Palomas Bold Move After Royal Blunder

Most of us would be nervous when meeting a senior member of the , but pop star Paloma Faith has revealed that her conversation with the went so horrifically wrong that she used a disabled friend as an excuse to escape.

The singer, 44, was introduced to and Catherine in a line-up after she performed at the Royal Variety Performance in 2023.

For reasons known only to herself, she decided to talk to the princess about her weight and how Catherine had managed to get back in shape after the birth of her third child, , who was born five years earlier.

‘I said, “Didn’t you look good post-partum, Kate. How have you lost that weight so quickly?” We chatted about kids and stuff,’ says Paloma, who had two young daughters at the time. She has since given birth to a son.

Perhaps belatedly realising that royals don’t usually talk in public about their bodies,

Paloma wanted to end the conversation pronto. Next to her in the line-up was Rosie Jones, a comedian who .

‘Then I looked at [Rosie] and thought, “Can we just say that, because you’re disabled, we have to go, and you need me to help you?”. Then everyone was, like, “Rosie said she needs Paloma to take her because of the stairs”.’

Speaking on her Mad Sad Bad podcast, Paloma adds that Rosie ‘helped me in a very non-PC way by allowing me to abuse and use her disability to get myself out of a potentially uncomfortable situation with some Royal Family members’.

Typically, Catherine didn’t hold Paloma’s comments against her, as she invited her to perform at her Together at Christmas carol service at Westminster Abbey the following year.

Your jeans are pants Trinny, says Susannah 

They were once the formidable duo who told women how to dress on the BBC’s hit television show What Not To Wear, but Trinny Woodall and Susannah Constantine no longer see eye to eye.

Beauty entrepreneur Trinny, 62, clashed with Susannah, 63, after posting a video online showing off her new barrel jeans –the on-trend high-rise style with a distinct balloon shape.

‘The trousers do all the work,’ Trinny explained. ‘To keep it from swallowing you whole, anchor the proportions – tuck the top in, steer clear from long jackets, and add a pointy shoe so people know you still have feet. I’m sold.’

But despite getting a thumbs up from the Princess of Wales’s former personal stylist Natasha Archer, Susannah hit back, commenting: ‘I’m sorry Trin, but they are hideous! This is a harem pant moment.’

He’s sold more than ten million records, but Gary Numan admits his finances are in shockingly bad shape.

The singer, 68, whose hits include Cars and Are ‘Friends’ Electric?, has revealed he regularly ‘goes broke’ and has to ask his dad Tony, 89, a former BA bus driver, for cash handouts. Numan blames his money troubles on his wife, Gemma, ‘living beyond my means’.

He explains: ‘Money for me comes and goes. We have really good periods and there’s loads of it, and you think you’re wealthy, and then you have a year where it’s not so good, and suddenly you’re broke again. 

‘And you’re ringing dad: “Can you help? I’m a bit short”. You know, at 60-odd years old. It’s like that. I live beyond my means – or, my wife lives beyond my means.’

Delta on Strictly’s ‘a done deal’ 

Strictly Come Dancing may still be seeking new hosts, but BBC producers are having more luck with contestants.

I hear that former Neighbours star Delta Goodrem, 41, is lined up to compete for the glitterball trophy.

‘It is all but a done deal,’ claims a source in the actress/singer’s native Australia. ‘They’ve been trying to get her for years. Obviously, she is a good name for the show.’ Strictly wouldn’t be the only contest for Delta, a former girlfriend of fellow pop singers Nick Jonas and Brian McFadden.

She is expected to represent Australia at Eurovision next month.

King Charles may have found a way to help pay for brother Andrew’s move to Sandringham. He is launching £150-a-head private tours of the Norfolk estate. 

‘Join our experienced guides for an intimate tour, bringing to life the history of the Royal Family,’ says an ad. 

The guides are unlikely to point out the lesser-spotted Mountbatten-Windsor. 

Weight-loss drugs have helped some stars slim down, but actress Frances Barber is unimpressed. 

‘I’m not a big fan of the new Ozempic look,’ says the Silk star, 67. ‘I don’t think it makes any of the people I‘ve seen look younger. If anything, it makes them look older and drawn.’ 

Is Baroness Limb a Lady without peer 

Has ever a peeress prepared as assiduously for her duties in the Lords as Baroness Limb?

I ask because Lady Limb – one of 25 Labour peers nominated by Sir Keir Starmer before Christmas – gives an intriguing answer when asked why she’s ceased her honorific role as a ‘Fellow Commoner’ at Lucy Cavendish College, Cambridge.

‘I resigned from this role to devote my time, in due course, to working in the Lords as a full-time working peer,’ Limb, 73, tells me, explaining that she’s also resigned from ‘all other voluntary work’. This should leave Limb – a Labour donor who gave the party £50,000 – with time on her hands.

Exposed for lying – she has admitted falsely claiming to have a PhD – she ended her membership of the illustrious Athenaeum club shortly afterwards, as I disclosed, and has said that she won’t take her seat in the Lords until matters relating to her ‘previous voluntary roles are resolved’.

These included chairing the City & Guilds charity. It’s now the subject of a Charity Commission investigation relating to her time there.