July 25, 2022 ON THIS DAY
FROM THE DAILY MAIL ARCHIVE JUly 25, 1990
PrINcESS DIaNa unveiled her cool new hairstyle yesterday — a short back and sides — which was immediately hailed as the crowning glory of all her many cuts. The Princess had been reluctant to change her hair drastically, but recently her style was attacked as ‘safe and boring’.
JUly 25, 2001
THE mother of Boris Becker’s illegitimate daughter has spoken for the first time about the brief encounter during which the baby was conceived. russian model angela Ermakova told a German magazine about her tryst with the tennis star in a broom cupboard at London’s Nobu restaurant.
‘He pulled me into the cupboard. He was so excited that to try to stop him would have been as useless as attempting to stop a high-speed train,’ she said.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY
IMaN, 67. The Somali-born model, the widow of David
Bowie, was the first black woman to become the face of revlon, before setting up her own cosmetics brand.
She said she never dared to give her husband style tips:
‘What are you, crazy? We’re talking about David Bowie. He is fashion!’ MaTT LeBLaNc, 55. The U.S. actor starred in the sitcoms Episodes and Friends, saying of the latter: ‘I came out of there with a master’s degree in comedy.’ a former carpenter, he also modelled — but gave up as he was too short for the catwalk — and co-hosted BBc’s Top Gear for three years.
BORN ON THIS DAY
BarBara HarrIS (1935-2018). The Tonywinning, Oscar-nominated U.S. actress starred in Nashville and Peggy Sue Got Married, and played Jodie Foster’s mother in Freaky Friday. She said she always chose films that she thought would flop ‘so that I wouldn’t have to deal with the fame thing’ — and even turned down alfred Hitchcock. SaLLy BEaUMaN (1944
2016). The Devon- born novelist wrote the bestsellers rebecca’s Tale and Destiny — for which she received a £1 million advance, reported to be the largest amount ever paid for a debut. Beauman described its black-and- silver cover as ‘ unspeakably vulgar’. She married Shakespearean actor alan Howard after being sent to interview him for a magazine.
ON JULY 25…
IN 1959, a hovercraft crossed the English channel for the first time.
IN 1999, U.S. cyclist Lance armstrong won the first of seven consecutive Tour de France titles — which were stripped from him in 2012 after he decided not to contest drugs charges.
WORD WIZARDRY
GUESS THE DEFINITION: Reem (c 2012) a) an abundance, plenty.
B) Excellent or attractive.
c) Hygienic. answer below. PHRASE EXPLAINED
Sit on the fence — to avoid making a choice or decision; the two sides of a fence represent the two conflicting or opposing positions involved in a situation or debate.
QUOTE FOR TODAY
Our national inclination is to suffer children gladly, prolong adolescence patiently, and deliberately defer maturity.
Alan Gregg, U.S. physician (1890-1957)
JOKE OF THE DAY
WHaT’S a pig’s favourite ballet?
Swine lake.
Guess The Definition answer: B Compiled by ETAN SMALLMAN and ADAM JACOT DE BOINOD