SEBASTIAN SHAKESPEARE: Meghan lets slip her man troubles during talk with mens’ mental health campaigner
And now Hunter Johnson, who runs the Man Cave — an organisation that promotes ‘positive masculinity’ — has revealed that Meghan shared her concerns with him
Criticised by her father, Thomas Markle, and with her ex-husband, Trevor Engelson, making a TV comedy about an American divorcee who moves to London and marries a prince, the Duchess of Sussex could be forgiven for worrying about men’s motivations.
And now Hunter Johnson, who runs the Man Cave — an organisation that promotes ‘positive masculinity’ — has revealed that Meghan shared her concerns with him.
‘Meghan came up to me and said: “Hunter, Oh, my God. I wish the Man Cave was around when I was young. I know so many men who really needed this,” ’ Johnson says.
The Duchess is understood to have made the comments during a reception at Buckingham Palace earlier this year.
She and Prince Harry met Johnson, whose group encourages ‘emotional intelligence’ among young men, for a second time when they visited his native Melbourne during their recent tour Down Under.
Strictly Lauren has a ball on her birthday
Her sparkly shoes didn’t quite carry her to the Strictly final but Lauren Steadman — beaten in the semi-final dance-off by trained American hoofer Ashley Roberts — had reason to celebrate nevertheless.
To mark her 26th birthday yesterday her chums baked her a ‘glitter ball’ cake, with iced bunting spelling out: ‘Strictly the best Lauren.’
Lauren’s professional partner A. J. Pritchard was nowhere to be seen as the Paralympian triathlete, born without her lower right arm, marked the occasion with five of her closest girlfriends.
How about Bake Off next for Lauren
To mark her 26th birthday yesterday her chums baked her a ‘glitter ball’ cake, with iced bunting spelling out: ‘Strictly the best Lauren’
The Queen is due to catch the train to Norfolk tomorrow and there will be some good news when she finally arrives at Sandringham. The private estate sells Christmas trees to the public and hundreds have already been snapped up.
Spruces cost between £20 and £120, and with fewer than 100 of the 400 trees it felled remaining, Her Majesty can expect to take around £20,000 from this year’s crop. That should pay for a few Christmas crackers.
Stargazer Cox’s jetset sob story
If you see a floppy-haired man with telegenic looks weeping on your flight over the Christmas holidays, it may well be Professor Brian Cox, the BBC stargazer.
‘Bizarrely, I seem to be more susceptible to crying at films on planes,’ wails the 50-year-old physicist. ‘It must be the altitude, or the food or alcohol levels.’
Prof Cox used to play keyboards for the pop group D:Ream, whose song Things Can Only Get Better became New Labour’s anthem. That’s enough to reduce anyone to tears.