SHANE WATSON PEOPLE WAT C H I N G

New faces, old faces, pretty faces and baby faces – here’s our list of who is worth keeping an eye on in 2019...

ho will we be watching in 2019? The new leader of a moderate centre party? The first same-sex partners on Strictly? We’ve got our eye on a bunch of people, so let’s get the ball rolling...

OLIVIA COLMAN

In The Favourite, playing Queen Anne, and in The Crown, playing QEII, and in Les Mis, playing someone

HARRY AND MEGHAN’S BABY

Apparently the odds are on this baby being called Victoria, if it’s a girl, or Albert or Arthur or Philip, if it’s a boy. But we say surely this has missed the whole point of the Harry-Meghan match, which is that everything has changed? Royalty has now merged with Soho House/LA celebritydom, and we predict this baby will be called Georgia May or Scout or Cary or Orlando, and it will not be ferried about in a

Silver Cross pram or buttoned-up in Fair

Isle cardigans and corduroy knickerbockers.

KATE MOSS AND LILA GRACE

Because it’s rumoured that Kate and her 16-year-old daughter or other. This is the year Colman makes the leap from familiar actress to billboard star. She’s surely guaranteed an Oscar nomination for The Favourite, if not a statue (almost certainly a statue) because she’s terrific playing the mad, sad, capricious Queen, but also she put on two and a half stone for the role and for a large portion of the film has dropsy eye, hair like Magwitch and legs covered in sores. That’s the sort of commitment the Academy bows down before. will appear together in a Burberry campaign this year, and we’ll want to see that.

JUSTIN TRUDEAU

Not really. Can’t think why the Canadian PM should be big in 2019 (ultimate virtue signalling award?) but he is ridiculously good looking, so we can only hope to have the excuse.

AMBER RUDD

Back in the room, at the top of her game and looking good (partly thanks to some shopping in Me+Em). The main contender for the Big Job, we can’t help thinking (some are saying Jeremy Hunt… but we live in hope).

KILLING EVE

Or rather Jodie Comer playing Villanelle, the female psychopath we love to fear and watch and who, thanks to the new series, we are going to be seeing a lot more of.

THE ROLLING STONES

Their No Filter tour heads to the US next year and Mick is working on a ballet set to Stones classics, choreographed by his dancer girlfriend, Melanie Hamrick. You may have to be a Stones fan to care much, but a bit of sissonne attitude to the tune of She’s a

Rainbow gets our vote.

BARACK OBAMA

We will have to wait some time for Obama’s list of

ANGELINA JOLIE

She’s been taken up with that pesky divorce for a while but could be considering entering politics (running for the Democratic presidential nomination even?). She didn’t say as much on the Today programme, but she didn’t deny it. Stranger things have happened.

FIONA BRUCE

Our favourite newsreader (after Huw Edwards) takes over from Saint David Dimbleby as Question Time host and naturally we will be agog. The smoky eyes, glossy fringe, and low, smooth delivery. Some of us may even start to watch again.

CHARLIE BROOKER

The creator of the Black Mirror TV series, more episodes of which are likely in 2019. His latest techno dystopian nightmare, Bandersnatch, is interactive (you decide which of the characters jumps to their death) and scared us witless. Everything Brooker does is eerily prescient (see the episode that predicted that giving services and people instant ratings would become an everyday thing). He sees what’s coming. Talking of which…

JEFF BEZOS

Amazon boss and world’s richest man, who increased his wealth by $24billion in 2018. Let’s not take our eyes off him, whatever happens. And if you’ve just clicked on Scoot fox repellent, delivered in 12 hours, or a book that costs 12p, on your head be it.