EDEN CONFIDENTIAL: Ad tycoon Sir Martin Sorrell splits from his literary love 

The glamorous literary agent Caroline Michel once said that advertising mogul Sir Martin Sorrell had given her the best career advice she’d had: “Impossible is nothing, nothing is impossible.”

Regardless of their relationship, it seems. I can reveal that the ‘power couple’ has broken up.

“It’s very sad, but it’s all over,” confirms a mutual friend. “They just couldn’t make it.”

Sir Martin is said to be so in love with Caroline that there was speculation last year that he could even make her his third wife. The couple, who started dating in 2020 after a long friendship, had become a fixture on the London social scene.

Caroline, 63, whose clients include TV adventurer Bear Grylls, is one of the capital’s most formidable networkers and the ex-wife of publisher and Labor peer Lord (Matthew) Evans, who died in 2016.

The split is the latest bump in the tumultuous life of Sir Martin, 77, who built advertising agency WPP into a global giant before disappearing under a cloud in 2018. He was confronted with accusations, which he denies, that he had paid for a prostitute with money from the firm FTSE 100. After an investigation, he was allowed to walk away as a ‘good leaver’.

He said his rumors of a £100million divorce from his second wife, Cristiana Falcone, an Italian nearly 30 years his junior, had nothing to do with the allegations.

Sir Martin, whose £70.4m annual pay package sparked a shareholder revolt at WPP in 2016, was previously married to American-born Sandra Finestone.

The £30 million divorce settlement – ​​including a Georgian townhouse, two underground parking spaces at Harrods and £23.5 million in cash – was the largest in British legal history at the time.

Eugenie is having fun with her new Hollywood boyfriend

Princess Eugenie, whose wedding guests included Hollywood stars Demi Moore and Liv Tyler, has welcomed another soul mate from Tinseltown.

The king’s niece was spotted having lunch with Brazilian-born model and designer Camila Alves (top right), wife of Oscar-winning actor Matthew McConaughey.

“They seemed like good friends,” reports a fellow diner at Chucs, an Italian restaurant in Notting Hill, west London. The couple left in the same car with a driver.

It’s not clear how the 32-year-old princess, who works for Hauser & Wirth art gallery, knows Alves, 40, but they are both involved in charities.

Some sing in the shower; David Beckham and his wife Victoria watch television. Photographer Darryn Lyons says: ‘I remember Victoria Beckham coming up to me at a very famous hotel in London. She bumped into myself and Bryan Morrison who was George Michael’s manager [at the time]and she said, “I was just watching you on Sky News in the shower with David on our new shower TV screen”.’

Keira moved by Ukrainian girl’s diary

Hollywood star Keira Knightley has agreed to record the audio version of the touching diary of a 12-year-old Ukrainian girl.

The 37-year-old English actress (right) says Yeva Skaletska’s book You Don’t Know What War Is “had a huge effect” on her. “It’s an incredibly important story to tell,” she says.

“I am honored to be able to tell Yeva’s story of inspiration and courage.”

Strictly’s Craig ‘has two left feet’

Sharp-tongued Strict judge Craig Revel Horwood can’t dance, claims TV host Frank Skinner.

‘At the beginning [of the show] they say, “Ladies and gentlemen, the judges,” and they do a little dance. Craig can’t dance,” he says. “He’s like the most embarrassing single uncle. He’s terrible.

“And I thought, ‘Wait a minute, this guy is a leading choreographer’.” When it’s suggested that it’s hard to master a dance step in 20 seconds, Skinner replies, “Well, the others do it every week, that’s all I’m saying.”

The comic, 65, adds: ‘I’ve been offered Strictly several times. But when I dance, I become so self-conscious that I could pass out. I’d be the comical old man, and I can’t live with that.’

Bestselling author Robert Harris, whose thriller The Ghost centered on a thinly disguised version of Tony Blair, can’t find material for a page turner about the current Labor leader.

“I don’t think Keir Starmer is that excited about Keir Starmer, let alone the rest of us,” he tells the Cliveden Literary Festival.

Trinny Woodall, half of the biting chic couple who advised ‘fashion disasters’ on the BBC makeover show What Not To Wear, says there’s one piece of clothing she shuns.

‘I would never wear jeggings,’ explains the beauty entrepreneur 58. ‘I don’t have the legs, nor the right proportions.’

Emin is not a slave to the kitchen…

Tracey Emin, 59, known for her unmade bedside artwork, has revealed that her mother, Pamela, wouldn’t allow her to get behind a stove.

“My mother was totally against me cooking, and while we were cooking at school, my mother actually wrote me a letter saying, ‘My daughter will not learn to cook – my daughter will not be a slave to any man’. . The artist, who grew up in Margate, Kent, adds: ‘She put me on the pill when I was 14 to make sure I wouldn’t get pregnant. She did everything she could to prevent me from being a young single mother.’

Rude diners beware of Jack?

Jack Dee says his excitable comedy character was also popular when he worked as a waiter.

“People would come in and say, ‘Can we have the grumpy waiter do our bachelorette party because last time he was hilarious, he was so rude to everyone,'” Dee recalls. “I’d take the table of 20 and say, ‘Okay everyone shut up, I’m going to take your order and if you’re wrong I’m not responsible.” ‘

He adds, “If someone really annoyed me, especially if they were on a date or something, I’d ask the chef to lace their food with garlic so the evening wouldn’t go well.” I did put too hot water in a finger bowl for someone who snapped their fingers at me. He scorched his fingers.’