Gillian Anderson considered to play Margaret Thatcher in The Crown, reveals SEBASTIAN SHAKESPEARE 

X-Files star Gillian Anderson shares a spooky similarity with Margaret Thatcher

The truth is out there . . . X-Files star Gillian Anderson shares a spooky similarity with Margaret Thatcher — and now her boyfriend is said to want to take advantage of their likeness.

He’s the celebrated screenwriter Peter Morgan and Anderson is, I can disclose, being considered for the role of Maggie in his acclaimed Netflix series The Crown.

‘Gillian is an excellent actress, so it would be a real coup to get her,’ says a source close to the production, currently filming the third series.

The Crown is based on the reign of the Queen and features her relationships with prime ministers and other politicians.

Lady Thatcher will appear towards the end of the fourth series as the newly elected leader of the Conservative Party.

Anderson, 50, and Morgan, who started courting in 2016, decline to comment, but they have collaborated before, as the screenwriter reminded me last year.

‘We worked together on The Last King Of Scotland,’ he said, though emphasising that their personal circumstances were then very different.

Lookalike X-Files star is set to play the Iron Lady, Margaret Thatcher

Lookalike X-Files star is set to play the Iron Lady, Margaret Thatcher

‘We were both married and that was a lifetime ago.’

Nevertheless, Morgan, 55, who is also one of The Crown’s executive producers, conceded: ‘I would work with her again.’

Twice-divorced Anderson, who has been bewitching television viewers since she played Special Agent Scully in The X-Files opposite David Duchovny, would undoubtedly convey the sensuality and ruthlessness which the late French President Francois Mitterrand detected in the Iron Lady. He remarked that she had ‘the eyes of Caligula and the mouth of Marilyn Monroe’.

Before Morgan met Anderson, he was married to Lila Schwarzenberg — born Princess Anna Carolina zu Schwarzenberg, with whom he has five children.

Lila once admitted to ‘culinary neglect’, particularly when serving him fish fingers left over from their children’s supper.

‘He took one look and said: “I am neither five years old nor a f****** penguin.” He left the table and left the house.’

Presumably Anderson is tastier in every way.

While some young entrepreneurs struggle to put their businesses on a firm footing, former prime minister Tony Blair’s eldest son, Euan, is positively awash with cash.

I hear he has secured £4.7 million in funds from investors at his recruitment business WhiteHat. 

Documents submitted to Companies House do not reveal the names of the holders of the new shares, but his parents could be among them.

Euan, 34, set up WhiteHat, which is based in Marylebone, London, last year, to ‘accelerate incredible careers’.

Washing your hair in beer is sometimes cited as a way of improving the lustre of your locks — and now Georgia May Jagger is trying to make a fortune from the treatment.

The model, 26, has created a ‘beer’ shampoo with trendy salon Bleach London. 

‘Our new beer range,’ she explained . . . ‘Shampoo, conditioner and mask packed with B vitamins to strengthen and soften your hair.’ But £7 for a 250ml bottle? You could buy a six-pack of Stella for that.

Georgia May Jagger is trying to make a fortune from the beer treatment shampoo

Georgia May Jagger is trying to make a fortune from the beer treatment shampoo

As she prepares to turn 42, former ‘It-girl’ Lady Victoria Hervey seems to be ready for a more contemplative phase of her tumultuous life.

The Marquess of Bristol’s sister has shared this photograph online (above) of herself sitting calmly underwater, arms clasped around her shins. ‘Morning meditation,’ she wrote.

What’s striking is that the socialite is wearing more clothes underwater than she usually favours on dry land at events such as the Golden Globes after-party, left.

Perhaps next time Lady Victoria will submerge herself in vodka — the tipple with which her late father, the 6th Marquess, a thrice-married jail-bird, used to toast himself each morning while saluting and proclaiming: ‘God save the Queen!’

Lady Victoria Hervey

Lady Victoria Hervey

Shallow? Lady Victoria Hervey gets deep with underwater meditation…

Isn’t U2 singer Bono a lucky man? Not only is the Irish rock star still married to his childhood sweetheart Ali Hewson, but for their 36th wedding anniversary, they were joined by her supermodel pals Helena Christensen, Naomi Campbell and Christy Turlington.

The party was held at the couple’s villa in Eze-sur-Mer, in the South of France. ‘These girls are golden,’ Danish-born Helena wrote next to the snap, which she shared online.

Ali Hewson (centre) was joined by supermodel pals Helena Christensen (left), Naomi Campbell right) and Christy Turlington (far right)

Ali Hewson (centre) was joined by supermodel pals Helena Christensen (left), Naomi Campbell right) and Christy Turlington (far right)

Scary Strictly judge Shirley Ballas secured a first-class airline seat for her pet dog on board a flight

Scary Strictly judge Shirley Ballas secured a first-class airline seat for her pet dog on board a flight

Scary Strictly judge Shirley Ballas, who secured a first-class airline seat for her pet dog on board a flight back to Britain from Los Angeles this week, seems to treat her mutts better than her men.

The 57-year-old dance teacher admits that she once served dog food to the first of her two ex-husbands, Sammy Stopford. 

‘When I was 18 we lived with a man called Bob who had a dog called Kiki,’ Shirley recalls. ‘Bob would boil liver for Kiki and one day he asked me to do it.

‘I’d forgotten to cook Sammy’s dinner, so when he got home, I gave him the boiled liver with a tin of corn and Smash potatoes.

‘Sammy wolfed it down and said it was delicious.’

Pointless host Richard Osman seems to hope that Channel 4 will poach his quiz show from the BBC, just as it did with The Great British Bake Off. 

While acting as chairman at a Q&A with Bake Off judges Prue Leith and Paul Hollywood at C4’s HQ, Osman said: ‘They took a cosy show, paid a fortune and stole the talent. If there’s any C4 executives listening, I’m available, call me.’

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