A poll yesterday revealed a majority against Prince Charles and Camilla Parker Bowles getting married. In the Sun's telephone poll, readers voted 4-1 against the question: "Should Prince Charles be allowed to marry Camilla AND become King?" The Jimmy Young show on BBC Radio 2 asked listeners: "Should Charles and Camilla be allowed to get married?" A total of 21,162 people responded, with 53 per cent saying "no" and 43 per cent "yes". The Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr George Carey, speaking in Australia, declared such a marriage would put the Church of England in crisis.
Ruby Wax has been dropped from the Corsa television advertisements, Vauxhall said yesterday. She had featured in six campaigns for the small car, which was Britain's best seller last month.
David Baddiel (33) is heading for a clash with Disney over casting for his new movie. Baddiel has been paid a substantial undisclosed fee to write Forsaking All Others for Home Alone producer John Hughes. Baddiel wants an unknown actor to star in the picture but says Disney, the backers, want to cast a star.
Bjork and her former fiance Goldie have worked together on a song about last year's acid attack on the Icelandic singer, when an American fan posted Bjork an acid bomb just before killing himself. Letter Of Fate, with words by Goldie, is to be released in October on his forthcoming album Saturnz Return, according to New Musical Express.
Daniel Cohn-Bendit, once a leader of the 1968 wave of student unrest in Paris, says he is tired of being associated with youthful protest.
"A long time has passed. I have grown older, and yet every time there is a student movement, journalists call me to ask me what I think. It's ridiculous. I'm 52 years old," Cohn-Bendit told Le Nouvel Observateur yesterday.