He was invited by Queen Camilla to join her in highlighting the importance of young people reading and writing. But David Walliams has now given the Royal Family some unsolicited advice that it may not welcome.
The comedian and best-selling children’s author says the Monarchy ‘needs’ the Duke of Sussex, with whom he has been friendly since Harry pulled a vulgar stunt at a party where they were both guests.
‘I do know Prince Harry, but he doesn’t text me every day,’ says Walliams, 53. ‘The first time I met him was at a party when he pulled his trousers down, exposed his bottom and slapped it, saying, “Hey, come on Walliams, do you want a bit of this!”
‘Then we ended up working out at the same gym when he would say, “Walliams, wait for me”. We would sit together in the steam room and chat. He’s a very lovely boy.’
Last week, I disclosed in an article for Mail+ that Harry was ‘desperate’ for a reconciliation with the Royal Family. He and his wife, the Duchess of Sussex, quit official duties in 2020 and moved to North America.
David Walliams has now given the Royal Family some unsolicited advice that it may not welcome
Last week, I disclosed in an article for Mail+ that Harry was ‘desperate’ for a reconciliation with the Royal Family. He and his wife, the Duchess of Sussex, quit official duties in 2020 and moved to North America (pictured: Harry and Meghan in New York in 2022)
The comedian and best-selling children’s author says the Monarchy ‘needs’ the Duke of Sussex
The Mail on Sunday reported at the weekend that Harry had sought advice from trusted former aides in Britain on how to mastermind a return from exile in the USA.
Asked by an interviewer in Australia if there is a way back for Harry into the royal fold, Walliams replies: ‘If he wants it. The thing is they need him. He’s the most popular royal by miles, he’s the one everyone likes. The others are quite boring. He’s the fun one.’
The Little Britain star, who has presented the Royal Variety Performance, took part in a video call with Camilla to discuss the Queen’s Commonwealth Essay Competition in 2020.
Walliams is sympathetic to Harry despite the controversies of recent years. ‘He’s a great laugh and it makes me sad sometimes when he’s portrayed in a bad light because he’s making the best of it,’ says the former Britain’s Got Talent judge. ‘It’s a very tough life in many ways, you are famous from the moment you are born, he lost his mother, he’s become estranged from his father and his brother.
‘I wish him well. I wish more people would have met him because he is such a fun, loving, friendly guy.’
One costume Cate Blanchett
The costume budget must have been low on Oscar winner Cate Blanchett’s forthcoming film, Borderlands, as the characters wear the same outfits throughout.
Cate wears a clinging denim combat-style ensemble as heroine Lilith in the film, based on a popular video game.Â
Cate wears a clinging denim combat-style ensemble as heroine Lilith in the film, based on a popular video game
‘I always enjoy the dress-up component of my job,’ she says. ‘We all had just one costume, so I found myself wearing the exact same thing every day, for four months. I pretty much slept in it by the end.’Â
Let’s hope they were given an occasional wash…
Bank of Boris Becker
Boris Becker, who’s due to embark on his third marital adventure this autumn, with Lilian de Carvalho Monteiro, 33, has been accumulating cash.Â
The 56-year-old has recorded a profit of £70,000 in his British company, BB Private Office.Â
He now has £930,000 tucked away in it – small change compared with the £40million debt he’d accumulated when declared bankrupt in 2017, but enough for a honeymoon.
The 56-year-old has recorded a profit of £70,000 in his British company, BB Private Office
The secret of Angelina Jolie’s specs appeal…Â
It takes a brave man to make one of the world’s most beautiful women an intentionally ugly pair of glasses. Step forward Tom Davies.
The British eyewear designer was summoned at short notice to create spectacles for Angelina Jolie to portray opera star Maria Callas in biopic, Maria.
Recreating the singer’s distinctive brown-rimmed frames was pretty straightforward, but finding lenses thick enough to pass as ÂCallas’s own was the real challenge. ‘It sent him round the world,’ a movie insider tells me.
Angelina Jolie portrays Maria Callas in Pablo Larrain’s biopic Maria
‘He eventually Âmanaged to source some super-thick lenses in the US.’
Davies is known as the ‘Willy Wonka of eyewear’ in Hollywood, and has created glasses for films including The Matrix and Superman’s Clark Kent.
He’s famous for crafting frames from materials such as grass and crushed meteorites.
