New mum Rosie bounces back

martIn amIS sneered at Jeremy Corbyn’s academic record on the radio 4 today programme: ‘that good showing in the election did not improve his a-level grades.’ But what of the new York-based novelist’s own salad days?

amis failed his english a-level and admits it was only under the tutelage of stepmother elizabeth Jane howard, ‘much of it spent in a lastditch boarding crammer in Brighton’ that he scraped together the qualifications that earned him a ‘second-tier scholarship to oxford.’

But things didn’t turn out too badly in the end for the son of famed writer Sir Kingsley, author of Lucky Jim.

Lucky martin.

M&S LINGERIE model Rosie Huntington-Whiteley has wasted no time getting back into shape after giving birth to her first child, son Jack, in June. The 30-year-old blonde treated her fans to this online video. Swivelling on a silver chair to rapper...

Good news for debbie McGee ahead of her first twirl on tonight’s Strictly. Cambridge university number crunchers have found ‘evidence that the judges tend to give slightly higher scores to female celebrities’. Craig Revel Horwood has been the toughest...