Everyone loves Nigella Lawson on the Great British Bake Off – and it seems that she is preparing for a commercial renaissance to follow her re-entry into celebrity culture.
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she → love → culture
At 66, she has just set up a business venture, Bar Nigella Limited, which will be a wholesaler, selling wine, beer and spirits.
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which → set → wine
She’s never endorsed booze before and once said: ‘I’m not very good at alcohol’, explaining that it exacerbates her anxiety.
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it → endorse → anxiety
Now, though, she is set to join Kylie Minogue, Gary Barlow, Graham Norton and Meghan, the Duchess of Sussex, with her own marque.
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she → set → marque
-director is Nigella’s agent – production mogul Alex Fane, 33, who also runs the Henley Festival.
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who → run → Festival
They were pictured arm in arm in 2022 and have worked together for more than a decade.
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They → picture → decade
Speaking in 2018, Nigella said: ‘I’m not very good at alcohol.
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I → speak → alcohol
I do like it.
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I → like → it
She added: ‘It does something to me, but I think maybe that’s an age thing... after a certain age, you don’t deal with wine as well.
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you → add → wine
‘I feel that I’m quite an anxious person and drink can really exacerbate that anxiety.
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drink → feel → anxiety
At first it gets rid of it all.
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it → rid → it
Everyone loves Nigella Lawson on the Great British Bake Off – and it seems that she is preparing for a commercial renaissance to follow her re-entry into celebrity culture
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she → love → culture
Clock is ticking on Harry's Diana documentary
Is Prince Harry giving himself an impossible task with the documentary about his late mother Princess Diana?
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Harry → tick → mother
His team are now briefing that he is ‘considering’ making a show about Diana, timed to coincide with the 30th anniversary of her death next August (having hotly denied that there was anything going on a few months ago).
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he → brief → death
The first – as he admitted in his book Spare – is that he has few personal memories of his mother, who died when he was only 12.
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he → admit → mother
And some of those, he added in the book, were only recovered many years later, in therapy.
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he → add → therapy
That means he’ll need to secure some ‘talking heads’ who do have clear and fascinating insights to offer on the subject of the ‘People’s Princess’.
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who → mean → Princess
Preferably ones who haven’t told those stories multiple times before.
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who → tell → ?
The second is that there are only ten months left till the 30th anniversary, which I hear from several sources isn’t enough time to put together something of this complexity.
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I → be → complexity
Is Prince Harry giving himself an impossible task with the documentary about his late mother Princess Diana?
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Harry → give → mother
Realistically, Harry has a couple of months to pull together the entire project, find and hire a director and a writer, sign up interviewees and then sell the project.
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Harry → have → project
He’d then need to be filming soon after the turn of the year, to get it edited, subbed and dubbed for international release and passed legally.
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it → need → release
As things stand, there isn’t even a full proposal yet to show potential broadcasters.(Netflix still has a ‘first look’ deal with the Sussexes.)
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things → stand → Sussexes
And even assuming the Prince, a rookie TV producer, can pull all of that off... won’t a documentary ruin his great objective in coming back to the UK, which is to have King Charles stand shoulder to shoulder with him at the opening of the Invictus Games in Birmingham in July next year?
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Charles → assume → July
One TV source said: ‘It makes no sense.’
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It → say → sense
The stars of the new big screen adaptation of Jane Austen’s Sense And Sensibility were not, perhaps, as ladylike as you might imagine
The stars of the new big screen adaptation of Jane Austen’s Sense And Sensibility were not, perhaps, as ladylike as you might imagine.
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you → imagine → Sense
Esme Creed-Miles, who plays Marianne Dashwood opposite Daisy Edgar-Jones as her sister Elinor, said of filming: ‘I remember very fondly us all being in this big country house together and going for wees in the bushes.
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us → play → bushes
Why did I say that?!’
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I → say → that
Becks feud hots up as Mark Wahlberg joins Team Brooklyn
Becks feud hots up as Mark Wahlberg joins Team Brooklyn
Brooklyn Beckham aimed a hard swipe at his famous family with his bombshell Instagram post in January, in which he revealed he had cut them out of his life, and had no desire to reconcile.
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he → hot → desire
He returned to the fray again with the DoorDash advert during the World Cup in June, in which he referenced the row.
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he → return → row
Now comes another pointed public ‘diss’, as the nepo chef has persuaded actor Mark Wahlberg – a former friend and now enemy of his father – to endorse his Cloud 23 hot sauce.
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chef → come → sauce
Wahlberg has posted an Instagram Stories endorsement of Brooklyn’s sauce, using it to spice up some grilled chicken.
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Wahlberg → post → chicken
He holds up the distinctive Cloud 23 bottle to the camera proclaiming: ‘Sweet Jalapeno – my boy Brooklyn!’
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He → hold → Jalapeno
Marky Mark used to be a good buddy and business partner of David Beckham... until it all went wrong, and Becks’ company sued Wahlberg’s fitness firm.
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company → use → firm
Just to rub salt in to the hot sauce, Wahlberg has been pals with Brooklyn’s billionaire father-in-law Nelson Peltz for many years and also played the father of Brooklyn’s wife Nicola in Transformers: Age Of Extinction in 2014.
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Wahlberg → rub → 2014
At the time, Wahlberg said: ‘I have known Nicola since she was like 13.
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she → say → Nicola
She has a really great work ethic.’
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She → have → ethic
In gaining Wahlberg’s endorsement, Brooklyn is once again leaning into Team Peltz and away from his own family.
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Brooklyn → gain → family
Brooklyn Beckham aimed a hard swipe at his famous family with his bombshell Instagram post in January, in which he revealed he had cut them out of his life, and had no desire to reconcile
None of this messaging will have been lost on former footballer David, who appears to have been trying to make peace with his son again this week, ‘liking’ a social media post featuring Brooklyn from Paris Fashion Week.
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who → aim → Week
There was no reciprocal ‘like’ from Brooklyn, who has blocked his entire family on Instagram.
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who → be → Instagram
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