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· collected 2026-08-27 · by Stephanie Takyi, Richard Eden
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Dame Emma Thompson's daughter Gaia has split from actor Basil Eidenbenz, 33, after nearly four years of dating. According to a close friend, the couple grew apart due to their increasingly busy acting careers taking them in different directions. Gaia, 26, has been focusing on her own acting career, which includes voicing Hera in The Lord Of The Rings cartoon, and Basil was recently involved in filming an Amazon MGM Studios action film with Arnold Schwarzenegger and Liam Hemsworth. A friend says the couple remains friends despite their split.
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Dame Emma Thompson's family have endured a heartbreaking week following the death of their beloved matriarch, actress Phyllida Law, who 'died supremely peacefully at home,' aged 94 surrounded by all of the clan.
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But as they mourn the loss of the Love Actually star's mother, I can reveal there has been a double dose of heartache for Dame Emma's and Strictly star Greg Wise's actress daughter Gaia.
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Gaia, I hear, appears to have split from actor Basil Eidenbenz, 33, who stars in Netflix hit The Witcher.
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The pair, who started dating in 2022, haven't been seen together since February, prompting speculation that their relationship had come to an end.
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A close friend of the former couple tells me, 'They've been growing apart for a while, as both of their acting careers have been taking them in different directions.'
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But the pal adds: 'They remain friends.'
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These days, Gaia, 26, is carving out a successful career of her own, despite being branded a 'nepo baby' after following in her parents' footsteps.
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Last year, she landed her big break voicing Hera in The Lord Of The Rings cartoon, The War Of The Rohirrim.
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And Basil has just wrapped up filming for Amazon MGM Studios action film The Kellys with Arnold Schwarzenegger and Liam Hemsworth.
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Dame Emma's daughter Gaia has split from Basil Eidenbenz after dating for nearly four years
Relationship woes may be one of the less harrowing issues Gaia has faced, after battling anorexia for three years from the age of just 16.
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It resulted in a spell of rehab, followed by therapy, which she has said 'saved my life'.
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But while romance may be off the cards for now, Gaia appears to be looking ahead to happier times with her family.
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This week, Gaia put out a call online to find a warehouse in North London 'for a dance party for raving', adding: 'Mum doesn't hold back.'
A spokesman for Gaia said: 'We don't comment on our clients' personal lives', and Basil's representative declined to comment.
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The hierarchy of the MCC – which runs Lord's Cricket Ground, where the Second Test against Pakistan begins today – appears to have got itself on a sticky wicket in the wake of last month's Women's Test.
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Although a record number of fans attended the match – 37,846 over four days – the crowd was only a quarter the size of a men's Test crowd.
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Perhaps even worse (from the perspective of bigwigs paying the bar staff), those watching the women's game were far less thirsty than the usual pint-loving cricket fans sustaining themselves on liquid lunches.
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It was wokery by numbers,' an insider notes.
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Lord's declines to comment.
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Why Emilia's buzzing about her new hobby
She's more used to examining corpses as pathologist Dr Nikki Alexander in Silent Witness, but now Emilia Fox has swapped the post-mortem room for the apiary – and has shared a snap of herself covered in protective gear.
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Emilia Fox, known for playing pathologist Dr Nikki Alexander in Silent Witness, has taken up beekeeping as a hobby
'Had the most brilliant morning yesterday learning all about these BEE-autiful creatures,' says Emilia, 52.
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She is already toying with the idea that beekeeping could be a hobby for Nikki in the BBC drama.
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That sounds like the bee's knees.
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No one would have breathed a bigger sigh of relief to see the ending of Tom Cruise's Mission: Impossible franchise last year than co-star Simon Pegg, 56, who played Benji Dunn for 20 years.
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He tells me: 'I've done enough celebrating Mission: Impossible in my lifetime, believe me.
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Vigil star: I suffer mum guilt, too
Vigil star Rose Leslie is reprising her role as DI Kirsten Longacre in the BBC thriller's third series, but behind the scenes admits to suffering 'mum guilt'.
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Rose, 39, is married to Game Of Thrones co-star Kit Harington, also 39, and they have two children.
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At London's BFI Southbank, she discussed 'juggling' motherhood with acting.
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Speaking of pressure 'to keep on working', she said: 'Mum guilt then comes in play and you're like, 'Oh God, I've got to grapple with that as well.'
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Rose Leslie, 39, is married to Game Of Thrones co-star Kit Harington, also 39
She married composer Daniel Vildosola in Las Vegas this year, which may suggest heiress India Rose James, 34, has tired of London.
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Displaying the same spirit as her late grandfather, 'King of Soho' Paul Raymond, she voices an impassioned appeal on behalf of the capital's creative talent.
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'Can all the good galleries in London please stop closing?
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There's not going to be enough wall space left any more for any of the fantastic artists that we have in London.
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Spare a thought for Ore Oduba, who is not only going through a divorce with his estranged wife Portia Jett, but is also now battling a rare condition called uveitis, which causes eye inflammation.
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The former Strictly star, 40, suffered a panic attack during a routine check-up with a doctor this week.
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'She was penetrating my eye with a needle, I went into a paralysed state, I broke down, I was in hysterical tears,' says Ore.
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