EDEN CONFIDENTIAL: Olympic rower James Cracknell and his new wife Jordan take gold… in a pub quiz
He might have won two Olympic gold medals but it’s taken James Cracknell half a century to achieve one of his biggest goals in life.
The rower, who turned 50 on Thursday, has just triumphed in his first ever pub quiz, winning £50 to spend behind the bar.
‘I finally popped my cherry,’ jokes Cracknell, who won golds for Team GB at the 2000 and 2004 Olympics. ‘Yep, won a pub quiz.’
James Cracknell, 50, (pictured with wife Jordan) has just triumphed in his first ever pub quiz, winning £50 to spend behind the bar
Two-time Olympic medalist rower James Cracknell pictured celebrating a victory in 2019
He attributes the victory, at his local pub in Hammersmith, West London, to his new wife, American financier Jordan, 36, whom he met at Cambridge University while she was training for an MBA and he was studying for a masters in philosophy.
‘Admittedly, Jordan did most of the heavy lifting,’ he says.
‘Time to raid the bar with our winnings.’
Revenge for Strictly love cheat’s ex…
Comedian Seann Walsh admitted last year that he was still ‘haunted’ by the furore over his kiss with his married Strictly Come Dancing partner, Katya Jones, in 2018, claiming that it ‘destroyed his dreams’ of a career boost from appearing on the hit BBC show.
Now, he’d better brace himself for another backlash.
For Rebecca Humphries, who was his girlfriend at the time of his betrayal, is to bring out a memoir about self-worth, called Why did You Stay?
‘I hope the fact that Strictly was the catalyst will give this book a wide reach,’ says the actress, 34, who played Carol Thatcher in The Crown.
Shortly after the kiss, she released a statement accusing Walsh of ‘aggressively and repeatedly’ calling her ‘a psycho/nuts/mental’ because she had questioned his behaviour in the previous weeks.
Seann Walsh recalled the moment that his kiss with Strictly Come Dancing’s Katya Jones became public and turned his life ‘upside down’
His late father, Chapman Pincher, earned a reputation for unmasking Soviet spies in his three decades as a celebrated investigative journalist.
So author Michael Pincher was surprised when his dad told him he was just one of a few men outside the Soviet Union to receive an Order of Victory medal from Vladimir Putin in 2006.
And now he wants to send it back in protest at Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
‘I’d like to fly to the Kremlin, knock on the door and tell them I don’t want it anymore,’ says Michael, who’s just published the book Long Lost Log: Diary Of A Virgin Sailor.
Pincher, who died in 2014 aged 100, received the honour because, ‘Putin thought the KGB was a bit flat-footed and wanted to oomph it up a bit.
‘He was impressed with the forensic way my father went about things.’
Cara looks the worse for wear after Lola bash
Lady Lola Bute said last year that her reputation as a socialite masked a series of tragedies that left her ‘on a very destructive path’.
Now, she’s shown she can be a force for a good.
The 22-year-old organised her first fundraising gala for four worthy causes and was joined by pals including Stella McCartney, 50, Poppy Delevingne, 36, and her supermodel sister Cara, 29, who left a little worse for wear.
Financier Ben Goldsmith’s wife, Jemima, 33, showed off her baby bump in vintage mesh dress that she bought from a second-hand shop.
Cara Delevingne appeared to be worse for wear on Thursday as she sat slumped in a taxi after her friends dragged her out of a star-studded charity bash in London , just days after her boozy Met Gala appearance
Financier Ben Goldsmith’s wife, Jemima, 33, showed off her baby bump in vintage mesh dress that she bought from a second-hand shop
The 22-year-old organised her first fundraising gala for four worthy causes and was joined by pals including Stella McCartney, 50, Poppy Delevingne, 36, and her supermodel sister Cara, 29, who left a little worse for wear
Cara’s sister Poppy put on a leggy display in a black thigh-slit gown as they partied with pal Sienna Miller at the star-studded charity bash in London
(Very) modern manners
Strictly judge Anton Du Beke is starting to feel bit out of place on the show.
‘It seems as if everybody is tattooed these days,’ the 55-year-old dance pro says.
‘If you are going to come on Strictly Come Dancing, you have got to have a tattoo.’
He jokes: ‘I am actually going to get a tattoo next year for Strictly.
‘If I end up having to dance with somebody again I am going to tattoo my routine on my chest. I just hope they [dance partners] are not short-sighted. I don’t know about piercings, though…’
Strictly judge Anton Du Beke is starting to feel bit out of place on the show. ‘It seems as if everybody is tattooed these days,’ the 55-year-old dance pro says.
Bojo’s girl is brains behind sniffy singer’s Gucci ad
Pop star Florence Welch didn’t have much love for the Conservatives when she kicked up a stink about the party using her song You’ve Got The Love at its 2017 conference.
‘It was not approved by us, nor would it have been, had they asked,’ sniffed the singer.
Happily, her disdain for all things Tory doesn’t extend to Boris Johnson’s family: Welch stars in a Gucci ad that was the brainchild of the PM’s daughter, Lara.
Pop star Florence Welch didn’t have much love for the Conservatives when she kicked up a stink about the party using her song You’ve Got The Love at its 2017 conference
Lara Johnson-Wheeler, credited as ‘creative content editor’ on the video, is the daughter of Boris’s second wife, barrister Marina Wheeler.
‘I merely contributed initial creative ideas within an external agency as a freelance writer,’ the 28-year-old tells me, modestly.
Lara, credited as ‘creative content editor’ on the video, is the daughter of Boris’s second wife, barrister Marina Wheeler.
Her family’s home is Knebworth, the stately pile in Hertfordshire where rockers including the Rolling Stones, Pink Floyd and Oasis have performed in its grounds.
So Burberry model and DJ Morwenna Lytton Cobbold’s wedding was always likely to be a lively affair.
I hear that it was, however, also a poignant occasion as her beloved grandfather Lord (David) Cobbold, 84, is in failing health.
‘He was frail, but delighted to be there,’ a family friend tells me.
Morwenna, 32, exchanged vows with stylist Phil Bush, who used to sing with rockers Cazals. She was given away by her father, screenwriter Henry Cobbold (pictured), who has been running Knebworth House with his American wife, Martha. ‘Heart as big as the moon,’ Henry says proudly.
At Morwenna’s raucous hen do in March, she enjoyed ‘crowd-surfing’ on top of her friends, as well as getting behind the decks to perform as DJ and posing with a rather rude-shaped pizza.
Morwenna’s colourful grandpa was often seen jousting at Knebworth, in full chain mail as ‘David of Knebworth’, well into his 70s.
Prince Charles is clearly the forgiving type.
I hear comedian Frank Skinner’s been invited to speak at his Scottish stately home, Dumfries House, despite having made some off-colour jokes about the Windsors.
Skinner will give a talk at the Boswell Book Festival next week, held at the 18th-century Palladian mansion in Ayrshire.
He declared in 2020 that the Royal Family should be ‘edited a little bit’, saying: ‘Everyone always says there is too many on the list. God’s doing the edit on one end and Harry is doing it on the other.’
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