While Sir Michael Caine, 92, has (once again) rowed back on “retirement” plans following news he's to star alongside Hollywood pal Vin Diesel, another Oscar winner performs a notable U-turn. Back in April this year, East Sussex-based Cate Blanchett, 56, made worldwide headlines after announcing to the press: “I'm giving up...my family roll their eyes every time I say it, but I mean it. I am serious about giving up acting.”
Lo and behold, fast forward five months and the Australian actress is now signed up to star in upcoming movie Sweetsick - with filming due to commence in Britain and Greece in the coming weeks. More rolling of eyes over in the Blanchett household?
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Starring as Vladimir Putin in new film The Wizard of the Kremlin, Jude Law is awkwardly asked to identify any “positives” in the Russian dictator’s personality.
Required to embrace Putin’s passion for the martial arts, Jude cautiously replies: “Well, I learnt judo...so I took my own positive from that.”
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Despite failing to be selected as Labour’s parliamentary candidate in Brighton and Sheffield, comedian Eddie Izzard refuses to give up on dreams of a political career. “I'm just going to keep going because I know I have certain skills,” self-absorbed Izzard insists. “I can find the centre of an argument.”
Labour HQ remains unconvinced...
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Looking back on an eventful beginning to his life in the movies 45 years ago, former 007 Pierce Brosnan proudly recalls: "The first week of my cinematic career was two days on [1980 gangster classic] The Long Good Friday, and then I had two days with Liz Taylor on The Mirror Crack’d. No dialogue. Just my head on her bosoms."
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Embarking on a UK stage tour this week, vulgarian Miram Margolyes rules out joining the celebrity craze for weight-loss jabs.
Despite bemoaning the “stupidity of being fat at 84”, when asked about the prospect of weight-reducing injections, the old girl shrieks: “No, that's horrifying! It's supposed to be for diabetes, we shouldn't be using medicine that's needed by other people!”
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Born 100 years ago this week, comedy legend Peter Sellers reportedly gave a “blessing” from beyond the grave to the marriage of his widow Lynne Frederick and broadcaster Sir David Frost - just months after the Inspector Clouseau actor's death, aged 54, in 1980.
“He told her [Lynne] he couldn't have selected a finer person,” prominent psychic Micki Dahne conveniently claimed of the deceased Sellers at the time. Normally known as the jealous type, plenty imagined Peter's ghost having the last laugh when the Frost-Frederick marriage ended just the following year.
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Pointing out he and English rose actress Emily Mortimer have bucked the usual Hollywood couples trend - they’ve remained wed since 2003 - American film star Alessandro Nivola suggests showbiz marriages should be “measured in dog years”. He cheekily adds: “What is that? Seven years to one? We definitely deserve a medal!”
Surely not a dog's life with Emily?
