EDEN CONFIDENTIAL: Former It girl Pattie Boyd: I took a drug trip – at 80!

Swinging Sixties icon Pattie Boyd appears to be growing old disgracefully.

The model and former wife of both George Harrison and Eric Clapton reveals that she has recently taken up ‘fantastic’ hallucinogenic drugs again – at the age of 80.

Her drug of choice is ayahuasca, an age-old, plant-based drink whose psychedelic component makes it a class-A substance in this country and illegal. Prince Harry has sung its praises.

‘Often I met oldies riddled with fears and insecurities,’ former It girl Boyd says.

‘Once I found confidence in myself, I was able to do wonderful experimental things.

‘After all, how many days, months or years do I have left to enjoy my life?

‘I went out on a limb to try the Peruvian hallucinogenic drug ayahuasca.

‘It was absolutely freeing and fantastic, and reminded me of my heady younger days when we experimented with LSD.

‘Though dabbling in hallucinogenic drugs after 60 is pretty disgraceful, it reassured me I was neither rigid nor fearful, like so many oldies. After all, it wasn’t that different from drinking too much champagne after a party – and why not if I’m having a blast?’

Boyd reveals that she also recently underwent a Botox treatment for the first time, while on holiday in Morocco.

‘Recently, I booked a villa in Marrakech and invited friends,’ she writes in The Oldie magazine. ‘It was an excuse to pull out all my old outfits and to buy some floaty long tops on a whim. The whole process filled me with glee.

‘But in the excitement of going away, I decided to have some Botox. It was one huge mistake. One party has followed another and I still can’t raise my eyebrows, let alone apply any make-up.

‘It’s the most stupid thing I’ve ever done. And what’s worse, I did it in a delicious environment and felt miserable about myself. Never again.’

Lily takes the plunge in Paris…

Lily James always looks good on screen, whether it was in Downton Abbey, Cinderella or Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again.

The Surrey-born actress is apparently keen to prove that she looks just as appealing behind the scenes as well.

Lily, 35, has shared a series of intimate photographs online from France, where she attended Christian Dior’s show at Paris Fashion Week.

In a video she could be seen posing in a plunging black strapless bra with clips in her hair. ‘Paris so far,’ she wrote.

Lily, who is going out with Queens Of The Stone Age bass guitarist Michael Shuman, has Gallic ancestry via her late grandmother Marinette, who escaped Nazi-occupied France during World War II.

‘Her story is so incredible,’ says Lily, who would like to bring her grandmother’s experiences to the big screen. ‘She spoke her memories and my grandfather wrote it in a small book, and it’s something I would like to do one day.’

Clarkson’s co-star makes £1million 

Kaleb Cooper is reaping the rewards from his starring role on Clarkson’s Farm.

I can reveal that Jeremy Clarkson’s popular sidekick pocketed £910,000 profit at Kaleb Cooper Productions, the company into which he channels his earnings from the series. Accounts report £960,000 in assets before bills, including £400,000 in cash.

His takings, in the year to June 2024, include a £666,000 profit for the year. He set his TV company up in 2021 and runs it alongside farming business K Cooper Contracting and K Cooper Holdings. Profits made there amount to £100,000 combined, meaning Cooper has now made his first million at 26.

Mick Jagger ex’s spicy samba 

Not everyone’s got the moves like Jagger, but Sir Mick’s former inamorata Luciana Gimenez certainly had a spring in her step this week.

The Brazilian TV presenter and model wore a feathered headdress and gold outfit decorated with roses (left) for Sao Paulo’s annual carnival with the Vai-Vai samba school parade. ‘Feeling the energy of [this] community is something that words cannot explain,’ she writes online, adding: ‘Samba is eternal.’

Sir Mick and Luciana’s romance doomed the Rolling Stones frontman’s long-term relationship with Texas-born model Jerry Hall, with whom he has four children.

Luciana, 55, has a 25-year-old son, Lucas, with Sir Mick, 81.

Starmer’s attempts to mend fences with British Muslims 

Sir Keir Starmer’s attempts to mend fences with British Muslims didn’t quite go according to plan when he showed up in Westminster Hall at the Palace of Westminster for an Iftar event when members of the faith can break their fasting after the sun sets.

The Prime Minister assured invitees in his speech that he wouldn’t talk for too long as he knew they were keen to tuck into their food.

Only they weren’t, as there was still some time to go before sunset.

Admirers like to claim Sir Keir Starmer was Mark Darcy inspiration

His admirers like to claim that Sir Keir Starmer was the inspiration for human rights lawyer Mark Darcy, who wooed Bridget Jones. But Helena Kennedy, who co-founded Doughty Street Chambers, where the Prime Minister once worked, says many others fancied themselves as the prototype for the po-faced humanitarian. 

‘I was in the chamber rooms with lots of people who thought they were Mark Darcy,’ Baroness Kennedy tells me at the Whitechapel Gallery Art Icon Gala in London. 

Andrew Lloyd Webber and Sir Tim Rice reunion

Discussing his reunion with Andrew Lloyd Webber for Sherlock Holmes And The 12 Days of Christmas, Sir Tim Rice plays down past tensions. Thirteen years after saying he and Lloyd Webber were finished as a duo due to ‘not being relevant as a team any more’, when asked about bust-ups Sir Tim airily says: ‘A few arguments…a bit of handbags at dawn!’