Britain's Health Secretary Frank Dobson has laughed off an incident in which a man interrupted his speech and told him he was boring at a dinner of the Pharmaceutical Services Negotiating Committee in Westminster. An embarrassed Dobson had apparently mumbled under his breath: 'I didn't think it was that boring.'
Yesterday he said: 'As soon as this happened I got about 1,000 apologies from various other people. Pharmacists came up and apologised in droves. 'After all, people are entitled to be bored. I had, in fact, pointed out earlier in the speech that I'd actually fallen asleep during one of my own speeches - so perhaps it is not surprising.'
Plans for singer Barbra Streisand's much-anticipated wedding to television actor James Brolin are still fluid, the 55-year-old singer says in People magazine.
'I've never had a big wedding. So sometimes I think about designing a beautiful wedding dress and the fantasy of a bouquet,' she says.
Dame Edna Everage launched her first West End show in nearly a decade at Lord Archer's London penthouse yesterday. 'It's harder to get in here than one of Saddam Hussein's palaces - that was one of Lord Archer's lookalikes on the way in, for security reasons,' she said.
The unlikely collaboration came about after Dame Edna's creator Barry Humphries, an old friend of Lord Archer's, talked him into backing Edna - The Spectacle.
Former Chelsea manager Ruud Gullit and his estranged wife Christina Pensa (32) were in the High Court in London yesterday for a hearing after the break-up of their marriage.
Gullit, sacked by the west London Premiership club last month, now lives with his long-term girlfriend Estelle Cruyff (21), the niece of Dutch footballer Johan Cruyff. The couple have a baby son, Joelle.