Reese Witherspoon: NFT bother
(Picture: Getty Images)REESE WITHERSPOON’s newly announced sideline in converting NFTs to films and TV shows has landed her in hot water with a British historian.
Dr Fern Riddell, who wrote a biography of suffragette Kitty Marion, fears that she “won’t be involved at all” if Witherspoon’s production company end up creating a film about Marion.
Witherspoon’s production company Hello Sunshine recently announced a partnership to create “scripted and unscripted content” with World of Women, which is a collection of 10,000 NFT pictures of “diverse and powerful women”. NFTs are unique digital versions of artworks. Riddell wrote: “Someone contacted my agent the other day to say they wanted to make an NFT of Kitty Marion for @worldofwomennft and wanted my involvement. When my agent asked what the fee was they went silent.”
Riddell argued that as hers was the sole biography of Marion, “I was in a strong position to know her story couldn’t be realistically made without me”. But she fears an NFT could circumvent the intellectual property of her book Death In Ten Minutes. Hello Sunshine and World of Women were approached for comment. The world of NFTs gets stranger…
Speakers’ special relationship
JOE BIDEN and Boris Johnson aren’t particularly close, so Sir Lindsay Hoyle is picking up some diplomatic slack. The Commons Speaker hosted his US counterpart Nancy Pelosi at Parliament yesterday, and she seems fond of him: her last visit was less than six months ago, and the pair embraced warmly at lunch. Pelosi visited the Commons crypt, where suffragette Emily Wilding Davison hid from the 1911 Census. Pelosi said: “It’s a very special relationship and a very special Speaker.”
Was Dallas star’s meet all a dream?
US ACTOR Patrick Duffy recalls an out-of-body experience meeting our monarch. “The Queen held this big celebrity event and I was invited to attend. We all lined up afterwards: Lauren Bacall, Jean Simmons, all of these people,” the former Dallas star says. “And she was coming down the line speaking with people and the next thing I knew… the people to right and left of me were saying, “Oh my god, what did she say?” I could not remember her even stopping in front of me,” he tells Paul McKenna’s podcast. “That was a moment that transcended reality.” Something in the scones?
‘Dawkins needs to take a trip’
EVER wondered what Richard Dawkins would sound like on acid? So has controversial podcaster Joe Rogan. Speaking last night at a How to Academy event, biologist Dawkins explained that he’d recently had a debate with Jordan Peterson over whether Stone Age man might have had premonitions of the double helix and DNA. Dawkins thought the idea “bullshit”. Peterson recounted the tale to Rogan, who contended: “The problem with Richard Dawkins is he’s never taken LSD.” We’re ready.
The ring’s the thing for acting lovebirds
NEWLY engaged actors James Norton and Imogen Poots were at the Regina Pyo show at the Mandarin Oriental yesterday. On Fashion Week f’rows were Anna Wintour at Tate Britain’s Roksanda show, while Jourdan Dunn and Victoria Beckham were at Supriya Lele off Oxford Street. Attending the Ozwald Boateng show at The Savoy Theatre were Naomie Harris and Noel Gallagher with daughter Anaïs, while Tinie Tempah was at Annabel’s after-party. Also at the Boateng show were Bond girl Olga Kurylenko and train-spotting TikTok star Francis Bourgeois shared a smile. Elsewhere, Poppy Delevingne, Josephine de La Baume and Mary Charteris were at the Perfect Magazine LFW at The Standard hotel.
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JEREMY CORBYN went with his wife Laura to see the Secret Life of Charlie Chaplin in north London at the weekend. Maybe some lessons too for the ex-leader of Labour. The doc shows how Chaplin was accused of being a communist and had to leave the US. Corbyn of course has not been short of political enemies himself, notably these days within Labour itself where he is still ostracised and without the whip.
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CHRIS PINCHER MP has taken a pause from saving Boris Johnson’s bacon to show off his appetite for alliteration in a review of sparkling wine Nyetimber. “A woody nuttiness with a tangy touch to the tongue provides full-on flavour before it effervesces down the oesophagus,” the Deputy Chief Whip writes in The Critic. Bubbly.
