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Dame Jilly Cooper has revealed that she was silenced and mistreated after almost being raped by a fellow author. The writer, 87, who has sold over 12 million books and is one of the UK's most prolific romance novelists, said the attempted sexual assault took place in her early career. In her new documentary, In My Own Words: Jilly Cooper, she said the author was 'a great big gross creature' who 'ripped off' her clothes in a taxi.

The late great broadcaster Terry Wogan once scored an unlikely hit in 1978 with The Floral Dance. But we doubt he was privy to the knowledge that sunflowers actually 'dance' together to share sunlight. Researchers have found that plants which grow close together - with each casting a shadow on its neighbour - have found a way around the issue with random movements.

Those who were presented to the Queen often found the experience discombobulating. Though it may have been the first time they had ever set eyes on her, they were often more familiar with her face than with their own. They knew it in profile; they knew it head-on; they had seen it refracted through the visions of countless artists and photographers. So to meet the Queen face-to-face was apt to make you feel giddy or woozy, as though a well-loved family portrait had suddenly sprung to life

EPHRAIM HARDCASTLE: Royal chronicler Ingrid Seward tells a London literary lunch of King Charles 's schoolboy snoring and how fellow pupils recorded him sending up the Zs. Ingrid, whose late husband Ross was a fellow pupil at Gordonstoun, reveals: 'Charles's bed was by an open window, so the boys above dangled over the window a recording device and recorded him snoring away.

In the latest issue of The Fence - the most original new magazine for years - readers tell of their brief encounters with celebrities, both memorable and mundane. 'Ainsley Harriott once asked me to recommend the best sandwich in the Brent Cross Starbucks,' writes Rose Fiore. 'When I was in college,' writes Mark O'Connell, 'I worked in a hotel. I brought room service to Tiger Woods , who was sitting in his underwear, watching himself play golf on TV.' Reading of these chance celebrity encounters has inspired me to compile a list of some of my own.

You know you're getting old when you find yourself listening to Radio 2 and you think it's Radio 1. That was the standing joke 50-odd years ago when disc jockeys like David ' Diddy ' Hamilton, Jimmy Young and Alan 'Fluff' Freeman were transferred from 'Won-der-ful Ray-de-O One!' to pipe-and-slippers Radio 2. Not 'arf. Back then, the stalwarts at 2 were leftovers from the days when the station was known as the Light Programme - legendary broadcasters such as David 'Juke Box Jury' Jacobs and Jack Jackson, the 'Housewives' Choice', who joined the BBC in 1931.

A scheme that allowed celebrities and other investors to get tax breaks by planting trees has resulted in millions of tons of carbon being released into the atmosphere, experts claim. Television host Terry Wogan and pop stars Phil Collins and Cliff Richard were among those who saved a fortune by planting conifers on peatland they bought in the far north of Scotland. But the UK Government scheme disturbed ancient bogs in the Flow Country of Caithness and Sutherland that had locked up carbon for millennia. Now scientists have calculated that the project, which ran throughout the 1980s and ended in 1993, has likely contributed to climate change by releasing huge amounts of greenhouse gases. The study - which has yet to be peer-reviewed - was led by Leeds University expert Tom Sloan, in collaboration with the Universities of Aberdeen, Edinburgh , York and the Highlands & Islands plus Midlothian-based Forest Research.

Diana attended a lunch party thrown by Countess Raine Spencer at the house in 1996 and was introduced to Dodi and his father, Harrods owner Mohammed Al Fayed. It was the first time the Princess and Dodi had met and over the coming months the pair were often seen together, including on Al Fayed's yacht in the south of France (inset). The friendship ended on August 31st 1997 when Diana was killed in a car crash in a Paris underpass, an event that shocked the world. Diana became a frequent visitor to the property and guests remember her sitting in the library (right), her late father's favourite room.

Even if Princess Anne makes a characteristically swift recovery from the concussion that has kept her under close observation at Bristol's Southmead Hospital, the unfortunate incident is a dramatic reminder of just how vital she is to the monarchy. Indeed without the ever-present Anne, it is impossible to imagine it continuing its schedule of public engagements on anything like the scale that it does. In recent times, with both the King and the Princess of Wales being treated for cancer , she has almost single-handedly propped up the Royal Family.

Growing up, I felt lucky to have a mother who recognised what a drawback my Yorkshire accent would be, that it could prevent me from enjoying success in whatever field I chose. It was her life's work to prepare me to rise above my working-class roots. She constantly lectured me about the way I must speak. Nicely was the word she used: 'Not like those young ruffians you try to play with on the street.'

The 73-year-old often doesn't act as though she is a member of the Royal Family - she competed in the Olympics and still wears her favourite Team GB mirrored sunglasses (bottom right). The Princess Royal also famously told her would-be kidnapper that it was 'not bloody likely' she would get out of the car, even though he had a pistol. That dry wit - which she seemingly inherited from her father Prince Philip - is what makes her one of the nation's favourite royals. She is also the hardest working member of the Royal Family, with recent figures showing how she has carried out a third of all engagements this year. Anne has been dubbed a 'boss lady' on social media for carrying her own luggage, despite having plenty of opportunities to dump her bags on someone else (left, arriving in Sri Lanka in January with three bags in her hands). When Anne slipped and fell (top right) during a royal visit in Guernsey in 2007, she brushed off any offer of help, picked herself up and carried on her way.

The TikTok generation can't believe their eyes and ears. Barely born when reality TV first hit our screens like effluent from a fire hose, today's teens and twentysomethings are discovering the very worst of 1990s and Noughties television. Shows that held millions mesmerised in horror when they first aired two decades ago are experiencing a resurgence on social media.

Helen and her children, who were left dead outside BBC Radio 2's London HQ to see the building renamed Wogan House (inset), are likely to be ruled out as the Beeb moves out. Sir Terry will be commemorated somewhere else, according to a BBC spokesperson who declines to say if he will be remembered elsewhere. Ken Bruce, his ex colleague, sees the change as a shame and has begged the Beeb to honor fellow DJ Steve Wright (right), who died last month.

That's wizard, Harry! As Warner Bros' TEN series about a new TV show about 'the boy who lived,' will be released in Leavesden, Herts, a £2 billion Harry Potter bonanza. Production details for the scheme, which will be based on J. K. Rowling's seven favorite books, have yet to be confirmed. However, this week, reports show that the Potter shows are absolutely intending to be shot in the United Kingdom, with British creative and technical talent front and center. The budget is expected to be about $200 million per series, bringing it into alignment with House Of The Dragon, which is also shot on the Warner Bros lot. The company revealed plans for the series in April last year and said it expects to begin filming later this year or early next year, as long as scripts and casting can be settled quickly.

I realised a tragic coincidence while standing in Steve Wright's old studio at Radio 2 this week. JEREMY VINE writes that the studio in which he talked live to the nation for more than 40 years had been gutted just days before his death. The symbolism was too heavy to bear. The studio was his home for Steve Wright, whom I would regard as much as a colleague.

According to the BBC's annual report, Radio 2 host Ball earned between £980,000 and £984,999 in 2022/23, a figure unchanged from the previous 12 months. She hosts both a breakfast show and a salute to Terry Wogan. Gary Lineker, who earned between £1,350,000 and £1,354,999, is the only one to have risen to the top of the BBC's highest earning position. In third place is Radio 4's Desert Island Discs host Lauren Laverne, who earned £399,999. Sophie Raworth, the fourth highest-earning female actor, was paid £365,000-£369,999. However, the figures show how the BBC's gender pay gap has widened to its highest level since 2018, with the figure at 7.3 percent up from 5.9 percent in 2021/22.

Pundit Lineker's pay ranged from £13,000 to £1,354,999 for work including Match Of The Day, coverage of the World Cup 2023, and Sports Personality Of The Year. Lineker first appeared on the list for 2017/18 with a wage range of £1,750,000 to £1,759,999, and in 2020 it was revealed that he had taken a voluntary wage cut. Despite a tumultuous Twitter debate earlier this year, his income remained stagnant. On Twitter, he caused outrage in March by comparing the government's language in connection with the migrant crisis to Nazi Germany. Zoe Ball is still the best paid actor and the highest compensated woman with a £984,999 salary for her Radio 2 breakfast show and a Radio 2 tribute to Terry Wogan. Alan Shearer, Lineker's Match Of The Day coworker, is in third place with a salary of £445,000 - £449,999, down from £450,000-£454,999 last year.

According to reports, the corporation will discuss with it a plan to launch 'Radio 2 Extra,' a station that will air repeats of vintage shows throughout the day. The idea would see the 'golden oldies' station host archive broadcasts of programmes starring deceased celebrities such as Sir Terry Wogan (pictured), Janice Long and John Peel, as well as other names such as Gloria Hunny and Simon Bates. According to the i newspaper, BBC local radio DJ Mark Punter, who runs the Vintage Vinyl podcast, has suggested the idea as a way of attracting listeners to the'mother station.'

As the UK co-hosts with Ukraine, whose Kalush Orchestra captured Turin last year with their song Stefania, the BBC pulled out all the stops to put on a glitzy spectacle. Due to the civil war, Ukraine is unable to host this 67th tournament, so the award has gone to the UK as runners-up with Sam Ryder's Space Man, with 26 countries competing in front of 160 million viewers.

Graham Norton is the talk of the glitzy town in the United Kingdom as Eurovision arrives. We take a look at Graham's one-year marriage ahead of his 14th year as host of the show, after taking over from Terry Wogan in 2009. Jonathan 'Jono' McLeod is a respected Scottish filmmaker and the couple married in July last year, having met six years ago.

When hosting Eurovision in the United Kingdom in 1998, Ulrika Jonsson recalled her cringeworthy clangers but later disclosed she was turned away from the lavish after-party. The model, 55, co-presented the show with Terry Wogan and told The Sun that it took the presenter 'countless' meetings and rehearsals to prepare for the live global broadcast that attracted'squillions' of viewers.

CHRISTOPHER STEVENS: Advertisers have long understood that sex sells, but this past of female executives in the macho, chauvinist age of television ad campaigns has shown that it appeals best to women. Let's take a look at the Lynx ads, those tongue-in-cheek advertisements for a sickly perfume marketed at men who are too young to shave. The idea is that it's loaded with chemicals to make its wearer magically irresistible to the opposite sex - seduction by pheromones. Pictured: The women starring in Mad Women

EPHRAIM HARDCASTLE: Prince George (right), a nine-year-old prince, has left a lasting mark in Coronation history by convincing his grandfather King Charles (left) to change the centuries old uniforms worn by pages of honour. One of the monarch's four pages, George, expressed his dissatisfaction with the fact that he had to wear white knee breeches. A courtier whispers a courtier, 'He was also not keen on wearing tights and becoming a topic of ribaldry at school.' The King agreed and the breeches and tights were replaced with trousers. Charles was in no position to object.

JAN MOIR: Every morning, nine million of us tune in, soothed by his lowering presence and his peaty voice, with a hint of malt whisky bubbling over the smooth pebbles of pop. And now this! We're losing Ken, we're losing PopMaster, as well as the fluttering ribbon of contestants who have competed for many years. And no, not just for the chance to win a smart speaker or a CD wallet, but also for the opportunity to chat with Ken himself.