Then I broke up with my boyfriend and I saw something different in David." She adds: "We met on the first day of rehearsals and we got on but I didn't see anything beyond that. "His name is David Thaxton, he's 23 and he plays Bamatabois in Les Miserables," says Shonagh, whose incredible voice moved mourners at the Ground Zero memorial concert four years ago to mark the September 11 atrocities. Plucked from the obscurity of the chorus line by Andrew Lloyd Webber, beguiling Limerick-born singer Shonagh Daly has found a new fan.įor in true theatrical style, the stunning 24-year-old, who is starring as Eponine in the West End production of Les Miserables, has fallen for her leading man. "I am not going to apologise and will accept my fine," he tells me. Planners have ordered him to remove a vast banner attacking the supremacy of supermarkets that covers the upper storeys of his King's Road home.Įco-warrior Fred, who faces a court appearance and £20,000 fine if he fails to comply, is unrepentant. But first, Bedales and Stowe-educated Fred has a tricky problem to overcome. His 20-year-old grandson Fred - whose mother Christabel is married to musician Jools Holland - is intent on following in his footsteps. Lord Lambton, whose ministerial career with the Conservatives ended when he was caught in bed with two prostitutes, may wish to rekindle his interest in politics. I thought the coastguards just found me by good fortune."īut enough drama: What of Charlie's promised five dates? "I managed to rustle up three before my big adventure," says Christopher. "The coastguards eventually relocated their search by six miles to an area where I had been fishing with my brother earlier in the week where we had passed a lighthouse. I have this medium I consult in Yorkshire and I phoned her. I thought I was in big trouble."īut what Christopher did not know was that his brother had directed the coastguard to the spot.Ĭharlie, who last year separated from his live-in lover Miriam, John Francome's estranged wife, and is a friend of beautiful Eimear Montgomerie, ex-wife of golfer Colin, tells me: "We were all desperate with worry. "Just as I thought I could get ashore at Connecticut, the tide changed and I was sucked out to sea again. The waves took him 15 miles from Long Island towards Connecticut. "I began to think things were not working out so well," says Christopher, with considerable understatement. His last flare, which he tried to launch off the end of his fishing rod, fell into the water. His dinghy, which he bought at a car boot sale, began to lose air, the engine failed, then he lost his only paddle and his mobile phone became saturated with seawater. ![]() And with good reason.Ĭhristopher spent 12 hours battling 8ft waves, 40-knot winds and torrential rain. A violent storm had erupted and by 10pm, Amanda, former fashion director of US label Tuleh, was distraught. ![]() Says Christopher: "I bribed Charlie over for a break by saying I would fix him up with a different date each night for five days."īut disaster struck on the Saturday when Christopher failed to return from a solo early evening fishing trip. At the time of the accident, Charlie was a guest at his brother's Manhattan apartment, while Christopher spent the weekend at his Long Island beach house with his wife, Amanda, and their two young children. He was plucked to safety and is recovering from hypothermia at his New York home. ![]() As one of TV's foremost racing pundits, it's his job to predict the future - but when Charlie Brooks' brother went missing in gale force winds on a lone fishing trip, the former trainer took the unconventional step of consulting a soothsayer to find him.Īnd I can reveal that the medium, a woman from Yorkshire, pinpointed the area where Charlie's elder sibling, artist Christopher, had been fishing off America's east coast.Ĭhristopher's stricken inflatable dinghy was eventually found by coastguards between Long Island and Connecticut.
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