An ITV character has revealed she was despatched a shock reward from Queen Camilla following a cheeky comment made at her expense. Janet Avenue-Porter, the seasoned broadcaster who serves as a panellist on widespread daytime chat present Unfastened Ladies, revealed that she has encountered Camilla on a number of events all through the years, together with at a charitable gathering.
The royal claims the Queen dispatched an sudden current from Clarence Home, full with an accompanying message, after Janet, 78. The incident got here after Janet penned a “teapot” quip about Camilla in her column.
Past Janet’s journalistic pursuits, it seems Camilla has developed fairly an affection for the programme that includes the veteran presenter. Janet, who has been a daily contributor to the daytime favorite Unfastened Ladies since 2011, stated the Queen is an avid fan of the present.
Chatting with the Occasions, Janet revealed: “Queen Camilla is a giant Unfastened Ladies fan. I’ve met her a number of occasions, as soon as at a reception for a home abuse charity.”
She went on: “She’d visited the set of The Killing and been given the sweater the main woman wore, so I joked in my column that Camilla would seem like a teapot carrying it. Every week later I acquired a parcel from Clarence Home with a word saying, ‘Pricey Janet, here is the sweater. You may put on it’.”
This would not mark the primary event that Camilla’s tv preferences have captured public consideration. Final yr, tales surfaced suggesting she had loved a racy Disney+ present that allegedly reminded her of her former partner.
The programme in query was an eight-episode adaptation of bestselling romance novelist Jilly Cooper’s Rivals.
Within the interval drama, Alex Hassell portrays the polo-playing Rupert Campbell-Black, a personality Jilly confessed was influenced by Parker Bowles. She spoke concerning the subject when she appeared on the How To Fail podcast.
“He is been an ideal buddy for a very long time… so he is very like Rupert. He is lovely and blond and beautiful,” Cooper commented about Parker Bowles.
Nevertheless, the Mail suggests Andrew solely contributed partially to the inspiration for the character, asserting Rupert was in reality a mix of six society gents.
In associated information, Camilla’s son, Tom Parker Bowles, has lastly set the file straight on rumours that he was scheduled to look on Strictly Come Dancing (one other present reportedly favoured by the Queen).
Certainly, in February 2024, she disclosed that she was “one in every of Strictly’s biggest followers” when she was joined by Strictly skilled dancer Johannes Radebe at a royal engagement.
Talking on Alan Titchmarsh’s Love Your Weekend, meals critic Tom said: “My two kids are embarrassed sufficient about my dad dancing at events.
“The concept of me stepping into sequins and kind of operating like that… no! So it is not true, and would by no means occur. Nice present, clearly, however not for me.”
