WEEK IN SHOWBIZ

A BOBBY DAZZLER

An audience in Walford with Freddie Slater, played by Bobby Brazier. Son of Jeff and the late Jade Goody, Bobby tells me his mum would be proud as punch with his new role, ‘I’ve been thrown in at the deep end, but I like to feel like I’m swimming.’

IT’S ALL ABOUT ALFIE

And speaking of ’Enders, Shane Richie puckered up with me as he celebrated his return to Walford. ‘It’s like Bros is back,’ he joked of our snap. What’s the best thing about being back? ‘I get to face off with the Wallace every day,’ he said of his co-star Jessie Wallace. Looks like Kat’s got the cream again.

SISTER, SISTER!

Rubbing shoulder pads with Dame Joan Collins, who is back in cinemas in musical romance Tomorrow Morning with another one of my pals Harriet Thorpe of Ab Fab fame. Harriet said of Joan, who plays her mother, ‘She was a delight. We look more like sisters than mother and daughter.’