Sophie Raworth anchored the BBC’s coverage of the VE Day celebrations on Monday with her usual assurance, but, unbeknown to the viewers, she was suffering a private heartbreak.
I hear that the presenter’s father, Richard Raworth, had died just days earlier.
‘It’s terribly sad, but Sophie was the consummate professional, as always,’ a colleague tells me.
Mr Raworth, who was 83, ‘died peacefully after a long battle with Parkinson’s disease’, the family says in a statement.
They say he was ‘a man with a big heart and heaps of kindness and tenacity’, describing him as a ‘businessman, photographer, jazz bass player [and] passionate gardener’.
The family adds: ‘We will miss him always.’
Sophie, who turns 57 next week, revealed in 2021: ‘My dad has had Parkinson’s for several years now. It is a horrible disease. Yet he deals with it amazingly. He never complains, just gets on with it with kindness and good humour.’
Later that year, she completed a sponsored run to raise money for a Parkinson’s charity, telling her father: ‘Thanks for your love and support. You are wonderful. This run is for you.’
Sophie Raworth anchored the BBC ’s coverage of the VE Day celebrations
But, unbeknown to the viewers, she was suffering a private heartbreak
The presenter has three children – Ella, Oliver and Georgia – with her husband, estate agent Richard Winter.
She spoke after Ella’s birth about how her relationship with her father and mother, Jenny, had deepened.
‘Having children really changes your relationship with your parents,’ she explained. ‘We see so much more of them now. My mother can’t bear to be without Ella for more than a few days at a stretch.’
Speaking of her ‘perfect weekend’, she said: ‘I’ll relax with one of my dad’s frothy cappuccinos, a speciality of his, while the grandparents play with Ella.’
Sophie’s younger sister, Kate Raworth, is a noted economist, who came up with the ‘doughnut economic’ model.
A diagram of the model, fittingly shaped as a doughnut, explains how the centre of the hole represents the life essentials that people lack while the other layers are planetary boundaries that could lead to an ecological collapse.
Some guy have all the pluck! Rod’s lad pursues film career
Sir Rod Stewart (right) tipped his son Alastair (left) to play a younger version of himself if a film were ever made about his colourful life
Sir Rod Stewart tipped his son Alastair to play a younger version of himself if a film were ever made about his colourful life.
‘There’s a remarkable similarity,’ the singer, above, said. And Alastair, 19, could be up for the challenge as, I can disclose, he’s dropped out of a degree course at the JCA London Fashion Academy – to pursue a career in film.
‘I’ve left now,’ he tells me at the world premiere of Ocean with Sir David Attenborough, which he attended with his mother, Penny Lancaster, left.
‘I’m trying to get into the film industry and I want to follow my passion.’
King Charles has blue carpet rolled out for him
King Charles attends the world premiere of the ‘Ocean with David Attenborough’ documentary at the Royal Festival Hall in London
King Charles had the blue carpet rolled out for him at the world premiere of Sir David Attenborough’s film, Ocean, in London.
But he wasn’t the only member of the Royal Family there.
The Duke of Kent’s granddaughters Lady Amelia Windsor, 29, and her sister Lady Marina, 32, posed for this picture to help promote the film, which explores climate change.
‘It’s an extraordinarily important film,’ says Lady Marina.
Ilewelyn-Bowen’s disappointment over customers who fail to make unusual requests
Interiors expert Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen, who has designed floors for Buckingham Palace, admits he’s disappointed when customers fail to make unusual requests.
‘Who’s going to be surprised to hear me making a statement like that?’ says the flamboyant former Changing Rooms presenter.
‘Ask me to paint your house, but make it look like it’s under water or on Venus.’
Llewelyn-Bowen, 60, adds: ‘I’m like a Harley Street doctor. I will be absolutely impassive when the client says, “I’d like a large elephant, with a flamingo perched on its back, arriving in a Nimbus.”’
Can you help Buckingham Palace as a tourist attraction?
Fancy training 450 people to run Buckingham Palace as a tourist attraction?
A visitor services manager is needed by the Royal Collection Trust with the one-year contract worth around £40,000.
‘It’s developing future ambassadors,’ says the advert on the royal website.
Director of Ghostbusters flop reveals its brought back bullying memories
Paul Feig has said the negative reception of the of Ghostbusters remake has brought back memories of being bullied at school
With its all-female cast, the ‘woke’ remake of Ghostbusters flopped and Sony Pictures reportedly lost up to £40million.
Now, its director, Paul Feig, has said the negative reception brought back memories of being bullied at school.
‘I didn’t realise a bunch of younger boys grew up with that as a sort of a religion,’ says the American, 62. ‘It triggered all of my old bullying emotions at school.
You go, like: “I’m an adult now and I’m getting bullied by all these people”, and it kind of knocked me sideways.’
Oldie lunch ruffles feathers!
The Oldie magazine’s literary luncheon was the unlikely setting for a row between aristocratic nature writer Adam Nicolson and style ‘guru’ Peter York.
Nicolson revealed to guests at London’s National Liberal Club that he told York he’d ‘written a book about birds in the woods’, and Peter replied: ‘All very good, I suppose, but I’m not interested in nature.’
Nicolson said: ‘Nature is in the most terrible condition. The route of that destruction has been the attitudes the great Mr York embodies.’
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