EPHRAIM HARDCASTLE: More BBC Proms to celebrate their own shows but Bake Off's turn could be tasty viewing
Nice to see David Cameron relegating the cooks and the gardener to the British Empire Medal in his dissolution honours – not worthy of an MBE.
The egalitarian John Major stopped the BEM but Cameron reinstated it in 2011.
If you get the BEM, it’s awarded in the local town hall. Major wanted everyone honoured to have the chance to visit Buck House.
Nice to see David Cameron (pictured) relegating the cooks and the gardener to the British Empire Medal in his dissolution honours – not worthy of an MBE
Sir David Attenborough takes centre stage at the Royal Albert Hall on Sunday for the Life Story Prom. Nothing new in the BBC using the prestigious classical music festival to plug its top programmes.
Already this year there has been a Sherlock Holmes Prom (although there was huge disappointment that they couldn’t get Benedict Cumberbatch to turn up) and recent years have seen Blue Peter, Doctor Who and even CBeebies enjoying the Proms spotlight.
Now there are plans to give The Great British Bake Off a Prom next year – possibly with a bit of live cookery on stage.
Mel and Sue dancing to the Sugar Plum Fairy or saintly Mary Berry and Paul Hollywood baking a Hansel and Gretel gingerbread house would surely be a crowd-puller.
Mel and Sue dancing to the Sugar Plum Fairy or saintly Mary Berry and Paul Hollywood baking a Hansel and Gretel gingerbread house would surely be a crowd-puller
The actress Britt Ekland, pictured in her prime, makes a virtue of candour.
She says she was picked in 1973 to play Mary Goodnight in the James Bond film The Man With The Golden Gun because of her generous bosom, adding: ‘I was pregnant at the time. So I had great maternity t**s.’
But director Guy Hamilton was disappointed to discover that her assets had diminished when they came to make the film in 1974.
‘He forced me to eat pasta to get them to grow,’ says Britt, 72. Hamilton, 93 next month, might have a different memory.
After 51 years of exile, London-based ex-King Constantine of Greece, 75, is returning to live in his homeland.
‘All Greeks who live in exile want to go back,’ he tells America’s Town & Country magazine in an interview.
After 51 years of exile, London-based ex-King Constantine of Greece, 75, is returning to live in his homeland.
Stripped of his palaces in 1974, he has invested in a new Greek home at Porto Heli, saying that he and his Danish-born wife, Anne-Marie, are reconciled to living as commoners.
He’d never admit it, but Constantine must nurse the hope that one day the Greeks might welcome back their royal family, as the Spanish did in 1975.
Leo Sayer says he regrets mocking Paul McCartney’s rendition of Hey Jude at the London 2012 Olympic opening ceremony, sneering: ‘Hasn’t anybody got the bottle to tell him “Mate, sorry, we all love you, but the voice is gone”?’
Australia-based Sayer, 67, confesses: ‘Looking at some live videos on YouTube, he’s actually singing his a**e off and sounded great, so I’d say mea culpa, I was very wrong there.’
What caused his change of heart? Sayer’s performing live here from September 9 until October 11. Does he fear revenge from McCartney fans?
