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SEBASTIAN SHAKESPEARE: Bryan Ferry's boys seen together for first time since horror car crash

By Sebastian Shakespeare for the Daily Mail

Published: 17:39 EST, 8 September 2015 | Updated: 04:31 EST, 9 September 2015

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Bryan Ferry’s sons had good reason to celebrate when they attended a luxury jewellery party in London this week.

For the Roxy Music singer’s youngest son Merlin, 24, was taking his very first steps back into society after he was badly hurt in a car crash last December, with multiple fractures to his legs, pelvis, left arm and a head injury.

The aspiring musician — who has performed with his father — thankfully looks in much better shape since his oldest brother, Otis, shared a picture of him in hospital on Instagram in January, in which he looked worryingly frail.

Stylish siblings (from left): Merlin, Otis and Tara Ferry with Lady Violet Manners and Isaac

Merlin, 24, was badly hurt in this car crash last December, suffering multiple fractures and a head injury

Standing next to his three brothers — from left, Otis, Tara and Isaac, as well as their family friend Lady Violet Manners — he proves that his sense of style, too, is strong as ever.

With an oversized tweed jacket and a gold tie, he sported a £695 Links Of London Regent watch and a very distinctive pair of specs.

Merlin has had to undergo a series of major operations following the accident in Shropshire, during which firefighters spent more than 45 minutes cutting the former Marlborough College pupil from the wreckage of his silver Volvo saloon, which was destroyed in the collision.

Emotional Emin in a Duran duet

Celebrating: Simon Le Bon, Dame Joan Collins, Liz Hurley

OCCASION: Designer Amanda Wakeley’s 25th anniversary at Harry’s Bar, Mayfair.

GUESTS: Actress Elizabeth Hurley with rumoured former flame Mark Reynolds and Duran Duran’s Simon Le Bon.

JOKE OF THE NIGHT: Dame Joan Collins, 82, shared a picture of her younger fifth husband Percy Gibson, 50, rubbing shoulders with nubile guests with the tongue in cheek caption: ‘Percy having miserable time with Yasmin Le Bon and Jodie Kidd — oh the poor guy!’

HOTTEST TOPICS: Summer holiday destinations. Interior designer Kelly Hoppen packed in trips to LA, Mykonos, Tuscany and Majorca. ‘I’ve just come back from holiday and my brain is exploding with ideas,’ she said .

MOST UNEXPECTED MOMENT: An emotional Tracey Emin gave an impromptu toast to the lady of the night and burst into ‘Happy Birthday’ with Simon Le Bon.

Singer Myleene Klass, runner-up on TV’s I’m A Celebrity in the Australian bush, has been to faraway climes again to visit Micronesia for a documentary, Singing In The Rainforest, in which she shows members of a remote island tribe how to compose a song on a piano.

‘They hadn’t seen a piano before, they hadn’t heard a piano,’ says Klass. ‘They’ve only got one note. I couldn’t shift them out of the key of E.’ Despite being a veteran of bushtucker trials, she found it hard to get used to the islanders’ approach to life.

‘There’s no breakfast time or lunchtime on the island. Whenever I went to find someone, they had to look after a baby or kill dinner.’

Leftie trolls silence Maureen Lipman

Feisty actress Maureen Lipman turned down one role this week — the chance to speak out about Hamas supporting Jeremy Corbyn on Panorama.

She felt intimidated by Left-wing cyber-bullies after the response she earned for criticising Ed Miliband’s approach to Israel.

‘I was asked, but I balked because I would get myself into such trouble,’ she says. ‘My kids begged me not to get myself beheaded.

‘Corbyn is a man who has voted against Labour 500 times in the Commons. I’ve never once heard him challenge the people he sups with, to tell them it’s wrong to be a Holocaust denier.’

He is known for playing a superhero who vanquishes the forces of evil. But now erstwhile Spider-Man actor Andrew Garfield has declared war on the Conservatives. Asked at the LA premiere of his new film 99 Homes about British politics, Garfield whines: ‘The British system is capitalism gone crazy. We just voted in a Conservative Government in the UK. It’s a vote for more separateness and disparateness, a lack of community. I’m going to keep what’s mine — it promotes scarcity. It’s depressing.’ No sign of Garfield handing over the millions he earned from the Spider-Man franchise.

My cooking's a disaster zone, says Downton chef

Lesley Nicol has revealed that she turned down the chance to appear on Masterchef due to her lack of culinary skills

As the no-nonsense cook Mrs Patmore in Downton Abbey, Lesley Nicol thinks nothing of rustling up a banquet at a moment’s notice. But off set, she’s had to turn down the chance to star in TV’s MasterChef — because she is so hopeless in the kitchen.

She tells me: ‘I was asked to do MasterChef but I said, “You have to have a certain level of expertise. You can’t have someone who can’t do it, like me, or you are going to look an idiot.” ’

The 61-year-old, who moved to LA last year, adds: ‘I can’t cook a single thing. I was recently asked if I could bake a cake for a magazine as a proper pastry chef and, of course, it turned out like some horror story.’

So-called adventurer Bear Grylls has developed a huge fan base in the U.S. — but it owes more to his upper-crust accent than his rugged looks. ‘The [TV] show is biggest probably in the States and China,’ he says. ‘I think the thing I get asked the most is to pronounce “vitamin” in the English accent for their amusement.’