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Byline: Tim Walker SINCE HE JOINED their family a year ago, Lupo has seldom, if ever, been parted from the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge. The loveable cocker spaniel was, [...]

Byline: Tim Walker JULIAN FELLOWES has come out fighting after his two-hour Downton Abbey Christmas special was attacked in certain quarters as 'snoozy' and a ratings flop. 'The fourth series [...]

Byline: Tim Walker HONOR BLACKMAN, who played Pussy Galore in Goldfinger, has picked another fight with Sir Sean Connery, who played James Bond in the film. The 88-year-old actress reckons [...]

Byline: Tim Walker CARA DELEVINGNE, left, and Sir Paul McCartney, above, have been escaping the Christmas storms in, respectively, Barbados and St Barths. Mandrake isn't sure whether the little tattoo [...]

Byline: Tim Walker WHILE ABDELLATIF KECHICHE'S film Blue is the Warmest Colour contains some of the most graphic lesbian sex scenes ever shown, Olivia Hallinan, right, is relieved that she [...]

Byline: Tim Walker What a Christmas. I was married to Anne Reid on the BBC and Ian McKellen on lTV Sir Derek Jacobi considers his roles in Last Tango in [...]

Byline: Tim Walker THE DUKE OF WESTMINSTER, pictured, has managed to lose so much weight over the past year that I heard a story that he was unwell. 'Not at [...]

Byline: Compiled by Horatia Harrod, Paul Kendall, Chris Bell, Alastair Smart, Lucy Davies, James Lachno, Patrick Smith, Chris Harvey, Charlotte Runcie, Jessie Thompson, TIM WALKER Naomie Harris's Mandelamoment ment How [...]

Byline: Tim Walker STEPHEN WARD| ** Aldwych Theatre, to Mar 1 stephenwardthemusical.com 0844 248 5140 A few days before I went to see Stephen Ward, Lord Lloyd-Webber was kind enough [...]

Byline: Tim Walker THE DUCK HOUSE ** Vaudeville Theatre, March 29 | 0844 412 4663; the-duck-house.co.uk Toy rubber ducks hung from the ceiling at the retirement party we had at [...]

Byline: Tim Walker Once a CATHOLIC ***** Tricycle, to Jan 18 tricycle.co.uk; 020 7328 10 Theatre-goers are becoming every bit as promiscuous as seasoned restaurant patrons. Just as the 'foodies' [...]

Byline: Tim Walker STRANGERS ON A TRAIN ** Gielgud Theatre, to Feb 22 atgtickets.com; 0844 871 76 After asking an old friend whether she fancied Twelve Angry Men last week [...]

Byline: Tim Walker KEELER'| **** Charing Cross Theatre., to Nov 30 | charingcrosstheatre.co.uk 08444 930 650 Little boys like to believe that they will one day be defined by great [...]

Byline: Tim Walker EVERYONE WANTS a part of the Archbishop of Canterbury, the Most Rev Justin Welby. 'One of my colleagues, when I was named as Archbishop of Canterbury, said, [...]

Byline: Tim Walker THE CHRISTENING of Prince George marked the first time that four generations of monarchs -- present and future -- had gathered for a picture for more than [...]

Byline: Tim Walker It's nothing life-threatening. I will be back in a week or so, I hope Bill Turnbull, the much-loved 'BBC Breakfast' presenter, assures a fan that all is [...]

Byline: Tim Walker THE AMERICAN actress Lizzy Caplan, who won acclaim for her performance in the film Mean Girls, learnt a lot from Michael Sheen (pictured right with her), her [...]

Byline: Tim Walker SAM MENDES has spoken for the first time about the horrific pressure that he felt under when, straight after directing the James Bond film Skyfall, he realised [...]

Byline: Tim Walker IT IS AN understatement to say that Emilia Fox's family is already well represented in the acting profession -- there's her father Edward, her brother, Freddie, and [...]

Byline: Tim Walker DAVID AND SAMANTHA Cameron -- like Gordon and Sarah Brown before them -- are embracing some of the ideals of the Goods from the classic television series, [...]

Byline: Tim Walker I've not been very good at growing up, but as I get older this seems to have been one of the better decisions life has made for [...]

Byline: Tim Walker THE EVENTS *** Young Vic, to Nov 2 020 7922 2922; youngvic.o If there is a part of this job I detest, it's when big shows with [...]

Byline: Tim Walker THE COMMITMENTS **| Palace Theatre, to Jan 5 | thecommitmentslondon.com; 0844 874 0790 TORY BOYZ| ***** Ambassadors Theatre, to Nov 29 nyt.org.uk; 0844 811 2334 The playwright [...]

Byline: Tim Walker GHOSTS | *****| Almeida, LondonN1, to Nov 23 | 020 7359 4404; almeida.co.uk Sir Richard Eyre would appear to be as versatile as he is energetic. Most [...]

Byline: Tim Walker SCENES FROM A MARRIAGE | **** St James Theatre, to Nov 9 stjamestheatre.co.uk 0844264 2140 This review of Sir Trevor Nunn's Scenes From a Marriage is running [...]

Byline: Tim Walker A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM'| ***** | Noel Coward Theatre, to Nov 16 amidsummernightsdream.co.uk 0844 871 7627 BARKING IN ESSEX | ** | Wyndham's Theatre, to Jan 4 [...]

Byline: Tim Walker HYSTERIA Hampstead, to Oct 12 020 7722 9301; hampsteadtheatre.com Comedy belongs to the divine space between reality and our peception of it, ruminates Terry Johnson, the director [...]

Byline: Tim Walker EDWARD II | National, to Oct 26 | national theatre.org.uk; 020 7452 3000 I am not sure whether I should laugh that no other theatre but the [...]

Byline: Tim Walker GEORGE GALLOWAY was quick to rise to his feet during the Commons debate on Syria to pour scorn on the notion that President Assad would be 'mad [...]

Byline: Tim Walker MANDRAKE'S muchtalked-about disclosure last Sunday that the Duke of York may be about to remarry his former wife Sarah has intrigued the historian Dr David Starkey. If [...]

Byline: Tim Walker THERE IS A 1pm kick-off for the installation of the Chief Rabbi Ephraim Mivis at St John's Wood Synagogue today. There may be a good, practical reason [...]

Byline: Tim Walker AFTER MAKING HER debut this month as an investor on the Dragons' Den panel, Kelly Hoppen, right, says her new job has led to some gentle ribbing [...]

Byline: Tim Walker WHAT AM I bid for the original handwritten manuscript of Candle in the Wind, as handwritten by Sir Elton John, for the Westminster Abbey funeral service of [...]

Byline: Tim Walker Joanne Froggatt has poured cold water on claims that members of the 'Downton Abbey' cast are in the money. 'People assume that, with all the Baftas stuff, [...]

Byline: Tim Walker She likes making her own clothes, using her grandmother's treadle machine Philip Pittack, an East End cloth merchant, gives an insight into the life of one of [...]

Byline: Tim Walker SOPHIE DAHL assured me that she had no intention of writing a children's book on account of the 'inevitable comparisons' with her grandfather, Roald, the Matilda author. [...]

Byline: Tim Walker WHAT DOES one self-made man give to another for standing by him in a crisis? When Peter Cruddas resigned as treasurer of the Conservative Party to clear [...]

Byline: Tim Walker BLUE STOCKINGS | *** Globe, to Oct 11 | shakespeares globe.com; 020 7401 99 The great thing about William Shakespeare's prose is that even when it is [...]

Byline: Tim Walker THE PRIDE| ***** Trafalgar Studios, to Nov 9 atgtickets.com; 0844 871 7627 There has been such a tumultuous and almost intimidating buzz about Jamie Lloyd's revival of [...]

Byline: Tim Walker AFTER THE COMMONS expenses scandal was exposed by The Telegraph, a great many MPs found it difficult to look themselves in the mirror. Now, four years on, [...]

Byline: Tim Walker THERE WERE red faces at the House of Lords after officials neglected to inform Justin Welby, pictured, that they were publishing correspondence between him and Lt Gen [...]

Byline: Tim Walker SIMON RUSSELL BEALE, the thinking man's Christopher Biggins, will show off another of his talents at King's Place concert hall, London, on Dec 8, when, along with [...]