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@sebshakespeareBishop and wife take up
splendid self-isolation
For his next
adventure, former Today
programme host James
Naughtie is taking
inspiration from the Beat
writers. ‘I’ve got a book
coming out soon called
on The road. Jack
Kerouac’s dead so I can
call it that,’ he tells me at
a party to celebrate
Baroness Kennedy’s time
as chair of the Booker
Prize Foundation. ‘It’s 50
years of me going to
America. It’s quite a fun
book, actually. I first
went when I was a
student and it covers my
American adventures,
from Nixon to Trump.’■The new Bishop of hereford, Richard
Jackson, styles himself Rick the Vic.
So let’s hope it is not a case of Rick
the Vic is Sick, as I discover he has
gone into self-imposed quarantine at
the Bishop’s Palace in hereford
having just returned from a holiday
in Venice.
‘he’s taken the very precautionary
measure of self-isolating,’ Sarah
Whitelock, communications director
for the diocese of hereford, tells me.
‘he didn’t visit any of the towns in
northern Italy affected by the
[C oVId-19] virus, but decided to
remain in self-imposed isolation for
the recommended 14-day period to
avoid any risk.’
he does, though, have the consola-
tion of companionship: his wife,
deborah, was on holiday with him and
has joined him in palatial quarantine.£700,000
Tom plays
a Blinder
PEAKY Blinders star Tom
Hardy knows how to make
a killing. I can reveal the
42-year-old, who plays a
mob boss in the BBC
drama, made a stagger-
ing £700,000 profit last
year for his production
company, 33 1/3rd.
The figures are reported
in new accounts for the
year ended May 31, 2019,
and takes the net worth
of his company — the
n a t u r e o f w h i c h
is listed on Companies
House as performing arts
— to £1,830,749.Ewan and
lover seal it
with a kiss
TRAINSPOTTING star Ewan McGre-
gor put on a very public display
of affection with his younger
girlfriend, Mar y Elizabeth
Winstead, in Manhattan at
the weekend.
Ewan, 48, shared a smooch
with Fargo actress Mary, 35,
while walking through Hudson
River Park (pictured left).
After McGregor left his wife of
22 years, Eve Mavrakis, for Mary,
his daughter Clara dubbed
the other woman ‘a piece of
trash’ and called her father
Display: Mary and Ewan smooch an ‘a**e’.
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