Eliot Sumner, who played a guard in the last James Bond film No Time To Die, has a new leading lady.
I can reveal that the actor, whose parents are rock superstar Sting and film producer Trudie Styler, has found love with a glamorous mother-of-two, Mollie Davis.
Eliot, who was born a girl but now identifies as non-binary, thanked Mollie this week for a birthday cake she gave her to celebrate turning 34.
In a photograph shared online, Eliot could be seen wearing a white vest and carrying the ‘charm cake’, which was created by baker Elizabeth Mayhew and included some of the actor’s favourite things including the Tower of Pisa.
One friend of the couple commented: ‘Wow Mollie! Talk about get to know your lover! Eliot was born in Pisa, Eliot’s Signature Hat, Eliot’s Favourite Book (or one of) A Little Life.’
Eliot Sumner, whose parents are rock superstar Sting and film producer Trudie Styler, has found love with a glamorous mother-of-two, Mollie Davis
Eliot thanked Mollie this week for a birthday cake she gave the actor to celebrate turning 34
Eliot split up with society model Frankie Herbert last year. Frankie, a granddaughter of the 7th Earl of Carnarvon, was one of the very few to have performed as a catwalk model in front of the late Queen Elizabeth.
Eliot took Frankie to the London premiere of No Time To Die at the Royal Albert Hall in 2021.
The actor has previously explained of gender identity: ‘We should treat everybody the same. I don’t like to be put down to a specific thing. We’re all human beings.’
Eliot never officially came out: ‘No one had ever asked. They [my friends and family] knew already. So I didn’t need to. I’ve never come out to anyone. My friends always knew and I always knew.’
Rustling of sweeties at the theatre would be a thing of the past if West End star Janie Dee had her way.
The actress, 62, who is appearing at the Edinburgh Fringe, says: ‘I’d like to see less packaging for bar snacks.
‘In Russia, you get rye bread with cream cheese and smoked salmon at the interval.
‘That would be wonderful.’ I think I’ll stick to my Werther’s Originals…
I got a real buzz lopping off my crowning glory, says Emma
Emma Corrin donned a blonde, feathery wig for their Golden Globe-winning performance as Princess Diana in Netflix’s royal drama The Crown, but playing the villain in new Hollywood action movie Deadpool & Wolverine required a more severe look.
‘I buzzed my hair for it,’ says the 28-year-old. ‘They then put a bald cap on. I enjoyed the buzz.’
The Kent-born star — who identifies as non-binary — says co-stars Ryan Reynolds and Hugh Jackman were ‘even more excited than me for me to buzz my hair’.
‘They kept saying: ‘The first time you take a shower, remember that feeling. It’s going to feel so good, that water on your scalp’ — and it did feel great.’
Hair today: Emma Corin — who identifies as non-binary — says co-stars Ryan Reynolds and Hugh Jackman were ‘even more excited than me for me to buzz my hair’
Bald move: Emma playing the villain in new Hollywood action movie Deadpool & Wolverine required a more severe look
The smart set’s talking about…Tom Priestley’s poignant parting gift for his family
J. B. PRIESTLEY reflected that he could — and did — enjoy ‘physical relations’ with lovers, who included the thrice-married Dame Peggy Ashcroft, without suffering the ‘guilt which seems to disturb’ some fellow eminent writers.
He even reputedly remarked to his illegitimate daughter, Mary, that he had slept with half the women in London.
Now, 40 years after the death of the An Inspector Calls playwright and author, who was also thrice-married and whose infidelities were perhaps even more prolific than his prodigious literary output, his only son, Tom, has done as much as anyone could to ensure serenity within a many layered family.
And he’s done so from beyond the grave…
In his will, published this week, seven months after his death at the age of 91, Tom, who was unmarried, stipulated that each of his 15 nephews and nieces were to receive an equal share of his £1 million British estate and an equal one, too, of his Moroccan estate, whose value is as yet unknown.
You could call it Tom’s final cut — displaying, as it does, the precision and judgment which earned him a brace of Baftas in a career as editor of numerous classic films, including The Great Gatsby, White Mischief and Deliverance.
All in Gucci, Suki pops out to plug her record
Suki Waterhouse won praise for her performance as a 1970s rock star in hit Prime Video drama Daisy Jones & The Six.
And the London-born actress is clearly determined to show that she cuts the mustard as a pop singer in real life as well.
Promoting her new single, Blackout Drunk, in Los Angeles, the former model resembled a pot of Colman’s in a Gucci mini dress with an oversized collar.
Suki, 32, who has a four-month-old daughter with The Batman star Robert Pattinson, boosted her 5ft 8in height with a pair of £1,000 loafers by the same Italian label.
She has been pursuing a pop career since 2016 and her single Good Looking became a hit in 2022, five years after it was first released, thanks to its popularity on video-sharing app TikTok.
London-born actress Suki Waterhouse is clearly determined to show that she cuts the mustard as a pop singer as well
Howzat! England cricket captain Ben Stokes has added to his off-the-wicket riches with a £750,000 profit at BAS Promotions, the image rights company he uses to channel his earnings.
Newly filed accounts reveal that his latest profit — run up in the year to last October — has taken earnings held by him at the company to £2.8million.
You b*****d! Fry on Python star’s cancer
Stephen Fry sent a letter to Eric Idle after the Monty Python star revealed his cancer diagnosis, saying he was jealous at being outdone with a more dramatic story about beating the disease.
Idle, 81, talked about his battle in 2022 and said he had decided to keep his pancreatic cancer diagnosis a secret until he knew he was going to survive.
Fry, 66, had announced in 2018 that he was recovering from an operation to treat prostate cancer.
Reading out Fry’s letter to him, Idle told Radio 4 show Jon Holmes Says The C-Word: ‘Eric, I have just read your article in Time [magazine]. You bastard. You ever-living son of a bitch.
‘How dare you beat my cancer story. Dull old prostate, caught reasonably early. Yawn.
‘But you, oh no, you only have to have an infinitely more dramatic, interesting, exciting, dangerous and talkaboutable cancer.’
Stephen Fry sent a letter to Eric Idle after the Monty Python star revealed his cancer diagnosis, saying he was jealous at being outdone with a more dramatic story about beating the disease
He’s been voted the sexiest man for the second year running — by women using a dating website for unhappily married people — and, as I disclosed, is pocketing £6million in a final pay-out from The Grand Tour.
But Jeremy Clarkson’s life in the fast lane has just hit a pothole: his application to trademark four Diddly Squat scented candles has been refused — for now, at least.
Oddly, the quartet did not include one of his bestsellers — the fragrantly titled: This Smells Like My B****cks candle.
Hugh and a gay mystery admirer…
Hugh Grant, who came to the film world’s attention with his performance in the 1987 tale of gay love Maurice, attracted the unwanted attentions of a prominent director.
Susan Seidelman, director of the Madonna film Desperately Seeking Susan, writes in her new memoir about living in Paris with her husband, Jonathan Brett.
‘One night we invited a French talent agent over for dinner,’ Seidelman recounts in the book, which has just been published in the U.S.
‘She arrived with her new British client, a charming young actor named Hugh Grant…I don’t remember all the blurry details of the evening, other than Jonathan’s delicious seafood risotto, lots to drink, and Hugh’s wickedly funny, self-deprecating stories about being hit on by one of Britain’s top directors.’
Hugh Grant, who came to the film world’s attention with his performance in the 1987 tale of gay love Maurice, attracted the unwanted attentions of a prominent director
The Queen’s English Society is to be relaunched as The King’s English Society. Members of the doughty body, which campaigns for better use of language, have been sent a (grammatically flawless) notice that the proposed name-change is essential to its future existence and will be voted on at its annual meeting next month.
One member tells me: ‘So long as they get the apostrophe in the right place, I don’t care what it is called.’
(Very) modern manners
Rupert Everett describes railway travel as ‘just heavenly’ and he doesn’t seem to be referring to the view alone.
The actor, 65, whose battle with drug addiction forced him to stop using cocaine, admits he likes to dabble with CBD, the chemical found in marijuana.
‘I used to be a junkie and I used to love taking [opioid pain medication] Tramadol and getting on trains, just looking out of the window.
‘Now, I’m addicted, ever since working in Toronto two years ago, to marijuana oil.
‘I love having a little bit of marijuana oil under the tongue and getting on a train.’
As long as he doesn’t go off the rails…