Greta, the poetry-writing model who’ll play No10 aide dubbed ‘the gazelle to Cummings’ pit pony’
GIVEN Dominic Cummings’ trademark shabby attire, it doesn’t take much to look glamorous beside him, but former No 10 adviser Cleo Watson cut a particularly stylish figure whenever she accompanied him to Downing Street.
Indeed, Ms Watson, 33, was once dubbed an ‘elegant gazelle’ to Mr Cummings’ ‘pit pony’.
So it is unsurprising that the beautiful Greta Bellamacina has been cast to play her in the TV drama about Boris Johnson’s administration and the early months of the coronavirus crisis.
Ms Bellamacina, who made her acting debut as a schoolgirl in Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire, has started filming scenes for the Sky Atlantic series called This Sceptred Isle.
The 30-year-old mother of two – an accomplished poet who has also appeared as a catwalk model – recently starred in Hurt By Paradise, an independent film by Woody Allen.
In one scene in This Sceptred Isle likely to prompt anger among Ms Watson’s allies, she is told by one of the Prime Minister’s aides to buy a shirt for Mr Cummings to wear at a press conference following his controversial trip to Durham. A source said: ‘She is a high-achieving woman so why is she being made to go and buy a shirt? It’s rather insulting.’
Ms Watson, who is understood to have been close to Mr Johnson’s fiancee Carrie Symonds, handed in her resignation last November, a fortnight after Mr Cummings left Downing Street. She worked on the Brexit campaign before joining the No 10 operation under Theresa May and took a more senior role when Mr Johnson came to power.
This Sceptred Isle, which stars Kenneth Branagh as the Prime Minister, will be broadcast next year but it has already attracted controversy over a series of fabricated or exaggerated scenes.