Roald Dahl’s granddaughter is besotted with lawyer Linda Couvreur

As cinemagoers queue to look at Wonka, Roald Dahl‘s granddaughter Chloe is satisfied that she’s received the golden ticket relating to love.

Chloe — whose mom, Lucy, a screenwriter, is a daughter of the kids’s creator — is having fun with a passionate romance with a Dutch lawyer, Linda Couvreur, 30, ‘She’s obtained that wild mixture of sparkly eyes and a down-to-earth thoughts,’ Chloe, 33, tells me.

Chloe was beforehand engaged to a Hawaiian restaurateur, Nikki Booth, and says she will not be hurrying into marriage: ‘I’ve realized there isn’t any have to rush when the love is actual.’

Has animal lover David gone too fur?

When David Tennant as soon as once more reprises his function as Doctor Who in tonight’s sixtieth anniversary particular, he might be carrying his distinctive lengthy, wool overcoat.

In actual life, the 52-year-old Scot prefers a parka, with a hood apparently lined with actual fur.

Stepping out on a lunch break from rehearsals for Macbeth, on the Donmar Warehouse in London, Tennant gave the impression to be carrying a Woolrich £935 arctic parka, which has a trim fabricated from coyote fur.

This alternative of coat can be stunning, as he is a faithful animal lover who has appeared in animal charity adverts.

A spokesman for the actor declines to remark.

Jagger’s mini-me is all smiles on his seventh birthday 

With his large grin, tousled hair and trademark lips, Deveraux Jagger is wanting extra like his father than ever on this snap, posted in celebration of his seventh birthday yesterday by his mom, Melanie Hamrick.

‘Sweet, energetic, foolish, good, wild and delightful Devi,’ wrote the American ballerina, 36, who has been with Rolling Stones singer Sir Mick Jagger, 80, since 2014. ‘We love you greater than something.’

It’s doable that Deveraux is extra worldly than different lads his age. He was a great-uncle at start — courtesy of his sister Jade and her elder daughter, Assisi. The latter had her first baby, a daughter named Ezra, two years earlier than Deveraux was born.

Of course, Jade, 52, is not his eldest sibling — that honour goes to Karis Jagger, born to Sir Mick’s one-time lover, American singer Marsha Hunt, in 1970.

Jack desires in on Garrick Club – regardless of ‘no girls’ rule

It spurned Dame Joanna Lumley 12 years in the past when she fell foul of its rule requiring all members to be males. But by no means let or not it’s mentioned that the Garrick Club is dismissive of standard entertainers — even Jack Whitehall.

The 35-year-old, who discovered fame in Channel 4 comedy Fresh Meat, could also be sporting the membership’s tie, with its distinctive salmon-and-cucumber stripe, earlier than lengthy. ‘Jack is now trying to get in,’ says the comic’s father, Michael, 83, a retired theatrical agent.

What’s the betting that Jack — whose girlfriend, mannequin Roxy Horner, 32, gave start to their first baby, Elsie, in September — will make it earlier than Dame Joanna does?

As I disclosed a fortnight in the past, a survey of members discovered simply over half are in favour of admitting girls — nonetheless shy of the two-thirds required. I’m wondering how Jack’s father, brother and godfather — Nigel Havers — voted. They’re all members…

Dame Judi Dench is a nationwide treasure, however she swears like a sailor, in line with actor and director Brendan O’Hea, who has spent the previous 4 years chatting to the Oscar-winning actress for his or her new e book, Shakespeare: The Man Who Pays The Rent. 

He says the thought was at hand the recording of Dame Judi speaking about her stage roles to Shakespeare’s Globe theatre in London. ‘The drawback was,’ he explains, ‘there have been so many swear phrases within the full 100 hours that I could not hand it over.’ 

James Bond director Sir Sam Mendes has been handed a licence to dig a swimming pool at his £6 million nation house — however should make method for hedgehogs.

The Skyfall and Spectre filmmaker, 58, desires to demolish his previous crumbling pool and splash out on a much bigger pure one with a deck terrace, in addition to a brand new kitchen backyard.

But an ecological influence evaluation carried out forward of the proposed growth revealed potential habitats for nesting birds, badgers, reptiles and hedgehogs.

Fences and gates across the web site will want particular ‘hedgehog holes’ to permit the spiny mammals to get out and in. Signs saying ‘hedgehog highways’ can even need to be put up to make sure the 13x13cm holes are saved clear.

Mendes can even need to put up at the very least one bat field and three fowl bins at his Seventeenth-century house, a Grade II listed former vicarage in Buckinghamshire.

(Very) trendy manners

Known for its historic gents’s golf equipment, shirt makers and vintners, the London district of St James’s seems to be turning into red-light Soho. This week, a brand new membership opened its doorways in Jermyn Street, the place King Charles buys his garments, which would go away gents aghast.

Called Dear Darling, it boasts an ‘immersive and eccentric world devoted to the curious and hedonistic’.

At the launch get together, waitresses carrying solely bondage gear and chains served bottles of Bollinger whereas carrying sparklers between their enamel. Leather paddles had been positioned on the tables. In the corners had been crimson beds enclosed in cages.

The Earl of Wemyss’s daughter, Lady Mary Charteris, was the DJ, whereas Fran Cutler, as soon as the ‘get together Rottweiler’ for Kate Moss’s hedonistic Primrose Hill set, held courtroom from a chaise longue.

Jermyn Street is understood for its monogrammed shirts, however right here friends got lace thongs embroidered with their initials. Isn’t life grand!

She hardly resembles Geoff Capes, however magnificence entrepreneur Trinny Woodall has thrown herself into weightlifting to realize energy after splitting from artwork mogul Charles Saatchi earlier this yr.

‘My aim is to have the ability to comfortably raise 12kg [nearly 2st],’ says the previous co-host of makeover present What Not To Wear, 59. ‘When you are over 50, sustaining muscle energy is necessary. 

I began with 2kg [4.4lb] and I’ve been build up. Physical energy provides psychological energy, too.’