No wife but David Walliams still brings a beauty... as Kate Beckinsale accompanies him to ITV summer party

By Sebastian Shakespeare for the Daily Mail

Published: 18:46 EST, 10 July 2015 | Updated: 04:04 EST, 11 July 2015

Comedian David Walliams recently split up with his supermodel wife, Lara Stone, but he hasn’t had to wait long for another glamorous companion.

The Little Britain star, 43, took Hollywood actress Kate Beckinsale, 41, with him as his ‘plus-one’ to ITV’s summer party in London’s Notting Hill.

Walliams once admitted he turned to ‘jelly’ when he was around the Pearl Harbor star, who showed off her legs in white shorts and tan-coloured heels. 

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Little Britain star David Walliams, 43, took Hollywood actress Kate Beckinsale, 41, with him as his ‘plus-one’ to ITV’s summer party in London’s Notting Hill

Little Britain star David Walliams, 43, took Hollywood actress Kate Beckinsale, 41, with him as his ‘plus-one’ to ITV’s summer party in London’s Notting Hill

He has been friends for years with Kate, who has been married to Hollywood producer Len Wiseman for more than a decade.

Walliams, now a best-selling children’s author, was joined by fellow Britain’s Got Talent judge Amanda Holden, whose risque outfits caused scores of viewers to complain to the TV watchdog Ofcom during the last series. 

The 44-year-old presenter turned up in a plunging peach gown with a soaring thigh-high split.

Other guests included pregnant Fearne Cotton and her chum Holly Willoughby, who met as budding children’s TV presenters. They arrived holding hands. Sweet.

Other guests included pregnant Fearne Cotton and her chum Holly Willoughby, who met as budding children’s TV presenters
Also in attendance was risque Amanda Holden

Other guests included pregnant Fearne Cotton and her chum Holly Willoughby, who met as budding children’s TV presenters; also in attendance was risque Amanda Holden 

 

Chiles rakes in £900k

Grumpy-faced Adrian Chiles was sacked with immediate effect as ITV’s football presenter in January, halfway through his contract, but he appears to have been crying all the way to the bank.

New accounts for his company, Basic Broadcasting, show that it made a £900,000 profit last year. The firm now has £5.5 million in funds.

The 48-year-old Brummie’s pay is not disclosed, but his ITV contract was said to have been worth £1 million a year.

After he defected to the broadcaster from the BBC amid great fanfare in 2011, his breakfast show with Christine Bleakley, Daybreak, was axed within a year. His chat programme, That Sunday Night Show, was dropped a year later.

When Chiles’s company was established in 1996 it made a profit of just £7,458. Its inexorable rise, like his career, has been bewildering.

 
Lady Violet Manners (above) has enjoyed warm relations with Alice and Eliza, but now there’s a spanner in the works

Lady Violet Manners (above) has enjoyed warm relations with Alice and Eliza, but now there’s a spanner in the works

Manners maketh the clan 

Trouble ahead for society’s most talked-about sisters.

Lady Violet Manners has enjoyed warm relations with Alice and Eliza, but now there’s a spanner in the works.

Violet, the Duke of Rutland’s 22-year-old daughter, has abandoned a brief career in politics to be a fashion designer. 

Awkwardly, Alice finished fashion college last month but is yet to land so much as an internship.

‘I’m launching a scarf range,’ Violet trills at a party hosted by Mr Fogg’s bar.

‘It’s funny that Alice is the one who went to fashion college, but then I got asked to do this.’ 

Alice is ‘very supportive’, she insists. 

We’ll see how long that lasts.

 
Tamzin Outhwaite was initially thrilled to be offered a film role

Tamzin Outhwaite was initially thrilled to be offered a film role

Play Billie's mum? But I'm only 44! 

New Tricks actress Tamzin Outhwaite was thrilled when she was offered a role in a film that would co-star House Of Cards actor Kevin Spacey and Billie Piper, 32.

She was less pleased when Jack Fox, who wrote the proposed film’s screenplay, explained why.

‘Jack Fox just came up to me and said, “I’d love you to play Billie’s mum. 

"You look 45 plus — you’re over 45, right?”’

Tamzin told friends at a Hermes party in Mayfair: ‘What a cheek! I’m only 44, for God’s sake.’

 

Ravers on the party island of Ibiza this week who meet the new Marquess of Blandford and his girlfriend, Camilla Thorp, might think he’s taking after his hell-raising father, Jamie, who inherited the title Duke of Marlborough last year.

But the Marquess, George, insists his only indulgence will be the odd gin and tonic.

‘I work in insurance, which is quite a serious job and it’s important to let off steam,’ the Old Harrovian, 22, told me before he jetted off to the Mediterranean. 

‘People have this idea that Ibiza is a drinking holiday that gets you into trouble, but that’s not the case. I stay out of trouble. I’ll have the odd drink, like a G&T, but that’s it.’

Ravers on the party island of Ibiza this week who meet the new Marquess of Blandford and his girlfriend, Camilla Thorp (both pictured), might think he’s taking after his hell-raising father, Jamie, who inherited the title Duke of Marlborough last year

Ravers on the party island of Ibiza this week who meet the new Marquess of Blandford and his girlfriend, Camilla Thorp (both pictured), might think he’s taking after his hell-raising father, Jamie, who inherited the title Duke of Marlborough last year

 

Oh baby! Carole's cashing in again

Centre stage in Princess Charlotte’s official christening portrait, Carole Middleton is making the most of her celebrity.

The Duchess of Cambridge’s mother is now offering her party planning skills as a competition prize.

‘Win A Baby Birthday Party Tailor-Made by Carole Middleton,’ announces Baby London, a magazine for which she writes a column. Entrants must give their personal details to the magazine.

The ‘lucky winner’ will receive the ‘birthday party of a lifetime’ worth £600. It will include a cake by Fiona Cairns, who baked Prince William and Kate’s wedding cake. The tableware will have a Peter Rabbit theme, just like Prince George’s first birthday party.

How long before Carole hires out the poor Prince for parties?

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