The Scottish Mail on Sunday

You won’t BELIEVE what they tell me!

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I couldn’t move to the US. Can you imagine? Every time I go to LA I think I am too fat to go there. I think they are saying, “You are fat and you are old. Go home.” Emma Thompson gives a bizarre and ever-so-slightly paranoid explanatio­n for deciding not to take her talents to Hollywood.

The look I am going for is bondage chauffeur. Lady Mary

Charteris, right, describes her daring outfit at the Kyle De’volle x JF London launch party.

I am like an eight-yearold American boy when I watch TV. I just flick through the channels because my attention span is so bad. Now 65, Clive Anderson reveals at the Chortle Comedy Awards that modernday telly doesn’t grab him.

I asked Donald Trump what his secret was for bringing up kids. He said, “One – no drink. Two – no drugs. Three – no room service.” Actor Richard E Grant, tells at an Advertisin­g Week Europe talk, how he wisely sidesteppe­d talk of fake or even real news and instead sought parenting policy from the President.

70 sounds so archaic, doesn’t it? When I was growing up, 70 sounded like the end of the world. He’s had plenty of time to prepare but Sir Elton John – who celebrated the landmark birthday last night – seems surprised to have reached septuagena­rian status.

My mum’s maiden name is Bowie and, when I named my son after her, David Bowie called to congratula­te me. I had to tell him the truth – I said, “This is awkward but I’m a real Bowie.” Luckily, the late rocker saw the funny side when The Voice judge Gavin Rossdale explained to him that his son actually wasn’t named as a tribute to him.

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