SEBASTIAN SHAKESPEARE: Why there's not a grey in sight for Yasmin, 51 

Model Yasmin Le Bon stars in Giorgio Armani’s new ‘ageless beauty’ advertising campaign, but, at the age of 51, she is refusing to let her hair turn grey.

‘I started going grey very early — it was the day I had Amber [her model daughter] when I was 24,’ she admits at a party in St James’s, London.

‘I’m not ready yet to let all my grey hair grow out, because it’s such a big statement to make to the world.

Model Yasmin Le Bon stars in Giorgio Armani’s new ‘ageless beauty’ advertising campaign, but, at the age of 51, she is refusing to let her hair turn grey. She is pictured left at the age of 24, and right last month

‘You’re basically telling everyone that you’re old and there’s no going back.

‘Some people do it really well, and some even look youthful with it, like Helen Mirren — but I don’t think I can pull that off.’

The wife of Duran Duran singer Simon Le Bon adds: ‘Fair-haired people have it easier than dark-haired people because the transition to grey is much less obvious.’

Matthew Barzun, U.S. Ambassador to the UK, shared an appeal from the official U.S. Embassy Twitter account: ‘Heated debate in the office this morning — who stole the half-time show at Super Bowl 50?’ 

Followers were invited to cast their vote for Coldplay or Beyonce. No doubt Barzun backed his U.S. compatriot. Perhaps the embassy could run a vote on whether its diplomats should cough up the £10 million owed to London in unpaid congestion charges.

Readers of the Church Times have not reacted calmly to a recent issue that contained an article endorsing Christian naturism. In the paper’s latest letters column, one reader says the article wrecked his breakfast. 

‘The sight of a wobbly bottom staring back at me from the front cover was altogether startling,’ he gasps. ‘Surely this was a little too much below the belt?’

A Devon reader describes the horror of a stall-holder at Barnstaple market who sat down to read the paper during a quiet moment and said: ‘I have got used to opening my Sunday paper and being confronted by pictures of boobs, but never did I think I would open my Church Times and be confronted with a picture of a bare bum.’

Olivia: TV needs MORE male nudity 

Olivia Grant, who starred in Women in Love, is demanding that more men get their kit off for camera

Having stripped off for her role in the BBC adaptation of Women In Love, actress Olivia Grant is demanding that more men get their kit off for the camera.

‘Having more male nudity on TV is the way forward, so that it can be equal for both sexes,’ the 32-year-old tells me at a party at trendy Soho club 100 Wardour St.

‘It’s a bit sick-making when it’s just girls taking off their tops.’ But Grant, who stars in Channel 4’s Indian Summers, admits that she has some self-imposed restrictions.

‘Women taking off their clothes isn’t empowering if it’s gratuitous, and I turn down roles that ask for that,’ she says.

‘With some shows, it feels as if there’s a boob quota per episode. ‘I don’t agree with that at all.’

'Cheating' MP and the curse of Bexhill 

Pity the poor constituents of Bexhill and Battle, who were informed at the weekend that their married MP, Huw Merriman, had allegedly embarked on a fling with a lawyer after a boozy night five years ago.

The largely elderly community on the South Coast had only just recovered from the shock of learning that Greg Barker, Merriman’s predecessor in the safe Tory seat, left his wife and three children after a gay affair with an interior designer.

Does sleepy Bexhill, which comedian Spike Milligan described as a ‘cemetery above ground’, encourage its MPs to seek thrills elsewhere?