Author Duncan Fallowell says he was due to appear today on the Jo Good Show on BBC Radio London to talk about the Princess Diana film.
“They confirmed it three times but now they’ve cancelled at the last minute,” he tells me. “I think it may be because I wrote in my book, How to Disappear, that I had sex with 40 people in the days after Diana’s death.”
To the Cheyne Walk Brasserie and Bar, where owner Sally Greene hosted a party to mark the Chelsea restaurant’s 10th anniversary. Greene, who also owns the Old Vic theatre, was saddened to learn of Libby Purves’s exit from The Times as chief theatre critic. “That’s sad, she always gives us such fab reviews,” said Greene.
Waiting to announce that the Man Booker Prize will be open to authors of any nationality, Jonathan Taylor, chair of the Man Booker trustees, said: “We ought to play music.” Literary director Ion Trewin chipped in: “The Star-Spangled Banner?”
Vicky Pryce was in the queue in the Tesco Express shop at the Esso garage in Fulham Road last night with a bearded younger man. “We’re off to the Chelsea match,” she told me. Bad move — the Blues lost.
