Keira Knightley said in 2014 that she gave herself a yearly salary of £30,000 to stop her losing touch with her less affluent friends.
‘Living an [expensive] lifestyle means you can’t hang out with people who don’t live that lifestyle. It alienates you,’ she said.
‘Some of my best, most hilarious times, have been in the least luxurious places.’
The Pirates Of The Caribbean star, 38, is nevertheless filling her treasure chest.
Keira Knightley said in 2014 that she gave herself a yearly salary of £30,000 to stop her losing touch with her less affluent friends
The Pirates Of The Caribbean star, 38, is nevertheless filling her treasure chest
I can disclose that the actress has accumulated profits of £6.7 million at her company Ponder Rights. This was a £1.3 million increase in retained earnings in the year to May 2023.
She also held £8.9 million at another firm, KCK Boo, as well as property riches via Charlotte Road Ltd, which lists three properties that cost a combined £7.8 million.
Keira is known for her frugality. When she shops at her local Tesco with her husband, musician James Righton, 40, they have been known to use separate checkouts.
Life is a cabaret for wild Cara
Cara Delevingne makes her West End debut in less than two weeks’ time — and she’s clearly not lacking enthusiasm.
Cara Delevingne makes her West End debut in less than two weeks’ time — and she’s clearly not lacking enthusiasm
Dame Joan Collins’s goddaughter can be seen getting wildly animated alongside Luke Treadaway, 39, who is set to star as the Emcee
The top model, 31, has been locked away in rehearsals as she prepares to play Sally Bowles in Cabaret at the Kit Kat Club in London.
In the picture above, Dame Joan Collins’s goddaughter can be seen getting wildly animated alongside Luke Treadaway, 39, who is set to star as the Emcee — a role previously played by Oscar winner Eddie Redmayne.
‘I cannot wait to be a part of this brilliant cast and production,’ Cara says.
He’s already enjoyed trips to Oz and Iceland this year, but Mike Tindall’s latest jaunt failed to get off to a flying start.
The former rugby star, who’s married to the King’s niece Zara, moaned online after a delay.
He’s already enjoyed trips to Oz and Iceland this year, but Mike Tindall’s latest jaunt failed to get off to a flying start
‘Good start to a long weekend with Qatar Airways cancelling the 9.30pm flight two hours post-flight time. Any ideas when the flight might happen?’
Responses from his followers included: ‘Ask Charles for a private jet’ and ‘How dare Qatar ruin an important man’s long weekend away!’
Actress Emily Mortimer admits she would have received scathing reviews for her stint as a waitress at the Michelin-starred River Cafe in West London.
‘I really was bad,’ says the daughter of Rumpole Of The Bailey author Sir John Mortimer.
Actress Emily Mortimer admits she would have received scathing reviews for her stint as a waitress at the Michelin-starred River Cafe in West London
‘I broke everything over everything, and I just remember the dry-cleaning bills Ruth [Rogers, the owner] was having to pay on my behalf to people that had red wine dropped in their laps.’
The star, 52, adds: ‘I think I’ve come to the conclusion that being a waiter is a very difficult job and people don’t realise that. I’m really nice to them when I go to restaurants.’
Clare Balding returns to present Crufts for Channel 4 next week — but despite her best efforts, she and her wife, Alice Arnold, live in a pooch-free house.
‘I wrote a book called Isle Of Dogs, which is based on the search for another dog.
‘And what we realised was that we need to change our living conditions to make the perfect home for a dog,’ says Balding, 53, whose Tibetan terrier, Archie, died in 2020.
Clare Balding returns to present Crufts for Channel 4 next week — but despite her best efforts, she and her wife, Alice Arnold, live in a pooch-free house
‘So that’s what we’re focused on now. We want to be responsible owners, so it will take a while.
‘And because I’ve got such a big summer this year, it’s not fair to bring a dog into our life right now.’
Power dressing is a right royal affair for Julianne
Hollywood star Julianne Moore plays the scheming Countess of Buckingham, Mary Villiers, in Sky Atlantic’s new royal romp, Mary & George, which chronicles the supposed love affair between her son George, 1st Duke of Buckingham, and James I.
‘We know [James] did have a male lover and this series is definitely going to open the lid about his history and how we’ve remembered him,’ the drama’s director, Oliver Hermanus, tells me at the premiere at Banqueting House, in Whitehall.
Hollywood star Julianne Moore plays the scheming Countess of Buckingham, Mary Villiers, in Sky Atlantic’s new royal romp, Mary & George
‘They just swept it under the rug and pretended it wasn’t happening.’
Moore, 63, who wore an elaborate custom Schiaparelli blue velvet dress to the screening (right), says of her character: ‘She’s voracious.
‘As a woman, she really has no power except through the men she’s married to or her male children. So that’s what drives her.’
Jamie Dornan has revealed he was as embarrassed as anybody when he first watched the final edits of his raunchy Fifty Shades Of Grey films.
Asked if he’d seen them, the actor, 41, says: ‘I had to, for Press and stuff.
I watched them all by myself in a theatre with a security guard, which is an incredibly awkward scenario to find yourself in when you’re having so much sex. Believable? Passable? What are you thinking, ‘Good technique’?’
