Justin Rose Faces Double Setback at Home

Justin Rose, who suffered an agonising near-miss at , faces another defeat when he returns home from Augusta.

I can disclose that the golfer has lost a battle with conservationists over plans to extend his £3.3million mansion, near Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor's former home.

The hero, 45, wants to swap his club for a sledgehammer to demolish part of his 19th-century, six-bedroom home to make way for an orangery.

He and his wife, Kate, have also teed up plans to build a new ground-floor kitchen and breakfast room, bar, family area and master bedroom – complete with a secure closet and office.

But the council whacked the Grand Designs-style makeover into the long grass.

The local authority deemed the proposed two-storey extension 'excessively prominent, awkward, overly large' and harmful to the Grade II-listed building, which is next door to Royal Lodge in Berkshire – the home of Mr Mountbatten-Windsor until he was forced out by last year.

Rose, who is from Hampshire and has two children, appealed the council's decision but a Government planning inspector has now upheld it after visiting the golfer's home.

The former gate house backs on to Windsor Great Park and is part of the Crown Estate.

An old sales listing reads: 'As part of the Crown licence condition, the King commands the tenant to 'tend and cherish' the wisteria.

'It is believed Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother, often stopped to check on the flowering of the plant on her way home to Royal Lodge.'

Previous tenants include presenter and DJ Chris Evans.

The planning inspector dismissed Rose's appeal to demolish an existing extension, built in the 1990s, and erect a new one as 'the proposal would have a harmful effect on the special interest and significance of the building'. He said: 'Clear and convincing justification has not been provided for the scheme.'

Will fiancee Daisy swap a veil for tails?

This could be the quirkiest society wedding of the year. Daisy Knatchbull, 33, is engaged to music executive Giovanni Damiani, 40, and the couple could BOTH wear top hats and tails at their wedding.

Daisy, a great-granddaughter of the 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma and distant cousin of Princes William and Harry, is a Savile Row tailor known for designing trouser suits for women.

Giovanni proposed on holiday in the Bahamas, using seaweed to spell out 'Will you marry me' in the sand.

Daisy accepted and shared a photograph of her cheap-as-chips engagement ring. 'Getting hitched, and making gift-shop turtle rings a thing,' she joked.

Bridgerton star: I dated red flags 

Heartbroken after her split from Bridgerton co-star Sam Phillips last year, Bessie Carter insists she's now feeling better than ever.

'I am single and I have never been happier,' says the 32-year-old daughter of actors Dame Imelda Staunton and Jim Carter. 'I love waking up alone, being able to stretch out, make a cacao, pad around my beautiful flat and to choose what I want to put into this day that I am lucky to get to enjoy.'

Bessie plays snobbish Prudence Featherington in the Netflix drama, in which Sam, 41, played her love interest Lord Debling in series three. They reportedly moved in together in 2023.

'I wanted to come back to myself,' adds Bessie. 'To go to therapy, to become really f***ing good at my job, to stop dating red flags.'

Medals and millions for Olympian Keely

She's the reigning Olympic champion at 800m – and Keely Hodgkinson is

I can disclose that the golden girl of British athletics, 24, reported £1.5million in earnings last year.

Row over Pascoe joke

Not known for her shock value, comedian Sara Pascoe nevertheless upset a member of the audience at a show in Edinburgh last month.

'I had a message from someone who said I was a misogynist and I'd ruined her International Women's Day [March 8],' reveals Pascoe, a regular on panel shows QI and Mock the Week. 'I have a line in my show about not being a feminist, a joke about wanting my husband to take more wives to help with housework – clearly not real.'

She says the row left her thinking: 'I don't wanna do the rest of my tour.'

Her unsuccessful audition on Britain's Got Talent failed to make ITV's broadcast, but it was viewed more than 20million times on the network's YouTube channel.

Now, fans of Shani Wallis, who played Nancy in the 1968 film Oliver!, are calling for her to perform at the Royal Variety Show, even though that's an honour usually awarded to the winner of BGT.

'This lady is a legend and should be invited by the King to perform,' gushes one admirer.

A spokesman for Shani, who is 93 today, tells me: 'We are doing everything we can to get her on stage at this year's Royal Variety Performance. Millions have watched her on Oliver! and it would be TV gold.'

When it comes to her diet, Strictly Come Dancing professional Janette Manrara is bananas. 'My personal favourite [meal] – and every Italian is going to kill me – is spaghetti bolognese with a banana,' says Janette, born in the US to Cuban parents. 'It's an acquired taste, I will say.' She adds: 'The only thing I can't do banana with is any kind of seafood. It doesn't feel right.'