Daily Mail, Wednesday, August 28, 2019 Page 33RUSSIAN-born
opera superstar
Anna Netrebko has
inspired her
husband, the well-
fed tenor Yusif
Eyvazov, to shed
more than
four stone.
He previously
weighed in at
almost 19 stone.
‘Do you know the
biggest benefit of
my weight loss?’
Azerbaijani
Eyvazov says. ‘We
now have more
positions in bed.’
How romantic.■Wish you
were Air,
says Donna
Four Weddings
and a pension
plan for Curtis
HOW better to show your ex-boy-
friend what he’s missing than by
sharing your holiday snaps?
Actress Donna Air, 40, who split up
with property developer Ben Car-
rington a fortnight ago, has been
enjoying a break at the Hotel du Cap-
Eden-Roc on the French Riviera with
her daughter, Freya, 15. And she made
sure to post pictures on social media,
where her followers include Harrow-
educated Carrington, 36.
They had been going out after she
split up with the Duchess of
Cambridge’s brother, James
Middleton, in 2017. Donna says from
France: ‘Living my best life.’‘Kiwi’ Sam
Neill Stokes
cricket row
HE HAS created some of the most
popular films in British cinema, but
Richard Curtis is considering
hanging up his clapperboard.
‘I have made two films about
prioritising your life over your work,’
says Curtis, 62, whose hits include
Four Weddings And A Funeral. ‘If
you have the luxury of being able to
do that, particularly when you’ve
got lots of kids, and if like me you’ve
never watched a movie by Fellini,
never read a book over 300 pages
long, never learned to cook, never
walked round Scotland — I’m just
wondering whether or not it would
be wrong for me to dive in.’KIWI actor Sam Neill is upset by
reports of England star Ben
Stokes’s heroics.
‘When I read it was the “great-
est innings ever by an English-
man”, I choked on my porridge,’
says the Jurassic Park star. ‘He is,
of course, from New Zealand.’
While it’s true Stokes was born
in Christchurch and has Maori
ancestry, he moved to England
aged 12. And Neill is on a sticky
wicket — he was born in Omagh,
Northern Ireland, heading to
the Antipodes aged seven.EDITED BY RICHARD EDEN
Chloe
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‘A blast of fresh air’:
Chloe in her iconic
1998 ‘Girl in Pearls’
pose for Country
Life magazine
Picture: BILL BURLINGTON