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Dasha admits she knows little about art
Daria ‘Dasha’ Zhukova, fashion designer, international It girl and girlfriend of Roman Abramovich, is often credited as the woman who got the Russian oligarch
interested in contemporary art (he recently splashed out more than £60m on paintings by Lucian Freud and Francis Bacon). However, despite being... [continued]
Roman and Daria wow Basel Art Fair 
What Daria did next: model turns gallerist
Dasha comes in form the cold
Alan Coren memorial service row
Nearly a year after his premature death from cancer, a row is brewing up over the memorial service for Alan Coren (pictured), humourist, quiz show panellist and one time editor of Punch magazine. Needless to say, many of Coren's friends and admirers had been hoping for an... [continued]
Is Anna Ford pitching for Kirsty Young’s Desert Island job?
Is Anna Ford (pictured left), the former newscaster, angling to replace Kirsty Young as the presenter of the BBC's Desert Island Discs? Judging
from an interview in the Daily Telegraph it would appear so. Ford, 64, who was recently told that her contract as host of Radio... [continued]
TV ruled by women, protests Paxman
Nun’s beauty contest is off, priest regrets
On Tuesday The First Post reported how an Italian priest, Father Antonio Rungi (pictured), was attempting to stage the world’s first beauty contest for nuns, with
photos appearing online and voting due to begin in mid-September. Now his dream has been killed off by his local bishop,... [continued]
RC priest holds a beauty contest
Carla plays second fiddle to Sir Paul
Carla Bruni, France's First Lady, may get top-billing on the world stage when she's accompanying her husband, President Sarkozy. However, when the model turned chanteuse appears on the British music programme Later . . . with Jools Holland next month for her live UK debut, it seems... [continued]
‘Ming’ Campbell laps up Obama
Among the thousands filling the Pepsi Center in Denver, Colorado for the Democratic Party convention this week are hundreds of British politicians, spin doctors and trade unionists, looking not so
much for free hotdogs as for campaigning and fund-raising techniques they can bring to UK politics. Hugh Bayley, one... [continued]
In pictures: scenes from the Democratic convention
Hillary does her best - but is it enough?
Jimmy Page gets Led Zep back in the studio
Those monsters of rock and roll excess, Led Zeppelin - or at least what’s left of the line-up - are apparently back in the studio, writing and recording music that could become the band’s first album
in more than 25 years. A reunion has been on the... [continued]
Whole lotta love for Led Zep reunion
In brief: Craig takes himself seriously
Daniel Craig (pictured), who plays 007 in the forthcoming Bond movie The Quantum of Solace, seems to have let the role go to his head. Speaking to Empire
magazine, he launches into a defence of the civil service. "The reason the civil service remains a non-political organisation is that if... [continued]
Bond curse claims star victim as Daniel Craig injured at Pinewood
Jackson clan decamps to sleepy Devon village
