Cindy’s head start

FLOGGING her range of cosmetics, Cindy Crawford demonstrates how to apply £413 worth of her 13 different products in eight minutes to be beautiful.

I timed myself trying out her regime with my own armoury of make-up — mainly Boots No 7 and Simple — and 18 minutes later hadn’t even got around to the mascara. I guess it just pays to be beautiful in the first place. Great news that emily Maitlis is stepping into Jeremy Paxman’s shoes — recently vacated by evan Davis — to host Newsnight. Like Paxo, she combines a simmering sexuality with a razor-sharp political brain. Unlike poor old Fiona Bruce, the antiques roadshow host who replaced David Dimbleby on Question time. Fiona is so out of her depth she flounders like a roadshow guest who’s just been told their treasured antique is . . . worthless.