EDEN CONFIDENTIAL: Heidi Klum battles breezy conditions on the red carpet in Cannes as she poses for photos in £6,000 dress

Spare a thought for Heidi Klum, desperately trying to avoid the windswept look as she had her photograph taken in blustery conditions at Cannes in the South of France.

'Posing for pictures on the red carpet when it's windy is not easy,' she tells me at Le Palm Beach in the French resort.

'My hair stylist worked so hard on my hair and did it nice, but it's blowing everywhere and I have to battle to try to keep it nice.'

Luckily for the 50-year-old German-American model, the figure-hugging dress she wore had little chance of being blown away.

The fitted Georges Hobeika Couture outfit, which featured a voluminous trailing skirt, is estimated to be worth more than £6,000.

Blowing in the wind: 'Posing for pictures on the red carpet when it's windy is not easy,' says Heidi Klum, who battled blustery conditions in Cannes, South of France this week

Blowing in the wind: 'Posing for pictures on the red carpet when it's windy is not easy,' says Heidi Klum, who battled blustery conditions in Cannes, South of France this week

Klum's fitted Georges Hobeika Couture outfit, which featured a voluminous trailing skirt, is estimated to be worth more than £6,000

Klum's fitted Georges Hobeika Couture outfit, which featured a voluminous trailing skirt, is estimated to be worth more than £6,000

Luckily for the 50-year-old German-American model, the figure-hugging dress she wore had little chance of being blown away

Luckily for the 50-year-old German-American model, the figure-hugging dress she wore had little chance of being blown away

 

He's been nominated for an Oscar and is one of this country's most familiar faces, but Richard E Grant failed to snag a table at Julie's, the newly reopened restaurant in London where King Charles held his stag night before marrying Princess Diana. 

The Withnail And I star was, I hear, turned away twice in one week. 

'He had to be gently told again for the second time there was just no space,' an eyewitness tells me. 

'He was very amiable about it and said he'd try again when passing by in the hope of one day getting a table.' 

Didn't he demand the finest wines known to humanity? 

He's been nominated for an Oscar and is one of this country's most familiar faces, but Richard E Grant failed to snag a table at Julie's, the newly reopened restaurant in London where King Charles held his stag night before marrying Princess Diana

He's been nominated for an Oscar and is one of this country's most familiar faces, but Richard E Grant failed to snag a table at Julie's, the newly reopened restaurant in London where King Charles held his stag night before marrying Princess Diana

 

Rushdie's pregnant pause

Natalie Rushdie was 'excited' to go out weeks after giving birth to her second child, a girl.

The singer, 37, was, however, brought down to earth by some of the comments she received.

Someone at the event asked Sir Salman Rushdie's daughter-in-law when she was 'going to give birth'.

'Let me just die in a hole,' she thought to herself.

Out loud, she replied: 'Oh, she's here.'

The response came: 'Don't worry, a lot of us don't snap back to our pre-pregnancy figure.'

Natalie, married to public relations boss Zafar Rushdie, adds: 'Of course, I ­hurried home and ate some biscuits.'

Natalie, married to public relations boss Zafar Rushdie, pictured with their eldest daughter

Natalie, married to public relations boss Zafar Rushdie, pictured with their eldest daughter

 

King Charles's recent tete-a-tete with David Beckham at Highgrove House might have been a quiet encounter.

For the former England captain says the key to good relationships is saying little.

He speaks on a new Netflix podcast about travelling with his close pal Dave Gardner. 

'I don't have a huge amount of friends, but I have really good friends,' he says. 

'We were in India the other day and we had to go on this long journey to a children's shelter in Gujarat. We literally did not speak for four hours.'

He adds: 'It's the sign of a good friendship when you can just sit in one place and actually not say anything to each other and it not be awkward.'

Former England captain David Beckham says the key to good relationships is saying little

Former England captain David Beckham says the key to good relationships is saying little

 

Camilla and former husband reunited at friend's memorial

They arrived separately, as they have done for many years, but Queen Camilla and her first husband, Brigadier Andrew Parker Bowles, were reunited yesterday by shared memories of a beloved friend — Ian Farquhar, 'one of the great Masters of Hounds'.

The pair attended a service celebrating his life, at St Michael and All Angels Church on the Duke of Beaufort's Badminton estate in Gloucestershire.

'The Captain', as Farquhar, who died in March aged 78, was known, lived for many years in a house on the King's Highgrove estate where he was regularly invited to dine with Charles.

Tears were shed among the hundreds who attended the service when Farquhar's daughter Rose, Prince William's first love, and a finalist on television talent contest The Voice, sang an unaccompanied solo of Danny Boy.

'Dad loved Ireland and the Welsh, so we felt it was appropriate,' she tells me.

Queen Camilla and her first husband, Brigadier Andrew Parker Bowles, were reunited yesterday by shared memories of a beloved friend ¿ Ian Farquhar, 'one of the great Masters of Hounds'

Queen Camilla and her first husband, Brigadier Andrew Parker Bowles, were reunited yesterday by shared memories of a beloved friend — Ian Farquhar, 'one of the great Masters of Hounds'

 

Sir Sajid Javid, who is quitting Parliament, says it was 'frustrating' being surrounded by protection officers as a Cabinet minister.

'I'd been driven around for ten years,' the former Health Secretary, 54, tells me at Michael Wade's 60th birthday concert for Moorfields Eye Hospital, at St John's Smith Square in Westminster.

'It's frustrating because it's harder to get out, especially when you've got a protection team following you everywhere. I feel liberated.'

He adds: 'I cycle, run and walk a lot, I've done at least one 10k run a week as soon as I didn't have ministerial cars.'

Sir Sajid Javid, who is quitting Parliament, says it was 'frustrating' being surrounded by protection officers as a Cabinet minister

Sir Sajid Javid, who is quitting Parliament, says it was 'frustrating' being surrounded by protection officers as a Cabinet minister

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