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Ephraim Hardcastle

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THE dismantling of Phillip Schofield’s twinkling TV career began not at This Morning but when he was replaced by Tom Bradby as Julie Etchingham’s on-screen partner for ITV’s coverage of the coronation. Schofield had a flourishing partnership with Julie commencing at the 2012 diamond Jubilee followed by Harry and Meghan’s 2018 wedding and the Platinum Jubilee in June 2022. So what prompted ITV to fracture the decade long relationship? deep waters.

THE ease with which animal rights campaigners snatched three of the King’s lambs from Sandringham hasn’t impressed His Majesty. A source described him as having a ‘meltdown’, explaining: ‘He has invested in state-of-the-art equipment to stop sheep rustlers and is asking awkward questions about what went wrong.’ The King has also ordered a security review at Sandringham where the Royal Stud is located. Stealing sheep is no longer a capital offence, but heads might roll if the King doesn’t get answers.

THE King turning down the heating in the Buck House swimming pool won’t perturb William, Kate or their three children. Residing at Windsor, they use the pool commissioned by George VI in 1938 so that his daughters could swim away from prying eyes (they previously swam at the Bath club in Mayfair). The pool’s temperature, says my flunkey in the bespoke budgie smugglers, remains ‘toasty’.

TURNING the thermostat down puts King Charles one up on his old friend ecozealot Al Gore, who won a Nobel prize for his campaigning work – much to the chagrin of the King who had been preaching the green message since Al was in short trousers. A 2017 report showed that the amount of energy used to heat the swimming pool at Mr Gore’s Tennessee retreat for the year was equivalent to heating six average homes for the same period. ‘Well, I don’t have a private jet,’ he explained. ‘And I live a carbon-free lifestyle, to the maximum extent possible.’ Well, that’s all right then!

SEEKING a female star for his play 2:22 – A Ghost Story at the tail end of the pandemic, writer danny Robins asked theatre aficionados: ‘Who would you catch covid for?’ Adding: ‘We knew that we had to have somebody in the cast who people were prepared to take on that risk for.’ lily Allen, pictured, fitted the bill. Her performances at the Noel coward Theatre earned her an Olivier award nomination.

AWKWARDLY publicising his long-delayed portrayal of Jimmy Savile for the BBC, Alan Partridge star Steve Coogan admits that he has no idea when it will eventually be transmitted. ‘I think the BBC, to be fair to them... are in a damned if they do, damned if they don’t situation,’ he says, adding: ‘It certainly won’t be part of the Christmas schedule.’

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