Paul McCartney set to provide highlight of Glastonbury with virtual duet on stage with John Lennon 

I¿m told that McCartney may well be moved to add Lennon¿s anthem Give Peace A Chance to his set list, and that he will run onto the stage for his encore carrying the Ukranian flag”.

McCartney may well be moved to add Lennon’s anthem Give Peace A Chance to his set list, and that he will run onto the stage for his encore carrying the Ukranian flag

Next weekend, all of the McCartney clan will be at Glastonbury — wife Nancy, stepdaughter Heather, son James and daughters Mary, Stella and Beatrice, plus partners and the grandchildren (all eight of them) who call Paul ‘grandude’.

It’s possible that Julian Lennon will also come along. He lives in Monaco, but has been in London for meetings with his record label as he is preparing to release a new album. Sean Lennon, John’s son with Yoko, lives in New York and won’t be in the UK for the festival. Nor will his mother, who at the age of 89 has mobility issues, and is living quietly in upstate New York, having left the Dakota building, where she lived with Lennon.

Some Beatles fans are even angling for a duet between Julian and Sir Paul — and what a moment that would be — but I don’t hear that is happening.

Was Turlington taking the Michael? Who can forget Christy Turlington’s seductive crawl across the floor in George Michael’s Freedom ’90 video?

The supermodel reveals in the forthcoming film Freedom Uncut that she had a big problem on set — she kept forgetting the words to the song. Freedom Uncut, out next week, is the authorised telling of Michael’s life story as approved by the singer only a few days before his death.

Who can forget Christy Turlington’s seductive crawl across the floor in George Michael’s Freedom ’90 video?

It is essentially the documentary which went out on Channel 4 a few years ago, with added talking heads. Michael’s best friend David Austin and his sister Yioda take great pains to protect Michael’s legacy and there is very little in the picture about drugs or his death in 2016. Austin also told an audience at an event this week that they have no plans to put on a touring show with a virtual George Michael like Abba Voyage.

He revealed that he had seen a hologram show featuring the late Roy Orbison, and had not been impressed.

Paddington and that sketch with the Queen was the great hit of the Platinum Jubilee celebrations. And the bear will be back: Paddington In Peru will start filming next year.

The third movie in the franchise, Paddington In Peru, will start filming next year

The movie is the third in the highly successful franchise and is to be directed by Dougal Wilson — up to now most noted for the tear-jerking John Lewis Christmas adverts. (It is his first feature film.) Previous director Paul King has been busy shooting Wonka, starring Timothee Chalamet.

Snowflake teens go wild

Parents of idle teens may enjoy the Netflix show Snowflake Mountain, which will be released next week.

It follows a group of American and British youngsters who have to survive in the wild with no running water or — calamity! — wi-fi.

Parents of idle teens may enjoy the Netflix show Snowflake Mountain, which will be released next week

British ‘snowflake’ Liam Brown (pictured) appears to be one of the stars of the programme, and judging from the trailers, spends most of his time either swearing disbelievingly at the challenges — or retching.

He has never done any cooking, and doesn’t help his grandmother, with whom he lives, with any housework.

The drama of Leigh and Larry

The story of Vivien Leigh’s devastation over her divorce from Laurence Olivier will be told in a film, Viv, which will start shooting in the UK later this year.

Actress Susie Lindeman has written a screenplay after enjoying success with the stage show Letter To Larry, in which she starred in 2013.

The role of Leigh — who won Oscars for Gone With The Wind and A Streetcar Named Desire — is yet to be cast.

Mark Foligno, who executive produced The King’s Speech, says their script ‘beautifully handles the line between Vivien Leigh’s mental turmoil, in both the reality and fantasy surrounding the collapse of her marriage to Laurence Olivier’.

Is Helen Mirren a Barbie girl? The 76-year-old actress has been working on a top-secret project for Warner Bros at Leavesden Studios — which is where the Barbie film is being made.

Gossip suggests that she is among the top-notch cast for the picture, which is going to be the studio’s big release next summer.

Helen Mirren has been working on a top-secret project for Warner Bros at Leavesden Studios — which is where the Barbie film is being made.

It stars Margot Robbie — but she isn’t the only Barbie in town, as both Hari Nef and Issa Rae are also playing Barbie.

Ryan Gosling is Barbie’s companion, Ken; but there are other Kens, too: new Dr Who Ncuti Gatwa, and Simu Liu (Marvel’s Shang-Chi). Is director Greta Gerwig going to present us with some kind of Barbie multiverse, or will there be lots of different ‘special editions’, as in real life? Will Ferrell will play the owner of a toy company.

Normal? Not Daisy, a gal who swims with gators…

The E 25-metre pool at private Mill Hill school in London is where Daisy Edgar-Jones developed a passion for diving.

And it seems that stood her in good stead when plunging headfirst into alligator-infested swamps during the filming of Where The Crawdads Sing.

Edgar-Jones, who shot to fame in the TV show Normal People, plays the lead in a major new adaptation of the sensationally successful novel by Delia Owens. The book has shifted more than 12 million copies and was optioned by Reese Witherspoon’s production company.

It tells the story of Kya, who is growing up largely alone on a marsh in North Carolina in the 1950s and 1960s.

The E 25-metre pool at private Mill Hill school in London is where Daisy Edgar-Jones developed a passion for diving

Director Olivia Newman shot the film in the swamps around New Orleans. She said of Edgar-Jones: ‘She loves doing all the work. She learned how to drive a boat; she learned how to fish. She did a lot of movement work, to get really comfortable walking around the marsh barefoot. She loved doing stunts.

‘We were so shocked, because whenever we had a stunt sequence, we’d have our stunt double at the ready — and Daisy would always nail it on her first take.

‘She was a diver in high school and Kya does a lot of swimming and diving and underwater work. And Daisy was just incredible, doing all of her own stunts. I don’t know that there’s anything she can’t do. Truly.

‘I mean, Daisy dives into the water — water that had alligators in it! Of course, we had animal safety, to make sure that it was safe. But she dove into that swamp.’

Edgar-Jones, who shot to fame in the TV show Normal People, plays the lead in a major new adaptation of the sensationally successful novel by Delia Owens

Newman was familiar with Edgar-Jones after watching her as Marianne in Normal People — one of the great TV hits of the pandemic.

‘So when her name came up, when we first started talking about who was going to play Kya, I was like: I love this young actress! But can she play a role? Kya is very different from her role in Normal People.

‘And I have to say, her first reading brought all of us to tears — including (author) Delia — because it felt like we were watching Kya’s voice come out of this beautiful British actress. She is incredible with accents. She has an incredible knack for dialects.’ Jojo Regina plays Kya as a child.

The film comes out in July and features an original song, Carolina, by Taylor Swift.

Unlikely string to Chris Evans’ bow

Actor Chris Evans says he had a blast voicing Buzz Lightyear in the animated Disney feature Lightyear, out today. However, he has ambitions in another direction, too.

Actor Chris Evans says he had a blast voicing Buzz Lightyear in the animated Disney feature Lightyear, out today. However, he has ambitions to voice Robin Hood

‘I was always a really big fan of the old animated Disney movie Robin Hood,’ he said. ‘I just thought Robin Hood was so cool, you know? He’s just smooth and charming and capable and, you know, I don’t have that cool British accent — but I’d love to give it a crack.’

Could he pull it off? Evans joked: ‘I’ll just do the Kevin Costner thing and not even try.’

Costner’s ‘British’ accent in Robin Hood: Prince Of Thieves has become the stuff of legend, albeit not in a good way.

A wicked Oscar double act…

Olivia Colman and Jessie Buckley were both Oscar-nominated for The Lost Daughter and will be reunited in a period drama, Wicked Little Letters, to be filmed later this summer.

They will play neighbours in Littlehampton in the 1920s.

Olivia Colman and Jessie Buckley were both Oscar-nominated for The Lost Daughter and will be reunited in a period drama, Wicked Little Letters, to be filmed later this summer

Edith Swan, played by Colman, starts to receive anonymous poison pen letters and suspicion falls on Rose Gooding (Buckley).

But instead of feuding, the pair team up to solve the mystery of who is really responsible.