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STEVE BENNETT

HOW two seemingly unrelated figures in the news are joined by a series of unexpected connections.

HOLLY WILLOUGHBY

The tarnished darling of ITV continues to be dogged by claims that she used her press pass to jump the queue at the Queen’s lyingin-state – a rare misstep in a 20-year television career. Before broadcasting, she was a teenage model, appearing in magazines such as Just 17, like…

YASMIN LE BON

…whose second-ever cover shoot was for the now-defunct title. The model is also a car nut and once took part in the Mille Miglia, a three-day, 1,000-mile road rally through picturesque Italian villages. In its original form, from 1927 to 1957, the daredevil race claimed 56 lives. Now it’s a heritage event with competitors in vintage vehicles restricted to an average 25mph. Others who have taken part include…

EXAMPLE

… the rapper born Elliot Gleave, who got his stage name because his initials are EG. The Londoner once recorded a duet about Nando’s with…

ED SHEERAN

Although the singer’s main foodie love is Heinz ketchup. He insists a member of his entourage bring a bottle on tour in case he goes to a restaurant that doesn’t serve it – and he even has a tattoo of a bottle inked on his arm. Sheeran once made an advert for the sauce, as did…

MATT LEBLANC

… long before being cast as Joey Tribbiani in Friends. He was reportedly down to his last $11 when he auditioned for the sitcom that made his fortune. But he did have a trade to fall back on, as he’s a skilled carpenter, like Harrison Ford (who was building cabinets for Star Wars director George Lucas before being cast as Han

Solo), and…

PHILIP PULLMAN

The writer of His Dark Materials is a keen amateur carpenter, and last week found himself back in the news after his resignation as president of the Society of Authors. He accused the trade union of being ‘selfrighteous’ for not backing his free-speech defence of a book accused of being politically incorrect.

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