Bridgerton star Simone Ashley declared last month that she’s in her ‘single era’ after revealing she had split from her boyfriend of three years – Constantin ‘Tino’ Klein, the boss of a company that organises ice races in Austria.

And it appears that the actress is channelling her struggles into music for her forthcoming debut pop album.

The Surrey-born actress, 29, who attended Tuesday’s Chanel’s Paris Fashion Week show wearing a tweed skirt suit, says: ‘Sometimes I feel a song is storytelling and sometimes songs that were maybe written from a place of heartbreak end up being a dance cry banger.’

She adds: ‘One of my songs has been influenced by heartbreak. There was one song that was written from a place of heartbreak.

‘It was a really grey weekend when I was writing it, then when we went to the studio, the sun came out and I had a few months of distance from the song and it turned into something really positive.’

Simone Ashley attending the Chanel Womenswear show during Paris fashion Week

Simone Ashley as Kate Sharma and Jonathan Bailey as Anthony Bridgerton

Garrick Club prints its own Who’s Huw

Huw Edwards’s name has appeared in the official 2025 list of members of the august Garrick Club.

But the former BBC anchorman, who pleaded guilty to possessing 41 indecent images of children, should not take this as a sign his fellow members have decided to overlook his sordid crimes – it was just a mix-up at the printers.

The London club has now explained to members that even though the ‘private and confidential’ booklet posted to them had a cover bearing the year 2025, it was an accidental reprint of the 2024 list. Edwards was persuaded to quit the club when he was convicted last year.

The Garrick Club hurriedly posted a new booklet to members this week, with Edwards’s name excised.

In an accompanying letter, club secretary Ann Robbie apologised ‘for any confusion and upset’ that the mix-up may have caused.

Huw Edwards seen for the first time since he was given a suspended sentence for abuse images

Cara steals Suki’s spotlight

Cara Delevingne risked outshining her best friend Suki Waterhouse as she joined her on stage at The Roxy in LA.

Daisy Jones & The Six star Suki, 33, who has a daughter with Twilight actor Robert Pattinson, was doing a three-night residency at the trendy nightclub in Hollywood.

Top model Cara, 32, and The White Lotus star Lukas Gage, 29, joined Suki on stage as she sang her single, Johanna.

Never one to shy away from the spotlight, Cara grabbed attention in a scarlet feather-trimmed coat.

Cara Delevingne attends the Vanity Fair Oscar Party in March

Don’t call my work ‘charity’, says Annie

Don’t mention charity near Annie Lennox.

‘There’s a place for the word charity, but it’s very old-fashioned,’ the Eurythmics singer declares. 

‘It’s about those that have the privilege handing down to these lesser beings who can’t do anything for themselves as they’re paralysed in the lower order. It’s disempowering.’

Lennox, 70, who is a founder of The Circle, which supports marginalised women and girls, adds: ‘I’m not against charity, but I don’t like describing our organisation as a charitable organisation. We are a partnership that is invested in transformative change.’

Lennox admits she also takes issue with the language around feminism.

‘I get frustrated with the women’s movement. I know it’s a very broad term, but I do get very frustrated when I see us [men and women] working in silos, without the solidarity.’

Eurythmics singer Annie Lenox pictured in 2019

Jimmy Carr bites the hand that feeds

Comedian Jimmy Carr bit the hand that feeds while launching his new Amazon Prime Video series, Last One Laughing, in which comics try to make each other laugh while they struggle to keep a straight face. 

‘Thanks Jeff Bezos,’ he says of the retail giant’s founder. 

‘This format is from Japan, so it’s nice that Amazon have continued their tradition of delivering cheap knock-offs from Asia.’ 

He previously said: ‘I’m thrilled to be making Last One Laughing with Prime Video. It’s sure to deliver and, if it doesn’t, it will leave the fun with your neighbours.’ 

Jimmy Carr attends the Last One Laughing photocall in March

Baroness Debbonaire switches sides 

Given the elbow by the voters at the last general election, the ex-Labour MP Thangam Debbonaire has comprehensively ditched her former Bristol constituency.

She has now taken the title Baroness Debbonaire of De Beauvoir Town in the London Borough of Hackney, which happens to be some 160 miles from Bristol.

During her introduction ceremony on Monday, the former MP giggled, grinned and clasped her hands to her mouth like a lottery winner.

Given peers’ daily attendance allowances, the comparison is maybe not so wide of the mark.

Baroness Thangam Debbonaire is introduced in the House of Lords