SEBASTIAN SHAKESPEARE: Daisy reveals her builder's cleavage

By Sebastian Shakespeare

Published: 19:59 EST, 10 August 2014 | Updated: 02:38 EST, 11 August 2014

Householders paying for a new drive might expect their workers to be burly builders, but model Daisy Lowe was spotted doing the dirty work while with friends in America.

Shunning overalls for a low-cut red sundress, the 25-year-old daughter of former singer Pearl Lowe and rock star Gavin Rossdale helped shovel the tarmac and push a wheelbarrow while on a visit to a picturesque house in the Catskill Mountains in New York State.

Daisy, who published a recipe book in June, is clearly keen to prove she is just as skilful in the garden as the kitchen.

Helping hand: Householders paying for a new drive might expect their workers to be burly builders, but model Daisy Lowe was spotted doing the dirty work while with friends in America

Helping hand: Householders paying for a new drive might expect their workers to be burly builders, but model Daisy Lowe was spotted doing the dirty work while with friends in America

Woman's work: Shunning overalls for a low-cut red sundress, the 25-year-old helped shovel the tarmac and push a wheelbarrow while on a visit to a picturesque house in the Catskill Mountains in New York State

Woman's work: Shunning overalls for a low-cut red sundress, the 25-year-old helped shovel the tarmac and push a wheelbarrow while on a visit to a picturesque house in the Catskill Mountains in New York State

Will Tony and Cherie Blair go to see The Last Confessions Of A Scallywag, which has just opened at The Mill at Sonning Theatre, not far from their palatial country seat in the Chilterns?

It’s the first play by Dwina Murphy Gibb, widow of the late Bee Gees singer Robin Gibb, who lent the Blairs his £5.2million villa in Florida for a  holiday in 2006.

 

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Dwina insists that her play is not about Mr Blair. ‘People may think Tony is a scallywag, but in Ireland the term means a loveable rascal,’ Dwina  tells me. The play is about ‘a man on his deathbed who wants to right his wrongs, make peace with everyone he has offended and meet his maker with a clear conscience and a quiet soul’.

Dwina says the then PM completed his Northern Ireland peace plan while staying at their Miami home. 

So perhaps a return visit could be just what the millionaire statesman needs in his distinctly less successful role as Middle East peace envoy.

 

Robbie's £14m profit

While three of his Take That bandmates face paying back millions of pounds in tax after a tribunal ruling, Robbie Williams is sitting pretty, financially.

He has set up a company that has made a £14.1million profit in its first year.

The 40-year-old singer-songwriter, who bought the late film director Michael Winner’s 46-room London mansion for £17.5million last year, established the firm, Teddy Bear Productions, which has handled the proceeds of his Take The Crown Stadium Tour round the British Isles.

Sound of success: Robbie Williams (pictured centre with his Take That bandmates) has set up a company, Teddy Bear Productions, that has made a £14.1million profit in its first year

Sound of success: Robbie Williams (pictured centre with his Take That bandmates) has set up a company, Teddy Bear Productions, that has made a £14.1million profit in its first year

Its inaugural accounts disclose that the firm, entirely owned by Williams, made the £14.1 million pre-tax profit on £31.3million sales.

Take That’s Gary Barlow, Howard Donald and Mark Owen were among about 1,000 people who put money into schemes purportedly supporting the music industry. But a tribunal ruled in May that the schemes had actually been set up for tax avoidance purposes.

 

Young gets to the bottom of ageing

Kirsty Young is as attractive as ever, but the Crimewatch and Desert Island Discs presenter says she is struggling to come to terms with middle age.

‘I’m 45 now and, frankly, it’s not always easy to deal with the fact that the wrinkles are coming and the backside is spreading,’ she admits.

Kirsty, who has two daughters with Soho House club boss Nick Jones, urges: ‘Be gentle with yourself about ageing. If I’m lucky, I’ll have the same amount of life to live as I’ve just had, so it’s about embracing it.

‘When I celebrate a birthday, I don’t get hung up on it, because the alternative is being deep in the ground. So every time I see a new wrinkle, I try to think I’m lucky enough to have one.’

Embrace it: Kirsty Young is as attractive as ever, but the Crimewatch and Desert Island Discs presenter says she is struggling to come to terms with middle age

Embrace it: Kirsty Young is as attractive as ever, but the Crimewatch and Desert Island Discs presenter says she is struggling to come to terms with middle age



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