Father of-six Tory MP Jacob Rees-Mogg played down the prospect of becoming Prime Minster earlier this year, saying he had too many children.
So I am intrigued to learn his wife has now called a halt to any more offspring.
‘I’m done,’ says Helena at the Tory Party Conference.
‘I’ve told him there will be no Septimus and no Octopus. I’ve had enough — I’m 40. He wants more but it’s easy for him to say’.
Their eldest son is Peter, 11, who dresses identically to his father in double-breasted suits. The remaining brood comprises Mary, ten, Thomas, eight, Anselm, six, Alfred, two, and one-year-old Sixtus
The Old Etonian MP, 49, married heiress Helena de Chair in 2007.
Their eldest son is Peter, 11, who dresses identically to his father in double-breasted suits.
The remaining brood comprises Mary, ten, Thomas, eight, Anselm, six, Alfred, two, and one-year-old Sixtus.
Just this month Rees-Mogg, his wife, nanny and four of their children were harangued by ‘class warriors’ outside their £5.6 million Westminster home.
One man, right, shouted to the children: ‘Your daddy is a totally horrible person. A lot of people don’t like your daddy.’ However Helena took the protest in her stride
One man shouted to the children: ‘Your daddy is a totally horrible person. A lot of people don’t like your daddy.’
However Helena took the protest in her stride.
‘We were warned in advance,’ she tells me. ‘We were alerted by Twitter but I can assure you it wasn’t half as bad as it looked. The children weren’t upset by it at all.’
Does she hope her children will follow their father into politics? ‘I’ll be very happy if they stay alive,’ she says.
Perhaps devout Catholic Jacob will now have to take a vow of chastity to comply with his wife’s wishes.
When asked if he believes in contraception, Rees-Mogg once replied smiling: ‘The teachings of the Church are clear on this.’
Is that a dog’s breakfast in your bag, Daniel?
Hard to imagine, but this scruff has a fortune of some £87 million.
Passers-by would never believe that the man in a baseball cap, baggy trackie bottoms and frayed jacket was 29-year-old Harry Potter star Daniel Radcliffe, on his way back from the shops with his dog in New York.
Passers-by would never believe that the man in a baseball cap, baggy trackie bottoms and frayed jacket was 29-year-old Harry Potter star Daniel Radcliffe, on his way back from the shops with his dog in New York
Radcliffe has employed a stylist in the past, Sam Spector, who gushed: ‘What impressed me most about Daniel is his strong sense of what he wants to wear.’
Grrrr…..Lady Windsor with her Prince Charming
Lady Gabriella Windsor and her fiance Tom Kingston had a wild weekend sporting animal print outfits for a jungle-themed party in Mayfair.
The 37-year-old daughter of Prince and Princess Michael of Kent also wore a black panther mask.
Her financier husband-to-be, 41, donned a jaguar print bandana and a bright ginger ’tache.
Ella, as she is known, certainly has a boisterous side.
Earlier this year, her former boyfriend, Aatish Taseer, claimed that they went skinny-dipping in the Buckingham Palace swimming pool and took drugs at Windsor Castle.
I don’t believe it!
Richard Wilson, who played grumpy old Victor Meldrew in One Foot in the Grave, is no fan of ITV sitcom Vicious, which starred theatrical knights Ian McKellen and Derek Jacobi.
‘We need more parts for older actors, but they have to be better written than Vicious,’ Wilson, 82, tells me at the More Boys! Boys! Boys! private view at the Hospital Club in London’s Covent Garden.
‘I hated it. I’m glad it got cancelled because I couldn’t stand it.
I told Ian, but I don’t think it’s what he wanted to hear.’
Grant revives Withnail’s old cloak and swagger
Richard E Grant re-enacts an iconic scene from the classic Withnail & I — the film that catapulted him to cult stardom 31 years ago.
The actor sported a Harris tweed coat similar to the one in the movie and pretended to swig from a bottle of wine.
The actor sported a Harris tweed coat similar to the one in the movie and pretended to swig from a bottle of wine
Writing online, he said he was helping his daughter Olivia to pack when she ‘found this olde coat’ and urged him to see if it still fitted.
Unlike Withnail, however, Grant, 61, is allergic to alcohol and never touches the stuff.
Bong! News at Ten presenter Tom Bradby’s wife Claudia has hit the roof over a bid to build a substantial new property in woodland close to the couple’s £1.2 million rural retreat.
Objecting to the proposed four-bedroom home, she points out their village — Houghton in Hampshire, where she has lived with Bradby, 51, and their three children since 2004 — is in a conservation area.
And she argues that the development would ‘involve cutting down a large amount of trees’ and ‘seriously affect the biodiversity of the wood’ — a home to rooks, owls and bats.
Ronnie Wood is publishing a leather-bound book of the large canvas Rolling Stones song lists that the guitarist paints to guide the band’s rehearsals.
‘I illustrate the set lists, sometimes Keith and Mick add little doodles, and they become works of art in their own right,’ the dauber says.
Even at £300, Ronnie’s limited edition tome is cheaper than a front-row seat for the Stones.
Despite his personal wealth of £820 million, Sir Paul McCartney still watches the pennies.
Celebrity hairdresser Dar Barot reveals that the singer has been bemoaning the rising cost of his coiffeur.
‘I styled his hair for less than five minutes for a shoot.
A few years later I was booked to do his hair again but he was complaining that the cost had gone from £25 to £35,’ Dar tells me at the opening of the Baldan Group skin clinic in Chelsea.