For millions of us who were hoping to see the Princess of Wales return to public life after her cancer treatment, it came as a blow to learn that she will not be attending Trooping The Color rehearsal this month.
How wonderful it would have been to see her receive the salute, as planned, as the new Colonel-in-Chief of the Irish Guards.
And we still don’t know if he will join the Royal Family for King Charles’ official birthday celebrations on June 15, with the traditional appearance on the balcony of Buckingham Palace. The King would very much like his “beloved daughter-in-law” to be there if possible.
Kate has been away from the spotlight for five months. We miss her. However, who could blame her if, during the precious time she spent with her family, she had rethought her role as a shining jewel at the heart of the monarchy?
Princess of Wales will not attend Trooping The Color rehearsal this month
Kate has been away from the spotlight for five months after revealing in a video message that she is receiving cancer treatment
Wouldn’t she have reflected on the relentless pressure of being the most photographed and perhaps most famous woman in the world and decided to take a step back and become the hands-on mother she always wanted to be? Last year, Kate made 132 official public appearances.
Perhaps she has discovered in the terrible circumstances of her cancer that she loves being at home like a normal mother in tight jeans and wellies. I, for one, would applaud her.
You could do the work you think is important, such as your charities and early learning interests, from home. It’s the modern way.
Of course, we’d still like to see it. But we all need to think about the toll our demands have taken and reset our expectations. When he is well enough to re-enter public life, he will have to do so on his own terms.
And when and how he does it, a nation will rejoice.
Gary Lineker says he doesn’t tweet about politics to advocate for change, but only when injustice bothers him. ‘I’m not doing it to try to influence. I do it so I can look at myself in the mirror at night,” says the man with 8.9 million X followers.
Wow, it must be a big mirror to fit all his huge ego.
Hannah on top
Emmy Award-winning actress Hannah Waddingham, 49, who found success later in life, will star alongside Tom Cruise in Mission: Impossible 8.
And the 5ft 11 Ted Lasso star warns she can’t forget the Hollywood bosses who rejected her early in her career but are now desperate to work with her.
She tells them: ‘Please look somewhere else. I’m human. Memory. Let yourself go.
In other words, the executives who snubbed her now face an impossible mission to win her back.
Emmy Award-winning actress Hannah Waddingham, 49, to star alongside Tom Cruise in Mission: Impossible 8
Fans of the original Gladiator movie might be dismayed to see snapshots of a skinny Paul Mescal.
He has just finished filming Gladiator II, replacing the once magnificently muscular Russell Crowe as the story’s hero.
The portly Oliver Reed, who played Proximo in the first film and died mid-shoot, must be turning in his grave.
Westminster Wars
- As Rishi Sunak and Keir Starmer attempted to woo deprived voters, the Prime Minister carried a £750 Tumi backpack and Starmer wore a £499 hoodie from French boutique brand Sandro. Many workers they encountered would be lucky to take home that amount in a week.
- Having worked with Diane Abbott and knowing that she is a brave MP, I am appalled by Keir Starmer’s treatment of her. A letter to The Guardian says she “demonstrates an appalling lack of humanity and compassion and a vengeful evil that is difficult to understand.” First time I agree with a Guardian reader!
- Ed Davey goes down a water slide in an inflatable boat to promote children’s mental health, Starmer serves ice cream to punters and Rishi drinks a pint of lemonade in a pub. These idiotic tricks do not convince voters: they irritate them.
Jennifer Lopez launches a pre-mixed Light Margarita, after criticism for promoting an alcoholic brand when she was known to be teetotal. She insists: “That was true for a long time, but for the last 15 years I’ve enjoyed the occasional cocktail and I love it!”
She says her Margarita has fewer calories, is made with real fruit juice and is gluten-free. Just like J-Lo’s fabulous body at 54 after having twins: all natural!
Jennifer Lopez, 54, launched a premixed Light Margarita
After losing suitcases in transit to the Qatar World Cup, England’s WAGs hired a private courier to take their luggage to Euro 2024 in Germany, each with a 200kg allowance – ten times the limit in most countries. commercial airlines. They also want to have the option of private jets to fly if England reach the final rounds. Don’t hold your breath, ladies!
The truth for Ruth
Sources close to Eamonn Holmes and Ruth Langsford insist he was “devastated” by the news they were divorcing after 14 years of marriage while he suffered serious health problems.
Meanwhile, Ruth’s friends say she “needs to go out and have fun” and she returned to work this week, smiling and promoting her QVC shopping channel, from which she makes a fortune selling size 18 pants to 60-something women.
I wonder how many of her fans, many of them happily married, will support her now that she has left her husband when he seems to need her the most.
The owner who dumped his ten dead giant tortoises in the forest escaped from prison. Gary Priddle, 56, left them during a Christmas holiday after failing to check that the heating lamp to keep them alive was working. And Priddle is an electrician! A fine of £199 for allowing the death of these creatures, which can live 120 years? Don’t you know that exotic pets, like dogs and cats, are for life?
My complaints about Bridget Jones
Filming for the new Bridget Jones movie is taking place near where I live in North London.
It means trucks full of material blocking the roads and causing noisy traffic jams, entire streets closed to cars, lovely pedestrians making a racket from 7am to 8pm for days, and groups of workers trying to stop us from taking our usual walks around nearby Hampstead. . Heather.
I already hate the movie.
Renee Zellweger films new Bridget Jones movie in north London
In her Channel 5 documentary ‘Stormy’, porn star Stormy Daniels says her one-night stand with Donald Trump destroyed her emotionally, but admits she didn’t say ‘No’ to sex with him.
Not so destroyed, Stormy, that you couldn’t present evidence against him in court, where he was found guilty on 34 charges.
The only one who has maintained a dignified silence about this sordid affair, which occurred after Trump married Melania, is the former First Lady herself. Although I can’t understand why she stays with him.
Viewers give the bird to Beeb.
Springwatch this week reminded viewers of how it showed a nightjar attacking one of its newborn chicks and then swallowing it.
Fans of the BBC show said they were left “vomiting and having nightmares”. Honestly, we tune in thinking we’ll be greeted by the joys of spring, not that we’ll see avian cannibalism.
Horrible creatures devouring their own, like EastEnders.