SEBASTIAN SHAKESPEARE: How Tiger Lily has blossomed

She is said to have rejected ‘dozens’ of modelling contracts in favour of pursuing a drama course.

But Tiger Lily Geldof, inset, daughter of Paula Yates and late singer Michael Hutchence, has made an exception and posed topless for a tattoo brand, far right.

Wearing only black underwear, Tiger Lily, 19, who was raised by Bob Geldof after Paula’s death in 2000, shows off a large gold design on her back.

Fortunately, the tattoo is not permanent. Perhaps she has taken the advice of half-sister Peaches.

Peaches, who died of a heroin overdose last year, regretted her numerous inkings, saying: ‘Some of them I find horrendous. If I could graft a new skin for myself I would.’

She is said to have rejected ‘dozens’ of modelling contracts in favour of pursuing a drama course but Tiger Lily Geldof (left), daughter of Paula Yates and Michael Hutchence, has posed topless for a tattoo brand (right)

 

Queen guitarist Brian May has been thwarted in his bid to buy a £3 million manor house — by the owner’s son. 

He wanted to buy the Grade II-listed Bridge Place Manor near Canterbury. But owner Peter Malkin said after putting the property on the market, he’s had a change of heart.

‘My boy Oliver appealed to me not to sell it,’ says Malkin. 

‘He was born here and I have been here for nearly 50 years, so it is very precious to us both.’ Perhaps they didn’t want a poodle-haired badger lover living in their old home.

The scandal-ridden life of the 13th Duke of Manchester has seen him married thrice, jailed twice, deported from Canada and exposed as a bigamist. 

Now his current wife, ex ‘model’ Laura, seems keen to match him as a controversialist.

She accuses her 52-year-old husband’s trustees of withholding billions due to him on his 21st birthday. In a deranged blog she rants: ‘We did not hire these bankers and lawyers. They are telling the 13th Duke and Duchess of Manchester they have no money, as they live off our family’s estate funds and thousands of property’s [sic] around the globe. They abuse the family getting involved in there [sic] every move.’

A spokesman for the Duchy of Manchester Trusts says: ‘No sums were due to the 13th Duke upon his attaining the age of 21 years. Laura makes many misinformed statements about her husband’s entitlement to family money and assets.’

The scandal-ridden life of the 13th Duke of Manchester has seen him married thrice, jailed twice, deported from Canada and exposed as a bigamist. Now his wife Laura, seems keen to match him as a controversialist

 

In between cocaine sessions with call girls, John Sewel found time to oversee the Peers’ Dining Room at the Lords. But with Lord Sewel gone, the House’s head chef Duncan Basterfield is bravely proposing a slimming down of the portly peers’ menus. 

The former chef to Andrew Lloyd Webber argues that a single-menu system would reduce waste and cut the £886,996 annual taxpayer subsidy. 

His plans won’t go down well with picky peers, who used to berate Sewel over the fare. One memorably sniffed that the eateries — which serve delicacies such as roulade of pigeon — were going ‘downmarket, like Prezzo or Ask’.