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@sebshakespeareAS THE Duchess of
Sussex tackles her
critics, who better to
have in her corner than
Jessica Mulroney?
Fashion stylist Jessica,
whose two sons were
page boys at Meghan
and Prince Harry’s
wedding, has been
showing off her bulging
biceps online.
‘My love for fitness
only started after I had
children,’ says Jessica,- ‘I used to love
sports, but really never
became a serious
gym rat until I
reached my 30s. It’s
never too late.’
Here’s why you shouldn’t
mess with Meghan’s BF
LAST Tango In Halifax
star Anne Reid is delighted
to have been finally cast as
a member of the landed
gentry. She’s to play
Lady Denham in ITV1’s
forthcoming costume
drama Sanditon,
after a 60-year career
which has often seen her
‘below stairs’.
Says Anne: ‘Usually, I’m in
the kitchen in these
dramas. For some reason,
people think I look
domesticated.
‘This is the first time I’ve
ever got upstairs. People
are bowing and scraping
to me all the time — I can’t
get used to it.’■Dragon Bannatyne is selling
off his ‘forever’ rectory home
OLYMPIC showjumper Tim Stockdale, who presented the
television show Only Fools On Horses, left more than
£560,000 in his will. Probate documents reveal that
Stockdale, who died from cancer last November aged 54,
bequeathed his entire estate to his wife, Laura, with whom
he had two sons, Joseph and Mark. At the height of his
career, disaster struck when he broke his neck in three
places in a fall; but after intensive treatment, his
determination saw him back in the saddle after three
months, and soon competing again at the highest level.■EDITED BY RICHARD EDEN
BBC nature
presenter Kate Humble
says there’s no room
for vanity on her
globetrotting
adventures. ‘This isn’t
Strictly,’ she insists.
‘There are no lights
and no make-up —
why do you think I
look so s**t on the
telly.’ Humble, 50, adds:
‘It’s partly economic,
but partly because it’s
the best way to make
a programme. We’re
often on foot, so
you can’t have a
huge entourage.’■Daily Mail, Wednesday, August 21, 2019THE romance is over: health club
tycoon Duncan Bannatyne has put
on the market the home he vowed
he’d keep until the day he died.
‘I’ll always have this house,’ the
former Dragons’ Den star declared
after he bought the five-bedroom
former rectory in Yarm,
Stockton-on-Tees, in 2014. ‘I’ll never,
ever sell it.’
Scotsman Bannatyne, 70, who
made dental receptionist Nigora
Whitehorn, 39, his third wife in 2017,
has apparently undergone a change
of heart and the property is now on
sale for £875,000, some £100,000
more than he paid for it.
He bought it shortly after the
divorce from his second wife, Joanne
McCue, which cost him £345million.
‘When this came up, I just loved it,
so I had to buy it,’ Bannatyne said
after moving in. He also has a holiday
home in Portugal.
The father of six declines to
comment on the sale, but one friend
jokes: ‘This should pay for a new
handbag or two for Nigora.’Banderas’s plum
role at Waitrose!
WAS that Hollywood
heartthrob Antonio
Banderas pushing a
trolley around the super-
markets of Surrey’s
stockbroker belt?
It seems The Mask Of
Zorro star, who lives in
Cobham with his girl-
friend, investment
adviser Nicole Kimpel,
36, loves to do the local
shopping. ‘I go to
Waitrose or Morrisons,’
says the 59-year-old
Spaniard.
‘People are very polite.
The other day, a guy
asked me [putting on a
plummy accent]:
“Are you living here?” I
said yes, and he said,
“Well, lucky us!” and
walked away.’
That’s Waitrose for
you...Friends in high places: Mario Testino, Joan Collins and Kate Moss
in the South of France and, inset, Testino and Moss in 1998