Naughty

HARD to believe publisher Selina Walker of Penguin Random House who has paid $2m for the rights to We Were Never Here, the story of how the CIA smuggled copies of Dr Zhivago into Russia.

Ms Walker says she commissioned the work on the basis of the first sentence.

Wow. You wonder what that sentence is? Does it rank with Dickens’ A Tale of Two Cities; It was the best of times . . . it was the worst of times. Or perhaps even Iain Banks’ brilliant Crow Road intro It Was The Day My Grandmother Exploded.

For $2m we can only hope so.

WHY has Jeremy Vine landed The Wright Stuff, taking over from Matthew Wright on the C5 morning programme? Vine is a very good presenter, but already earns way more than half a million with the BBC. Surely someone else just as talented but a little more needy would be more appropriate?

Nice

TO see Stellla McCartney fill her new haute couture London store with Scottish boulders, giving it “a level of honesty.” Shows she has a real sense of humour.

AND delightfully shameless ageing pop star Rihanna can still capture the lenses with yet another wardrobe malfunction, this time at the Ocean’s 8 premiere party. Has the lady never heard of the safety pin?