MISSING LINKS ANNE ROBINSON

How two figures in the news are joined by a series of unexpected connections…

The ‘Queen of Mean’ is reportedly dating Queen Camilla’s ex-husband, Andrew Parker Bowles. He should beware: legend has it that in her hard-drinking days, Robinson stormed into a Manchester pub wearing only high heels, poured a pint over her boyfriend, then went outside to batter his car’s windscreen with her shoe. Robinson once riled the Welsh, calling them ‘irritating and annoying’, following in the insulting footsteps of…

AA GILL

…who infamously described them as ‘immoral liars, stunted, bigoted, dark, ugly, pugnacious little trolls’. On a lighter note, his novel Starcrossed won the Literary Review’s Bad Sex Award for prose likening a penis to a champagne bottle. Other winners of the dubious honour include Melvyn Bragg and…

MORRISSEY

…for describing sex as a ‘clamorous rollercoaster coil’. At a Smiths gig in Poole in 1985, someone threw a string of sausages at the famously vegetarian singer, causing him to flee the stage, distraught. A similar thing happened to…

MATT HEALY

... though The 1975 frontman took it in better spirits and ate a Greggs’ sausage roll chucked at him in Manchester. Healy is the offspring of a Coronation Street star (Denise Welch) as is…

PHOEBE DYNEVOR

…whose mum Sally plays

Sally Webster. Bridgerton star Phoebe, left, is one of the women to have dated troubled comic Pete Davidson including

Kate Beckinsale and…

ARIANA GRANDE

… whose first media appearance was aged five, when a Florida newspaper reported how she’d been hit by a puck at two separate ice hockey games. In 2020, the singer settled a plagiarism lawsuit over claims her hit 7 Rings ripped off a track by rapper DOT. Similarly…

SAM SMITH

… had to hand over a chunk of royalties for his hit Stay With Me after Tom Petty sued for plagiarism. Smith turned heads at last week’s British Fashion Awards, wearing a taffeta gown to accept the ‘cultural innovator’ award.