As the fearsome host of The Weakest Link, she would dispose of failing contestants with a cruel, ‘You are the weakest link, goodbye!’
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You → dispose → are
Now, it appears, Anne Robinson may have been on the receiving end of her own dismissal, albeit delivered, no doubt, with more charm.
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Robinson → appear → charm
The television presenter, 81, is understood to have split up with her boyfriend, Andrew Parker Bowles, 86, ex-husband of Queen Camilla.
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presenter → understand → Camilla
Having previously lived in the Cotswolds, home to the retired brigadier, Anne has now moved to London.
And she refers to their relationship in the past tense.
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she → live → tense
Asked if she had been going out with Parker Bowles, she says, ‘I might have done’, adding: ‘It’s very difficult to talk about a relationship where part of it is owned by somebody else, so out of politeness I don’t talk about it.’
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I → ask → it
Indeed, while Anne had said publicly that she was involved in a relationship with the father of the Queen’s two children, he has never said a word about it or been photographed with her.
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he → say → her
Speaking on the Experience Is Everything podcast, she says: ‘I believe that real happiness is sharing a life with someone.
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happiness → speak → someone
Joan Rivers said you need somebody to go home to and talk nothing to.
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you → say → nothing
‘I do miss that but, on the other hand, I don’t want to compromise, so that’s where I am, and I don’t think it’s a bad place, I’m 81, do Pilates and run.
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I → miss → Pilates
I’m not sure I can live full-time with anyone.
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I → ’m → anyone
Before she met Parker Bowles at a lunch with mutual friends, Anne had been single for 17 years.
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Anne → meet → years
The late author Jilly Cooper said the brigadier was one of the three men who inspired her caddish character Rupert Campbell-Black in the bonkbuster Riders.
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who → say → Riders
Princess’s gothic fashion favourite is resurrected
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favourite → resurrect → ?
The Princess of Wales is seen wearing a dress from fashion label, The Vampire’s Wife, in 2020
This will delight the Princess of Wales: Susie Cave is reviving her fashion label, The Vampire’s Wife, which went bust in 2024.
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which → see → 2024
Catherine is one of the many prominent customers of the brand established by rock star Nick Cave’s wife.
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Catherine → establish → wife
The princess was pictured wearing Susie’s emerald Falconetti dress on a royal visit to Dublin in 2020.
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princess → picture → 2020
‘We are secretly about to embark on something,’ Susie says during a conversation with Bella Freud at Cadogan Hall in Belgravia.
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Susie → embark → Belgravia
‘The Vampire’s Wife has just been having a little sleep, but it will rise again.’
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it → have → sleep
The label, which she co-founded in 2014,
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she → co → 2014
Its closure after the collapse of Matches fashion, one of its largest stockists, left Susie, 60, bereft.
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closure → leave → Susie
‘I was thinking, “What am I going to do now?” ’ she says.
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she → think → What
Princess Anne’s ex-husband Captain Mark Phillips has spoken out about the costs youngsters face in representing their country.
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youngsters → speak → country
‘Every time I see the juniors and young riders going off to their European Championship, I’m disturbed that British Eventing’s (BE) financial situation requires our young stars to find upwards of £5,000 each to pay for the trip to represent this country,’ he says.
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he → see → country
Mark, 77, whose daughter is eventing Olympic medallist Zara Tindall, adds: ‘I do understand that some get some philanthropic help, but when all expenses were covered by BE there was a level playing field.
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expenses → evente → BE
On her first day of filming Sense And Sensibility, which is released next week, Fiona Shaw prepared to play her character Mrs Jennings, described by Jane Austen in her novel as a ‘fat, elderly woman’.
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Shaw → film → woman
Speaking at the Chelsea Arts Festival, the actress, 68, revealed that she told the costume designer: Surely, she’d need a fat suit.
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she → speak → suit
Strictly Radebe's 'baptism of fire'
South African dancer Johannes Radebe, 39, at the Olivier Awards earlier this year
Strictly Come Dancing’s new host Johannes Radebe has ruled out returning to the West End after admitting his first experience of musical theatre had been a ‘baptism of fire’.
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experience → rule → fire
The dancer, 39, who completed a gruelling 17-week run as Lola in Kinky Boots at the London Coliseum this summer, says it put him off returning to acting.
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it → complete → acting
‘After what I experienced in the West End, I have to say that was a baptism of fire.
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that → experience → fire
Hard core,’ he says.
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he → say → ?
‘I respect everybody else that does it... and I’m grateful that it paid off in a massive way.
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it → respect → way
Having once memorably announced he was ‘forbidding’ David Cameron from expressing admiration for his 1980s band The Smiths, guitarist Johnny Marr is now happy to profit from his unwanted fan.
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Marr → announce → fan
The former prime minister was first criticised by Marr back in 2010 after he’d identified the Manchester band as his favourite group, choosing their song This Charming Man as one of his Desert Island Discs.
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he → criticise → Discs
Now auctioning off almost 100 of his instruments, Marr cheekily announces: ‘If a certain person bids for my guitar, we’re talking about some ex-prime minister, then great, I’ll make some money out of you.’
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I → auction → you
Being married to one of the world’s most celebrated novelists might intimidate another writer, but Sir Salman Rushdie’s fifth wife, Rachel Eliza Griffiths, insists there’s no rivalry at home.
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wife → marry → home
'We don’t compete with each other,’ says the American poet and novelist, 47, who married the Booker Prize winner, 79, in 2021.
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who → compete → 2021
'Why would I compare myself to someone who is 30 years my senior, has a whole life story and environment and sensibility?
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who → compare → story
Why would I compare myself in a marriage?
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I → compare → marriage
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