Damian Hurley made his directorial debut this year with a film, Strictly Confidential, featuring his mother, Elizabeth, in a lesbian sex scene.
His godfather David Furnish has now spoken of his appreciation of the 22-year-old’s film and his hopes that they may soon work together.
‘I’m so proud of him as a film-maker and so proud of him as a human being,’ Furnish tells me at the Attitude Awards at the Roundhouse in Camden, north London.
‘Maybe we’ll kick something off – I can produce and he can direct.’
At the ceremony, Furnish’s husband, Sir Elton John, received the Legacy Award from gay lifestyle magazine Attitude.
David Furnish has spoken of his appreciation of 22-year-old godson Damian Hurley’s work and hopes that they may soon work together
Hurley made his directorial debut this year with a film, Strictly Confidential, featuring his mother, Elizabeth (left), in a lesbian sex scene
Damian Hurley and David Furnish attend the Attitude Awards 2024 in London
Scott ties the knot
Five years after I told how Four Weddings And A Funeral star Kristin Scott Thomas was dating journalist John Micklethwait, they have exchanged vows.
‘It was just a small family wedding,’ a friend tells me. Dame Kristin, 64, who was previously married to French gynaecologist Francois Olivennes, plays MI5 boss Diana Taverner in the TV drama Slow Horses.
Micklethwait, 62, edited The Economist before heading the financial news agency Bloomberg.
Bill can’t get no satisfaction from LP
Former Rolling Stones bassist Bill Wyman wasn’t happy with his surprise contribution to Hackney Diamonds, the band’s latest album – even though Mick Jagger praised his playing on the track Live By The Sword.
Wyman, 87, says: ‘Mick called me from France and said how much he liked what I’d done, but I said to the producer, Andrew Watt, “Have you got another track?”, because I didn’t really like that track that they put me on.
‘It seemed too busy, too much going on, there was no air in it.’
He complains: ‘It didn’t break down, it didn’t breathe, it just whacked all the way through.’
Former Rolling Stones bassist Bill Wyman (second from right) wasn’t happy with his surprise contribution to Hackney Diamonds, the band’s latest album. The band is seen in the 1960s (L-R): Brian Jones, Keith Richards, Mick Jagger, Wyman and Charlie Watts
The rest of the band – Jagger, Keith Richards and Ronnie Wood – haven’t forgiven Bill for quitting 30 years ago after 31 years with the Stones and 19 albums together, he reveals, adding: ‘I have to tell you that they really, really, didn’t like me leaving.’
Jagger and Jerry’s girl Georgia May is a mum
At the grand old age of seven, Sir Mick Jagger’s son Deveraux can now look forward to being known as ‘Uncle Dev’.
For the Rolling Stones singer’s daughter Georgia May Jagger has given birth to her first child.
The model, 32, and her boyfriend, Cambryan Sedlick, 24, a Texas-born professional skateboarder, have named their son Dean Jagger Sedlick.
In the photograph below, Georgia is joined by her mother, the American model Jerry Hall, 68.
Thanking Sedlick for ‘being so incredible and taking such good care of us’, Georgia May says of their newborn: ‘We are so in love and happy and can’t stop staring at him.’
Georgia May (left), daughter of Sir Mick Jagger and Jerry Hall is a mother
Good Samaritan Chloe
For any girls approached by a strange car at night, it might turn out to be Good Samaritan Chloe Madeley, 37, daughter of TV presenters Richard Madeley and Judy Finnigan.
Asked if she’d become a voice for women since having her daughter two years ago, the personal trainer says: ‘All of a sudden I’m stopping on the high street trying to give teenage girls a lift home because I’m, like, “You ain’t walking home in that outfit – get in the car now”.’
Comedy kudos for Queen Noor
Queen Noor of Jordan says being mentioned as a ‘client’ of Absolutely Fabulous PR executive Edina, played by Jennifer Saunders, impressed her children.
Dame Joanna Lumley, who played Edina’s pal Patsy, tells the forthcoming Absolutely Fabulous: Inside Out documentary on Gold TV she once met ‘an attractive woman with very beautiful hair who said, “Hello Joanna, I’m Queen Noor of Jordan. The kudos I have with my children since your programme came out… thank you very much”‘.
Queen Noor of Jordan says being mentioned as a ‘client’ of Absolutely Fabulous PR executive Edina, played by Jennifer Saunders, impressed her children
Food tycoon scraps royal shooting
Catering tycoon Alastair Storey, who scrapped a deal that allowed the Royal Family to shoot on his land next to Balmoral, wants to tear down a crumbling cottage by the River Dee and replace it with a holiday home.
Under plans lodged with Aberdeenshire Council, Storey, who bought the 11,500-acre Abergeldie Estate for £23million in 2021, will turn Drymills Cottage into a short-term let.