You don’t need to be Sherlock Holmes to spot Benedict Cumberbatch lurking behind Emma Raducanu in this photograph.
The pair were attending the Frieze Art Fair VIP preview in Regent’s Park, London.
Tennis fan Cumberbatch, 48, who played Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s detective in the BBC drama Sherlock, is a regular in the Royal Box at Wimbledon.
But it’s not known if he gave any advice to Raducanu, 21, on how to recapture the form that saw her win a Grand Slam at the 2021 US Open. Now that’s a three-pipe problem!
Sherlock star Benedict Cumberbatch was spotted lurking behind this picture of Emma Raducanu (pictured)
Benedict Cumberbatch attends the Frieze Art Fair 2024 VIP preview in Regents Park
British tennis player Emma Raducanu (pictured) attends the Frieze Art Fair
Benedict Cumberbatch, Emma Raducanu and guests attend the Frieze Art Fair
‘Conscious dinner’ with Deepak Chopra proves a challenge for Lisa Snowdon
A ‘conscious dinner’ with Meghan Markle’s ‘guru’ Deepak Chopra appears to have been a challenge for TV presenter Lisa Snowdon.
The event at the Jugad restaurant, opened by delivery service Foodhak in Camden, London, included a ten-minute meditation.
‘It was so conscious that we didn’t want to start eating,’ Snowdon tells me. ‘We were listening to Deepak talk and we had to be mindful… the food was teasing me.’
Dr. Deepak Chopra speaks at the Deepak Chopra and Jugad By Foodhak Conscious Dinner
Lisa Snowden (pictured on This Morning in October 2022)
Queen’s English Society undergoes rebrand
The Queen’s English Society has rebranded as the King’s English Society.
But its Facebook page has caused despair by omitting the apostrophe in its new name.
‘It’s not because we don’t know how to use the possessive apostrophe,’ says chairman Adrian Williams, ‘It’s the software. I hope you will see over the next two or three days that every evident embarrassment will be removed.’
Sackcloth and ashes all round!
Queen Elizabeth (pictured) arriving at a state banquet in her honour in Berlin, 2015
Andy Warhol silkscreen works to go under the hammer
Two of Andy Warhol’s silkscreened works will go under the hammer at Phillips in London today – a portrait of Princess Diana and another of King Charles (as Prince of Wales).
Warhol produced four of each, yet Diana’s is estimated to go for rather more than Charles’s – up to £1.8million, as opposed to £1.5million.
These figures may fuel the theory, voiced in some quarters, that Charles came to feel outshone by his glamorous wife.
A portrait of King Charles (then Prince Charles) has gone under the hammer
Warhol’s portrait of Diana is estimated to go for rather more than Charles’s – up to £1.8million, as opposed to £1.5million
Another of Warhol’s ‘Dianas’ went for more than £2million earlier this year.
MP Ed fooled air-mile ‘freebie’
As Sir Keir Starmer and his Labour colleagues grab as many freebies as possible, former culture minister Ed Vaizey recalls how he had his leg pulled before a flight to the Falklands.
Former Culture Minister MP Ed Vaizey (pictured right with David Cameron)
‘We were waiting at Brize Norton for the RAF flight and a fellow MP, Nigel Evans, said, ‘Ed, if you take your British Airways executive Clubcard over to that desk, they’ll put the air miles on,’ he reveals on the Travel Secrets podcast.
Having been informed at the desk that no such perks existed on a RAF flight, Lord Vaizey, 56, admits it ‘was one of the most humiliating moments of my life’.
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