The Trouble With Maggie Cole (ITV) Rating: Tigers: Hunting The Traffickers (BBC2) Rating: Have you heard the latest? Look, I’m not saying this is true, but I think it probably is… I believe it anyway. You know that one from the boy band, the one who always looked dodgy and apparently has a real drink … Read more
BOOK OF THE WEEK THE LETTERS OF COLE PORTER Edited by Cliff Eisen and Dominic McHugh (Yale £25, 672 pp) Cole Porter was the most debonair of composers and lyricists, emblematic, I always felt, of a perfect dry martini, served straight-up with a twist of lemon peel. He was responsible for such classics as Miss … Read more
Fiona Phillips has claimed that her former Strictly Come Dancing partner Brendan Cole ‘wasn’t very nice’ and that it’s ‘karma’ that he was axed from the show. The former GMTV and Lorraine presenter, 59, has told the Daily Star: ‘Brendan was a real b****r, actually. He wasn’t very nice. He was really naughty.’ She went on: ‘He’s … Read more