EMILY PRESCOTT: Justin Trudeau’s ex-wife Sophie Gregoire follows pal Meghan Markle’s footsteps by launching wellness website that will lead users on a ‘deeply personal journey of acceptance and empowerment’

Meghan Markle may have faced backlash after launching her lifestyle brand American Riviera Orchard, but that didn’t stop her friends from following in her footsteps.

Sophie Gregoire, the ex-wife of Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, has launched her own wellness website, in which she talks about “cultivating a nourishing community” and taking a “deeply personal journey of knowledge, acceptance and empowerment.”

Ex-TV presenter Sophie became ‘fast friends’ with the Duchess of Sussex while living in Canada filming Suits, and was a guest on her podcast Archetypes.

Rina doesn’t think it’s her

Dua Lipa’s sister Rina is a 2024 It Girl – just don’t say that to her face

As a model and actress interviewed in this month’s Vogue, Dua Lipa’s sister Rina is a true 2024 It Girl – just don’t say that to her face.

Rina, 22, pictured right for the magazine in a linen Vivienne Westwood ensemble complete with knee-high yellow Jimmy Choo boots, says she’s happy to extend the label to others but finds it ‘cringe’ when it’s applied to her is applied. .

Rina is set to star in an upcoming film depicting the adult life of Great Expectations character Pip, and described big sister Dua, 28, as her “greatest teacher”, adding: “I am so in awe of her work ethic.”

He set the political agenda with his title role in Mr Bates Vs The Post Office, but actor Toby Jones also has a side job – as a DJ!

Drinkers at the Prince Albert pub in Brighton were stunned to see the 57-year-old behind the decks earlier this month. He played a three-hour set at the venue, where Fatboy Slim was previously DJ, along with fellow actor Ben Miles, also 57, jointly billed as The Plasticons.

Toby and Ben, who played Princess Margaret’s lover Peter Townsend in The Crown, will also perform at the Jolly Gardeners pub in south London this Friday.

Can Natasha become a group winner?

Let’s hope fashion designer Lady Natasha Rufus Isaacs has an easier time than girlfriend Pippa Middleton in obtaining planning permission for a swimming pool. Natasha and husband Rupert Finch, both equally, want to demolish their £600,000 Gloucestershire bungalow and replace it with a new home, complete with swimming pool and hedgehog sanctuary. But neighbors complain it’s too big. Pippa had to change plans for her Berkshire home seven times before she was given permission.

TV chef Gizzi Erskine has some specific requirements for her romantic partners, ‘looking for someone with primal trust’ who will treat her the way they treat ‘oysters and steak’. Gizzi, aka the Hon Griselda Maxwell Erskine, has become the face of a new dating app called Pure, and the 44-year-old says: ‘I know early on how someone will treat me by the way they handle food .’

I’m sad to report that Mr Selfridge actress Sai Bennett has split from her restaurateur fiance Matthew Scott. The couple, who have a two-year-old daughter, got engaged in 2022 and after becoming a father, Matthew named his restaurant Papi. Sai, who also starred in the film Face Of An Angel with Cara Delevingne, told fans on social media that she started her life as a single mother.

Meanwhile, members are falling in love with The Lansdowne Club in Mayfair for its authoritarian approach to shoes.

The £1,500-a-year venue in Berkeley Square, of which designer Paul Smith is a member, bans 19 types of shoes and has other almost incomprehensible rules about what types of shoes can be worn in certain parts of the club.

One member, who happened to be wearing a harmless black shoe, says he was forcibly expelled from school when he complained about the inflexibility of the rules.

‘I heard the word ‘Taser’. A nice way to spoil your paying members,” he says.

In response, the club said: ‘It would not be appropriate to comment on our members or disciplinary matters, other than to say that we strongly dispute this version of events.’

Dame Joanna Lumley has saluted the King – for never saying ‘I told you so’ to those who mocked his warnings about the environment 30 years ago. She told me, “He’s just quietly on his way. Aren’t we lucky to have him as king?’

Zac Goldsmith and girlfriend Hum Fleming

Don’t jump the gun, Zac

Tory peer Zac Goldsmith appears confident he has found his other half. The 49-year-old, who split from banking heiress Alice Rothschild last year, was spotted with girlfriend Hum Fleming and his mother Annabel in London last week. As Zac and Hum walked away, both hand in hand, saying to a passerby: ‘Meet my wife’, before quickly correcting himself: ‘meet my future wife’, while HuI shot him a look.