EDEN CONFIDENTIAL: It’s a Christmas miracle as Ewan McGregor’s ex and current wife bury the hatchet to spend the festive season together

The season of goodwill has ushered in a miracle in Ewan McGregor's household. In a turn of events that seems unlikely even in one of the star's most far-fetched films, his two wives spent Christmas together.

I can reveal that the power of forgiveness was so powerful for the Star Wars actor's first wife, Eve Mavrakis, that she agreed to spend Yuletide with his current wife, Mary Elizabeth Winstead.

The trio were joined by their four daughters, including Clara, a 27-year-old actress who described Winstead as a “piece of trash” when she was pictured kissing her father in a London restaurant in 2017 while he was still married to her mother . Clara added at the time that her father was an 'a*********'.

She later apologized for her comments about Winstead, 39, who married the Scottish actor, 52, last year, and admitted it had not been her 'finest hour'. Proving that relations are now much better, Clara shared a photo of the extended family together online. They are joined by her sister, Esther, 22.

Also at the gathering at McGregor's Los Angeles home were Laurie, his two-year-old son with Winstead, and his two other children from his first marriage, Jamyan, 22, and Anouk, 12.

The Trainspotting actor had been married to Eve, 57, a French production designer, for 22 years when he met Winstead, his co-star in US comedy-drama Fargo.

The healing of the rift will certainly be welcomed by McGregor, whose divorce from Eve was finalized in 2020. He reportedly agreed to pay her £40,000 a month plus royalties for his films. “A divorce in a family is a bomb that goes off in everyone's lives, and in the lives of my children,” he said of their split.

Meanwhile, Eve previously said of the breakdown of her marriage: “It's disappointing and upsetting, but my main concern is that our four children are okay.” It is unclear whether Eve is still dating Hollywood film composer Jonathan Elias, 67.

Elias, who collaborated with Sting and Sinead O'Connor on his most recent album, met Eve six years ago through a mutual friend. She confirmed their romance to me after they enjoyed a 'magical' holiday in Lake Como, Italy in 2021.

Macca's guilty pleasure

He may be worth an estimated £950 million, but Sir Paul McCartney apparently can't resist when it comes to bargains.

“I have a lot of guilty pleasures,” the 81-year-old The Beatles star admits.

'Maybe TV shows are more than music. I love Bargain Hunt,” he says of the program in which participants try to sell antiques at auction at a low price for a profit.

“But I also love Strictly,” he adds. Could he be persuaded to compete for the Strictly Come Dancing glitterball trophy? After all, Angela Rippon amazed viewers with her high kicks at the age of 79.

Is this further evidence that Oppenheimer director Christopher Nolan is taking the helm of the next highly anticipated James Bond film?

I saw him doing some Christmas shopping last week in Jermyn Street, London, where 007 bought his clothes from Ian Fleming's novels.

Nolan, 53, is said to want to make period versions of Fleming's thrillers, so what better place to do some early research?

City dwellers' ignorance of rural life continues to amaze Adam Henson. The Countryfile presenter, 57, talks about the events at his Cotswold Farm Park: 'We pick your own potatoes here. There was a group of women and I gave them a pitchfork. They walked on to the muddy spot and said, “We can't find any.” I said, “That's what the fork is for.” '

How did Bea's stepson spend his Christmas?

For those royal watchers wondering why Princess Beatrice wasn't accompanied by her stepson as she attended church at Sandringham on Christmas Day, I have the answer.

Christopher, known as 'Wolfie', seven, swapped real-life princesses for fairytale princesses on a Disney cruise ship with his mother, architect Dara Huang, 40. The two then joined Dara's family in Florida, where she grew up.

Last Christmas Wolfie stayed in Norfolk with his stepmother Bea, father, property developer Edoardo Mapelli Mozzi and his half-sister Sienna, two.

Wolfie didn't miss all the royal festivities, however, as he attended the Together At Christmas carol service at Westminster Abbey earlier this month with Prince George, Princess Charlotte and Prince Louis.

Miliband's plans to cut down trees have failed

Never imagine that the rich always get their way, not even in Primrose Hill, where Sadie Frost and ex-husband Jude Law spent the night with the likes of Kate Moss.

For example, they cannot simply hammer an ax into a tree, even if it endangers their property, as David Miliband has just discovered. The former minister, who has lived in New York for the past decade after his defeat by younger brother Ed in the race to become Labor leader, had applied for permission to fell a mature Acer tree in the garden of his home of £3.5 million in the United States. enclave in north London, arguing that its roots threatened the foundations of the house.

His municipality responded by placing a protective order on the tree. But if the house falls, Miliband, 58, should have no trouble rebuilding it; he earns an estimated $1 million a year (£790,000) as CEO of the International Rescue Committee.

Do you enjoy writing thank you letters for your Christmas presents? Then King Charles might have the job for you.

He is advertising for a “royal engagement assistant,” whose duties will include drafting courtesy notes for the monarch and Camilla.

The successful candidate will be based at Buckingham Palace and paid £30,000 a year to 'provide administrative support'. Or maybe even more if he or she writes a charming thank you letter?