Her famous ex, Mick Jagger, sang Let’s Spend The Night Together – but Jerry Hall is planning to do no such thing for her upcoming landmark 70th birthday in July.
The supermodel has been sending out invitations to a ‘big party’ which will be held at her huge country house near Henley.
However, the invitations inform guests that the festivities will run from 2pm to 6pm – a very sensible-sounding finish time for Jerry, who’s clearly put those crazy Studio 54 nights well and truly behind her; not to mention Mick, who turns 83 at the end of July.
Jerry is inviting ‘all the children’ – meaning all the children fathered by the Rolling Stones frontman who was once her life partner, including those by women other than her.
There are eight in total, ranging in age from Karis Jagger, who is 55, to nine-year-old Deveraux, Mick’s son by ballerina Melanie Hamrick.
Jerry’s four children by Mick will be there, with their partners and kids. That’s James, Lizzy, Georgia and Gabriel; and James, Lizzy and Georgia’s children Juni (ten), Eugene (four) and Dean (one).
An invitation will also have been extended to Lucas, Mick’s son by model Luciana Morad. News of his conception was the final straw for long-suffering Jerry, who booted Jagger out in 1999 when it came to light.
Mick and Jerry are on great terms now, even though she felt it was ‘impolite’ when he insisted on annulling their union on the grounds that the ceremony they went through in Bali in 1990 was not legally valid.
She was at his Christmas party in Chelsea with the wider family last year.
Pictured left to right: Sir Mick Jagger, Jerry Hall and Georgia May Jagger on December 11, 2014 in Richmond
Jade, Mick’s daughter by first wife Bianca, will be invited – as will her grown-up children Amba and Assisi (Jade also has an 11-year-old son, Ray). Earlier this year there was tragedy after Assisi’s partner Alex Key, 37, was reported missing in Boscastle, Cornwall. His body was later discovered in the sea off Bude.
There is, of course, plenty of space for everyone at Jerry’s house, which has 11 bedrooms and three cottages in its 26-acre grounds.
It’s where son Gabriel got married in 2021; and Jerry hung on to it in her divorce from tycoon Rupert Murdoch in 2022.
She seems well-settled in Oxfordshire, and switched on the Christmas lights in Henley-on-Thames last year, remarking that it is the ‘prettiest’ place she’s ever lived.
She’s not thought to have a new boyfriend, but she does have a beloved new companion in the form of a spaniel called Spot.
Earlier this year she said: ‘I’m having a very big birthday party in the summer – I’m excited about that.’ She added: ‘I’m loving being a granny. It’s the best.
‘I’ve got three grandchildren and I’m teaching them how to garden – organic gardening! – and, you know, helping me with the chickens and having fun. I’m having a good time, I’m very lucky.’
Now you see them, now you don’t as Meg’s six disappear
Pictured left to right: Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex, Meghan, Duchess of Sussex, Nicole Avant, and Ted Sarandos in Montecito, Califronia on April 10, 2026
They were the images which were meant to proclaim that Meghan really hadn’t fallen out with the deep-pocketed bosses at Netflix.
But this week, four out of five pictures of the Duchess of Sussex cuddling up to the streamer’s head honcho Ted Sarandos and his wife Nicole Avant mysteriously disappeared.
Insiders say that all the shots – from an event to celebrate the second series of the hit show Beef – were taken last Friday afternoon in California. A number were approved for release by Netflix and duly made available to the media around 24 hours later, via the Getty picture agency.
They showed Meghan with her arm around Sarandos, the pair apparently sharing a joke; and Sarandos’s wife Nicole being clasped in a tight embrace by the duchess. All were taken down by Tuesday.
The reaction online was highly negative, with the images described as ‘cringeworthy’, and Meghan ‘desperate’ to claim a friendship with the powerful couple, following a number of reports saying that Sarandos had tired of the Sussexes.
The circumstances recall the removal, after two days, of images of Harry and Meghan attending the birthday party of Kardashian matriarch Kris Jenner, on the eve of Remembrance Sunday last year.
In the latest case of the vanishing pictures, neither Netflix nor the Sussexes were willing to elucidate on why the images were quietly expunged. The only shot that remains is a line-up of Harry, Meghan, Sarandos and Ms Avant (above). Notably, all pictures in which the duchess is in physical contact with the couple are gone.
A Getty spokesman said: ‘Those images were shot for Netflix and they have asked for them to be removed, so we can no longer license them.’
An insider said all pictures taken at Netflix events by Getty would be approved by the streamer, generally at the end of the event. A delay of 24 hours in posting them was seen as unusual, and suggests the client (Netflix) was taking pains not to cause any offence to guests. A post-publication request to remove pictures is ‘highly unusual, if not unheard of’, a source said. The Sussexes were snapped up by Netflix in an exclusive deal reportedly worth $100 million not long after quitting their life as working royals in September 2020.
The deal led to the score-settling series Harry & Meghan; and also to Harry’s documentary about polo. There were also two series (and one ‘holiday special’) of the lifestyle show With Love, Meghan.
Last summer, the couple’s deal was downgraded to a ‘first look’ arrangement, and this year Netflix announced that, after one year as commercial partner with Meghan’s lifestyle brand As Ever, it was stepping away from that as well, amid reports of ‘$10 million’ of unsold stock.
The duchess’s team released a statement to say the parting of ways was always intended to happen; and that the jams and wines marque had enjoyed ‘meaningful and rapid success’.
Sources, though, said the ‘experiment’ hadn’t been a commercial success for Netflix, and agreed with a recent article in Variety which claimed the streamer was essentially ‘done’ with the Sussexes.
I spy a rising star: Agnes cast in new le Carre
Agnes O’Casey attending the season one World Premier of Black Doves on December 3, 2024
Agnes O’Casey has been whispered about as the ‘next big thing’ by those in the know for some time – and her star role has finally arrived.
She is to play opposite Charlie Hunnam in a big new BBC adaptation of John le Carre’s classic The Spy Who Came In From The Cold, which has been retitled Legacy Of Spies, for reasons best known to the makers.
O’Casey (pictured) plays librarian Liz Gold to Hunnam’s Alec Leamas – that’s Claire Bloom to Richard Burton, for those who remember the 1965 film.
She was cast in the same role in a theatrical production which received rave reviews at Chichester Festival Theatre in 2024, before transferring to the West End.
You may have seen the actress – great-granddaughter of Irish playwright Sean O’Casey – in Black Doves on Netflix; or in the BBC One drama Ridley Road.
Matthew Macfadyen will play George Smiley in the TV series. Dan Stevens takes on the role of the charismatic Bill Haydon; and German actors Daniel Bruhl and Felix Kammerer (All Quiet On The Western Front) are also in the cast.
O’Casey described her character, Liz, as ‘really smart’. She said: ‘She’s not the classic, confused female counterpart. She’s the heart of the story. It’s her integrity that makes Leamas fall in love with her.’
Claire Bloom and Richard Burton had been lovers some years before making the film, and were awkwardly reunited on it.
Awkward, because Burton’s wife Liz Taylor was extremely jealous; and on set. Bloom recalled: ‘She’d sit on the steps and watch like a vulture, and then there was this terrible voice, saying: ‘Richard!’ And he’d go running to her. The situation was difficult.’
Will Lauren be belle of the Met Ball?
Pictured: Lauren Sanchez and Amazon founder Jeff Bezos at the inauguration ceremony of Donald Trump on January 20, 2025
The backlash to Lauren Sanchez Bezos’s purchase – sorry, patronage – of the Met Gala ball in New York is building.
Jeff Bezos’s other half talks a lot about radiating only positivity. But a recent, supposedly flattering profile in the New York Times comes bristling with hidden barbs – including the revelation that her morning routine starts with coffee sipped from a mug that reads ‘Woke Up Sexy As Hell Again’. (Her husband’s mug says HUNK … spelled out in letters from the periodic table.) Whatever your view of her, Sanchez Bezos put her foot in it by claiming she had no idea her lace bra could be seen under the suit she wore for Donald Trump’s inauguration (right).
The world waits with bated breath for her selected looks on the first Monday in May.
Midge Ure confesses that he embarrasses himself by singing the wrong words to some of his most memorable songs.
The Ultravox frontman, who will be touring the UK in May and June, says: ‘I sing the wrong lyrics all the time. I’m not very good at it. You can see the front rows of the audience from my position on the stage and I can see that they are singing the right lyrics, while I am singing the wrong ones. They obviously know I’ve got it wrong.
‘The problem is, I don’t listen to my own stuff; so I’ve become unfamiliar with the lyrics that I should be singing.’
Jeremy Strong speaks onstage at DGA Theatre Complex on November 19, 2022
Look, you might see Kendall Roy in a ginger wig… but what you are meant to see is Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg.
Jeremy Strong (left) is apparently absolutely brilliant (in that intense, unhinged way of his) in The Social Reckoning, which is a kind of companion piece to the 2010 film The Social Network.
Jesse Eisenberg declined to return to reprise his role as the Facebook founder.
But reports from Cinema Con in Las Vegas this week, where some footage was screened, suggest that Strong is a powerhouse in the role, wig or no wig.
