In brief: Campbell becomes Egyptologist

Naomi Campbell (pictured) has enjoyed a personal tour of the Great Pyramid at Giza from Zahi Hawass, the acclaimed archaeologist and secretary general of Egypt’s Supreme Council of Antiquities, who reports: "She claims to feel a great spiritual connection to it [the pyramid]. She started talking to it"............ Days before the Democratic Party convention opens in Denver – in the absence of the disgraced John Edwards, who turned out to be having an affair while his wife was dying of cancer – video footage has been unearthed of his mistress, Rielle Hunter. It shows the videographer taking part in a TV game show called /Lingo/, back in 2002............ Esther Rantzen has recalled working alongside Heather Mills, Sir Paul McCartney’s former wife, when Mills was a researcher at ITV. "She lived in this half-fantasy, half-reality world. The tragedy is that, at the time she married, there were two ways she could have gone. She could have become the person she said she was – the charitable work could really have taken off - but she would have had to leave behind the bullying and the anger, because she got very angry." She adds: "I always say she is the most interesting person I've worked with"............ Sebastian Faulks may have done well with his bestselling James Bond novel, Devil May Care, but it looks like he will not be making any further money from a screen adaptation. 007 producer Barbara Broccoli has ruled out a movie version............