Celebs' pillow talk is always a slightly sick-inducing subject to speculate on. But every now and then a shared interest of two famous inamorati catches the eye. Particularly when one of them splashes out on a £30,000 icon of the interest in question.
When Jemima Khan and Hugh Grant weren't going out (are they now? Does anyone know for sure that they aren't? Does anyone still care?) she said that Hughie had 'a stalkerish obsession' with the Queen. Indeed, she shared the details:
'He'd dream about her regularly and accept the most unlikely invitations just for a chance to see her'.
If you, a woman, were in a relationship with a chap who behaved like this, what would you do? What would you do even if the object of his obsession wasn't a grandmother in her 80s? What would you do even if the object of his obsession wasn't quite such a cliché?
Would you (a) dump him forthwith; (b) ask him to resist from accepting invitations in future of the sort mentioned above; (c) ask him to resist mentioning his dreams to you; (d) buy a portrait of the object of his affections for £30,000?
Jemima, who, as we have already established, may have opted for (a) definitely also opted for (d). This news - forgive me, those people who get cross about the fact that I sometimes mention The Observer on this page - was gleaned by Pendennis at an exhibition launch, where said picture of the Queen, a 3 dimensional hollogram, was on show.
So, what's Jemima going to do with the picture. I'm sort of hoping it might be a present for Hughie because if she puts it above her bed, it's weird. I just can't decide whether it's weirder if he sleeps there sometimes these days or not.
