William Orbit

ALISON BOSHOFF: The back-to-scenes controversy over Olivia Wilde's latest film Don't Worry Darling rages in Venice, amusingly. On Monday, the film, which stars Harry Styles in his first starring role, will premiere at the Film Festival for the first time. However, it has been confirmed that Styles' co-star Florence Pugh, who had already dropped out of a number of planned interviews, is now skipping both the press conference and the photocall to advertise it.

ADRIAN THRILLS: Matt Bellamy, a musician whose songs are full of conspiracy theories and visions of global doom and gloom, could be forgiven for saying, 'I told you so' after the past couple of years. A pandemic, war in Europe, biblical floods, and epic drought characterized the era. . . yes, our brave new world has often resembled something from his band Muse's album. But seeing some of Bellamy's worst nightmares come true, they must have given the three from Teignmouth in Devon food some thought as they considered their ninth album.

RICHARD EDEN: Gary Lineker, the BBC's top earner on an obscene £1.36 million per year, appears as if he were untouchable. However, one of the corporation's toilers has triumphed over a blatant anti-Toky bias. After Lineker's latest social media pop at the Government, foreign news editor Neil Henderson asked: 'Do you have the freedom to tweet about this sort of thing because you have a different contract to mine? "I'd be fired if I did," I told my coworkers.'