Ephraim Hardcastle
THERESA May will pass an important milestone if she survives until July. At three years, she would exceed the unhappy No 10 tenure of another embattled premier, Labour’s Gordon Brown. she’ll be offered – like all former PMS – a peerage. John Major, Tony Blair, David Cameron and Brown have all turned them down. presumably one of their reasons was to avoid exposing their finances to the register of Lords members’ interests. perhaps, if Mrs May feels the same, a knighthood should go to philip, her ultra-supportive husband of almost 40 years, since it’s an honour they can share.
CHANNEL 4’s political correspondent Michael Crick, 60, formerly of BBC Two’s Newsnight, announces: ‘I have left Channel 4 News and ITN after seven-and-a-half great years ... I’m looking forward to an exciting new life writing books again, and all sorts of other activity in journalism and other fields.’ A fearless biographer of Jeffrey Archer and Sir Alex Ferguson, will Crick find time to expose Channel 4’s up-themselves Leftie cabal?
THE marriage of designer Marc Jacobs to Charly Defrancesco – attended, among others, by Naomi Campbell, Kate Moss and Anna Wintour – was a sentimental affair held at the groom’s house in Rye, New York. Addressing Defrancesco, described as having ‘the build of a modern Goliath’, Jacobs said: ‘In my darkest and loneliest moment you came into my life like some giant, happy baby, and made me laugh and smile. What you have given that I’ve never had before is the dream of a happy forever. And I promise that I will never, ever float away.’ Defrancesco replied: ‘I will never, ever float away.’ The happy couple, pictured, later floated away in a 1962 black and silver Rolls-Royce phantom. Isn’t life grand?
FEW will resent the decision of Prince Harry and Meghan to ‘celebrate privately’ the arrival of their baby – despite media photoshoots for royal infants being traditional. ‘Imagine if the baby has bright red hair, like Harry’s, provoking jokes on social media,’ says a royal source. ‘No first-time parents like Harry and Meghan would be comfortable with that.’
MOCKED for his absurd fake tan while co-hosting ITV’s Good Morning Britain – standing in for peerless piers Morgan – Richard Madeley, 62, has ‘previous’. He dressed up as comic sacha Baron Cohen’s alter-ego Ali G when hosting daytime show This Morning with wife Judy Finnigan, squirm-makingly quoting his catchphrase: ‘Is it because I is black?’
SIR Paul McCartney, 76, objects to funding cuts at the Liverpool Institute for Performing Arts, which in 1996 he helped to launch in his home city, adding: ‘LIPA is my passion and part of my legacy.’ Might Sir Paul – worth about £820million – be persuaded to contribute financially in return for the institution being renamed in his honour? More credible, surely, than the city’s airport being named after John Lennon.
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