What next Nigella? How to butter a little crumpet?

Much derision as Nigella Lawson teaches us how to butter toast in her latest TV s how. Si nce you ask, unsalted butter, t wice spread then sprinkled with sea salt f lakes.

What is not flakey is this woman’s unsurpassed ability to grab the headlines with the most humble recipes. Avocado on toast? I love her new look — the perfect blow-dry replaced by shaggy ‘ bed hair’, along with varnish- f r ee nails. Frankly, millions of us Nigella (far right) fans would tune in to watch her drink a glass of tap water.

IT IS true that everyone loved Des O’Connor (pictured), not least me when I had the honour of filming an advert with him as he returned to TV to host Take Your Pick in the early 1990s. Unlike many divas, the only thing he requested was a hip flask, which he personally filled and secreted in a pocket inside his jacket. I will go to my grave believing it was full of mint tea.

CAN I be the o nl y person sympathising with Trump-supporting Rudy Giuliani when his temporary hair dye sweated down his face during a TV briefing? Of all of Trump’s achievements, surely the greatest was to make men of a certain age feel unashamed about dyeing their hair.

ROYAL experts are rightly ridiculing the new series of The Crown for its gross inaccuracies and made-up, histrionic dialogue, charting the period when Lady Di met and married Prince Charles.

The angry family scenes mean it’s got more soap than EastEnders. ‘I ’ ate you, you cheatin’ b***ard’ — Di to Charles. ‘Youse a lousy muvver’— Princess Anne to Her Majesty. ‘No ’ugs, no luv, no wunda they all ’ate you’ — Margaret to her sister. Next stop for The Crown team — writing scenes for the regulars in the Queen Vic.

GREAT news that

boxer Nicola Adams will have a last same-sex dance with partner Katya on Strictly.

Meanwhile, her not so nimble shoes have been filled by the other hoofer, Bill Bailey.

Luck is with him as his back story is perfect. He danced through his own pain to get his first 10 last week — he was grieving for his pooch Banjar who’s just been put down. And he tells us that his late mum would have been so proud of him.

If nothing else, he’ll get a lifetime supply of Kleenex tissues.