Health fad places a hearth within the stomach of Kate Moss
Olivia Buckingham, who’s helped Princess Beatrice become one of the best-dressed royals, clearly has a burning desire for beauty.
She just joined Kate Moss at Deepak Chopra’s RAKxa retreat in Thailand where the society stylist underwent the Ya Pao treatment, which involves a herbal paste on a towel being set alight on her stomach.
Olivia, 40, also took part in a workshop by Moss’s lifestyle brand, Cosmoss, where the supermodel, 50, read from her collection of 150 mindful messages written to ‘uplift, inspire and enlighten’.
Pictured together, Olivia Buckingham and supermodel Kate Moss who underwent the unusual treatment together
Olivia tries the Ya Pao treatment which involves a herbal paste on a towel being set alight on her stomach
Olivia bows her head in prayer towards a Buddhist monk during her exotic visit to Thailand
If television reporter Andy Bell looked a little less than his normal energetic self at the start of this week, it was excusable: the Channel 5 political editor was just back from an emotionally draining weekend in Rome watching his daughter, Georgia, win silver in the 1,500m at the European athletics championships.
Georgia, 30, fought against the odds to secure her triumph, having feared that her Achilles heel had been raked by a rival during the heats. As a result of her medal she is now in the reckoning for a place in Great Britain’s Olympics squad this summer.
The good news for father Andy – one of the nicest guys in TV news – is that the General Election will be well over by then and he might be able to watch his daughter run without taking calls from Westminster spin doctors.
Dame Prue’s latest award gives her husband food for thought
Prue Leith and John Playfair attend the National Portrait Gallery’s reopening in front of ‘The Doors’ (2023)
When King Charles awards men a knighthood, their wives become a Lady. But when women are handed a damehood, there is no new title for their husbands.
And Dame Prue Leith’s husband, John Playfair, does not appear to be happy about this state of affairs.
Asked if he should receive a knighthood, the retired clothes designer tells me, jokingly: ‘It’s long overdue.’
Speaking at the Guild of Food Writers Awards, where Leith, 84, won a Lifetime Achievement Award, Playfair, says: ‘It would give me a bit more say-so. I suppose it would be for services to the arts.’
Of his current status, the 77-year-old adds: ‘If she’s a dame, I must be a damsel.’
What’s occurring for Gavin and Stacey star Ruth Jones is that she’s fed up with being called an actor.
‘I think of myself as an actress,’ she tells Rob Brydon on his podcast after he introduced her as an ‘actor’.
He later explained: ‘I am being very politically correct.’
Jones says: ‘I always correct people’s political correctness. Sometimes I’ve read an introduction to something that I’ve been doing and they’ve called me an actor, and I say, ‘Oh, no, I’m an actress’, and they go, ‘Well, it’s our policy to call you an actor’. I go, ‘I know, but I identify as an actress’.’
EastEnders star puts gloss on royal gaffe
Roman Kemp at the UK’s biggest photo booth, part of The Nation’s Network Campaign, launched by Vodafon
Radio presenter Roman Kemp teamed up with the Princess of Wales to make a film about mental wellbeing last year.
‘She originally asked to come to my flat and I was, like, ‘Nah, you can’t have the princess in my flat in south London’,’ says the son of Spandau Ballet and former EastEnders star Martin and pop singer Shirlie Kemp.
‘So I said, ‘My mum and dad have got a lovely house. Let me just ask them.’ Roman’s father says: ‘Shirlie went into an absolute blind panic. You know how they say that everywhere the Royal Family goes smells like fresh paint? What do me and Shirlie do? We decide the front door needs painting. But the night before the princess comes round, it pours down. So, by the time she turns up, there’s a river of paint down the whole drive.’
