This may not go down well in Montecito! Prince Harry’s cousins are to cock a snook at his wife by launching their own wine brand before she has done so herself.
It’s thought the Duchess of Sussex plans to bring out a rosé wine as part of her As Ever range of goods.
However, the twin daughters of Earl Spencer, Lady Eliza and Lady Amelia, have stolen Meghan’s thunder by announcing that their own tipple will be on sale shortly.
‘There’s something really special in the works that Eliza and I are launching this summer,’ says Lady Amelia, niece of Princess Diana.
‘We’ve been working on a rosé brand called Lala V – it’s a play on Eliza’s childhood nickname Lala and the French word for life, vie. The brand aims to represent joie de vivre – a joyful exuberance for life. We can’t wait to go on this journey together.’
Meghan’s passion for wine is well documented. It is thought her now defunct lifestyle website The Tig was named after one of her favourite Italian red wines, Tignanello.
Meghan Markle on her Netflix show ‘With Love, Meghan’. It’s thought the Duchess of Sussex plans to bring out a rosé wine as part of her As Ever range of goods
Lady Amelia Spencer and Lady Eliza Spencer in Milan in September 2024. The twin daughters of Earl Spencer have stolen Meghan’s thunder by announcing that their own tipple will be on sale shortly
Her tipple of choice is thought to be rosé, after she was said to have drunk a glass on her first date with Prince Harry in 2016 at Dean Street Townhouse in London.
Meghan is also reported to enjoy a frosé, which is made by freezing wine and blending it into a slushie with strawberries and icing sugar.
Sources have said it makes commercial sense for her to launch an alcohol brand. Celebrities including Cameron Diaz, George Clooney, Brad Pitt and Kylie Minogue all have their own wine ranges, with alcohol proving more lucrative than jars of jam.
Big serve for Becker girl
Boris Becker’s daughter Anna Ermakova had no time for formalities as she celebrated turning 25 at the weekend.
Boris Becker’s daughter Anna Ermakova bites straight into her birthday cake at Koko Camden in London, writing online, ‘Level 25 unlocked’
The model elebrated turning 25 at the weekend
The model bit straight into her birthday cake at Koko Camden in London, writing online, ‘Level 25 unlocked’.
Anna was raised by her mother Angela, having been conceived at the Mayfair branch of Japanese restaurant chain Nobu, allegedly in the broom cupboard.
Wimbledon champion Becker did not admit she was his daughter at first, but they are now close.
BBC presenter Rick Edwards had a ripping time during a visit to Downing Street to interview Sir Keir Starmer – literally.
The Radio 5 Live star’s trousers burst at the seams, he has revealed. ‘As I got up out of the cupboard studio in Millbank, I heard a horrible ripping sound,’ he says.
BBC presenter Rick Edwards had a ripping time during a visit to Downing Street to interview Sir Keir Starmer – quite literally after his trousers burst at the seam
‘And, yes, I have a lovely hole in the back of my trousers. Was it playing on my mind as I interviewed the Prime Minister? Yes, it was. I mean, it’s completely unacceptable.’
Martial tips for royal shaman
They have been married for only six months, yet Princess Martha Louise of Norway and her husband Durek Verrett, a bisexual shaman, are already dishing out advice to other couples.
Princess Martha Louise of Norway and her husband Durek Verrett, a bisexual shaman, on their wedding day in August 2024
The pair, who exchanged vows in August, have shared a video online entitled ‘five tips to a loving relationship’. Among them, the princess, 53, suggests: ‘Be playful, do new things and explore.’
Meanwhile, Verrett, 50, who boasts of contact with aliens and acts as a personal spiritualist to Gwyneth Paltrow, advises: ‘Hold space for the person you love, even if they’re yelling, don’t go into a space of taking it personally.’
Dom and Gem take the plunge
Dominic Cooper and Gemma Chan shared a snap on board a catamaran with their snorkelling equipment, Oxford-educated Chan says: ‘Escaped to paradise, spotted dolphins, swam with turtles and found Nemo. Heaven on Earth’
Mamma Mia! star Dominic Cooper is back in his snorkelling gear again.
The London-born actor, 46, memorably led a dance of men wearing flippers on a jetty in the hit 2008 Abba film.
This time he is on a romantic holiday in the Maldives with his girlfriend, Crazy Rich Asians star Gemma Chan, 42.
Writing alongside a snap of the pair on board a catamaran with their snorkelling equipment, Oxford-educated Chan says: ‘Escaped to paradise, spotted dolphins, swam with turtles and found Nemo. Heaven on Earth.’
When comedian Jason Manford appeared on ITV’s The Masked Singer in 2020, rumours swirled that singer Alfie Boe was the man behind the mask.
The pair happened to meet at an event, reveals musical theatre performer Lucie Jones, where Alfie said to Jason, ‘People think I’m on The Masked Singer. I’ve watched it and the guy’s s***.’
Jason Manford on ITV’s The Masked Singer in 2020. At the time rumours swirled that singer Alfie Boe was the man behind the mask
Hugh pipped to post by Neil Morrissey
Neil Morrissey recalls with delight how he beat a young Hugh Grant to land a part in 1980s film The Bounty, which was shot on the paradise island of Tahiti.
A young Neil Morrissey in 1987. He recalls with delight how he beat a young Hugh Grant to land a part in 1980s film The Bounty, which was shot on the paradise island of Tahiti
‘I had just done panto and I did a screen test with Hugh Grant.
He was given the job but he didn’t have an Equity card, so he couldn’t do it,’ the Line Of Duty and Men Behaving Badly star, 62, explains.
‘I had an Equity card, so I was off to Tahiti.’ Morrissey’s comments came as part of his new TV show Neil And Martin’s Bon Voyage,
set to be aired from today on U&Gold, in which he reunites with Men Behaving Badly pal Martin Clunes for a trip round France, where he now lives.
