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He and his first wife, Sadie Frost, led lives which seemed enviably given over to adult pleasures. But whereas some look back at their past and wince in self-recriminatory horror, Jude Law stares it squarely in the face.
Indeed, The Talented Mr Ripley star, 53, who has seven children from two marriages and two less formal partnerships, seems comfortable in his skin as he embraces middle age.
Proof comes in the form of the painstaking plans he and his second wife, psychologist Phillipa Coan, 41, are making for the London house they bought for £7.25million in 2022 but which Law described, two years later, as not ‘actually habitable’.
Reached by a long drive, it’s far from Law’s old stamping grounds in north London – first, with Sadie and their three children in Primrose Hill, where Law, Frost and chums were referred to as the ‘Primrose Hill Set’, and later in Highgate where Law bought a Georgian terrace house in 2010 for £8million when engaged, for the second time, to Sienna Miller.
To minimise unexpected visitors, Law and Coan are seeking permission to install new gates with an ‘integrated package drop-off compartment’. Those who do make it inside the grounds will be treated to a ‘sun garden’ and a ‘sun terrace’.
But it’s their plans for their two young children which arguably indicate that Law is, as he claimed in 2024, ‘very happy ageing’ – and that Coan is the woman who has the measure of him.
A new extension will have a playroom, ‘homework area’ and children’s garden. Details for a cottage, just yards from the house, are more telling. There will be a ground-floor gym – Law is said to keep in ‘formidable shape’ with boxing and martial arts routines – and a steam room for post-workout recovery.
Up above, the entire floor – almost 500 sq ft – is given over to a bedroom and living room. For whom might this be? ‘Nanny bed,’ state plans submitted to the local authority, and ‘nanny living room’.
Jude Law with his second wife, Phillipa Coan. He seems comfortable in his skin as he embraces middle age
Enough to cause Sienna Miller a flashback of anguish or disbelief? She and Law were first engaged in 2004, after filming the re-make of romantic comedy Alfie. But Sienna lost out to the ‘weekend nanny’, who accompanied Law and his children to America for his next film. Details of their affair – ‘it was amazing,’ the nanny recalled, summarising Law as ‘a masterful lover’ – appeared in a seven-page red-top exposé.
Law had his fourth child in 2009, after a week-long fling with New York waitress Samantha Burke, and a fifth in 2015 by singer Cat Cavelli, whom he met in a bar in Soho. Coan has given him two more – so far.
The smart set's talking about... How Beatrice’s pal is a keeper of secrets
Princess Beatrice’s close friend Alice Naylor-Leyland has revealed why her pals turn to her with their most closely guarded secrets.
The socialite, 40, whose coterie also includes model Poppy Delevingne, says her discretion has even earned her a special moniker.
‘My nickname is The Vault,’ Alice explains.
‘I know that people are going to be pregnant before they know themselves.
‘I know that they’re getting divorced ... when your husband’s had an affair’.
Beatrice's friend Alice Naylor-Leyland knows 'that people are going to be pregnant before they know themselves'
The tablescape designer, who is married to Tom Naylor-Leyland, the heir to the historic Fitzwilliam estates, adds: ‘I don’t know why people tell me stuff, but they do.
‘Maybe I’m not fun. If somebody needs to have a dance, have a drink, you’re not going to call Alice.
‘But if you’re secretly pregnant...’
Is Jamie planning a big wedding feast?
Jamie and Jools Oliver's eldest daughter, Poppy, 24, has got engaged
There was joyful news this month for Jamie Oliver and his wife, Jools, when their eldest daughter, Poppy, 24, got engaged – the first of the couple’s five children to do so.
Jamie shouldn’t struggle to lay on a show-stopping wedding.
He and Jools have treated themselves to a £1.5million dividend from his private company, Jamie Oliver Group, according to documents filed at Companies House.
Enough for a pukka knees-up at Spains Hall, the Elizabethan pile in Essex they acquired for £6million in 2019.
The recent heatwave may be over, but Jack Osbourne is convinced summer will continue to sizzle.
For that reason, the reality television star and son of late rocker Ozzy has put his vasectomy on hold.
‘I am waiting for summer to be over because I want to be active and don’t want to be laid out with an ice pack on my groin,’ he explains.
Jack, 40, who has five daughters, is content to go without a boy.
‘Everybody I know that has sons [says they] are little caveman troll creatures that break everything,’ he says.
(Very) modern manners
Having stepped down as a judge on The Great British Bake Off after nine seasons, Dame Prue Leith has discovered a thrilling new pastime.
‘I couldn’t do skiing – then I discovered the joys of sit-skiing,’ says the chef, 86.
‘You sit in a kind of wheelbarrow with a champion skier, skiing with you down a mountain, holding the handles.’
She adds: ‘You get all the excitement and exhilaration, but not the terror. You can’t do anything about it because you’re not in charge. I adored it.’
Lady Lola's souvenir from Ibiza! Rapper's £400k diamond chain
Lady Lola, 27, a daughter of the late Marquess of Bute, racing driver Johnny Dumfries
The £400,000 diamond chain necklace features the head of Queen Elizabeth II
Pick up any souvenirs on your holidays? A fridge magnet or straw donkey, perhaps?
Well, Lady Lola Crichton-Stuart appears to have acquired something altogether more valuable, courtesy of an intriguing summer friendship in Ibiza.
Lady Lola, 27, a daughter of the late Marquess of Bute, racing driver Johnny Dumfries, has been pictured wearing a £400,000 diamond chain owned by one of Britain’s biggest rap stars, Central Cee, 28.
Central Cee used to wear the necklace, which was created by jeweller Abtin Abbasi
The pair have started following each other on social media so they can exchange private messages after revelling on the Spanish party island. The chain, which bears a pendant of Queen Elizabeth II’s profile, was created by jeweller Abtin Abbasi, whose spokesman confirms that only one was made.
Central Cee, whose real name is Oakley Neil Caesar-Su, has been single since splitting from London-based TikTok influencer Madeline Argy, 26, in 2024. Lady Lola was said to have broken up with her Dutch model boyfriend, Parker Van Noord, earlier this year.
Perhaps the rapper will pay tribute in verse to his new chum? One of Central Cee’s best-known lyrics referred to a bisexual former girlfriend, of whom he said: ‘How can I be homophobic? My b**** is gay.’
The Celebrity Traitors winner Alan Carr shot to television fame after the success of his 2005 stand-up show at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe.
But the 50-year-old comedian and chat-show host fears that the Fringe no longer serves as a launchpad to stardom.
‘You don’t get discovered there any more,’ he says of the world’s largest performing arts festival. Instead, performers make their name online.
‘Because of social media, people know [about you],’ says Carr. ‘You never get that surprise act; no one ever gets word of mouth, and that’s a shame.’
After being spotted by Channel 4 executives at the festival, he went on to host shows including The Friday Night Project and Chatty Man.
'Police' to swarm Westminster this weekend
Here's a cast-iron prediction.
Loiter around the Palace of Westminster this weekend – this afternoon and tomorrow from 8am until 3pm, to be precise – and you’ll hear a symphony of sirens as armed police swarm from specialist vehicles, with further commotion as the Thames foams under the bows of speeding police launches.
The standard response, you might think, to someone tweeting something the powers-that-be deem ‘offensive’? That would be a fair guess.
In fact, Parliament’s being turned into a film set. The production company involved is called Bad Wolf, which sounds appropriate.
Queen of Pop's crown chaos
Madonna celebrated turning 68 in Corfu this week, wearing a flower headband from Julia Clancey
Queen of Pop Madonna nearly lost her birthday crown after the floral headpieces she had planned to wear at her party in Greece were stranded at an airport.
The Material Girl singer celebrated turning 68 in Corfu this week, wearing a pink sequinned Dolce & Gabbana gown and a £660 flower headband from London-based fashion designer Julia Clancey.
But the eight original designs she had planned to send to Madonna were held up in customs in Miami.
‘UPS messed up and left them at the airport,’ Julia says of the delivery service. She then raced to create seven new designs to send from London to Greece.
‘I had a deadline to get them in on Saturday by a certain time,’ she tells me. ‘I sewed right through the night, making different pieces. So it’s all a little bit of a blur.’
Julia says Madonna, who has worn some of her trademark kaftans in the past, is a ‘fair’ customer who supports independent brands.
‘She always pays. You get some artists that want everything gifted,’ adds Julia.
Shepherdess Amanda Owen is flummoxed by ‘all sorts of funny requests’ she receives from television viewers.
‘People want to buy my socks,’ reveals Amanda, 51, who starred in the Channel 5 show Our Yorkshire Farm.
‘I don’t think they realise what they’ll get,’ she says. ‘It wouldn’t be a sexual thing for them... My socks have probably got bits of hay and an insect or two in them.’