EDEN CONFIDENTIAL: Mystery as Prince Andrew's favourite club Tramp - which once played host to stars including Michael Caine, Peter Sellers and Keith Moon - closes its doors

Could this beryllium capable to make moreover Prince Andrew break into a sweat? 

Tramp, nan London nightclub wherever he allegedly whirled astir nan dancefloor pinch Virginia Roberts, has abruptly unopen up shop – successful perplexing circumstances.

There was nary inkling of impending play only 4 weeks agone erstwhile Tramp hosted Idris Elba arsenic nan Luther prima celebrated nan motorboat of his caller roseate champagne, Porte Noire.

But hardly a fortnight later, 5 cardinal board – including Guy Sangster, boy of nan precocious equine breeding tycoon Robert Sangster, and Kevin Doyle, who acquired nan nine for £4million successful 1998 – resigned successful unison from nan holding institution which now owns Tramp.

I'm told that members, who salary an yearly £1,000 subscription, were past 'shocked' to person an email informing them that nan nine was closed because it had been 'sold'.

A manner show, which was to person been held location this week aft months of planning, appears to person go nan first casualty of nan closure. 'I sewage a telephone saying nan nine was sold and cancelling my arena – unless I could salary £2,000 up front,' an organiser tells me. 'It's very sad. I've had a awesome narration pinch Tramp for years.'

Calls to nan nine are politely answered but output nary enlightenment, pinch a well-spoken young female confirming only that Tramp is closed. 

'We're not going to beryllium releasing immoderate connection astatine nan moment,' she tells me. 'If there's thing that changes successful nan adjacent fewer weeks, aliases [when]ever it whitethorn be, [we] will beryllium successful interaction pinch you.'

The club's founder, nan ever affable Johnny Gold, who died 2 years agone aged 89, would person been dismayed – and peculiarly appalled that Tramp had fallen silent successful nan statement weeks earlier Christmas.

The boy of a Brighton bookie, he and 2 business partners – 1 of them, Oscar Lerman, nan hubby of bonkbuster novelist Jackie Collins, sister of Joan – opened nan nine successful 1969.

Gauging nan zeitgeist perfectly, Gold presided complete a play-pen wherever stars for illustration Sir Michael Caine and Peter Sellers and nine miscreants, for illustration 'Seducer of nan Valleys' baronet's boy Dai Llewellyn, could unwind successful uninhibited fashion. 

So, too, could nan Rolling Stones and others from nan emerging world of rock, nary much zestfully than Keith Moon, drummer pinch The Who.

On 1 peculiarly percussive occasion, he brought a 17th-century chandelier crashing down successful a cascade of falling plaster. He was banned – but only for 48 hours. He subsequently returned to nan nine – naked and strapped to nan bonnet of a achromatic Rolls-Royce.

Tramp's caller proprietor appears to Luca Maggiora, who's described arsenic a 'former slope in installments expert turned starring hospitality entrepreneur'. The correct man for Tramp's caller moon?

Kylie Minogue admits she was sniffy astir Las Vegas until Adele's residency inspired her to do her ain 20-show spectacular.

'Vegas seemed to beryllium much for nan twilight of one's career, but successful nan interim it has had this rejuvenation,' nan vocalist says. 'My summons worry is real. I person a batch of shows wherever I person summons worry and peculiarly this one.'

Kylie needn't fret — her £1,978 per-person VIP packages person already sold out.

Apprentice grandma Lady Brady!

The Apprentice prima Karren Brady will soon beryllium 1 of our astir glamorous grandmas.

Her daughter, exemplary Sophia Peschisolido, has revealed she's expecting her first child. Sophia, 25, who's engaged to Frankie Makin, an finance adviser, shared a video online of her cradling her babe bump connected a beach.

'Our top blessing owed 2024,' says Sophia, whose begetter is Canadian ex-footballer Paul Peschisolido — nan hubby of Baroness Brady of Knightsbridge.

Lady Brady, 54, erstwhile said raising children was harder than going to work.

Gangster movie head Guy Ritchie, who bought a stately location successful Wiltshire erstwhile he was joined to Queen of Pop Madonna, is dismissive of nan conception that group are held backmost by class.

'I've ne'er understood a meaning of a people society,' Ritchie, 55, nan boy of an advertizing executive, tells Gentleman's Life magazine. 'It falls isolated very quickly erstwhile scrutinised. I've ne'er recovered it applicable successful immoderate applicable way.'

He became nan nation's favourite PE coach during lockdown — but Joe Wicks has fallen disconnected nan wagon erstwhile it comes to fitness.

'I consciousness for illustration I've not stopped eating for nan past 3 weeks,' The Body Coach 'guru' admits online. 'I've fundamentally been eating my emotions. Feeling stressed and conscionable hitting self-destruct each time and eating everything successful sight.'

Wicks, 38, who was awarded an MBE for his services to fitness, adds: '[I'm] eating loads of ultra-processed nutrient reasoning it will make maine consciousness amended but it doesn't. [It] conscionable makes maine consciousness sluggish, moody, bloated.'

Sir Nicholas Coleridge couldn't defy a popular astatine George Osborne astatine his leaving statement astatine nan Victoria and Albert Museum, wherever he was chairman. Ex-Chancellor Osborne is president of nan British Museum, wherever astir 2,000 artefacts were stolen. Speaking to guests, Coleridge said: 'This whitethorn sound hubristic, but I'm beautiful assured each 2.8 cardinal V&A treasures are safely tucked up successful furniture tonight, pinch thing gone missing successful nan past 10 years.'