AMANDA PLATELL: Why is Adam Peaty cruel to the mother who made him a champion?

How heartbreaking for Adam Peaty’s mother Caroline that she has been ‘banned’ from his wedding to chef Gordon Ramsay’s daughter Holly.

It is a decision the soft lad will regret for the rest of his life.

This is the Mum who produced a triple Olympic champion. Who got up at 4am every day for years to take her boy to the pool.

The mother who Peaty, 30, himself praised when he said: ‘Parents are the unsung heroes of the sport. I know how hard it is to make it from a working-class background.’

Those familiar with multi-millionaire Ramsay and his wife Tana claim there have been ‘difficulties’ between the two families since Holly, 25, and Adam got together. A Ramsay insider apparently described the working-class Peatys – Mum was a nursery manager, Dad works in a supermarket – as ‘a bit rough’.

What horrible snobbery. And how telling that Caroline wasn’t invited to Holly’s hen night at swanky Soho House. She was said to be looking after grandson George, five – Adam’s child from a previous relationship

As with all family rifts, it appears to have begun over a trivial matter.

Caroline and husband Mark were invited to the wedding, but, says an insider, Holly and Adam didn’t like her dress so offered to buy her a different one if she came to Bath.

She never made it because trains were affected by the knife attack in Cambridgeshire. Adam was reportedly furious and the ugly mess spiralled, to an extent that Caroline’s family posted painful messages online about how devastated she is.

One thing is certain. A son who abandons his mum like this, whatever her faults, is despicable.

It really is the silly season when Waitrose’s Christmas advert has Keira Knightley falling for Celebrity Traitors star Joe Wilkinson after he turns up on her doorstep. In real life, if a bearded scruff appeared at any woman’s door after dark she’s more likely to call the cops. 

Jen still sparkles

Reflecting on her success, and $320million fortune, in what she says was once a male-dominated film industry, Jennifer Aniston tells Elle magazine: ‘We still have a long way to go, but women in Hollywood make moves. We get s*** done.’

Perhaps not true equality yet, Jen, when – unlike men who just wear suits – a megastar like you in your mid-50s still has to pose in sparkly undies to prove yourself.

It’s unlikely the reason the BBC launched a formal probe into Naga Munchetty’s behaviour is because she let rip at an intern for incorrectly spreading Marmite on her toast. More likely it is the still undisclosed ‘unwelcome sexual remark’ she allegedly made to a female colleague. But what on earth could she have said to endanger her £355,000 sofa salary? 

++ Labour wars ++ 

• The Guardian’s analysis of the PM’s leadership woes continues: ‘For no good reason, Keir Starmer and his team have chosen to mount a leadership challenge to himself in an act of self-harm that would leave lemmings gawping in amazement.’

• And, as disenfranchised voters flock to Reform UK, it says: ‘It’s not just Starmer who is fighting for his political life right now. It may also be the Labour party itself.’ Three cheers to that!

• Emails prove the serially disgraced Peter Mandelson stayed close to bestie and paedophile Jeffrey Epstein until as late as 2016. Mandy truly is the most odious man ever to have entered politics. Now as he is snapped urinating in the street, he clearly doesn’t even have a pot to p*** in.

The ageless Madonna sports the latest trend favoured by brainless reality TV stars, whereby the top lip is painted in with a lip-liner high above its natural line, so she looks as if she’s just walked into a closed door.

And, yes, her filler-stuffed face does look like her 1998 hit – Frozen.

It is unconscionable that neighbours of Sara Sharif, ten, beaten to death with a cricket bat and a metal pole by her father Urfan, felt too afraid of being branded racists to report the child’s ‘blood curdling screams’. Had they acted, Sara could still be alive today. 

Strictly host Tess Daly gets an MBE for services to broadcasting. It rather sticks in the craw that an autocutie receives such an honour when my grandfather Charles, and many like him, risked their lives to get one, in his case leaving his wife and five kids behind in the Aussie bush to fight in Egypt for King and country.

Jack Osbourne hints ahead of his stint on I’m A Celebrity that he may not talk about late dad Ozzy unless he’s coaxed into ‘trauma bonding’. Oh do get over yourself Jack, your legendary rock god dad is the only reason you’re there.

My fringe got me arrested

Facial recognition trials in Manchester cut airport queues. But it is not infallible. It is used in Australia and when I arrived last May the computer did not let me in as I’d grown a fringe. I was arrested and accused of travelling under a false passport. It didn’t help that I had a bottle of undeclared Grey Goose vodka in my hand luggage.

Sarah Ferguson is said to be set to move to a £3.6million villa in Portugal owned by daughter Eugenie and her husband Jack Brooksbank. Maybe that’s where she’ll write her memoirs. Although having been dumped by her charities, what publisher would touch this pal of a paedophile?

Lawyers for the girls murdered by Axel Rudakubana say his parents may face criminal charges and they are confident ‘an offence has been committed’. The killer’s father admitted on oath that he and his wife knew their son had amassed weapons, planning an attack, but didn’t stop him. I can’t be the only one hoping they, like their devil son, rot in prison.

Kate shows William how it’s done

An emotional Kate was compassionate greeting veterans at the National Memorial Arboretum, and left a handwritten note saying: ‘In memory of those who made the ultimate sacrifice, we will remember them, Catherine.’ Meanwhile, her no doubt jetlagged husband William, exhausted from his trip to Brazil saving the planet, posted a video saying, banally: ‘Remembrance is for everyone.’ Not good enough, Sir, not good enough at all.

I feel for you, Isla

Actress Isla Fisher – newly divorced from Sacha Baron Cohen – has revealed that she cried when she moved into her new north London home.

She said creating a fresh life from ‘a grassroots level’ has been ‘tough’.

The house, meanwhile, has been fitted out exclusively for her by A-list furniture brand Soho Home and she paraded it in Elle magazine.

As a fellow Aussie, I would have cried, too.

The decor is as soulless as a crematorium with its tiny showpiece £5,995 dining table. It’s hardly big enough to fit five baby koalas around it.