Daily Mirror - 06.09.2019

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IAN HYLAND

on last night’s telly

On a second day of

inflatable fun at the

Ashes, England’s Ben

Stokes had to boot a

giant watermelon off the

pitch. On Wednesday, Aussie

batsman Steve Smith hit a beach ball

to the boundary at Old Trafford.

Red wine, beer... it’s no

wonder Paul

Hollywood was

worried he’d “feel it later” after a

night out with Noel Fielding.

But the Bake Off star admitted

he was feeling remarkably fresh

next morning “considering what

the team drank last night”.

THE DIARY

In a break from Twitter’s

political chatter, talk

turned to backhanded

compliments celebs

have had from people.

Les Dennis reveals:

“After a performance of

Hairspray a man said,

‘Well done, Les, I didn’t

know you were

talented’.” And the Fast Show’s

Simon Day said a boxing coach told

him: “You used to be the third

funniest person in England.”

CAMILLA’S DANCE: PAGE 26

Made In Chelsea’s Jamie Laing

was “absolutely devastated” to

quit Strictly Come Dancing yesterday

after damaging a tendon in his foot.

The reality star, 30, was injured

while recording the first group dance

for tomorrow’s launch show.

Doctors said he would not be

able to complete the training.

Jamie said: “I’m absolutely

devastated. I was so excited to

hit the dance floor.” It’s the

first time in Strictly’s 17

series that a celeb has pulled

out before taking part in a

single live show.

A new contestant is

now being lined up.

LAING ROAD

TO RECOVERY

“I’m not gonna

lie – I don’t

want grey hair.

As she turns 50, Jennifer

Aniston vows to never ditch her monthly

hair dye appointments.

Lorraine Kelly has revealed that her first crush

was Star Trek’s Mr Spock.

“I love Mr Spock,” she tells tonight’s The Rob

Rinder Verdict. “I mean, I really, really, really

love Mr Spock. In my head he’s real.”

Watch Lorraine discuss being a Trekkie tonight at

10pm on Channel 4.

FED UP

Ron before he

has a squirt

of his scent

Hedgehog slippers, leopard-print

dressing gown and burnt toast —

Cristiano Ronaldo isn’t so stylish as he

falls into his pool during a rough day. That

is until his CR7 scent transforms him into a

suave footballer smelling of roses, in the

advert for his new fragrance.

GOWN AND OUT

Star takes tumble

Billy Connolly’s Great American

Trail, ITV: ★★★

I

f you’ve become as worryingly

addicted to BBC Parliament as I

have in the past few days, you

were no doubt thankful to Billy

Connolly for dragging you away

last night.

Billy was back doing another

one of his travelogues – which,

given his continuing battle with

Parkinson’s disease, had to go

down as one of this year’s more

welcome TV surprises.

When he hosted that “Greatest

Trips” compilation on ITV last

December, I assumed it was his

farewell to life on the road.

But no. Here he was

undertaking a gruelling 3,000 mile

journey through 10 states, from

Massachusetts to Nashville.

The thinking behind it was that

this is where the vast majority of

the 27 million Americans with

Scottish ancestry live – and Billy

wanted to meet as many of them

as possible.

Whether he’ll get around to

Donald Trump remains to be seen,

but there were plenty of colourful

characters in this

opening episode.

It was pretty

educational, too. I

never knew the real

Uncle Sam was a

Scottish meat

trader; or that

Captain Birds Eye

was named after a

guy who ran a

frozen food company in

Massachusetts; or that bag-piping

is incredibly popular in America

these days.

I had heard of one of the most

interesting stop-offs on Billy’s trip

• Salem, scene of the infamous
  witch trials.
  Billy described it
  as “a place
  enshrined in terrible
  and recurring
  ugliness”.
  Which reminds
  me, I must check
  back in with BBC
  Parliament at some
  point today.
  SURPRISE: Billy

A child’s tantrum can be

hard to manage at the

best of times.

So spare a thought for News-

night presenter Emily Maitlis, who

maintained her composure for 22

hours during rolling news coverage

of the 2010 election – only to be

confronted with a screaming five-

year-old when she returned home.

She admits she took drastic

measures to calm eldest son Milo

• locking him in the garden.
  “I opened the back door and
  picked him up and said, ‘Right, you
  are in the garden until you stop
  crying’. I shut the door. Then I real-
  ised he didn’t have any shoes on,

so I opened the door,

threw the shoes out

and shut it again.

“I thought, ‘Actually,

I’ve been awake for 22

hours, I can’t listen to

this’. I knew he was

not going to come to

any trouble because

it’s a safe garden but I

just couldn’t listen to

the screaming. I like to

terrify them for brief moments and

then calm down.”

Now, when Emily, 48, returns

home from a shift, she has a fail-

safe way to unwind. “I have a chat

with the dog. After work I am

buzzing. I pour myself a little

vodka or a glass of rose

and the dog has a treat

and I recount my day.”

Her children – Milo,

now 15, and Max, 12 –

“show no mercy” while

criticising her TV

appearances.

Emily, talking

to Good

House-

keeping, says:

“Every mistake

I make will not go

unnoticed by my children. All the

trouble I get into they think is

great.” Read the full interview in

the October issue of Good House-

keeping, which is on sale now.

Newsfright parenting

skills by ice cool Emily

RUFF DAY

Emily & dog

A BIG SHAMIE

Laing has quit