With her sanctimonious social media posts and description of herself as a ‘vegan girl’, Heidi Kadlecova has become known as a ‘vegan influencer’.
Her boyfriend, the Downton Abbey star Hugh Bonneville, has, however, made her easy meat for those wishing to accuse her of hypocrisy.
For he has revealed Heidi’s not a vegan at all but a keen consumer of fish and dairy products.
Heidi Kadlecova has become known as a ‘vegan influencer’ – but her boyfriend, Downton Abbey star Hugh Bonneville, has revealed she is in fact a keen consumer of fish and dairy products. Pictured: The couple at the Downton Abbey: The Grand Finale premiere in September
‘She’s neither a vegan or an influencer,’ says the actor, 61, who separated from his wife, Lulu, in 2023.
Bonneville says of Heidi on the Spooning podcast: ‘She has great empathy… but she’s a pescatarian and she applauds anyone who has their own food choices.’
She has previously posted: ‘Vegan is the only way’ and said: ‘You need to ask yourself some serious questions on whether you are living a life of kindness…or a life of indifference.’
Bonneville says of Heidi (pictured) on the Spooning podcast: ‘She has great empathy… but she’s a pescatarian and she applauds anyone who has their own food choices’
Royal horse trainer preserves St Mary’s legacy
Its anarchic reputation reportedly inspired St Trinian’s, the fictitious girls’ boarding school created by cartoonist Ronald Searle and turned into films.
Now the legacy of St Mary’s Wantage is being preserved by royal horse trainer Nicky Henderson, who’s named one of his fillies after the now-closed Oxfordshire school which educated his three daughters, Sarah, Tessa and Camilla.
‘We’re setting up a syndicate of ex-St Mary’s schoolgirls, or ‘SMOGS’, of which we have about 75,’ Sarah tells me, adding: ‘We’re looking to get 100.’
St Mary’s boasts fashion arbiters Susannah Constantine and Daphne Guinness among its alumnae.
Dame Judi ‘still feels the nerves’
She’s the celebrated star of stage and screen, yet Dame Judi Dench, 90, still suffers from acute nerves before performing, according to her friend Gyles Brandreth.
He says: ‘I’m doing a show with Dame Judi Dench at the moment called I Remember It Well and, interestingly, she gets more nervous than me.
‘She shakes before going on stage.’
Piers books crypt for his party
Piers Morgan, who dramatically quit Good Morning Britain four years ago, was reunited with co-presenter Susanna Reid at the launch party for his new book, Woke Is Dead, appropriately held in a crypt.
‘Who is going to walk through the door of the crypt to the Woke Is Dead “memorial”?’ Piers joked to guests beneath St Martin-in-the-Fields church off Trafalgar Square, London.
‘I’m pleasantly surprised that a lot of faces have walked through this door and aren’t afraid to do so. That is part of what I call the recovery plan from the “Woke Mind Virus”.’
Guests included Dame Joan Collins, Emily Maitlis, Jamie Redknapp and BBC stars Amol Rajan and Sophie Raworth.
Piers Morgan, who dramatically quit Good Morning Britain four years ago, was reunited with co-presenter Susanna Reid at the launch party for his new book, Woke Is Dead
Sean: I’m an old has Bean
No stranger to swinging a sword down the decades, screen hardman Sean Bean concedes he’s getting too long in the tooth for fight scenes.
Due to be seen playing the Sheriff of Nottingham in a forthcoming television series Robin Hood, the Yorkshireman chuckles: ‘There’s always one big fight that comes up with my roles, isn’t there?’
Now 66, Bean however adds of his latest role: ‘The horse riding, it’s just like a joy, but the fighting, it’s physical, it’s tiring.
‘We had some great fights in Robin Hood. Very fluid… and long. I have to break them up these days.’
Portas swears off buying new clothes
Queen of shops Mary Portas says she’s pretty much sworn off buying new clothes altogether – calling fast fashion ‘despicable’.
The TV star, 65, says: ‘I don’t really buy new any more – I always go for second-hand.’
Speaking at the Wimbledon Book Festival in London, Portas adds that she doesn’t look at labels.
‘It’s not about the brand, it’s about the fact something’s already been worn.
‘The most important thing is that we’re recycling.’
Frank Auerbach’s £38million fortune
He was orphaned when his parents died in the Holocaust, soon after they’d sent him to Britain.
So began a new life during which Frank Auerbach would paint up to 18 hours a day.
For years the artist had scant recognition.
But, 11 months after his death at 93, probate documents reveal a £38million fortune – commensurate with the fame he latterly enjoyed.
Every penny goes to his son, documentary maker Jake.
