GMTV will hold talks today with Eamonn Holmes over his scathing attack yesterday on former co host Anthea Turner. Holmes is said to have found, his fellow presenter "unbearable" and claimed she acted like "Princess Tippy Toes" when off, screen from their breakfast programme.
According to the Sunday Mirror, he gave GMTV an ultimatum that he would leave the show if Anthea was allowed to stay. But GMTV yesterday denied that Anthea had been sacked, stressing the decision to leave had been hers alone.
Pope John Paul yesterday urged people to be brave during freezing weather which has swept large parts of Europe and the United States. "It seems the world is cold, also here in Italy, but more so in the north," he told pilgrims gathered in the courtyard of his residence near Rome to hear the weekly Angelus, message. "It seems that today you can hear the wind more than the Pope," he added, holding on to his papal cap to prevent it being blown away. Temperatures have dipped as low as minus 30 Celsius (-22 Fahrenheit) in Italy's northern mountains.
The Prince of Wales's sense of duty to produce an heir led, him to make an ill founded and loveless "marriage of convenience", according to a new book by a marriage counsellor.
Zelda West Meads, a former spokeswoman for the marriage guidance charity Relate, also claims that Charles was merely continuing a British royal tradition when he took a mistress.
The remarks come in a passage of the book To Love Honour & Betray - Why Affairs Happen and How to Survive Them. The author, who became close to Princess Diana when the princess was patron of Relate, writes that Charles felt obliged to choose a "pure and virginal" bride, who would provide him with an heir and make a "suitable future queen".
Mireille, one of France's best loved singers, actresses and composers of chanson, died in Paris yesterday, aged 90, after a 60 year career in which she starred with such Hollywood names as Buster Keaton and Charles Boyer. Mireille, born Mireille Hartuch, co wrote some 600 French popular songs and latterly ran a special "Petit Conservatoire de la Chanson", whose graduates included singer and actress Francoise Hardy.