EDEN CONFIDENTIAL: Rock superstar Sting’s child Eliot Sumner finds love with glamorous mother of two

Eliot Sumner, who played a guard in the last James Bond film No Time To Die, has a new leading lady.

I can reveal that the actor, whose parents are rock star Sting and film producer Trudie Styler, has found love with glamorous mother-of-two, Mollie Davis.

Eliot, who was born a girl but now identifies as non-binary, thanked Mollie this week for the birthday cake she gave her in honor of her 34th birthday.

In a photo shared online, Eliot is seen wearing a white vest and holding the ‘charm cake’, which was made by baker Elizabeth Mayhew and features some of the actor’s favourite things, including the Leaning Tower of Pisa.

A friend of the couple commented, “Wow Mollie! Talk about getting to know your sweetheart! Eliot was born in Pisa, Eliot’s signature hat, Eliot’s favorite book (or one of them) A Little Life.”

Eliot split last year with socialite Frankie Herbert. Frankie, a granddaughter of the 7th Earl of Carnarvon, was one of the few to model for the late Queen Elizabeth.

Eliot took Frankie to the London premiere of No Time To Die at the Royal Albert Hall in 2021.

The actor has previously explained about gender identity: “We should treat everyone the same. I don’t like to be judged on one specific thing. We’re all human.”

Eliot never spoke out on the record: ‘Nobody ever asked for it. They [my friends and family] I already knew. So I didn’t have to. I never came out to anyone. My friends always knew and I always knew.’

If it were up to West End star Janie Dee, the rustling of sweets in the theatre would be a thing of the past.

The 62-year-old actress, who is appearing at the Edinburgh Fringe festival, says: ‘I’d like to see less packaging on bar snacks.

‘In Russia you get rye bread with cream cheese and smoked salmon during the break.

“That would be great.” I think I’ll stick with my Werther’s Originals…

I got a real kick out of chopping off my crown jewel, says Emma

Emma Corrin wore a blonde, feathered wig for her Golden Globe-winning performance as Princess Diana in the Netflix royal drama The Crown, but playing the villain in the new Hollywood action film Deadpool & Wolverine required a more severe look.

“I shaved my head for it,” says the 28-year-old. “Then they put a bald head on it. I enjoyed the buzz.”

The Kent-born star, who identifies as non-binary, says co-stars Ryan Reynolds and Hugh Jackman were “even more excited than I was about me cutting my hair”.

“They kept saying, ‘The first time you shower, remember that feeling. It’s going to feel so good, that water on your scalp’ — and it felt amazing.”

The clever set discusses… Tom Priestley’s poignant farewell gift to his family

JB PRIESTLEY noted that he could — and did — enjoy “physical relations” with lovers, including the thrice-married Dame Peggy Ashcroft, without suffering “the guilt which seems to trouble some eminent fellow writers.”

He is even said to have told his illegitimate daughter Mary that he had slept with half the women in London.

Now, 40 years after the death of the playwright and author of An Inspector Calls, who was also married three times and whose infidelities were perhaps even more numerous than his vast literary output, his only son, Tom, has done everything he can to ensure peace within his multifaceted family.

And he did that from the afterlife…

In his will, published this week seven months after his death at the age of 91, Tom, who was unmarried, stipulated that each of his 15 nephews and nieces would receive an equal share of his £1 million British estate and an equal share of his Moroccan estate, the value of which is still unknown.

You could call it Tom’s final cut, as it shows the precision and judgement that won him two Baftas in his career as editor of numerous classic films, including The Great Gatsby, White Mischief and Deliverance.

All in Gucci, Suki steps out to promote her record

Suki Waterhouse has received praise for her role as a 1970s rock star in the hit Prime Video drama series Daisy Jones & The Six.

And the London-born actress is clearly determined to show that she’s a cracking pop singer in real life too.

While promoting her new single, Blackout Drunk, in Los Angeles, the former model looked like a pot of Colman’s in a Gucci minidress with a large collar.

Suki, 32, who has a four-month-old daughter with Batman star Robert Pattinson, added 5ft 8in (1.73m) to her height after buying a pair of loafers from the same Italian brand worth £1,000.

She has been pursuing a pop career since 2016 and her single Good Looking became a hit in 2022, five years after its initial release, thanks to its popularity on the video app TikTok.

Howzat! England cricket captain Ben Stokes has increased his off-the-wicket wealth with a £750,000 profit from BAS Promotions, the image rights company he uses to channel his income.

Recently filed accounts show his latest profit, made in the year to October last year, took his profit from the company to £2.8m.

You b*****d! Fry on Python star’s cancer

After the Monty Python star revealed his cancer diagnosis, Stephen Fry wrote to Eric Idle, saying he was jealous that he had been outdone with a more dramatic story about overcoming the disease.

Idle, 81, opened up about his battle in 2022, saying he decided to keep his pancreatic cancer diagnosis a secret until he was sure he would survive.

Fry, 66, announced in 2018 that he was recovering from surgery for prostate cancer.

Idle read Fry’s letter to him and told the Radio 4 programme Jon Holmes Says the C-Word: ‘Eric, I’ve just read your article in Time [magazine]. You bastard. You everlasting son of a bitch.

“How dare you cover my cancer story. Boring old prostate, caught pretty early. Yawn.

“But you, oh no, you just need to have an infinitely more dramatic, interesting, exciting, dangerous, and talked about cancer.”

He is has been voted the sexiest man alive for the second year in a row – by women using a dating site for unhappily married people – and, as I mentioned, is raking in £6 million in a final payout from The Grand Tour.

But Jeremy Clarkson’s life in the fast lane has reached an impasse: his application to trademark four Diddly Squat scented candles has been rejected – at least for now.

Oddly enough, one of his bestsellers was missing from the quartet: the candle with the fragrant title: This Smells Like My B****cks.

Hugh and a mysterious homosexual admirer…

Hugh Grant, who attracted the attention of the film world in 1987 with his role in the story of homosexual love Maurice, attracted the unwanted attention of a prominent director.

Susan Seidelman, director of the Madonna film Desperately Seeking Susan, writes about her life in Paris with her husband, Jonathan Brett, in her new memoir.

“One evening we invited a French talent agent to dinner,” Seidelman recounts in the book, which was recently published in the US.

‘She arrived with her new British client, a charming young actor called Hugh Grant… I can’t remember all the details of the evening, other than Jonathan’s delicious seafood risotto, the many drinks and Hugh’s terribly funny, self-deprecating stories about being seduced by one of Britain’s best directors.’

The Queen’s English Society is to be relaunched as The King’s English Society. Members of the brave body, which campaigns for better language, have been sent a (grammatically flawless) message saying the proposed name change is essential for its future existence and will be voted on at next month’s annual meeting.

One of the members says to me, ‘As long as the apostrophe is in the right place, I don’t care what it’s called.’

(Very) modern ways

Rupert Everett describes train travel as ‘simply heavenly’ and he doesn’t just mean the views.

The 65-year-old actor, who had to quit cocaine due to his drug addiction, admits he likes to experiment with CBD, the chemical in marijuana.

‘I used to be a junkie and I loved to [opioid pain medication] Tramadol and getting on the train, just looking out the window.

‘Now, since I started working in Toronto two years ago, I’ve been addicted to marijuana oil.

“I love having a little bit of marijuana oil under my tongue and then getting on the train.”

As long as he doesn’t go off the rails…