EDEN CONFIDENTIAL: Slade star Noddy Holder is furious after no one helped his beloved daughter-in-law following vicious attack

Slade star Noddy Holder is usually in a cheerful mood this time of year as he looks forward to the annual £500,000 he receives from the airplay of his band’s hit Merry Xmas Everybody.

However, this week he has been shocked by a vicious attack on his beloved daughter-in-law, Beth Fox.

Beth, 29, a stand-up comedian, was the victim of an attempted robbery while on her way to a gig in North London.

“My daughter-in-law fought two robbers and no one helped her,” Noddy’s wife Suzan reveals.

Beth was allegedly followed to a bus stop near Finsbury Park by two men, who then took her carrier bag.

“She told them to ‘get off’ and started wrestling with them over the bag,” Suzan said, adding: “They started mocking her and this got her excited and she started screaming and wanted the bag don’t give up. In the end they ran away.’

Suzan, a television producer, 58, continues: ‘There were six other boys around who just watched and did nothing. She [Beth] thought that by shouting it would attract help. But the most disturbing thing is that there were people standing at the bus stop and no one was distracting their gaze. They could have pulled a knife on her and no one would have saved her.

‘Beth is smart and has lived in London for seven years, but she is shocked by what has happened because it is not funny when you are walking as a woman and someone puts your hand in your bag.’

Impressively, Beth continued her performance at Camden’s Shtick Comedy Club that evening.

Her husband, music producer Django Holder, 29, often accompanies her to performances. “Because of these types of incidents, female comedians are often advised to go to performances in pairs,” Suzan explains. ‘My son [Django] She usually accompanies her to her performances, but on this occasion that was not possible. Beth won’t stop performing because of this; she will continue to perform.”

Sting reveals the one time he was star struck

Sting must have signed thousands of autographs for his fans over the years, but has he ever been impressed enough to ask anyone for their autograph?

“I only have one signature,” admits the former police singer-songwriter, who turned 73 last month. “I have Frank Sinatra’s autograph. I got that maybe 25 years ago and he wrote, ‘To the new Blue Eyes.’ He adds wistfully, “But… I have green eyes.”

Ivy snaps at the hungry Joan

She has delighted generations of men, not least all five of her husbands, and has her own star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

But despite her decades on screen, Dame Joan Collins felt like a ingenue when she tried to dine at The Ivy Victoria brasserie in London.

Percy Gibson, husband No. 5, had booked their arrival ‘between 7.45pm and 8pm’. However, when they turned up comfortably before 8pm, they were greeted with a look that said ‘Who the hell are you?’ complains Dame Joan, and were then told there was no table available.

“I’ve been going to the original Ivy since I was 16,” laments the 91-year-old Dynasty star.

Persistent as she is, Joan has found food elsewhere.

Oh waiter, there’s a dancer in my soup

Strictly speaking, dancing in a restaurant doesn’t count, but Nadiya Bychkova certainly deserves a perfect ten from the Strictly Come Dancing judges for her latest performance.

The Ukrainian treated guests at the tenth anniversary party of Italian restaurant Bocconcino in Mayfair to an impromptu display of her best moves. Nadiya, 35, whose dance partner, swimmer Tom Dean, was the first celebrity eliminated from this year’s series, showed off her fancy footwork to music from the band Viva Lina.

“The live music is perfect for ballroom dancing,” she tells me.

Watch those bowls of spaghetti, Nadiya!

Gary Barlow and his £30,000 wine bottle

Take That star and wine enthusiast Gary Barlow boasts: ‘I think the most expensive bottle of wine I own is a Pauillac. And I really believe – I’m going to drop the name, I’m afraid – that the King gave it to me around the Diamond Jubilee. I organized the concert for that, so I got it a few days later with a little telegram. I didn’t touch that. Actually, it’s not even in the basement, but upstairs in the house.’

The pop singer does not reveal whether the Pauillac donated by the monarch is a £30,000 premier cru Chateau Lafite-Rothschild.

Meaty in the Oz River fall. No crocs hurt

They may have been rivals on the cricket field, but when Ian Botham fell into the crocodile-infested waters Down Under during a boat trip last week, he was rescued by former Australian fast bowler Merv Hughes.

Referring to the Australian film Crocodile Dundee, Lord Botham said: ‘Crocodile Beefy survived. I was out of the water faster than I got in. Quite a few pairs of eyes peered at me. Luckily I didn’t have time to think about what was in the water.’

Botham, who was on the Moyle River near Darwin, was badly bruised after hitting the boat when he fell.

The cricket legend was catching barramundi (or Asian sea bass) with Hughes when they climbed from a tender into their fishing boat.

When his slippers got tangled in a rope, he went into the river head first. “It was just one of those accidents,” Beefy adds.

Trump to visit London (sort of)

Donald Trump will soon appear in London – but it won’t be the real US president-elect. Instead, he will be played by Dead Ringers impersonator Lewis MacLeod on stage at the Shaftesbury Theater next month.

“Trump had a high-pitched voice in his first term that I couldn’t quite master,” MacLeod admits at a Christmas party to raise money for Jordan’s Retreat, a childhood cancer charity.

“But now he’s taking on a more ethereal voice. And after he was shot, he has a more evangelical and deeper, softer, older voice, in time for his second term.”

Yasmin is a Duran Duran gran

As Duran Duran frontman Simon Le Bon Is There Something I Should Know? sings, he may be thinking of his daughter Amber.

She certainly had news for him: the 35-year-old model is expecting her first child.

Amber posted a photo online of her belly, left, calling it a “big surprise.”

The father is former rugby player Ben Mercer, 37, who now makes TikTok videos.

Amber’s mum, model Yasmin Le Bon, 60, said: ‘People think ‘grandma’… is an old-fashioned word, but I don’t care!’