Caught & Social: Sting and Trudie bag a good cause

Looking for that last-minute fashionable Christmas present? Well what about a bag made of elephant dung and banana skin fibres? Sting and Trudie Styler were last night promoting the bag at the House of St Barnabus in London. But this wasn’t just another fashion party, it also had an honourable aim. Proceeds from The Bag Issue go to the Karm Marg orphanage in India, and the bags themselves can be bought from street vendors of The Big Issue and on the magazine’s website.

Kylie set to blossom on radio

A change of roles for Kylie Minogue, yesterday as she turned radio presenter yesterday The pop singer is presenting a show on Radio 2 next week about jazz singer Blossom Dearie, called, appropriately enough, Kylie on Blossom. “She may have been petite but she knew how to look after herself,” said Minogue. Sounds familiar.

Crowning glory for heroes

With the Leveson Inquiry throwing up daily revelations about its exploits, the image of the tabloid press is sliding down the gutter and into the drain. But the industry may have been hoping for a bit of a PR boost from last night’s A Night of Heroes event, also known as The Sun’s Military Awards. At the Imperial War Museum real royalty, in the form of Prince William, the Duchess of Cambridge and Prince Harry, mixed with David, Romeo and Brooklyn of the showbiz royal family, for the event to honour members of the British military.

Absolutely back on the campaign trail

Now that the latest episodes of Absolutely Fabulous have been filmed, Joanna Lumley was back campaigning again yesterday. The actress was joined by Michael Sheen in London to read a manifesto to highlight the plight of Andrei Sannikov, an imprisoned activist in Belarus.

Scene & heard

If you thought The Krankies was just a nice (if very annoying) children’s TV programme, think again. The show’s stars Ianand Janette Tough have confessed to “swinging” while on tour in the 1970s and 1980s as well as having “fun” on a boat trip. “We thought we would get a bit romantic on this boat out at sea and we nearly ended up in France,”Janette tells BBC Scotland. “He said he couldn’t make it last that long now.”

Age hasn’t affected Lord Snowdon, however, says his son Viscount Linley. “He’s still immaculately dressed,” he tells the Sunday Times. “Nobody was surprised when my father turned away a workman who’d come to fit a chairlift because he wasn’t sporting a nice tie.”

Scarlett Johansson wants to swap her red carpet outfits for farm chic, when her movie career “falls apart.” “I think it would be nice to have a vineyard somewhere and have an organic farm,”she says. “It’s a hippy dippy wish but a good one.”

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“I’ve decided that, living in the public eye, there’s so little of my life that has been mine over the years. I want to keep what is left to myself” Olivia Newton-John on choosing not to write an autobiography

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