EPHRAIM HARDCASTLE: My mother Queen Camilla is inaccurately portrayed in the spoof Channel 4 series The Windsors, says Tom Parker Bowles
Queen Camilla‘s son Tom Parker Bowles confesses to ‘loving’ Harry Enfield’s portrayal of King Charles in the spoof Channel 4 series The Windsors – in which Pippa Middleton ‘seduces’ Prince Harry.
But Tom, promoting his new royal cookery book, hotly disputes the late Haydn Gwynne’s portrayal of his mother as a gin-swigging chainsmoker.
‘It’s inaccurate. She never drunk a glass of gin in her life. Doesn’t smoke,’ he says, adding: ‘Sadly, the woman who played my mum died. She was really brilliant. But my mother hardly drinks. Never seen her so much as tipsy.’
Tom Parker Bowles confesses to ‘loving’ Harry Enfield’s portrayal of King Charles in the spoof Channel 4 series The Windsors
Harry Enfield plays a power-hungry King Charles in the Royal Family spoof The Windsors
Tom is currently promoting his new royal cookery book (pictured) and hotly disputes the late Haydn Gwynne’s portrayal of his mother in The Windsors
Gyles Brandreth tells Radio Times that he confessed on BBC Radio 4 to a teenage crush on Camilla when she was 17… after seeing her smoke a Woodbine in shrubbery near his boarding school Bedales, Peterborough.
‘A few weeks later, Camilla happened to encounter my wife Michele at a flower show,’ recalls Gyles. ‘She said: ‘Now, look. Tell Gyles that I do not deny I was smoking, I do not deny I was in the bushes. But that I do deny they were Woodbines!’
Gyles Brandreth (pictured) told the Radio Times that he confessed on BBC Radio 4 to a teenage crush on Camilla when she was 17
How will Marianne Faithfull react to Redlands, the play about the infamous 1967 drugs-bust arrest of Mick Jagger and Keith Richards?
She won’t be over the moon that the play, which opened in Chichester last night, perpetuates the myth that Jagger had been interrupted by the police consuming a Mars bar concealed about Faithfull’s privates.
Marianne described the gossip as ‘a dirty old man’s fantasy’. However, Redlands’ director Justin Audibert insists: ‘We have left it in because it is part of the story.’
Redlands perpetuates the myth that Mick Jagger (pictured) had been interrupted by the police consuming a Mars bar concealed about Faithfull’s privates
Barbra Streisand, sharing a bubble bath with the late Kris Kristofferson in 1976’s A Star is Born, didn’t raise any objection when he became physically aroused.
‘What’s the point in stopping yourself?’, he asked. ‘I think you try to be involved in the scene. I don’t think it bothered Barbra.’
The songwriter and actor added: ‘It was a great experience, and I think the bathtub scene is probably the sexiest, nicest scene I ever got to shoot. It was a pleasure being with her.’ All together now: ‘For The Good Times.’
Barbra Streisand, sharing a bubble bath with the late Kris Kristofferson in 1976’s A Star is Born (pictured), didn’t raise any objection when he became physically aroused
Josephine Hart’s widower Maurice Saatchi, 78, recalls telling Bob Geldof about his autumn romance with Lynn, 70, widow of his close friend Sir Evelyn de Rothschild. ‘I said in the most serious voice I could muster: ‘I’m sure that Josephine and Evelyn are looking down at Lynn and thinking, this is very good’. And Bob’s answer was ‘self-serving bull****’. He’s pretty plain-spoken is Bob.’
Maurice Saatchi (left of Edna O’Brien) says Bob Geldof (right) is ‘pretty plain-spoken’
With Disney having turned her 1988 bonkbuster Rivals into a TV series, Dame Jilly Cooper identifies Snow White as her favourite among the film giant’s princesses.
Asked to imagine how Snow White would fare if she met her famous lothario character Rupert Campbell-Black, Jilly saucily responds: ‘Well, in the early days he’d have taken her upstairs pretty fast.’ Was she Grumpy or Happy?
