EDEN CONFIDENTIAL: Prince Harry’s Invictus Games Foundation names TV presenter JJ Chalmers, the Prince’s former Marine buddy who was mauled by a roadside bomb in Afghanistan, its new trustee
TV presenter JJ Chalmers, who was seriously injured in a bomb blast in Afghanistan, credited the Duke of Sussex with providing “one of the key catalysts” in his recovery. Now, Prince Harry’s charity has appointed him to its board.
Chalmers, 36, became a trustee of the Invictus Games Foundation, which organizes a sporting event for injured and sick service personnel.
Ex-Royal Marine Chalmers is an Invictus Games gold medalist whose minister father, John, was one of Queen Elizabeth’s chaplains.
Chalmers became friends with the Prince after meeting him during a rehab triathlon in 2014, and was even invited to their royal wedding four years later.
Chalmers became friends with the Prince after meeting him during a rehab triathlon in 2014, and was even invited to their royal wedding four years later.
He has said that he will “be forever grateful” to Harry for encouraging him to participate in the Invictus Games. He reached the quarterfinals of Strictly Come Dancing in 2020 with his dance partner Amy Dowden.
Former Olympic triple jump champion Jonathan Edwards also became a trustee of the foundation, having been involved with it since it presented the inaugural Invictus Games for the BBC in 2014.
Strictly Come Dancing judge Craig Revel Horwood admits that his own footwork wouldn’t earn a top score today. The star, who is touring as child-hating orphanage boss Miss Hannigan in the musical Annie, says she does a little dancing in the show, but she wouldn’t win any awards.
“I wouldn’t give my dancing a ten,” she says. “Miss Hannigan is drunk all the time, so it’s a pretty wild dance. She’s all over the store.
Naomi denounces Vogue’s sombreroism
Naomi Campbell is so prejudiced against dark-skinned women that she agreed to appear on this month’s cover of Vogue India only if she artificially darkened her complexion in the photos.
The supermodel, 52, had previously turned down an offer from the magazine because she felt it was guilty of “colourism”.
The supermodel, 52, had previously turned down an offer from the magazine because she felt it was guilty of “colourism”.
She tells me, ‘I saw that in that country and continent they had dark-colored women, and the women they used were light-colored women, so I didn’t do the cover at that time.’
Speaking at the Visionary Arts Awards at the Ham Yard hotel in London’s Soho, where he won the Legacy Honour, Campbell says: “When I got to be on the cover, I actually wanted to go dark and I’m happy with that.”
Invited to take part in DNA Journey, Alan Carr sought advice from his mother, Christine, who said it would be foolish to turn down an appearance on ITV’s genealogy show as it might uncover a real connection.
‘I said to my mother: ‘Should I do it?’ revealed the chat show host at the Teenage Cancer Trust’s comedy night at London’s Royal Albert Hall.
“She said, ‘Do it, do it, you could be related to royalty.’
Carr added: “Knowing my luck, it would be Prince Andrew.”