Ephraim Hardcastle
WrITEr Deborah Orr, 56, who has been on social media discussing her marital split from fashionable Left-wing TV pundit Will Self, 56, now announces: ‘Letter from Lurch’s [Self’s] divorce lawyer this morning about tweets and media coverage. Haven’t read it, but best to shut up now about what a vindictive, manipulative, lying d**k he is.’ Adding: ‘I can’t wait for his next lecture on free speech.’ Tin hats on!
PRIOR to the last episode of the difficultto-follow (and believe) BBC drama serial Bodyguard – smarter viewers may prefer BBC America’s Killing Eve, starring a female psychopath – the broadcaster’s main news review, Newsnight, devoted about ten minutes to promoting it. Presenter Kirsty Wark admits: ‘You might say I’m plugging the BBC.’ Indeed, we might!
OUTSPOKEN Italian couturiers Dolce and Gabbana, notorious for insulting celebrities such as Kate Moss and Victoria Beckham, have claimed another victim – US singer-actress Selena Gomez, 26, who has been pictured wearing their fashion. ‘È proprio brutta!’ (‘She’s really ugly’) exclaimed Stefano Gabbana, 55, on Instagram. Though homosexual, the fashion duo have also caused offence by coming out against gay adoption. It doesn’t seem to have hurt their business, which is said to be worth £4billion.
ALAIN Delon, once described as the most handsome actor in France, is recovering from a hip replacement op at 82. After one marriage, four children and many relationships, Delon, pictured in his heyday, was asked once if he was gay. His reply: ‘If I like it, I’ll do it. If you like your goat, make love with your goat.’ Steady on!
PrINCESS Eugenie is getting a full-on glitzy royal wedding because she and groom Jack Brooksbank – they met in 2010 and were ready to marry in 2016 – had to wait for Harry and Meghan. ‘Eugenie didn’t need to wait but had she gone off and done her own thing the chances of Windsor, carriages and Granny’s presence might all have vanished into thin air,’ says my source.
ROBERT Redford, 82, of Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid fame, told fans at a 2016 film festival: ‘The truth is that I really do feel that it’s time for me to move into retirement.’ Promoting his latest flick The Old Man and the Gun at the Toronto Film Festival, he sighs: ‘I don’t know if this is my last one.’ Calm down, dear. Sir Michael Caine, 85, and Clint Eastwood, 88, are still making pictures.
rEMEMBEr Eighties pop star Natasha, whose catchy version of Iko Iko made the Top 10 in 1982? Now 65, the perky Glaswegian recalls in Beat magazine that her first job was ‘typing letters and buying underwear for [David] Bowie’. She adds: ‘I bought various designer Yfront-type briefs and thongs for him. He had a very nice bum and I never ever noticed any visible panty line.’