Ephraim Hardcastle
Harry and Meghan applying to protect the Sussex Royal brand globally with the World Intellectual Property organisation, canny Australian motorcycle supplier Brett McIntyre has registered their web domain locally in Victoria. ‘I’m not sure what I’ll do with it yet,’ he says. ‘I just jumped online and had a look and thought “b ***** it!”.’
DIANA: A True Musical Story, opens on Broadway this spring and features the Queen mumbling the F-word when Diana, estranged from Charles, dons her famous sexy black revenge dress in 1994. It also describes Charles as ‘basically furniture’. Haven’t the beleaguered family suffered enough?
ZAC Goldsmith’s late father, Sir James, would have been delighted by his son’s elevation to ermine this week, vicariously fulfilling his own ambition. PM Harold Wilson had included him in his infamous lavender list of resignation honours but was warned off by powerful legal adviser lord Goodman. Much to Jimmy’s annoyance Wilson relegated him from a peerage to a knighthood.
EDDIE ‘The Eagle’ Edwards flopped as badly as one of his ski jumps yesterday when he told Sky presenter Sarah-Jane Mee, pictured, that his New Year resolution was to find a partner, asking: ‘And what are you doing tonight?’ He clearly hadn’t read Hello! magazine in which Sarah-Jane and fiancé Ben Richardson reveal that they are expecting their first child.
PILLORIED for a lack of art shows, Channel 4 programme chief Ian Katz points to a forthcoming series exploring the relationship women have with their pubic hair, which follows a group of bloggers as they stop shaving and waxing, ‘Bring Back The Bush is a new arts programme of ours,’ says Katz with a straight face.
JOHN Malkovich, replacing Jude Law as pontiff in HBO’s The New Pope, will – in theory – be aged 161 when his curious film 100 Years, about Remy Martin’s centuryold premier cognac, is shown publicly in 2115. ‘Perhaps my children, if they have children, those children could be alive when the film is released,’ he says. ‘In a way what I did was a letter from the dead. That’s quite satisfying.’
PRINCESS Diana’s former personal chef, Darren McGrady, recalls Prince William comforting his mother after the loss of her title, saying: ‘Don’t worry, Mummy, I’ll give it back to you one day when I’m king.’ McGrady adds: ‘I wonder if he will need to say the same to Harry once this has all panned out?’
EN ROUTE to interview Boris Johnson BBC Breakfast anchor Dan Walker tweets: ‘Larry the Cat is approaching the building... exclusive BBC Breakfast interview with the Prime Minister – and potentially Larry if he fancies it?’ Dan’s Boris probe was so lightweight Larry might have added some gravitas.