His scorching tempo and energy made him a devastating pressure on the rugby pitch, whereas extra just lately his eloquence and appeal have helped set up him within the TV studio as a group captain on the BBC‘s A Query Of Sport in addition to incomes him a job as an professional summariser for ITV through the present World Cup.
However former England and British Lions star Ugo Monye could possibly be forgiven for feeling badly bruised for the time being.
I can reveal that his firm, the ebulliently named Present Me The Monye, has been lined up for a thumping deal with within the Excessive Courtroom – by the taxman.
The corporate, which Monye, 40, arrange in 2012 for ‘bodily well-being actions’, now owes practically £200,000 in unpaid taxes and social safety funds.
An organization run by former England and British Lions star Ugo Monye (pictured) owes practically £200,000 in unpaid taxes and social safety funds
This has prompted His Majesty’s Income and Customs to provoke a Excessive Courtroom petition which, if granted, would see the corporate wound up.
Neither Monye, who ended his dazzling however injury-hampered enjoying profession aged solely 31, nor his supervisor nor his authorized representatives, Brandsmiths, whose purchasers embrace Gordon Ramsay’s restaurant empire, care to remark.
However being buried on the backside of a monetary ruck is the very last thing that Monye would wish to deal with proper now.
Apart from his World Cup commitments, he has additionally turn into a ‘champion’ within the Princess of Wales’s childhood marketing campaign, Shaping Up.
In June he joined Catherine at Maidenhead Rugby Membership for a abilities session on the pitch, earlier than they mentioned the worth of native sports activities golf equipment to kids.
It is a topic near Monye’s coronary heart – maybe notably so since he cut up from his spouse, Lucy, two years in the past, simply earlier than he took half in Strictly, when he was paired with Oti Mabuse.
Monye, who, in his enjoying days, used to let off steam at Infernos nightclub in Clapham, south London, within the firm of teammates, was at pains to say that he and Lucy weren’t victims of the Strictly ‘curse’ and to emphasize that they might stay ‘very a lot linked’ for the sake of their two younger daughters.
Let’s hope the Excessive Courtroom would not oblige him to kick the ladies’ pocket cash into contact.
Jeffrey and Joan crown round
Joan Collins acquired her damehood from the then Prince Charles in 2015, however Jeffrey Archer seems to assume her crowning second remains to be to return.
Yesterday, the best-selling writer, 83, was eager to put a crown on the pinnacle of the previous Dynasty star, 90, once they ran into one another at ITV’s Good Morning Britain.
‘Larking round with Lord Archer — he tried to crown me,’ Dame Joan jokes.
Archer had the regal prop with him as a result of he’s selling his new e book, Traitors Gate, which is a few plot to steal the Crown Jewels.
King’s aide quits Palace for Church
He is the poet, writer and librettist who helped organise the music for King Charles’s Coronation, however Grahame Davies is quitting royal service after 12 years for a better calling.
I hear that Davies, 59, who served as Charles’s deputy personal secretary till the Coronation, is becoming a member of the Church. He is to have the specifically created function of director of mission and technique for the Church in Wales.
‘He is a giant loss to the Palace,’ a colleague tells me. ‘He is a fluent Welsh speaker and was an actual barometer of Welsh life for Charles, preserving him largely out of hassle by arranging all the appropriate visits.’
Jeffrey Archer (pictured with Joan Collins) had the regal prop with him as a result of he’s selling his new e book, Traitors Gate
Davies had switched to working for Prince William and Catherine of their new roles as Prince and Princess of Wales. They’re shaking issues up by appointing their first chief govt officer, who will reply on to them.
Crumbs! Bourbon Princesses’ dazzling Paris debut
Not since future princess Kate Middleton wowed Prince William when she sashayed down the runway at a St Andrews College charity vogue present has there been such a blinding royal debut on the catwalk.
Italian ‘It-girls’ Princess Maria Carolina, 20, and her sister, Princess Maria Chiara, 18, of Bourbon-Two Sicilies — who partied with Prince Michael of Kent on the French Riviera this summer season — modelled for Pierre Cardin at Paris Vogue Week.
Chiara wore a two-toned bandeau type robe, embellished with gold detailing. Carolina, in the meantime, sported a flamboyant off-the-shoulder blue costume with a white border that appeared like monumental flower petals.
Princess Maria Carolina, 20, (proper) and her sister, Princess Maria Chiara, 18, (left) modelled for Pierre Cardin at Paris Vogue Week
Neglect all of the bonhomie on the sofas, Graham Norton’s company might be frightful off digital camera. ‘I will come off set and say, ‘They have been good’,’ the BBC1 chatshow host says.
‘Then somebody within the group will go, ‘Yeah — to you.’ So I typically see the most effective of them, whereas the crew see a barely totally different model.’
Norton, 60, provides: ‘It is uncommon, nevertheless it’s often the youthful stars who might be extra self-conscious and paranoid. Older stars are usually extra comfy of their pores and skin.’
Gordon Brown has seemingly taken a swipe at fellow former Labour PM Tony Blair, who has made thousands and thousands since he left Downing Road.
‘I decided that I can’t acquire personal wealth as a result of I do not assume public service must be a platform for personal acquire,’ Brown tells a chat selling his e book, Permacrisis: A Plan To Repair A Fractured World, on the Emmanuel Centre in Westminster.
Girl Amelia Windsor (pictured) says she’s sickened by the ugly state of our coastal waters
As soon as hailed because the ‘most lovely member of the Royal Household’ by Tatler journal, Girl Amelia Windsor is sickened by the ugly state of our coastal waters.
The Duke of Kent’s granddaughter, 28, says swimming within the sea is one in all her ‘favorite issues’, however provides: ‘It is a disgrace you must examine a map of the UK shoreline to search out out if sewage has been pumped into it earlier than you swim. I simply noticed a map and it was largely purple crosses, which means that sewage had been launched into the ocean.’
Girl Amelia, ambassador for conservation charity the Blue Marine Basis, says: ‘There have been just a few inexperienced ticks right here and there, which is a travesty.’
