Model Jodie Kidd has still not fixed a date for her wedding more than a year ... trends now

Jodie Kidd has still not fixed a date for her wedding, more than a year after she got engaged to former Royal Marine Joseph Bates.

The 44-year-old model has, however, already enjoyed the first of her hen nights with pals.

‘I’m having so many of them,’ she tells me at a party to celebrate the launch of Metropolitan Casino Mayfair, where she was joined by fellow TV personality Kirsty Gallacher, 47, and American Pussycat Dolls singer Kimberly Wyatt, 40.

‘It’s just a really good excuse for me and my best friends to go out and have a lovely dinner. The first one was, basically, because a few of my girlfriends hadn’t met each other. We all went to Annabel’s [nightclub] and had a delicious meal.’

Of her wedding plans, she confides: ‘It’s been a bit of a whirlwind the last couple of years, so we’ve got to sit down and get a date in the diary. We’ll try and do it this year.’ 

Is Alice going to copy Kate with ex Hince, too?  

Society model Alice Dellal hit the headlines when she replaced Kate Moss, who is 14 years her senior, as the face of expensive lingerie label Agent Provocateur in 2008.

Now, she appears to be taking the supermodel’s place in the affections of Moss’s ex-husband.

As my exclusive photograph shows, Dellal, 35, is enjoying a blossoming friendship with Jamie Hince, the 54-year-old rock star who divorced Moss in 2016. 

Alice, granddaughter of late property tycoon ‘Black Jack’ Dellal, enjoyed an organic lunch with Hince in Notting Hill, West London, before they looked round the shops together. 

Clearly, Hince is enjoying the capital’s charms again. After his four-year marriage to Moss ended, The Kills guitarist vowed to move to Los Angeles, explaining that London had ‘lost its energy and soul’.

Now love split Heston to wed: 'I've found my other half...'

Diners at his three Michelin star restaurant, The Fat Duck in Bray, Berkshire, can look forward to such mouth-watering surprises as ice-cream curry and fish eyeball cocktail.

Heston Blumenthal’s love life is, however, even more unpredictable.

Three days ago, I revealed that the TV chef, 56, had split up with Stephanie Gouveia, the mother of his youngest child who had been regularly described as his ‘wife’. Friends of the French estate agent told me she had, in fact, never legally married Blumenthal, who is 21 years her senior.

Now, I can disclose that he’s found love with another French woman, Melanie Ceysson. 

And they’re already engaged. ‘I have found my other half,’ he tells me from France, where they are living in a national park.

Blumenthal’s spokeswoman was reported to have said that he married his previous girlfriend, Stephanie, in the Maldives in 2018. However, her spokesman told me this week: ‘Marriage should be recognised by legal authorities. This wasn’t. What happened does not constitute a marriage in a legally binding sense.’

This time, the chef insists the ceremony will be legally binding. ‘I am going to get officially married to Melanie,’ he tells me.

Blumenthal, who attended £22,530-per year Latymer Upper School in West London, declines to give more details about his new fiancee.

They are understood to have been a couple for some months. She is thought to be in her 30s and worked with him, having previously been employed in the hospitality business in France.

In addition to his five-year-old with Stephanie, Blumenthal has three children with ex-wife, Zanna, whom he divorced in 2016.

During their marriage, he had an affair with U.S. cookery writer Suzanne Pirret, who has said her favourite things are ‘food and sex’.

The smart set's talking about... Lady Tamara's nuptials

This should be the most rock ’n’ roll wedding among the aristocracy this year. 

Lady Tamara Conyngham — whose ancestral seat, Slane Castle, in the heart of Ireland’s Boyne valley, has hosted concerts by rock legends including the Rolling Stones, U2 and Queen in its grounds — has got engaged.