Daniel Craig and Rachel Weisz and a tale of nudity, sexual congress and amorous clinches

Mandrake's readers will not be surprised by the news that Daniel Craig and Rachel Weisz have secretly married in New York. When I disclosed in November 2010 that Craig had broken off his engagement to Satsuki Mitchell, an American film producer, friends of the James Bond star assured me that he had already decided that

Mandrake's readers will not be surprised by the news that Daniel Craig and Rachel Weisz have secretly married in New York.

When I disclosed in November 2010 that Craig had broken off his engagement to Satsuki Mitchell, an American film producer, friends of the James Bond star assured me that he had already decided that Weisz was the woman for him.

The pair go back a lot further, however, than many reports suggest. Rupert Christiansen, The Daily Telegraph's opera critic, tells me that they first met in 1994 when they appeared together in a workshop play at the National Theatre Studio about French courtesans fo the 19th century called Les Grandes Horizontales.

"Of course, neither of them were famous then so their first meeting went unrecorded," says Christiansen, who was, as the author of Paris Babylon, enlisted as the production's historical consultant. "The plot put them into a number of amorous clinches and there was a lot of faked sexual congress and 'tasteful' nudity."

Shane Warne's resilience

As if it wasn't bad enough that Elizabeth Hurley made Shane Warne turn out for Sir Elton John and David Furnish's White Tie and Tiara Ball – and looking, for all the world, as if he had just stepped out of a beauty parlour – the actress has now outed him as a user of a well-known brand of "resilience lift moisturiser."

Rebelling, perhaps, against his girlfriend's influence, the newly slimmed down Warne admitted to his followers on Twitter over the weekend that he was "devouring" cakes made by his local Women's Insitute. "They are absolutely to die for," he said, bravely.

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