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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 THE LONG RUN A crash diet after Christmas or even a temporary alcohol ban are not enough for Ellie Goulding, above, as she contemplates how best to [...]

Byline: Tim Walker Eight hours is about how long it takes to get from Heathrow to Barbados. On Monday, it got me from Waterloo to Bournemouth on a South West [...]

Byline: Tim Walker Her ingenuity in the kitchen would not appear to be the way that the Duchess of Cornwall won the heart of the Prince of Wales. Tom Parker [...]

Byline: Tim Walker How did Gary Goldsmith, the Duchess of Cambridge's uncle, spend Christmas? At a blind champagne tasting with pals. 'The Dom, Pol Roger, Bolly RD etc lost to [...]

Byline: Tim Walker Vita injusta est. The recipients of the New Year's honours already know what gongs they are getting - but are they worthy of them? The list that [...]

Byline: Tim Walker When it comes to breaking the big stories, nobody does it better than Mandrake. Our Christmas quiz is your chance to demonstrate how closely you have been [...]

Byline: Tim Walker Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother's memory is being kept alive by her grandson the Prince of Wales in the form of a magnificent cake that has been [...]

Byline: Tim Walker Alex James gave up a life in the fast lane as the bassist of the band Blur to settle down in the Cotswolds to run a farm. [...]

Byline: Tim Walker SNOW JOKE Joanna Page, above, may once have starred in a Gavin and Stacey Christmas Special, but this year's festive television specials are failing to inspire her. [...]

Byline: Tim Walker Just as the late gossip columnist Nigel Dempster gave up going to parties towards the end of his career because he found modern celebrities so boring, so, [...]

Byline: Tim Walker Recalling how acrimoniously her marriage to Peter O'Toole had ended, several friends of Siân Phillips told me that I was being unduly optimistic when I reported last [...]

Byline: Tim Walker If it is true that the Stetson-wearing publicist Richard Hillgrove has been leaking damaging tales about Nigella Lawson, then one wonders if Charles Saatchi should be altogether [...]

Byline: Tim Walker LOCAL HERO Katherine Jenkins, above, has performed at some of the grandest concert halls in the world, but this Christmas she will be more than happy to [...]

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 When he was a Manchester United investor, Dermot Desmond helped to keep Sir Alex Ferguson after the manager became involved in a row with a shareholder. Now, [...]

Byline: Tim Walker With a 13,000 majority, Claire Perry will not worry about ending up at the Jobcentre in 2015. The Tory MP is, however, spending the run-up to Christmas [...]

Byline: Tim Walker and Edited by Richard Eden Sir Cliff Richard's suggestion that his 2014 calendar might be his last dismays Cilla Black. 'I've seen him undressed and he looks [...]

Byline: Tim Walker Julian Lloyd Webber is delighted that his brother, Andrew, has written a new show, Stephen Ward, rather than stage 'jukebox' musicals. 'I find it very depressing that [...]

Byline: Tim Walker SISTER ACT Jenny Agutter, who celebrated her 61st birthday yesterday, is planning a dramatic expedition. 'I have been meaning to do this for ages and ages, but [...]

Byline: Tim Walker Lucy Rigby, Labour's candidate in Lincoln, has sent out Christmas cards with the slogan: 'Support Lincoln Businesses by Buying Locally this Christmas.' Alas, the small print states [...]

Byline: Tim Walker Andrew Lloyd Webber was breezily confident about Stephen Ward. Before the show opened last night, the composer was trumpeting online a comment that I had made about [...]

Byline: Tim Walker Victoria's Secret model Adriana Lima has confessed to surviving on a liquid diet of protein shakes before strutting down the catwalk for the American lingerie firm. Happily, [...]

Byline: Tim Walker The Prince of Wales spoke out this week against the persecution of Christians in the Middle East, but James Fox is just as concerned about attitudes towards [...]

Byline: Tim Walker GETTING COSY Things are heating up between Gregg Wallace and his girlfriend, Anne-Marie Sterpini, who is 22 years his junior. The MasterChef presenter will be joining her [...]

Byline: Tim Walker Benedict Cumberbatch said being a 'posh' actor can ostracise you in this country, but his fellow Old Harrovian Robert Portal is not complaining. 'It's just a thrill [...]

Byline: Tim Walker Jim Naughtie may have announced the death of Ronnie Biggs on the Today programme in the ponderous, reverential tones that he normally reserves for world statesmen, but [...]

Byline: Tim Walker The Earl of Dalkeith has found a clever way of ensuring positive media coverage: he is to marry an official at the Press Complaints Commission. The 29-year-old [...]

Byline: Tim Walker YOUNG LOVE Sophie Turner said she had abandoned the classroom in favour of a private tutor because she 'found it really difficult when teachers talked down to [...]

Byline: Tim Walker Mandrake has noted how Yvette Cooper, the ambitious wife of Ed Balls, is seldom, if ever, fielded by the Labour high command to talk on television about [...]

Byline: Tim Walker Despite being the son of the illustrious actors Dame Maggie Smith and Sir Robert Stephens, Toby Stephens does not want any of his three children to enter [...]

Byline: Tim Walker Douglas Carswell's Eurosceptic views have long made him a thorn in the side of David Cameron, but now the doughty 42-year-old Conservative MP for Clacton is facing [...]

Byline: Tim Walker Frank Dobson may be 73 but the old Labour Dreadnought hasn't made any comments about how long he intends to remain in situ as the MP for [...]

Byline: Tim Walker DRAMA QUEEN Darcey Bussell, above, has had an illustrious dancing career after becoming the youngest-ever principal dancer at The Royal Ballet at the age of 20. Now [...]

Byline: Tim Walker When I asked Peter O'Toole if he was minded to see his former wife Siân Phillips when she appeared on stage in Lovesong, and, more recently, Cabaret, [...]

Byline: Tim Walker Even playing God can be a humbling experience. At a studio in north London, I had to wait my turn to film my stint as the Creator [...]

Byline: Tim Walker The claim that his son-in-law Matthew Freud had refused to invite him to his 50th birthday last month appeared not to have upset Rupert Murdoch too much. [...]

Byline: Tim Walker Playing the piano for Sir Tom Jones has proved a special festive treat not just for BBC viewers watching the corporation's plug for its Christmas scheduling, but [...]

Byline: Tim Walker Dame Jean Conan Doyle, the late daughter of Sir Arthur, would have approved of Dr Watson getting married in Sherlock. She was aghast at the suggestion in [...]

Byline: Tim Walker CHEER The promise of Jasmine Orienta, two, is celebrated in the Christmas card I've received from her parents Julian and Jiaxin Lloyd Webber. 'She got a xylophone [...]

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 AN EDUCATION After Sophie Turner, who plays Sansa Stark in Game of Thrones, left school in favour of a private tutor as she didn't like being 'talked [...]

Byline: Tim Walker After she was branded 'too ugly for television' by critics, Mary Beard promised she would never undergo a makeover or change to fit in. Still, the professor [...]

Byline: Tim Walker Lord Frederick Windsor won his wife Sophie Winkleman's hand in marriage by writing out the proposal on a Scrabble board after the pair bonded over their love [...]

Byline: Tim Walker and Katy Balls As American Psycho opens in the West End this week it appears that the trend of adapting films for the theatre shows no sign [...]

Byline: Tim Walker ANGEL Buying women underwear for Christmas can be a minefield for men unsure of the right fit. Adriana Lima, above, says problems can be avoided if you [...]

Byline: Tim Walker David Cameron, who once declared in a Tory conference speech: 'I don't support gay marriage despite being a Conservative; I support gay marriage because I'm a Conservative,' [...]

Byline: Tim Walker Lord Myners has been drafted on to the board of the Co-operative Group to put the stricken organisation back on the straight and narrow. One wonders if [...]