Monday 8 August 2022 10:52 PM EDEN CONFIDENTIAL: Mick Jagger's lady Melanie Hamrick balances book on her ... trends now
Sir Mick Jagger took up aerial yoga as part of his exercise regime to maintain his 28in waist.
And the 79-year-old Rolling Stones singer’s girlfriend, Melanie Hamrick, 35, follows an exercise regime that’s almost as challenging.
The former dancer — who has a five-year-old son, Deveraux, with Jagger — is maintaining her ‘ballet alignment’ following a back injury by balancing a book on her backside.
Mick Jagger's girlfriend Melanie Hamrick, 35, a former dancer, is maintaining her ‘ballet alignment’ following a back injury by balancing a book on her backside
The 79-year-old Rolling Stone and girlfriend Melanie Hamrick share a five-year-old son, Devereaux
Lifting her leg and looking at the camera, she managed to keep her book level and back aligned.
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Jilly mourns ‘huge fun’ Earl, muse for her romping rogue
Ever since Jilly Cooper created the caddish character Rupert Campbell-Black in her 1985 bestseller, Riders, fans of her ‘bonkbusters’ speculated feverishly about the identity of the real-life figure who had inspired her.
Then, in 2016, the novelist admitted there were, in fact, three men who led her to create the lothario who charmed stable girls and upper- class wives at will before winning an Olympic equestrian medal.
Now, however, Cooper is in mourning after the Earl of Suffolk and Berkshire, who was one of her three inspirations, died last week aged 87.
Author Jilly Cooper (left) is mourning her friend Michael Howard (right), Earl of Suffolk and Berkshire, who has died aged 87
‘He was a lovely man — huge fun,’ the author, 85, tells me of the thrice-married Earl, Michael Howard. ‘I first met him when I moved to Gloucester in 1982. Whenever he used to phone, he’d say, “It’s Rupert here”. So I said, “You know there are two more?” And he would say, “Yes, but I’m the real one”.’
The Earl owned Charlton Park estate in Wiltshire, where the Womad music festival is held.
Cooper adds: ‘Despite his title and status, he never made you feel inferior. All the best of Rupert, but without the awful parts.’
First married to Simone Litman in 1960, with whom he has a daughter, he then wed Anita Fugelsang in 1973 and had two children with her. A decade later, he married for the third time, to Linda Paravicini, with whom he also has two children.
The Countess of Suffolk tells me: ‘We would have been married 40 years next year. I’m very lucky to have been able to spend so much time with him. He had enormous charm.’
She adds: ‘He suffered a stroke in April, so it was probably a
