William Orbit

ALISON BOSHOFF: The behind-the - scenes rumpus over Olivia Wilde's new film Don't Worry Darling rages on, entertainingly, in Venice.  The picture - which features Harry Styles in his first starring role - will have its premiere at the Film Festival on Monday.  But it can be revealed that Styles's co-star Florence Pugh - who had already pulled out of a number of planned interviews - is now skipping both the press conference and the photocall to promote it. 

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

RICHARD EDEN: As the BBC's highest earner on an obscene £1.36million per year, Gary Lineker acts as if he's untouchable. But one of the corporation's toilers has bravely taken on the Match Of The Day fatcat over his blatant anti-Tory 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? Because I'd be sacked if I did.'