‘Dry February it is then’

Comedian Jack whitehall admits his ‘dry January’ failed to last a fortnight

▪ HAS Jerry Hall tired of country life — even the £11million Oxfordshire pile, near Henley, which was part of her divorce settlement when her six- year marriage to Rupert Murdoch ended last summer?

I hear that the former model has just withdrawn her application, in the name ‘Mrs Murdoch’, to build a rather spiffing stable block with east and west wings and covering nearly 2,800 sq ft — twice the floor space of an average house.

Hall, mother of four of Mick Jagger’s eight offspring, declines to comment. But it’s difficult to imagine the Texan, 66, spurning the saddle for long. She once said she liked a ride at least three times a week. A clue that, henceforth, she’ll be mounting up elsewhere?