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Brown enlists blonde to get fighting fit
Gordon Brown, his grasp on power under threat, is evidently becoming stressed. The 57-year-old Prime Minister has signed up a personal trainer to give him Pilates excercises twice a day while he is on holiday by the seaside in Suffolk. Blonde former actress Millie Dobie, 42, is putting the... [continued]
The singer, his wife and the irate promoter
Unless there is a settlement, the opera singer Erwin Schrott's next big appearance may not be at Covent Garden or the Met, but in the witness box. The devilishly handsome Uruguayan bass-baritone, whose fiancee, the fiery Russian soprano Anna Netrebko is expecting their first child any day... [continued]
Hughes’s right-hand man dies aged 90
The mad king went in 1976. Now his most trusted courtier has joined him. Robert Maheu, who worked for the FBI and CIA before he became confidant and right-hand man to the eccentric billionaire Howard Hughes, has died aged 90 in Las Vegas.... [continued]
Elisabeth Murdoch takes on fund- raising duties for the Tate
She has dug deep for Barack Obama and the Millennium Dome, now she is being asked to sort out Tate Modern. Elisabeth Murdoch, the daughter of the media tycoon Rupert Murdoch, has landed her first major public appointment, becoming a trustee of the two Tate galleries, Britain and Modern.... [continued]
Telegraph exposes absentee chefs
If Gordon Ramsay, the celebrity c***, has 22 restaurants, from London to Tokyo and Dubai, what are the chances of him, or indeed any other well-known cook, actually cooking in their restaurant the night you book a table? Daily Telegraph staff telephoned around with the following results.... [continued]
In brief: Jourdan Dunn scoops first solo cover
Jourdan Dunn (pictured), recently predicted by Vogue to become a major supermodel, has scooped her first solo cover, for the September issue of i-D. "We put her on the cover because she represents multicultural London today and she also epitomises youthful cool," Edward Enninful, the magazine's fashion director, tells the... [continued]
‘Great Escape’ tunnel digger dies
Airman Eric 'Digger' Dowling, an important figure in the break-out of Allied PoWs from Stalag Luft III in the Second World War, immortalised in the film The Great Escape, has died, aged 92. There were parts of Dowling's role in the escape in the officers played by Charles... [continued]
