because by then she couldn’t walk very fast. “So we basically just sat there and watched as Diana Rigg did her own version of storming off set, but it was at 0.1 miles per hour. She cracked me up. I loved her.”

Donald Trump is said to have been scared of being labelled a loser ever since his father used the word to taunt Donald’s older brother, Fred Jr, when they were growing up. “Loser” has long been his favourite term of abuse. And he even passed on a fear of being one to the next generation, according to a book by his son, Don Jr. “When my mother first approached him with the idea of calling me Don Jr, my father is rumoured to have said: ‘We can’t do that! What if he’s a loser?’” writes the president’s son. “Again, no idea whether my father ever really said this, but it sure sounds like him.”