When the golden couple Cat Deeley and Patrick Kielty announced that they were separating after almost 13 years of marriage and two children, their careful presentation was as anodyne as Cat introducing some minor celebrity flogging a new cookbook on ITV‘s This Morning.
In a joint statement, the couple said: ‘We have taken the decision to end our marriage. There is no other party involved. We continue to be united as loving parents.’
It had all the compassion of a press release written by an AI robot. I cast no aspersions on either’s fidelity, but in my long experience of such matters, there always is another ‘party’ – though it’s not always another person.
Pat has always been devoted to his beloved Cat. Yet she was the one getting up at 5am four days a week to present This Morning – which they have revealed meant sleeping in separate bedrooms.
One wonders if Cat’s career was the third ‘person’ in their marriage. She coined a reported £43,000 per episode presenting So You Think You Can Dance in the US, then relocated the family from LA to London in 2020 and later fronted This Morning on £550,000 year. Pat earns a comparatively meagre £218,000 presenting The Late Late Show in Dublin and his BBC Radio 5 Live – jobs that asked much of him, too.
In a joint statement, the couple said: ‘We have taken the decision to end our marriage. There is no other party involved. We continue to be united as loving parents’
When a woman puts her career above marriage, especially after her mother-in-law has died (Cat did not attend the funeral, saying she stayed home to console her children), it leads us to reassess the kind, gregarious Cat we see on TV.
Long-distance relationships, especially one in which one party puts their own career first, rarely last. A textbook example of how not to have a loving, lasting marriage.
Hail this real hero
Fellow firefighters lined the street in honour of Martyn Sadler who died in the line of duty on May 15, with his sister Keely saying: ‘For 20-odd years you ran towards danger when most of us would run away. Although I am a little bit mad at you for doing it that night when you weren’t even on call, I know that you wouldn’t have it any other way.’
Aussies wore them better, Cruz
Cruz was pictured this week sporting a pair of tighty whities on the Beckham family yacht
Some have compared Cruz Beckham’s baggy white Prada swimming trunks (that he sported on the family yacht) to iconic Aussie budgie-smugglers.
What an insult to the signature swimwear worn by burly Aussie he-men.
Even the casual observer can see Cruz looks more like he’s ‘smuggled’ a fledgling tit down there – appropriately so, as he sure looked like one.
Jeremy Clarkson reveals his cows at Diddly Squat have been hit by an outbreak of TB, and the first animal to test positive was pregnant with twin calves. A reminder of how tough it is for farmers, even celebrity ones. But imagine how many more millions of viewers he’ll have on Amazon’s Clarkson’s Farm, renewed for its fifth series.
What terrible miscasting for the dreary Emma Corrin – who identifies as non-binary – to play the feisty Elizabeth Bennet in Pride And Prejudice. As was demonstrated in Netflix’s Lady Chatterley’s Lover a few years ago, Corrin displays all the passion of a Brussels sprout.
Mohammed Fahir Amaaz, who savagely attacked two women police officers during an airport brawl, is found guilty of assault and awaits his sentence. Let’s see how tough young Amaaz is when he’s in prison – and it’s not women half his size he’ll have to take on, but convicted criminals like him.
No handouts, just hard graft
Almost 640,000 graduates with an honours degree or similar qualifications have left university and are now on benefits.
Little wonder, as Gen Z expect everything to be handed to them on a plate. When I left uni, I worked for well below minimum wage for ten hours a day on the local newspaper – and loved every minute.
Modelling Saint Laurent’s new lingerie range, Kate Moss poses in a green dress, apparently wearing no knickers – then in just a bra and stockings on a bed. What’s the point of showcasing the French designer’s new underwear line when you hardly bother to put it on?
Illegals arriving here on boats are now being housed in four-star hotels with buffet breakfasts, while others get free gym membership, or discounts on Pilates classes and swimming lessons. The latter might at least come in useful – perhaps then they can swim back to France.
Westminster Wars
- Donald Trump says Sadiq Khan is a ‘nasty person’ who has done a ‘terrible job’ as London mayor. As new Met figures show nearly 40 per cent of those charged with sexual offences in London are foreign nationals, despite them making up less than a quarter of the city’s population, the President’s certainly right about the latter.
- Rachel Reeves broke parliamentary rules failing to declare freebie National Theatre tickets, claiming the regulations were ‘ambiguous’. What hope when a Chancellor in charge of our tanking economy can’t even tell the difference between work and a freebie?
- How humiliating that 40 peers – including many of Britain’s most prominent lawyers – have argued that Starmer’s pledge to recognise a Palestinian state risks breaking international law. You’d have thought the distinguished Sir Keir Starmer, slavish standard bearer for the rule of lawyers, would know that.
A terrible tragedy as two British siblings, aged 11 and 13, drowned while on holiday in Spain – and a timely reminder to take note of safety warnings. The kids apparently begged their dad for one last swim after 8pm. A yellow flag had been flying at the time to warn about potential hazards. Their dad tried to save them, but it was too late. A tragic reminder of the perils of the sea.
Creatures of Hobbit
Tome Cruise, 63, and Ana de Armas, 37, spotted together in Vermont, US
Cuban-American actress de Armas pictured in 2022. She was previously married to Spanish actor Marc Clotet from 2011-2013
Adorable to see the normally glamorous Bond girl Ana de Armas looking dressed-down and walking hand-in-hand down a Vermont street with her much older boyfriend Tom Cruise – both with tousled curly brown hair.
The diminutive couple looked for all the world like a couple of gorgeously loved-up Hobbits.
Much curiosity as to why football-mad Prince George did not join sister Charlotte to watch the Lionesses’ Euros final, after he’d gone to Paris with dad William to watch Aston Villa in the Champions League. Whisper it, but maybe George, like so many of us footy fans, finds the girls’ game a tad pedestrian?
