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Daily Mail
3 hours ago
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- Daily Mail
The Queen Mum and a very chilly view of the Mitford Girls: EPHRAIM HARDCASTLE
The unsubstantiated claim by Elon Musk that Donald Trump is named in the 'Epstein Files' is not good news for Prince Andrew. The notorious paedophile's ghost continues to haunt him. He has gradually rehabilitated himself within the family – William and Kate excepted. As we have noted, the King is inclined to believe that Andrew is innocent of the more lurid allegations laid against him. But if there are further revelations regarding Andrew-Epstein it would jeopardise the fragile peace he has built with the Royal Family. If Andrew could sweat would he be perspiring now? David Beckham 's biographer Tom Bower fails to send congrats on his expected knighthood. He still nurses a grievance after Becks failed to express gratitude when Bower unearthed a windfall. 'I discovered that Beckham was owed £9million by the German tax authorities because his accountant had forgotten to claim it,' Bower claims. 'So I told his PR woman and he got £9million thanks to me. But he hasn't said thank you!' UKTV's Mitford sisters saga, Outrageous, which starts next week and stars Joanna Vanderham as jack-booted Diana M, would not have appealed to the late Queen Mother. She declined an invitation in 1981 to a musical about the six Mitford girls at London 's Globe theatre, telling its author, Ned Sherrin: 'Oh no, I've met them all in real life. I don't think I need to see them on stage.' Gordon Ramsay's mother, Helen, remains unimpressed with her son's trappings of success after being flown to Los Angeles to stay at his luxury hilltop mansion. 'I'm just wondering... the neighbours?' she asked Gordon. 'I said, 'What's wrong with them?' She said, 'No one's got their washing out'.' Thirty years after starring in Mike Leigh's Secrets And Lies, Phyllis Logan takes a dig at the filmmaker. 'With Mike you don't have a script whatsoever,' she tells Radio Times. 'You make it up yourself, which would imply that you are one of the writers. But, of course, nobody ever gets a credit for that in any of his films!' Heartthrob (rtd) Paul Nicholas recalls an odd meeting with the Princess Royal when playing Claude in the original West End production of the nude review Hair. 'Part of the show includes a scene where the audience was invited to join the cast onstage,' he says. 'One night, I noticed Princess Anne was standing right next to me. She came a few times actually.' Much smirking in Paris after Donald Trump, who mocked the Macrons for their plane bust-up last month('Better make sure the door's closed next time'), was filmed almost falling down his own plane's stairs. 'Make sure you grip the handrail properly next time,' chuckles one French radio commentator.
Gulf Today
22-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Gulf Today
Summer small screen
Who can believe that we are almost half way through 2025? It has flown by. In terms of television, it has been a great six months. This week we are taking a look at what is due to come out over the summer season including returning shows and new series. The real-life British drama series 'Outrageous' centres around the Mitford sisters. Starring Joanna Vanderham, Bessie Carter, Isobel Jesper Jones, Orla Hill and Toby Regbo, the show tells the tale of the aristocratic daughters of an English Baron and his wife who were famous in the 1930s. The sisters were notorious for not living by the rules of society. Back for a fourth season is the comedy drama 'The Bear.' Jeremy Allen White is back playing an award-winning chef who returns to his hometown of Chicago to manage the kitchen at his late brother's sandwich shop. While the first and second seasons of this show did really well, audiences were not very impressed with the third so it will be interesting to see how the fourth does. In other news this week, turn to our Health pages to read about mouth taping. Mouth taping is one of those trendy health hacks that are viral on TikTok at the moment, but does it actually have real benefits? According to experts it won't give you a snatched jaw like TikTok claims, but there may be some benefits to the practice.
