Ephraim Hardcastle

GWYNETH Paltrow says her ‘clean eating’ regime has improved her emotions: ‘I had a lot of unexpressed anger. I made everyone else’s feelings more important than my own. I’d suck it up and then be alone in my car yelling at traffic, or fighting with hangers in my closet when they got stuck together.’ We never hear from her pop crooner husband, Coldplay’s Chris Martin. But Gwyneth adds in Stylist magazine: ‘Sometimes when you get clear about who you are, others get less comfortable because they liked who you were. It’s changed my marriage, too, but he’s up for the challenge.’ Look out! WHY send Baroness Warsi and Kenneth Clarke to the Pope’s inauguration? Minister for Faith and Communities Lady Warsi is a Muslim. Minister without Portfolio Clarke is a jazz enthusiast. Neither is associated with Christianity. Can the Government get anything right? WITH the Doctor Who series 50 this year, ex-Time Lords are anxious about being left out of anniversary celebrations. Actor Sylvester McCoy, 69, pictured – the seventh of them – says neither he nor other surviving Doctors (such as Tom Baker, Peter Davison and Colin Baker) have been contacted by the BBC about the anniversary. McCoy adds: ‘The other day Tom asked, “Well, little man (McCoy’s 5ft 5 in, Baker’s 6ft 2in) have you heard anything?” I told him, “No, I haven’t heard anything.”’ Maybe the Daleks will be sent to ex-ter-mi-nate the forgotten old hams. WITH Coronation Street star Bill Roache, 80, in trouble for appearing to suggest that sex abuse victims bring it upon themselves, will he continue to be called upon by Conservatives? He has campaigned on the party’s behalf in the North in the past. But a party source says: ‘He’s possibly not quite the votewinner he once was.’ Delicately put! FALKIRK MP Eric Joyce’s latest arrest moves his socialist predecessor, Dennis Canavan, 70, to announce: ‘The overwhelming majority of the people in Falkirk have no confidence whatsoever in Eric Joyce. The only decent thing he can do now is to step down.’ That’s telling them! Yet bantamweight Dennis, pictured, is, says a former Westminster colleague, ‘no stranger to a whiff of the cork, nor one to suffer fools gladly’. You don’t say. A TERRIBLE stench rose from under the Labour benches in the Commons yesterday. My source says: ‘Some wonder if it’s connected with their despicably low behaviour during the Press regulation debate but it’s probably a dead rodent.’

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