Pick of the week’s Gossip

The fashion world has been reeling from rumours that Anna Wintour, the longtime editor of US Vogue, is planning to stand down after the September issue. Publisher Condé Nast has flatly denied the story, but that has not stopped fashion pundits trying to imagine what the world would look like if Wintour – one of the industry’s most influential, and formidable, figures – did leave the post she has held for the past 30 years. As David Carr once put it in The New York Times: “She does not put a finger in the wind to judge trends: she is the wind.” Russell Crowe has raised £2m to fund his divorce, by auctioning off a trove of his personal possessions and movie memorabilia. Many of the lots in “The Art of Divorce” sale in Sydney went for far more than their estimates. A jock strap Crowe wore in Cinderella Man sold for £4,500 (from a £330 estimate), while Maximus’s breastplate, from Gladiator, went for £83,000, nearly five times its estimate. “Exciting, isn’t it?” said Crowe as the sale got under way.

Katie Price is planning to run the London Marathon dressed as a giant lung. The model turned entrepreneur has vowed to complete the 26 miles to raise funds for the British Lung Foundation, which has supported her mother since she was diagnosed with idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis. Price has run the marathon before, and “she knows it will be harder in the costume, but is determined to make it around the route”, said a friend.