If it is true that David and Victoria Beckham have forked out £40 million for a palatial home in west London, it wasn’t before they had looked closely at a property in the environs of a less salubrious area.
“They seemed very interested in a townhouse in the square, but they apparently felt the cons outweighed the pros,” whispers one local resident who spotted them making several visits.
The “pros”, she explained, are the excellent security that comes with the very visible police presence. And the cons? “They’d have had Tony and Cherie as neighbours.”
Air turns blue
Call Mandrake an old stickler, but four-letter words ought, by and large, to be avoided in eulogies.
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I hear jaws dropped as Prescott saw fit to quote Philip Larkin’s poem about parents and how they are inclined to “----” you up.
Interestingly, his son, David, a PR man, declines to comment. The lad appears to be trying to put some clear red water between himself and his father as he tries to bag the safe Labour seat of Greenwich and Woolwich.
Harriet Harman, by the way, dropped a brick at her Camberwell and Peckham constituency gala dinner, when she railed against the “terrible Labour-Lib Dem coalition.” There were yells from the party faithful of “delete, delete” and “rewind.”
Master class
Susanna Reid may be one of the favourites to win this year’s Strictly Come Dancing, but the 42-year-old BBC Breakfast presenter is being helped by her very own judging panel, in the form of her three boys.
“At home they have their teddies as dancers and teddies who are judges and pretend to do the voices of Bruno
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