ALISON BOSHOFF: Sacre bleu - it's Mullet Antoinette! Emilia Schule sports rebellious hairstyle after months of wearing towering wigs playing the French Queen in the hit BBC show

It's not rather a guillotine chop, but aft spending months wearing towering wigs successful bid to play nan French Queen, Marie Antoinette prima Emilia Schule rebelled by shearing an undercut into 1 broadside of her head, to create this curious, asymmetrical, punkish mullet.

But her revolutionary look is being covered up, arsenic she has started filming nan sequel to nan deed BBC show — truthful it's wigs each nan measurement again.

Incidentally, nan actress, 30, has formed a lukewarm relationship pinch her British co-star Louis Cunningham, nan character who plays Louis XVI (and successful existent life is nan boy of Princess Charlotte of Luxembourg).

She shared a threat of nan 2 of them astatine a book convention and past 1 of a Post-it statement connected which she had written: 'Recast Louis Cunningham' and he had replied by printing successful capitals 'F*** YOU'.

The preparations for nan 2nd bid started past month, and it's expected to return astir six months to shoot. It will screen nan 'affair of nan gem necklace' and nan first rumblings of nan French Revolution.

...but our acting queen loves a wig

Here is fun-loving nationalist wealth Dame Judi Dench... wearing a wig made retired of shredded paper. Dame Judi, 88, says her family person had a contented of making clothing retired of packaging.

Speaking during a talk to beforehand her caller book — Shakespeare, The Man Who Pays The Rent — she said, seriously: 'That packing worldly holds its style alternatively well.'

Friend and co-author Brendan O'Hea quipped: 'Your grandson Sammy calls you nan astir childish personification he knows.'

Dench recalled that she utilized to play pranks connected character Geoffrey Palmer connected nan group of nan TV bid As Time Goes By.

'We utilized to get location early, earlier nan director. When you are rehearsing for TV, nan sets are huge, pinch tons of different rooms pinch furnishings everywhere.

'We utilized to spell and hide successful nan furnishings and jump retired connected Geoffrey Palmer.'

Good to spot Jamie Oliver backmost connected our screens pinch his 5 Ingredient Meals, connected Channel 4. But what happened to his brother-in-law Paul Hunt — joined to Jamie's sister Anna-Marie — who ran his business empire until disaster struck?

In 2021, 2 years aft nan personage chef's Jamie's Italian business collapsed, Hunt was retired of nan doorway and resigned from astir 2 twelve companies successful nan Oliver empire.

I'm told that things are still supremely awkward astatine family get-togethers. To make matters moreover much excruciating, nan families unrecorded conscionable astir nan area from each different successful Essex.

Cynthia's tangled up successful emotion – again 

Actress Cynthia Nixon is having a tally of doomed emotion affairs connected screen. First, location was her romance pinch Che successful And Just Like That, which managed to irk fans of nan Sex And The City franchise and extremity badly.

And now comes different unexpected entanglement: this clip successful nan 2nd bid of Sky Atlantic play The Gilded Age, written by Downton Abbey creator Julian Fellowes.

In nan show, group successful New York successful nan 1880s, Nixon (pictured above) plays Ada, nan downtrodden, 'kind but not clever' younger sister of Agnes (played by Christine Baranski), who joined good and is worthy a fortune.

Decades aft 1 solitary dalliance, Ada takes everyone by astonishment by falling caput complete heels successful emotion — but nary spoilers present arsenic to pinch whom.

Fellowes said: 'Well, you know, emotion is simply a beautiful basal portion of astir of our lives. The top mistakes we ever make, and nan times we make astir fools of ourselves, are usually connected successful immoderate measurement to love.

'And I consciousness that it's bully to show your characters successful love, arsenic it allows you to return them into areas wherever they wouldn't usually spell if they were emotion sane and sensible.

'We usage emotion successful this play to show who Ada really is. We person seen 1 broadside of her, arsenic nan dominated sister of Agnes.

'But there's much to her than that. She has an affectional magnitude that we've glimpsed, I think, astatine times, but ne'er really seen. And successful this season, we do spot it.'

Ominously, he adds: 'Of course, successful drama, happiness is usually nan business of a moment. Happily ever aft is what comes erstwhile nan play is finished.'

The show streams from October 29.

Telly Dragon Sara's patient is £1 cardinal successful nan red

Dragons' Den prima Sara Davies is simply a large deed pinch viewers for her no-nonsense business smarts connected nan show. However it tin beryllium revealed that each is not wholly rosy successful her ain business.

Documents revenge astatine Companies House earlier this twelvemonth show that nan institution which made her estimation — Crafter's Companion — is much than £1 cardinal successful nan red.

In notes to nan accounts for nan twelvemonth to March 2022, nan board picture nan play arsenic 'challenging', noting that 1 awesome customer went into management and that nan effects of Covid proceed to impact nan business. High freight costs and tariffs connected Chinese imports person besides had an impact.

The company's auditors say: 'The group and nan institution has suffered from reduced income orders station twelvemonth extremity and is successful breach of banking covenants. As stated … these events aliases conditions bespeak that worldly uncertainty exists that whitethorn formed uncertainty connected nan group and company's expertise to proceed arsenic a going concern.'

A indebtedness was taken retired to prop up Crafter's Companion successful July 2023. Accounts show a nonaccomplishment for nan twelvemonth of £1.27 million, compared pinch nan erstwhile year's £231,000 profit.

Davies joined Dragons' Den successful 2019, erstwhile she was only 35, becoming nan youngest dragon.

Crafter's Companion was founded erstwhile she was a assemblage student and spotted a spread successful nan marketplace for an envelope-making instrumentality which could beryllium utilized by paper makers.

She designed nan gadget and had a section joiner make them from MDF. The institution now employs much than 190 staff.

Davies has won much than 25 business awards and successful 2016 was recognised for services to nan system pinch an MBE.

She appeared connected Strictly Come Dancing successful 2021 and this twelvemonth was a judge connected The Ultimate Wedding Planner for nan BBC.

A spokesperson said: 'Whilst these are incredibly challenging trading times, location is important assurance successful Crafter's Companion; hence nan financial investment. This will support nan company's adjacent shape of maturation without passing immoderate costs connected to nan consumer.'

Stage prima Frances Ruffelle — nan original Eponine successful Les Miserables — has recovered emotion pinch a friend she's known for 26 years, aft nan brace went retired for lockdown walks.

Norman 'Beausy' Bowman is simply a West End prima who has appeared successful Mamma Mia and 42nd Street.

In an question and reply pinch Broadway World, Frances, 58, said: 'We first met successful Les Mis. Beausy was successful nan formed and we became friends . . . not lovers. But nan relationship continued and abruptly lockdown happened, and we went for immoderate walks, and earlier you cognize it, we're surviving successful nan state together.'

Ruffelle and her caller occurrence person a double enactment — Frankie & Beausy — which is successful London, astatine nan Crazy Coqs, connected November 20.

Succession prima Brian Cox says he was nan worst shape head successful nan history of theatre erstwhile he worked for Dundee Rep successful his youth.

'I was terrible! I'd beryllium prompting and I'd person nan book successful beforehand of maine and I'd beryllium connected page 12. Meanwhile, nan remainder of nan formed were connected page 23.

'So I'd beryllium sitting there, daydreaming, and there's a pat connected my shoulder. And I'd go: "Oh, yes?" And it's nan actress, and she says: "Telephone!" I said: "For me?" She said: "No, connected stage."

'I'd forgotten to ringing nan telephone for nan play.'