TWO Italian magazines published pictures yesterday of Daniel Ducruet, husband and former bodyguard of Princess Stephanie of Monaco, cavorting naked with another woman by a poolside in France.
The magazines, Eva Tremila and its sister publication Guite, printed 26 pages of photos showing the woman undressing Ducruet, the pair embracing on a sunbed and finally both of them naked.
Eva Tremilla said other even more explicit photos were taken but it did not print them. The magazines named the woman as Fili Houteman (26), a French singer and dancer in a Belgian cabaret club.
The photographs, an Italian exclusive, raised eyebrows in Monaco, where Stephanie's father Prince Rainier has long disapproved of his daughter's choice of husband.
The BBC is preparing two new £1 million costume dramas this autumn, both set in 19th Century England.
Emma Thompson's off screen partner Greg Wise is, to star in a new BBC2 adaptation of The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins. Wise starred in Thompson's film version of Sense and Sensibility.
Bernard Tapie (53), France's former singer, soccer boss and minister, launched a career as a film star yesterday, cast as a morally dubious lawyer whose role mirrors his own legal tangles.
Directed by Claude Lelouch, who won an Oscar for the 1966 romance A Man and a Woman, Tapie plays the lead in the comedy Men, Women: Instructions for Use, which has opened across France.