TALK OF THE TOWN: Friends actress Courteney Cox serves up pasta

TALK OF THE TOWN: Friends actress Courteney Cox serves up pasta with pals Alan Carr and John Bishop at Somerset restaurant


I did a double-take when I spotted one of Hollywood’s most famous faces working in a kitchen in Somerset for a New Year’s Eve party… in July! 

Friends actress Courteney Cox was serving up pasta at Babington House, part of the Soho House empire, along with pals including Alan Carr and John Bishop. 

I’m sure they’re nice, but hardly superstars I’d expect Courteney to be mixing with…

Friends actress Courteney Cox was serving up pasta at Babington House, part of the Soho House empire, along with pals including Alan Carr and John Bishop

I¿m sure they¿re nice, but hardly superstars I¿d expect Courteney to be mixing with¿ Pictured: Babington House, Somerset

I’m sure they’re nice, but hardly superstars I’d expect Courteney to be mixing with… Pictured: Babington House, Somerset

I hope all is well with George Osborne and Thea Rogers as she prepares to give birth to their first child. 

I only ask because Paul Staines, founder of the Guido Fawkes political website, told The Spectator podcast last week that George was ‘going through a very difficult stage’ with his fiancee. 

Perhaps wisely, podcast host Fraser Nelson steered the conversation away from the subject, but the comment has not been edited out.

The former Chancellor is aware of the claim but has not, seemingly, done anything about it. Meanwhile, Thea has been relaxing at their Somerset home.

I hope all is well with George Osborne and Thea Rogers (seen together in 2013) as she prepares to give birth to their first child

I hope all is well with George Osborne and Thea Rogers (seen together in 2013) as she prepares to give birth to their first child

At least ‘Nine Jobs’ George is passing on his work ethic to son Luke, who has become a club promoter in the Cornish resort of Newquay. 

The 20-year-old student is director of an events company, The Constitution, and is promoting a £9-a-ticket drum and bass event at Bertie’s this month, billed as an ‘immersive, genre-fluid experience’. 

Perhaps Luke was inspired after attending Ibiza super-club Pacha – famous for its spacious loos – with his father.

Celeb’s spouting nonsense

Is Georgia Jagger aware of the homelessness crisis in our capital? Apparently not. 

Claiming that ‘London is so different to New York,’ Sir Mick Jagger’s supermodel daughter says of the problem in the Big Apple: ‘People are so numb to it in West Village… I saw this homeless man the other night and I couldn’t sleep all night. 

‘I went and gave him some cash. You don’t see things like that where I live in London.’ 

Clearly Georgia, 29, doesn’t often venture far from the leafy suburb of Richmond where she grew up. 

It’s A Sin writer Russell T. Davies wants a new TV ban… on actors mauling the Welsh accent. 

Swansea-born Russell says: ‘I get angry when non-Welsh people are cast as Welsh because that accent is so hard to do. The rubbish we’ve had to sit through! I’ve made protests and made people promise never to do it again. It drives me mad!’

The scriptwriter has previously insisted only gay people should play homosexuals.