Kate Middleton to star in Tate Movie?

I've had a tiny preview of the Tate Movie – the animation that Aardman is creating with the help of thousands of primary school-age children, who are providing drawings, characters, sound effects and plot motifs for the film, which is part of the Cultural Olympiad. The characters are now established (we have a central family, a bunch of superheroes, a villainess called Stella, and some stroppy mermaids who like to text) and now Aardman is ready to put the film together ahead of, it is hoped, a Leicester Square premiere in July. The children involved, via workshops and through the movie's website, have also been in charge of casting suggestions for the voiceovers, which include Cheryl Cole, Emma Watson – and Kate Middleton. According to the Tate's Jane Burton, a call has duly been put into Clarence House. "They've said they'll consider it as long as it is something suitable for a member of the Royal Family to say," Burton told me.