SEBASTIAN SHAKESPEARE: Naked Sherlock dominatrix Lara Pulver's new role as a yummy mummy to a baby son 

By Sebastian Shakespeare for the Daily Mail

Published: 19:03 EST, 17 February 2017 | Updated: 20:28 EST, 17 February 2017

Lara Pulver gained instant notoriety with her scene-stealing turn as naked dominatrix Irene Adler in Sherlock, but she has now taken on her most life-changing role yet — becoming a mother.

The Essex-born actress, 36, gave birth to her first child in Los Angeles, where she lives with her husband, Raza Jaffrey, 41 (pictured together, left), who appeared in popular spy dramas Spooks and Homeland.

‘They are absolutely delighted,’ says one of their friends.

Lara Pulver (right) has now taken on her most life-changing role yet — becoming a mother. She gave birth to her first child in Los Angeles, where she lives with husband Raza Jaffrey (left)
Lara Pulver gained instant notoriety with her scene-stealing turn as naked dominatrix Irene Adler in Sherlock

Lara Pulver (right) has now taken on her most life-changing role yet — becoming a mother. She gave birth to her first child in Los Angeles, where she lives with husband Raza Jaffrey (left)

‘They have called their son Ozias.’

The couple met on the set of Spooks, where Dulwich College-educated Jaffrey had also been introduced to his previous wife, Miranda Raison.

A spooky coincidence, you could say.

 
Elizabeth Hurley looked alarmed when an elderly gentleman grabbed her slender arm at a charity dinner in Los Angeles

Elizabeth Hurley looked alarmed when an elderly gentleman grabbed her slender arm at a charity dinner in Los Angeles

What shocked Liz? 

As the former girlfriend of philandering fop Hugh Grant, Elizabeth Hurley is used to coping with indignities.

But even she looked alarmed when an elderly gentleman grabbed her slender arm at a charity dinner in Los Angeles.

Given his identity, the 51-year-old actress thought better than to complain.

He is Leonard Lauder, 83, whose mother founded Estee Lauder, the company that has paid her handsomely to sell its beauty products since 1995. 

Wearing a skin-tight magenta and pink lace dress by Monique Lhuillier, Liz presented him with an award for his charity work.

He also deserves a prize for loyalty. Faced with calls to sack Hurley in 2000 for her ‘louche’ behaviour and risque outfits, he declared: ‘My head said: “Sure, make a change”, and my belly said: “Not yet.”’

 

Those pictures of grinning tycoon Sir Richard Branson fawning over former U.S. president Barack Obama on his Caribbean island proved too much for comedian Frankie Boyle. 

‘I can’t believe I live in a society where I’m asked to admire this guy, a sort of sun-dried Bee Gee who probably only wants to go into space to find the rest of his species,’ Boyle says. 

‘He says he is an environmentalist and he runs an airline. [It’s] like saying that Joseph Stalin ran skiing holidays.’

 

 Trouble at Cheddar Gorge

Not content with skirmishing with his father, the delightfully dotty Marquess of Bath, Viscount Weymouth, is clashing with locals near Cheddar Gorge, the world famous beauty spot in the Mendip Hills, Somerset.

Viscount Weymouth runs the Longleat Estate along with the south side of the limestone gorge and neighbours say they have ‘never been so depressed by the lack of care’. They complain that the tourist trail has become a graffiti-blighted rubbish dump,and a once landmark hotel, Cox’s Mill, is an ‘eyesore’.

One neighbour, Rosemary Lewis, claims: ‘I think Longleat Estate has no real interest in the Gorge, except to milk it as much as it can.’ A Longleat spokesman says it has spent more than £500,000 in the past year improving Cheddar Gorge and Caves.

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