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Senseless host turned bestselling author Richard Osman said his impending marriage to Dr. Who actress Ingrid Oliver is said to be ‘very unshowbizzy’.
However, their choice of location is full of glamour.
I hear the couple will be exchanging vows at Goodwood House, the seat of the Duke of Richmond in West Sussex, known for the ‘Glorious Goodwood’ horse race meeting and the annual Festival of Speed.
Osman, 51, grew up in Cuckfield near Haywards Heath, and his Thursday Murder Club book series was inspired by a visit to his mother Brenda’s retirement village in the county.
The broadcaster, who has two adult children from his previous marriage, met 45-year-old Oliver when she was a guest on his show House of Games.
Senseless presenter turned bestselling author Richard Osman said his upcoming marriage to Dr Who actress Ingrid Oliver would be ‘very unshowbizzy’
The broadcaster, who has two adult children from his previous marriage, met 45-year-old Oliver when she was a guest on his show House of Games.
Former Lib Dem leader Sir Nick Clegg, a failed politician who helped destroy his party, nevertheless becomes one of the super-rich. I can reveal that the ex-deputy prime minister is landing another great payday.
Stock market filings report that he sold nearly 17,000 shares of stock in Meta, the Facebook owner for which he works as president of global affairs. The shares were awarded to Clegg for nothing, earning him £1.6 million.
Clegg, who was reportedly paid more than £15 million a year, made £3.6 million from the sale of his mansion in Silicon Valley, California, after he decided to move back to Britain for family reasons. Chin-chin!
BBC Breakfast weather presenter Carol Kirkwood has revealed why she will soon be leaving her job. The 60-year-old Scot explains: ‘I intend to retire within ten years as I don’t think I will be able to reach the Northern Isles by the time I’m 70.’
King of the clubs and the art of partying
THE OPPORTUNITY: Grand opening celebration at Bacchanalia, the lavish new Mayfair restaurant from Richard Caring, owner of The Ivy, Scott’s and Annabel’s.
SUPER FOODS: Supermodel Naomi Campbell, 52, was among the guests who ate the Greek and Italian appetizers, such as oyster and spicy mignonette, sea bream with green apple and caviar, and mini pie crab salad.
GODS: The world’s richest artist, Damien Hirst, 57, who attended the bash with ex-ballerina girlfriend Sophie Cannell, 27, has designed four custom sculptures for the venue, inspired by Greek mythology. He says, “I wanted to make the environment festive and hopeful.”
SPOTTING TALENT: Dutch model Lara Stone, 38, has been silent about her ex-husband David Walliams, who apologized for making derogatory comments about Britain’s Got Talent contestants.
PHONE WAR: Singer Florence Welch asked the star-studded audience to put down their phones so they could focus on her song, Dog Days Are Over.
The world’s richest artist, Damien Hirst, 57, who attended the bash with ex-ballerina girlfriend Sophie Cannell, 27, has designed four custom sculptures for the venue, inspired by Greek mythology. He says: ‘I wanted to make the environment festive and hopeful’
Dutch model Lara Stone, 38, has been silent about her ex-husband David Walliams, who apologized for making derogatory comments about Britain’s Got Talent contestants
Supermodel Naomi Campbell, 52, was among the guests who ate the Greek and Italian appetizers, such as oyster and spicy mignonette, sea bream with green apple and caviar, and mini pie crab salad
Irene, the youngest daughter of hotel magnate Sir Rocco Forte, who runs her own eponymous skincare company, takes workplace feminism very seriously. The 34-year-old Oxford graduate reveals she has only hired women to work with her.
“We are a women-only team and even our scientific director is a woman,” she explains. “I believe all women have the potential to become empowered leaders, and we should support each other.”
Historian Lady Antonia: Genes mean time is on Kate’s side
Distinctive historian Lady Antonia Fraser praises the Princess of Wales for continuing to wear her hair into her 40s.
“I don’t think she should cut her hair,” the daughter of the 7th Earl of Longford tells me at the launch party for Rachel Kelly’s book, You’ll Never Walk Alone: Poems For Life’s Ups And Downs, in Notting Hill.
“Women traditionally cut their hair afterwards [having] kids, but you don’t have to. She can do whatever she wants. She is beautiful and she is a good mother. She gets more beautiful as she gets older.’
Leading historian Lady Antonia Fraser praises the Princess of Wales for continuing to wear her hair into her 40s.
Hays Travel boss Dame Irene Lucas-Hays, whose husband and business partner John died in 2020 after collapsing at the company’s headquarters in Sunderland ‘while doing the job he loved’, will receive a prestigious honor from King Charles.
I have heard that Dame Irene, 68 – whose company saved all 555 Thomas Cook stores and protected the jobs of more than 2,000 employees when it took over the travel agency in 2019 – will be High Sheriff of Tyne and Wear.
“I’m sure Dame Irene will do a great job,” a royal source tells me.
As High Sheriff, she will be the unpaid enforcer of the King’s edict in the region.
Sharif’s trans ex left just £38,000
April Ashley, the transgender model and actress who made her name in the Swinging Sixties as David Bailey’s muse and lover of Omar Sharif, left just £38,000 in her will.
One of the first to undergo a groundbreaking surgery to transform from a man into a woman, she coached Eddie Redmayne for the film The Danish Girl in 2015. Probate documents reveal that she bequeathed her literary estate and assets to friends Beverley Ayre, a producer, and Lou Muddle, a project consultant.
Ashley, who died aged 86 last December, left a gross estate of £90,000, reduced to £38,000 after her affairs were settled. The balance will go to Alder Hey Children’s Hospital in her home city of Liverpool.
The smart set talks about… Money struggles of the super rich
It’s not just the lower ranks struggling with the cost of living.
Super-rich beauty mogul Amanda Cronin says she has to make sacrifices. “I always fly business or first class, but recently my whole team and I flew premium economy for work,” she tells me at Winter Wonderland in London’s Hyde Park.
The former model, 54, received a multimillion-pound settlement in 2019 after divorcing Monaco energy mogul Mark Daeche. I revealed in July that she was dating Wham! star Andrew Ridgeley.
She adds that she feels the jitters at checkout. “I just noticed everything has gone up,” says the star of Channel 4 documentary The Millionairess And Me. “I’ll go to the supermarket myself, but I can write a list and give it to my housekeeper.”
Super-rich beauty mogul Amanda Cronin says she has to make sacrifices. “I always fly business or first class, but recently my whole team and I flew premium economy for work,” she tells me at Winter Wonderland in London’s Hyde Park
Castle’s Christmas spirit for refugees
It was an emotional night for two Ukrainian refugees who were taken in by Wimbledon commentator Andrew Castle and his wife Sophia.
On Thursday, they took the mother and daughter, Sofia and Yulia, 13, pictured with Andrew, to the West End to see their own daughter, Georgina, far right, perform in Elf The Musical.
“They used to go to the theater in Mariupol that was destroyed by Russia when women and children were taken in there,” says Andrew. Georgina adds: ‘I think they enjoyed the show.’
It was an emotional night for two Ukrainian refugees who were taken in by Wimbledon commentator Andrew Castle and his wife Sophia. On Thursday, they took the mother and daughter, Sofia and Yulia, 13, pictured with Andrew, to the West End to see their own daughter, Georgina, far right, perform in Elf The Musical
(Very) modern ways
Viewers of author Giovanna Fletcher’s CBeebies show The Baby Club may be shocked to see the 37-year-old’s more aggressive side.
The 2020 I’m A Celebrity winner, who has three sons with McFly star Tom Fletcher, says: “One thing I’ve discovered recently that really helps me is that once the kids are in school, I do some put on. great tunes and i just hit the c**p out of my punching bag. It takes everything out.’