With rancorous divorces, bankruptcy and a child conceived with a Russian waitress on the stairs of a Mayfair restaurant, Boris Becker's personal affairs have attracted almost as many column inches as his illustrious career.
Now, the tennis superstar's rollercoaster life story is to be turned into a television series for one of the streaming giants, I can reveal.
And the programme could help transform the financial fortunes of the Wimbledon champion, who was declared bankrupt in London four years ago after running through tens of millions of pounds.
‘Becker's life has absolutely everything,' says my man with the clapperboard.

‘While some sportsmen and women have fascinating careers, Becker had youthful glory, glamour and riches, as well as lots of heartache.





Damien Hirst pictured with his girlfriend and three French bulldogs on a private jet 










This holiday snap was shared by the Turner Prize-winner's girlfriend Sophie Cannell, 27 (pictured right), who is 29 years his junior and lives with him at his Ј36million, 14-bedroom home in London's Regent's Park

‘Holiday with my bears,' the former ballerina tells friends.
To enhance their enjoyment of the high life, the dogs were served platters of fruit and vegetables.
I hope the pampered pooches realise how lucky they are: most animals Hirst encounters are pickled in formaldehyde.


 



(Very) modern manners
First there were reports of rowdiness at Punch and Judy shows and fears of deckchairs being wielded as weapons on South Coast beaches; now I hear yobbishness has even reached the country's snootiest sports enclave.
This week, the Hurlingham Club held a special meeting to discuss the decline of manners at their Georgian clubhouse and 42 acres next to the Thames in Fulham. 
It says the discussions were about ‘dealing more effectively with rudeness and poor behaviour'.
One member tells me: ‘I blame it on the pandemic.

Some people started to ignore the rules, by sitting on the lawns, for example, and this led to confronations.'
Yikes! I do hope none of this is witnessed by Prince George and Princess Charlotte when the Duchess of Cambridge takes them to Hurlingham for their tennis lessons. 


 



Sky's Kay is finally lost for words at steamy strip show
Newsreader Kay Burley thinks nothing of tackling evasive politicians, but she was the one left squirming at a West End show.
The Sky News presenter went to Magic Mike Live at the Hippodrome Casino and didn't know where to look when one of the bare-chested hunks from the titillating strip show came up close to her.





Matt Smith, who lived with the Mamma Mia 2 actress until last year, says he insists on girlfriends accompanying him on long road trips

Has The Crown star Matt Smith let slip the reason why he and actress Lily James ran out of road?
Smith, who lived with the Mamma Mia 2 actress until last year, says he insists on girlfriends accompanying him on long road trips. 
‘I love driving and I love going on driving holidays,' Smith says, comparing himself to Alan Partridge, the car-loving comedy character played by Steve Coogan. 
‘There's a touch of Partridge in me, I suppose. In case you loved this information and you would love to receive more details relating to SLOT XO i implore you to visit the page. '
The former Doctor Who star adds of his trips: ‘The ones I've done have been with incumbent girlfriends. 
'The most recent one I did in a small Italian car — nothing too fancy.

I love being able to get back out on another adventure straightaway.' Parp parp!


 



Will it be a Pelly good year for Harry pal's U.S.
vineyard?
Prince Harry is not the only one seeking happiness across the Atlantic.
I can disclose that his old friend and ‘court jester' Guy Pelly has bought a vineyard in Virginia, Merrie Mill Farm, with his American wife, the Holiday Inn heiress Elizabeth Wilson.
‘We were in Charlottesville for a friend's wedding when we became enchanted by Virginia,' says Pelly, who is Prince Louis's godfather. 




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Guy Pelly has bought a vineyard in Virginia, Merrie Mill Farm, with his American wife, the Holiday Inn heiress Elizabeth Wilson (Pictured together with their children)

‘While Elizabeth oversaw the restoration and renovation of the main house, I took to the fields.

Merrie Mill Farm and vineyard has been a true labour of love.'
Pelly, who visited Harry and Meghan in California last year, lives at the farm with their daughters, Willow and Clementine.
When I reported in 2018 that the urbane former nightclub boss was planning to move to rural America, his pals could scarcely believe it.


 



Prince Charles's cousin Jeremy Lascelles is celebrating a coup.

Lascelles has signed the multi-million selling singer Emeli Sande to his revived Chrysalis Records label. 
‘What a thrill it is that she has chosen Chrysalis to release her next record,' he says. 
Sande says she's ‘thrilled' to join Chrysalis, once home to Spandau Ballet and Blondie.

Read All About It, as Emeli sang on her No. 1 single.