In brief: Gayle Hunnicutt divorces

Simon Jenkins, the newspaper columnist and former editor of the Times, and chairman of the National Trust, has split up with his wife, the American-born actress Gayle Hunnicutt (pictured here) after 30 years of marriage. Hunnicutt, who was previously married to the late actor David Hemmings and appeared in the US TV series Dallas, says she initiated divorce proceedings, but declines to discuss whether there are any third parties involved... Commons Speaker Michael Martin has ordered an artist to make his nose smaller in an official portrait. Andrew Festing, a renowned portrait painterwho has previously painted the Queen and Cardinal Basil Hume, said he went back and reduced its size when Martin complained... Shia LaBeouf, 22, who stars in the new Indiana Jones movie alongside Harrison Ford, has been arrested on suspicion of drink-driving after an accident in Hollywood. LaBeouf's pick-up truck crashed into another vehicle in the early hours of Sunday... It transpires that Arnold Ridley, the actor who played Private Godfrey in the BBC comedy Dad's Army, which celebrates its 40th anniversary this year, experienced hand-to-hand fighting in the trenches of the First World War. Research into Ridley's war service by his son shows he went 'over the top' twice during the Somme offensive and was bayoneted and left for dead by German soldiers. His son Nicholas, 61, told the Sunday Telegraph: "My father's greatest achievement was to recover from the horrors of that war and to emerge a decent man. We just hadn't pictured him throwing grenades and bayoneting his way through German trenches"... The BBC have persuaded the Prince of Wales to appear in a fly-on-the-wall documentary to mark his 60th birthday in November. Says a source: "It is a serious, heavyweight programme about his working role. They have been pointing a camera at everything he does"… Ashley Dupre, the call-girl involved in the scandal that led to the resignation of New York Governor Eliot Spitzer, has reportedly sold her story for $2m to a US TV network and Hollywood studio – thought to be Fox in both cases…