Finally, we can say day-day to RiRi’s ‘arresting’ baby bump
Rihanna has a healthy baby boy, a month after her rapper boyfriend A$AP Rocky was arrested by the LA police in connection with a shooting in Hollywood. Mother and child are resting at her LA home, but no mention of Dad. A new child is always great news — but there’s the added bonus we won’t have to see another picture of RiRi, right, parading her baby bump.
Much debate over why the TV adaptation of feted author Sally Rooney’s Conversations With Friends didn’t meet with universal approval after she had a hit with Normal People. Too woke? A bleeding-heart script? Having watched it all, I blame the casting director and intimacy coach for throwing together for the lead roles the two anaemic lovers Joe Alwyn as Nick and Alison Oliver as Frances — both simpering actors whose ‘steamy’ sex was little more enthralling than watching two slugs making out.
With stiff-bristled brush in hand, Gwyneth Paltrow, right, reveals that the secret to her skin is vigorously scrubbing her entire body every morning in a sauna before she showers. ‘There’s nothing like it,’ she swears. Nothing indeed — except, for most working mums, a job to get to.
What a great moment when Jake Daniels, 17, became the first active pro footballer to come out as gay. Gary Lineker predicts it will open the door to a host of other topname players doing the same. I’m not holding my breath. So after taking the knee against racism before each match, why not take the other one against homophobia — which, as we footy fans know, is still rife in the game.
Royal biographer Andrew Morton revealed in our serialisation of his book that it is untrue the Queen refused to allow a royal aircraft to bring Diana’s body home from Paris or she wanted her to be sent to a Fulham mortuary rather than to rest in the Chapel Royal. Wicked lies from Charles’s advisers at the time.
Morton also revealed that on hearing of Diana’s death, Charles wept, saying: ‘What have we done to deserve this?’ before calling Camilla. His first thought was self-pitying, his second of his lover — facts that will never endear him to the public in the UK.