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Mr and Mrs Popular

I hear socialite Tamara Beckwith is readying herself to spend more time on site. Not because her TV career has hit the skids and she鈥檚 signed on at Wembley, but because she could be set to marry Italian construction heir Giorgio Veroni. According to the Daily Mail, her paramour has said: 鈥淚鈥檝e been waiting until they finish building Wembley Stadium until I pop the question. It鈥檚 the only venue big enough to accommodate all our friends!鈥� I have the same problem, Giorgio.

Change of partners

My hearing is not what it used to be (just wait till you鈥檙e 161). It would seem I misheard some tittle-tattle last week about Davis Langdon鈥檚 Rob Smith. I wrongly reported that he had paid 拢10,000 for a dance with Natasha Kaplinsky. Smith actually paid for his wife to dance with Kaplinsky鈥檚 dance partner Brendan Cole, while fellow partner Simon Johnson bagged lunch with Ms Kaplinsky. By all accounts, Smith was remarkably restrained that evening and even resisted bidding for lunch with the (almost) perpetually young Joan Collins 鈥� a snip at 拢6500. Note to self: get hearing tested.

Body talk is hot stuff

London 2012鈥檚 dream team was one man short when the Olympic masterplanning team gathered at London鈥檚 Royal College of Physicians last Wednesday. Allies and Morrison鈥檚 Bob Allies, HOK 厂辫辞谤迟鈥檚 John Barrow and the ubiquitous Jason Prior from EDAW all turned up for the public lecture, but Foreign Office Architects鈥� Alejandro Zaera-Polo was stuck in India with an ailment. This meant Prior, whose metier is strategic planning, was lumbered with explaining the visionary thinking behind Alejandro鈥檚 stadium designs, based on human muscles. As the screen flashed between images of taut six-packs and flowing bodies, the unassuming Prior appeared ill at ease. 鈥淚鈥檓 getting pretty hot under the collar talking about all this,鈥� he confessed.

Let me qualify that 鈥�

Education secretary Charles Clarke may find himself in hot water with his bosses after some ill-judged words at a meeting on vocational training last week. Addressing delegates at the launch of the Qualifications and Curriculum Authority鈥檚 Framework for Achievement initiative, Clarke was keen to convey the unequivocal commitment of Tony Blair and Gordon Brown to improving Britain鈥檚 work-orientated learning. However, announcing that the pair had 鈥渘o qualifications鈥� in their support for reform may not have been the best choice of phrase.