Rachel Riley announced that she was leaving her husband after waltzing with Pasha Kovalev on Strictly Come Dancing. Now, the Russian, 33, is to give Elaine Paige a twirl.
Elaine Paige
“We are filming the Christmas special this week,” the 65-year-old singer tells Mandrake. “I’m absolutely terrified. I don’t feel that I have rehearsed enough. I have been partnered with this wonderful man called Pasha, and it’s all in the name of good fun and Christmas spirit, but I am not feeling confident about it.”
She adds: “We are dancing to Jingle Bells. It’s what Craig Revel Horwood calls a cha-cha- chaaah.”
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Grayson Perry knew that he had no option but to wear his frock for Red magazine’s Hot Women Awards 2013, but isn’t he ever tempted not to bother with all the clobber?
“I think people would struggle to recognize me in my male get-up,” says the painter who delivered this year’s Reith Lecture. “I would always rather wear a frock out and about when I can, partly because I am a trannie and I love it, but also, the joy is that when I go out in my male get up, no one recognises me, which is how I like things.”
Still, dressing up as a woman would not appear to deter them from chasing after him. “Take my word for it: as a man, wearing a frock, it doesn’t impede your ability to pull. Don’t ask me why.”
Fox returns to den at Christmas
Emilia Fox, who split up with the 51-year-old television chef Marco Pierre White last month, is looking forward to spending time with her parents this Christmas.
“I love this time of year,” the daughter of the actors Edward Fox and Joanna David tells Mandrake at the launch of the Goring’s luxury Christmas tree collection. “I can’t wait to spend it with my family.”
The star of Silent Witness, 39, has a three-year-old daughter, Rose, by her former boyfriend, Jeremy Gilley, the founder of the campaigning organisation Peace One Day.
“I adore Christmas, especially getting the tree,” she says. “We haven’t got ours yet, but this year we might get a couple of trees, as I want to try some different decorations.”
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