EPHRAIM HARDCASTLE: Harry's control over the film, television and stage rights to Spare prevents anyone dramatising his controversial memoir
Harry cannily controls the lucrative film, television and stage rights to his memoir.
This prevents anyone from dramatising Spare and thus portraying Diana and Meghan in a way that does not concur with his views.
Given that the book contains attacks on Charles, Camilla, William and Kate, any cinematic version has the potential to be more damaging than all his other 'truth bombs' put together.
Look out!
Harry cannily controls the lucrative film, television and stage rights to his memoir
This prevents anyone from dramatising Spare and thus portraying Diana and Meghan in a way that does not concur with his views
Further to Prince William describing his aunt Anne as a 'Super Trouper', former BBC royal correspondent Michael Cole asks: 'Does the Prince of Wales actually know what a Super Trouper is?
It's a television studio light. Abba knew this, singing, 'Super Trouper lights are gonna find me'.' Give us the first few bars, Michael, and see if Anne will join you on the floor!
Chaplain to the late Queen, Edward Lewis has given Camilla his endorsement for 'stepping in and stepping up' amid the family illnesses.
'We should thank her for all she is doing and the kindness she has shown to so many,' he effuses.
Before Maureen Lipman, pictured, married husband Jack Rosenthal, her parents put them in separate bedrooms, with her father taking Maureen's place in the box room when she wanted to chat with her mother.
'At six o'clock in the morning Jack creaked across the floor – and got into bed with my father,' Dame Maureen tells the Rosebud podcast.
'My father said, 'What the hell do you think you're doing?'
And Jack said, 'I wondered if you'd like a cup of tea'.'
Before Maureen Lipman, pictured, married husband Jack Rosenthal (pictured together in 2002), her parents put them in separate bedrooms, with her father taking Maureen's place in the box room when she wanted to chat with her mother
Criticised by Emily Maitlis for flying off to the Republican convention just a fortnight after becoming Clacton's MP, Nigel Farage highlights his bond with Trump, insisting: 'I have friends and when they're having a tough time it's right to go and support them.'
Emily bizarrely asks: 'Is that the sense you've got? That he's having a tough time right now?' Nigel bluntly reminds her: 'He nearly died.'
He later posted on X: 'Sometimes I wonder why I bother.'
Jokily suggesting she is channelling Dame Edna Everage with her big St Tropez-style glasses, did Joan Collins approve of the quip Edna-creator Barry Humphries famously told at her expense?
Appearing as alter ego Sir Les Patterson, he once rudely said of Joanie: 'Beautiful girl. She likes perfume. You wouldn't guess what she puts behind her ears to attract the menfolk… her ankles.'
Jokily suggesting she is channelling Dame Edna Everage with her big St Tropez-style glasses, did Joan Collins (pictured in March 2023) approve of the quip Edna-creator Barry Humphries famously told at her expense?
Did Times Radio presenter Stig Abel suffer a nervous gulp when writer AN Wilson delivered an on-air rant about the repulsive state of ageing men's necks?
'Throughout fashion history… men have either grown beards or they've worn cravats and ruffs and all sorts of things to hide the fact that their necks are revolting,' barked Wilson, a dapper 73.
Bearded Stig is a well-preserved 44.
NY Governor's former deputy chief of staff is arrested by FBI for being a Chinese agent after dawn raid on her $4.1m home
