There was a brief moment back in 2006 when the unknown classically trained pianist, violinist and harpist Myleene Klass – for two years also a member of the forgettable girl band Hear’Say – was notorious for parading her perfect body for the ‘secret’ cameras on I’m A Celebrity, Get Me Out Of Here.
Now she has amassed an estimated £4million fortune – not off the back of her musical talent but through what some call her ‘multi-faceted media career, presenting in TV and radio’ and of course her questionable line of cheap swimwear.
For reasons known to no-one – a cynic may suggest naked self-publicity – Myleene recently revealed that many years ago she had caught her then-partner, former bodyguard Graham Quinn, about to have sex on the veranda of their home as she celebrated her birthday with an unnamed female celebrity she thought was her friend.
Poor, betrayed Myleene! How the sisterhood rallied behind the 47-year-old as a whodunnit ensued. Many innocent female celebrities were quickly and wrongly blamed for Graham’s betrayal, as fans tried to nail the woman whom Myleene elliptically said was a hypocrite celeb who ‘prided herself on her family values’.
Now that the ageing ex-star is not getting any notice and no doubt needing a boost for her bikini empire, Myleene is trying to grab attention again, indignantly claiming her two children Ava, 18, and Hero, 14, are not ‘nepo babies’. Her kids, she insisted to the Daily Mail, will never live off her hard-earned money and have earned their own success the hard way. ‘You can’t catch talent,’ is how she crudely puts it.
Modestly, says Myleene, all she has done is lead them by example, giving Ava and Hero the ‘tools’ for success, making them work from an early age to earn their own money, while Mum rejoices in her daughter’s impressive A-level results. Whoop-de-do, the kid got good grades, hold the front page.
Just how many minutes of fame does bikini-mum Myleene think she can extract from dragging her hitherto unknown children into her pathetic self-pitying narrative?
For reasons known to no-one Myleene recently revealed that many years ago she had caught her then-partner, former bodyguard Graham Quinn, about to have sex on the veranda of their home, Amanda Platell writes
Now that the ageing ex-star is not getting any notice and no doubt needing a boost for her bikini empire, Myleene is trying to grab attention again, says Amanda Platell
I almost fear for her sanity when, after no-one asked what was next for her brilliant children, she insisted: ‘You can call my children “nepo babies” all day long but they can play Rachmaninoff concertos like the best of them.’
So what? Some children are good at football. The happiest childhood of all is probably one where your fruitcake mum doesn’t thrust you into the limelight.
Many women identified with the pain Myleene must have suffered when she discovered that her husband was cheating on her on her own veranda – although some of us wondered why she announced it when she did, all those years later.
But now that sympathy has not just soured but disappeared – especially as she is so loved-up with her new partner Simon Motson. They’ve been engaged since 2020 but, interestingly, have yet to set a wedding date while co-parenting their blended family.
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: despite her indisputable musical abilities, the avaricious Myleene Klass now and always will be devoid of class. She is a poor man’s Liz Hurley in a cheap bikini.
As I read Myleene’s tasteless nepo-baby interview, I was asking myself how long it would be before she revealed her new bikini range. Whoops, she already has. Memo to Myleene: your naked ambition is as flimsy and transparent as your latest £13.50 itsy teeny polka-dot bikini.
You hit fame in a shower in the jungle 20 years ago. Time to grow up.
Sydney’s sucess
Sydney Sweeney recently came under fire for her American Eagle advert, which used the slogan ‘Sydney Sweeney has great jeans’
The woke brigade tried to get American Eagle’s adverts cancelled, claiming the tagline, ‘Sydney Sweeney has great jeans’ had racist overtones – and even promoted eugenics, as the actress is blonde and blue-eyed. Now the company reports its shares have risen by a third, with 700,000 new customers.
Pure jeanius.
Much chortling as Liz Hurley’s new Channel 4 TV series The Inheritance, where she mostly lies in a coffin, gets fewer viewers than a murder doc on BBC 2. But why mock her? Liz does loads for charity and never dished the dirt on her then-partner Hugh Grant after his encounter with LA prostitute Divine Brown. Remarkably for showbiz circles, she’s also stayed friends with all her exes… except the dead ones (Shane Warne and Steve Bing).
Westminster wars
Best wishes to my courageous colleague and friend Nadine Dorries who, after 30 years as a devout Conservative and former minister, has broken ranks and joined Nigel Farage’s Reform Party, saying what many of we once loyal Tories feel, that our old party is dead.
As for Kemi Badenoch gloating over Angela Rayner’s demise: enjoy high office while you can. After your appalling tenure, during which we’ve seen the Tory party collapse, you’ll be next for the exit door.
Shocked fans decry the new trailer for Wuthering Heights as ‘soft porn’, with its blindfolds, whips, S&M restraints and ravished heroine Margot Robbie pantingly begging for more. Only director Emerald Fennell of sordid Saltburn fame – the mistress of ‘stylised depravity’ – could turn Emily Bronte’s classic novel into Withering Lows.
Somalian asylum seeker Yusuf, who has lived in the UK for two decades is ‘begging’ the government to deport him as he feels he’d be safer there than in Nuneaton, Warwickshire. Jolly good, send Yusuf on his way, and after all our hospitality, make him pay for his one-way ticket home.
The Duchess of Sussex shares pictures of her adorable children Archie, six, and Lilibet, four, scrunched up together watching Mom on a laptop filming an episode of her universally mocked series With Love, Meghan. Crikey, what did the kids do to deserve such punishment?
Is Vogue having us all on?
The new editor of US Vogue, following Anna Wintour, is Chloe Malle, 39. She marked her promotion by posing in jeans, a multi-coloured shirt and with frizzy hair. It makes you wonder if the whole premise of Vogue, to flog unaffordable clothes to gullible fashion addicts, is having the first, and last, laugh.
I’m not sure The Princess of Wales will look back on her blonde Rapunzel curls and think they were her best move. They swamped her lovely face and the curls dropped out in the rain. It was only after she was soaked that Kate looked radiant – and like her old self again.
The ‘romance’ between ex One Direction star Harry Styles and Batman actress Zoe Kravitz – spotted snogging in Rome – has been quashed by celebrity website TMZ, who insist they’re ‘friends with benefits’. Funny that: he gets the benefits of photo opps and sex with a Hollywood star and she gets… a friend.
Armani fashion won’t suit Crowe
Of all the accolades given to fashion maestro Giorgio Armani after his death at 91, the most surprising came from ageing ex-Gladiator star Russell Crowe, pictured above: ‘My love affair with Armani suits continues to this day.’
Given that portly Russell these days makes any suit look like an Oxfam cast-off, it wasn’t the most ringing endorsement of Giorgio’s genius.
- Brian May and Roger Taylor – with a combined fortune of about £300million – have trademarked Queen’s logo to produce their own wine range, as celeb plonk is a big-money spinner. You’d have thought the hairy guitarist and drummer were already rich enough having made millions living off the late Freddie Mercury’s legacy. Maybe it’s a Crazy Little Thing Called Greed.
Martha’s legacy
It’s hard to keep up with all the laws created after the preventable death of a child, but Martha’s Rule – which gives worried family and patients the right to a rapid NHS second opinion – is now operating in every acute care hospital in England.
A coroner ruled that if doctors had listened to the concerns of Martha Mills’s parents Merope Mills and Paul Laity, she could have survived the sepsis that killed her.
Hundreds of patients have already been saved, though sadly not Martha, who would have been 18 this week.
A tribunal awards office manager Kerrie Herbert nearly £30,000 after she was sacked for calling her bosses ‘d***heads’. It concluded her comment was insufficient for dismissal as it was said in the heat of the moment. A win for Kerrie and put-upon female workers everywhere but, still, not the best career move.
