Game of Thrones star Oona Chaplin helps singer Kate Nash become actress

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As a solo singer, Kate Nash achieved a number one hit album, Made of Bricks, but she enlisted some assistance to help her become an actress.

Nash, who has a part in the film Powder Room, was advised by her co-star Oona Chaplin, the granddaughter of Charlie Chaplin.

“Where can I start with her?” Nash tells Mandrake at the SeriousFun gala dinner at the Roundhouse, in Chalk Farm, north London.

“She is such a giving actress: not just in the way that she will always read lines with you, but she will say, 'No, turn this way, it’s better for the light’, and she’ll always put you in a position that is more flattering for you. Acting is something I really want to pursue, so her advice is golden. She knows what she is doing.”

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Prince Harry’s cold call

Cressida Bonas: stand by your telephone. Thursday is the first day that Prince Harry will be able to send back personal messages from Antarctica, where he is accompanying a team of wounded servicemen on their race to the South Pole.

There are two check points en route for Harry and other competitors to send voice messages back home by satellite phone. They are sent to a link woman at the expedition’s Antarctic base and then relayed back to friends and family.

After Thursday, the Prince’s next opportunity will be next Monday. The team are due to finish the race on December 14.

Grave humour

Lord Tebbit was on good form at a party that John Bercow hosted for Jonathan and Elizabeth Aitken in the State Rooms of Speaker’s House.

“I have just come from a debate on assisted dying,” said Tebbit, cheerfully, to Chris Grayling, the Justice Secretary, and Greg Knight, the Conservative MP. “I tell you what. There are a great many people these days that I would be happy to assist dying.”

The gathering, also attended by Lord Lamont, Alan Duncan and Lord Archer, was to celebrate the publication of Aitken’s book, Margaret Thatcher: Power and Personality.

In his speech, Aitken paid tribute to his wife, who suffered a massive brain haemorrhage in July. He told Mandrake at the time that it was a “miracle” she survived.

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Sir Mick Jagger 'to become great-grandfather'

Sir Mick Jagger: the Rolling Stone celebrated his 70th birthday on July 26 Photo: REX FEATURES By Edward Malnick

1:58AM GMT 24 Nov 2013

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Sir Mick Jagger is to become a great-grandfather, his family has disclosed. Sir Mick’s granddaughter Assisi, 21, is to give birth in the new year, his daughter and Assisi’s mother Jade, 42, said.

The lead singer of the Rolling Stones, who turned 70 earlier this year, has seven children and four grandchildren.

In an interview with The Sunday Times Style magazine, to be published next week, Jade confirmed that he was now set to become a great-grandfather, saying: “It is true. I am going to be a grandmother.”

However, she suggested that this latest milestone for Sir Mick, whose band has just announced a new show in 2014, was unlikely to slow down the pace of his lifestyle.

“I think making Mick a grandfather obviously had a big impact whereas, now, making him a great-grandfather is no longer particularly fascinating,” she said.

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In July Sir Mick celebrated his 70th birthday party with family members and friends at the Loulou private members club in Mayfair.

The celebration followed a series of concerts played by Sir Mick along with Charlie Watts, 72, Keith Richards, 69, and Ronnie Wood, 66, to mark the band’s 50th anniversary.

A show at Hyde Park in London on July 13 was thought to have been the finale of the tour.

But last week the band announced a concert in Australia in March which would continue the “exhilarating celebration” of its five decades.

The disclosure that Sir Mick is to become a great-grandfather comes after his former wife Bianca admitted that the pair’s marriage had been “very challenging”.

In an interview with the Telegraph she warned that she would not waver from her policy not to discuss Sir Mick.

However, asked if she would ever marry again, she replied: “My marriage – it was very challenging.

“I feel very apprehensive about embarking on another serious relationship. It’s not one of my priorities.”

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