Nancy Dell’Olio may no longer be dating former England manager Sven Goran Eriksson, but she still takes a passionate interest in football. The glamorous lawyer-turned-peace-envoy tells The Times of her outrage that ex-Chelsea boss Jose Mourinho has been appointed boss of Italian champions Inter Milan. Dell’Olio, who is working tirelessly between hair appointments to bring harmony to the Middle East with her Truce International campaign, is annoyed that her fellow Italian Roberto Mancini was sacked to make way for him. Mourinho has also visited Israel as a peace envoy (surely then a settlement can only be days away), so there’s a good chance Nancy and the Special One can resolve their differences amicably.
Should Amy Winehouse make another record? No, no, no. That’s the view of pop supremo Nick Godwyn, who signed up the Rehab singer when she was an unknown teenager. He tells The Sun that if Winehouse never sang again, it would be a price worth paying if it meant she could get her life back on track. He also reveals that even way back when Amy was an innocent adolescent, yet to experiment with the beehive look, there were signs she had self-destructive tendencies. “I asked what she wanted to do with her life and she said wanted to be a waitress,” he says.
Talking of bees, Adam Sandler is being plagued by them. Apparently the Chuck and Larry star woke up to find thousands of the insects had set up home in a chimney in the bedroom he shares with wife Jackie. The couple disagreed over how to deal with the buzzing menace, with Mrs Sandler refusing to allow her hubby to call in pest control. However, they managed to reach a compromise, says Sandler. “I talked to the bees. We’re getting a buck each for rent money — that’s $1,100 a week in rent.”
Congratulations to Katie Price for doing her bit to remove 4x4s from London’s polluted streets. The former glamour model, better known as Jordan, has been given three penalty points on her licence and fined £200 after being caught chatting on her mobile phone while driving her Range Rover. Only nine more points and her off-roader is off the road. Way to go, Katie.
How desperate is Craig David to shed his Mr Loverman image? The r&b singer says that he refrains from living the bling party lifestyle because he doesn’t want to upset his neighbours. David has equipped his £2.5 million penthouse flat in Hampstead, North-West London, with mixing-decks and a giant Jacuzzi, but insists that “I don’t like to hammer it” out of “respect” for the people next door. He’s also very amenable to requests for cups of sugar, I shouldn’t wonder.
So now we know. Carla Bruni has revealed why she fell for husband Nicolas Sarkozy. It was his physique, she declares in a new book published in France, Carla and Nicolas, The True Story. The diminutive French president has never appeared to be an especially buff world leader, so it’s hardly a surprise to learn that the part of his physique Bruni was attracted to was his brain. He has “five or six of them”, she says, “which are remarkably irrigated”. Yes, I’m confused too. A dodgy translation — it’s the only explanation.
First Woody Allen gets savaged by film critics who hated his latest “comedy” Cassandra’s Dream. Now it emerges his peers don’t want to work with him. Robert De Niro, Dustin Hoffman and Elliot Gould have all rejected offers to appear in his films. And the source for this revelation? Allen himself. Woody, when you’re in a hole...