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with Ashleigh Rainbird
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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