Did Starmer simper when Trump pointed to the bust of Churchill?

by · Mail Online

Didn't Keir Starmer, in the Oval Office, positively simper when President Trump pointed to the bust of Winston Churchill? 

‘It has been restored to its rightful place,’ mewled the PM. 

Keir, feverishly genuflecting before Trump, hadn’t time to explain that he’d ordered the removal of portraits of Churchill from Whitehall. 

My source whispers: ‘As many as five images of Churchill have been removed from parts of the parliamentary estate.’

A bust of Winston Churchill (pictured) sits in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington
Sir Keir Starmer travelled to Washington to meet with US President Donald Trump last week (pictured)

Required to brutally beat up co-star Richard Harris in 1992 western Unforgiven, Gene Hackman revealed how he motivated himself. 

‘Richard and I had a long conversation, and there was a moment where I could tell he didn’t remember having worked with me, but he said he did. 

He tried to fake his way through it,’ Hackman later recalled. ‘I remember thinking, “Oh, I can use this”. I just took that disappointment and did this kind of transference.’ 

Harris got the fake bandages, Hackman got the Oscar.

Gene Hackman (pictured) featured in the film Unforgiven with Richard Harris in 1992

Unforgotten star Sanjeev Bhaskar fell in love with Meera Syal, during the hit series The Kumars at No 42. 

‘Meera was the granny on the show,’ recalls Sanjeev. 

‘She was not my wife at the time but once I saw her dressed as a granny... My argument is when she turns 80 I have no surprises at all. 

'I will wake up one morning and go “Oh, there you are”.’

Meera Syal (pictured) played the grandmother of Sanjeev Bhaskar in hit series The Kumars at No 42 - even though she is only two years older than him

Sir Elton John had to remove the f-word from his Oscar-nominated song Never Too Late, replacing the line ‘F*** off heaven’s gate’. 

‘We couldn’t put that in because it’s a Disney documentary, so the line is now “To hell with heaven’s gate”,’ he explains. 

After losing out to the track El Mal, from the film Emilia Perez, maybe Elton should pen a new version with lots of effing and blinding!

Sir Elton John (left) with his husband David Furnish (right) - they have been married since 2014

Was Marianne Faithfull enjoying a celestial chuckle at her ex-lover Mick Jagger’s Oscar banter about Bob Dylan? 

Bob, at 83 two years older than Mick, once wrote a love poem for Marianne in 1965 but she spurned him. ‘He was cross and dejected,’ remarked Marianne.

Mick Jagger, (pictured) 81, was the lead singer of the iconic band the Rolling Stones

Ex-Sex Pistol Johnny ‘Rotten’ Lydon, asked in the New Musical Express about teenage William and Harry having Pistols posters on their walls.

Says: ‘It doesn’t matter what royals had Sex Pistols posters covering up a mould spot, I want to know what brand of toilet paper they’re using, in case it’s better than mine!’

Johnny ‘Rotten’ Lydon (pictured) was the lead singer of the punk rock band Sex Pistols

Toby Stephens, on remarking that news of the recent death of his mother Dame Maggie Smith was topped with the headline ‘Downton star dies’, was asked if he would mind his obituary header reading ‘Bond Villain Dies?’ 

‘Well, it’s one up from “Maggie Smith’s Son Dies”,’ he titters.