After Andrew Sachs died last week aged 86, his wife Melody said with quiet dignity: ‘Don’t feel sorry for me because I had the best life with him. I had the best husband and we really loved each other.’ Their love was, indeed, so strong it managed to see them through the terrible ordeal in 2008 when two preening, self-satisfied ‘celebrity’ half-wits cruelly thrust them into the headlines, writes AMANDA PLATELL. ...read

Lisa Snowdon is among a growing number of women in their 40s, who are childless, says AMANDA PLATELL. When asked by a fellow celeb in the jungle if she wanted children, she said: ‘Not now. It’s a weird one because it’s so hard. I left it kind of late. I didn’t find anybody that I wanted to actually be with and I didn’t want to have kids...just to have kids.’ ...read