Hollywood star Rupert Everett (38) is to take the lead in a London play this month, as a woman called Sissy Goforth, a part immortalised on screen by Elizabeth Taylor. Everett, who recently admitted he had been a "rent boy" in London, will take the camp role of Sissy in the Tennessee Williams play The Milk Train Doesn't Stop Here Any More, which was made into the 1968 film Boon.
A new portrait of Queen Elizabeth (71) is to appear on newly minted British coins next year. The queen will be depicted wearing a tiara she was given as a wedding present by her grandmother Queen Mary on her marriage in 1947.
Sweden's leading newspapers said yesterday they would boycott a news conference by the Spice Girls because the group had demanded access to negatives of pictures taken as well as the right to use the pictures.
Actress Sondra Locke says ex-husband Clint Eastwood talked her into having two abortions and into sterilising herself, by telling her he didn't want any more kids. But she also said he had three children by two other women while living with her.
It all comes out in new book, The Good, the Bad and the Very Ugly. Locke also says Eastwood insisted she call him "Daddy", and asked before having sex: "Sweetie, did you floss?"
The Duchess of York has signed a $1.9 million-a-year deal with Hello! magazine to give them "everything about her". The Express said Fergie and the magazine discussed "how she might fill the yawning gap left by the death of the princess, who sold more copies [of the magazine] than anyone else."