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@sebshakespeareAs Boris takes the
reins, dad Stanley
heads Down Under!
King of schlock Barry
Manilow is sceptical about
the all-star big screen
version of Andrew Lloyd
Webber’s Cats.
The crooner says he rescued
Memories, which became a
big hit for Barry, from
‘the dreadful show’.
The Copacabana showman
adds: ‘i didn’t record it the
way Andrew wrote it. i gave
it three key changes and
built it, and changed some
melody notes, too.
‘When i got to the end, it
was huge.’
How did Lloyd Webber feel
about those liberties?
‘He hated it. My god, he
hated it,’ admits Manilow.nMum’s sew clever
says Becker’s
lovechild Anna
Coldplay Chris and
50 Shades Dakota look
ready to take the plunge
COLDPLAY frontman Chris Martin
and actress Dakota Johnson
appeared to scotch rumours that
they have split up by frolicking
together on a beach in the
Hamptons, in New York.
Chris, 42, and the 29-year-old
daughter of Hollywood stars
Melanie Griffith and Don Johnson
have been dating for two years.
Putting on an amorous display,
the musician, who has two chil-dren with his ex-wife, Gwyneth
Paltrow, gave Dakota a piggyback
ride in the sea. It is the first time
they have been pictured together
since mid-June.
Earlier this year, friends of the
couple claimed there was ‘talk of
an engagement’, with the
Fifty Shades Of Grey star having
been given the thumbs-up by
Gwyneth as the pair partied
together in April.n RANGERS at the Queen’s
Scottish retreat have
attacked litter louts who
left a ‘disgusting’ pile
of rubbish in one of its
mountain refuges. Posting
a picture on social media
of the big heap of waste at
Balmoral, they could not
contain their anger.
‘Some of the rubbish
collected from the
Glas-allt-Shiel bothy this
week,’ they wrote.
‘Disgusting!’ The mess will
sadden Prince Charles.
Such is his affection for the
mountain that he
immortalised it in his
illustrated 1980 children’s
book, The Old Man Of
Lochnagar, which tells the
story of an old man who
leaves his cave in the cliffs
for adventures in the
surrounding countryside.
Just days after Boris Johnson took over as
PM to negotiate the perilous waters of Brexit,
his father stanley Johnson is wrangling whale
sharks Down under.
Johnson senior had been due to fly to
Western Australia on a five-day trip sponsored
by the state government on the day his eldest
son entered 10 Downing street, but put off
his visit.
‘I thought it might look odd if I flew off on
the day Boris took office,’ says stanley.
the 78-year-old former MEP adds: ‘the
pay-off in delaying my trip was that I got to
see the last passage of the whale sharks and
the beginning of the humpback whale
migration from Antarctica.’
the WA government is hoping his trip will
attract more Brits to the Antipodes.
stanley shares his family’s insatiable
appetite for the limelight. He has appeared
on I’m A Celebrity and Celebrity Gogglebox.Picture: THE IMAGE DIRECTMUM’S the word! While most
teenagers might spurn their
parents’ fashion choices in
favour of their own, Boris
Becker’s love child Anna
Ermakova is an exception.
The 19-year-old model appeared
on the red carpet in Spain wear-
ing a red silk halter neck gown
custom-made by her Russian-
Algerian mother, Angela Ermak-
ova. ‘Thank you to my beautiful
talented mum for sewing me this
dress from scratch, wouldn’t
know what I would do without
you,’ she wrote online next to
this snap. Anna was conceived at
London’s Nobu restaurant.
Boris, 51, has called her ‘one of
the best things’ in his life.HugH grAnT confesses to being a repressed prima donna on set.
‘if my breakfast doesn’t arrive on time in my trailer, i am furious,’ he
says. ‘i have to pretend i am still a decent human being but inwardly
i am Cher, i’m screaming.’ grant permits himself one vocal tantrum
per film, ‘blaming an inanimate object’ when he forgets his lines.nРЕЛИЗ ПОДГОТОВИЛА ГРУППА "What's News" VK.COM/WSNWS