William and Kate’s new Windsor home, Cottage, is currently occupied by Simon Rhodes, son of ’s late cousin Margaret Rhodes. Embarrassingly, it is also the registered company address of Simon’s previous royal tour business offering £18,000 champagne trips around with access to Windsor’s Royal Library, as well as Sandringham, ‘guided by a member’. When the enterprise came to light, websites were swiftly closed, links disappeared and nothing more came of it.New University Challenge host Amol Rajan could correctly answer only four out of the 18 questions asked when he captained Cambridge’s Downing College against Durham during a 2020 celebrity edition. ‘Want to blame sleep deprivation for the fact that my brain ain’t what it used to be,’ he tweeted. If he’s dopey in the chair, will multi-tasking Amol blame his profusion of other BBC jobs for tiring him out?Marking Paxo’s retirement, Radio 4 Today presenter Justin Webb recalled him paying a fellow diner’s restaurant bill when his credit card was rejected, saying: ‘You know where I work. Send me the cash when you get it sorted.’ Co-presenter Mishal Husain, pictured, citing Paxman’s hefty bank balance, piped up: ‘I thought it would be even better if he said, “Don’t worry about paying me back!”’
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