SEBASTIAN SHAKESPEARE: Jagger's girl takes a leaf out of bolshy Bianca's book: Lizzie joins protest in the US to ensure equal rights for women 

There's hardly a right-on cause that hasn’t got Bianca Jagger out to protest, but now a younger member of the Rolling Stone’s clan is taking up her placard.

Sir Mick Jagger’s 32-year-old daughter Lizzie joined a demonstration in America yesterday in support of the proposed Equal Rights Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, designed to guarantee equal rights for women.

‘Equal means equal,’ said the blue-stockinged model, far right, as she posted this photograph online of her at the tiny protest in front of a court house in Washington.

Lizzie Jagger (right) joined a demonstration in Washington yesterday in support of the proposed Equal Rights Amendment to the U.S. Constitution

Her sister and fellow model Georgia May Jagger gushed: ‘So proud! Doing what needs to be done for our rights.’ 

Hasn’t Hillary Clinton’s doomed presidential campaign taught her that endorsements from famous names can actually damage a cause?

Why Taylor Bradford is gunning for Meryl Streep

Best-selling author Barbara Taylor Bradford, a friend of the late Lady Thatcher, remains angry about Oscar-winning Meryl Streep film The Iron Lady. She felt it humiliated the former PM by concentrating on her decline.

‘I loathed that movie they made about Margaret Thatcher,’ says Woman Of Substance author Barbara, 83.

Best-selling author Barbara Taylor Bradford, a friend of the late Lady Thatcher, remains angry about Oscar-winning Meryl Streep film The Iron Lady (pictured, Streep in the film)

‘Meryl Streep played her badly, she just did a mimic of the woman. It was a rotten script and rotten film made by two liberal women [Phyllida Lloyd and Abi Morgan] who made a great woman look ridiculous — they just wanted to show her with dementia at the end of her life. I know a lot of people were offended by that film.’

And the redoubtable author — whose TV film adaptations of her books are screened on Sony’s True Entertainment channel this month — seethes: ‘If ever I come across the people who made the film , I would feel like punching them.’

Emily Watson dreading the school run after steamy scenes 

Emily Watson has admitted to feeling some trepidation about the school run after her steamy new drama Apple Tree Yard airs this Sunday

Actress and mother-of-two Emily Watson has admitted to feeling some trepidation about the school run after her steamy new four-part BBC1 drama Apple Tree Yard begins broadcasting this Sunday.

Emily, plays a married scientist who has a sizzling affair with a mysterious, charismatic stranger played by Ben Chaplin. ‘There are some very sexy scenes in the series,’ she says.

‘Ben and I go way back, so it wasn’t really embarrassing, but I think taking my kids to school and seeing the other parents the morning after this is on TV might be interesting.’

England cricketer Lady Heyhoe Flint, who died yesterday aged 77, was delightfully free of pomposity.

Four years ago she was guest of honour at the annual prize-giving at Malvern College. The public school’s chairman of governors, sometime Tesco boss Lord MacLaurin, stood to introduce her to the assembled guests — and promptly had a wonderful dry moment.

He completely forgot her name. ‘And so I’d like to hand you over to our main speaker, my old and dear friend, you’ve all heard of her, er, er, er,’ he flailed. Heyhoe Flint, far from taking offence, cupped her hands round her mouth and roared her name for all to hear.

MacLaurin crawled back to his seat in shame, but the audience loved it. 

Jamie Oliver believes that Michelle Obama’s pride and joy, the 1,100 sq ft vegetable garden the outgoing First Lady planted on the White House south lawn, will survive President Trump.

Jamie Oliver (pictured) believes the 1,100 sq ft vegetable garden Michelle Obama planted on the White House south lawn, will survive President Trump

‘It ain’t going nowhere,’ the TV chef and restaurateur assured his audience at the World Economic Forum in Davos.

‘There’s a symbolic visual. If you cut down that garden you are cutting down hope.

‘And he won’t do that, whether he believes in it or not.’

Mrs Obama is taking no chances. She has encased the garden in cement, stone and steel to ensure it remains a permanent fixture.

 

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