Daily Mail, Thursday, August 1, 2019 Page 39SHERLOCK and Doctor Who
director Douglas Mackinnon
offers some sage advice to John
Humphrys and the Radio 4 Today
team: ‘If you cut out all the times
your presenters mention thatO they’re running out of time, you’d
have plenty of time.’
But wouldn’t Doctor Who be
half its running time if the line:
‘We’re running out of time!’ was
cut from the scripts?SHE may still be Daddy’s girl, but
Georgina Castle, 26-year-old
actress daughter of former UK
tennis No 1-turned-broadcaster
Andrew Castle, might raise a few
eyebrows with her latest role.
She has landed the part of
Doralee Rhodes in the touring
production of West End show
9 To 5 The Musical — played by
the voluptuous Dolly Parton in
the 1980 film. ‘I’ve got somebig shoes (and hair) to fill,’
she enthuses.
Georgina previously played the
lead role in hit ABBA musical
Mamma Mia! in 2017. Her father
(pictured with Georgina) tells
me: ‘After finishing Mamma Mia!
she was without what you might
call stable work for some time,
although that’s not unusual in
this difficult business.’
What a way to make a livin’!Chan lambasts
‘crazy’ pressure
to start a family
ACTRESS Gemma Chan, 36, says she
feels society’s pressure to have
children. ‘When you’re a teenager
or in your 20s, the idea of getting
pregnant, it’s been drilled into you
that it’s the worst thing that could
happen,’ says the Marvel movie
star, left, who is dating Mamma
Mia! actor Dominic Cooper.
‘And then suddenly when you hit
your mid-30s, the other message
is that you’re running out of time,
you’re going to miss out on being
a mother... it’s crazy.’
Oxford-educated Chan, who has
previously dated comic Jack
Whitehall, examines the dilemma
in Channel 4 drama I Am Hannah,
her screenwriting debut.Ambushed at sea! Cameron
left red-faced in Costa Rica
O THe beautiful Bronwen
astor never remarried
after the death of her
husband, Bill, 3rd Viscount
astor, in 1966, nor did she
ever return to Cliveden, his
family seat, where he is
said to have bedded
good-time girl Mandy Rice-
Davies during the Profumo
affair. But Bronwen, Bill
astor’s third wife who died
in December 2017 aged 87,
never turned her back on
William, astor’s son by his
first marriage, who is now
stepfather to Samantha
Cameron, nor emily,
astor’s daughter by his
second marriage — and
has bequeathed them
£10,000 each in her will.IT SeeMS there is no hiding for
David Cameron. According to next
month’s Tatler magazine, the former
PM thought he had got away from it
all — and his critics who blame him
for Brexit — when he visited Costa
rica in January this year.
‘At last he was on an extended
family holiday, the beach idyllic, the
ocean inviting,’ reports the magazine.
‘And so he plunged into the sea,
letting the warm waters wash histroubles away. except that front-
crawling vigorously towards him was
an irate figure — a figure who cried:
‘Oy! Aren’t you that David Cameron?
you stupid f***ing.. .’
The magazine claims Lord Feldman,
once Cameron’s tennis partner and
former chairman of the Conservative
Party, has been regaling friends with
this ‘David-Cameron-in-Costa-rica
story’ all summer. Let’s hope Dave
has better luck in Cornwall.Working
9 to 5: tennis
star Castle’s
girl in ace role
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