The Times (London) September 2, 2017 Saturday Boris gets that sinking feeling by Patrick Kidd "No more of that ghastly Johnson family," pleads a TMS reader. Maybe we should have a moratorium on stories about the blond clan but only after this one sent in by someone who was an intern at The Spectator when Boris was its editor. The Armenian ambassador was at a lunch and my spy heard BoJo, discovering where the guest was from, say: "My great-grandfather worked for the last Ottoman Sultan. Did they have anything to do with Armenia?" The ambassador's face turned to stone. "Yes," he said. "They massacred thousands of my people." A chill fell over the lunch before Boris tried to rescue things. "I'm MP for Henley," he said. "You know, the regatta. Jolly boating weather and all that. Er . . . do you row in Armenia?" No wonder he became our chief diplomat. Twenty years after she became a global acting star in Titanic, Kate Winslet, above, tells Glamour that she had other ambitions as a child. "I had a fleeting idea about becoming a hairdresser," she says, "but I cut off a friend's earlobe trying to cut their hair. I saw him again not long ago. He said: 'You can still see the marks'." pressing engagement As Ramsay Bolton, one of the archvillains in Game of Thrones, Iwan Rheon was voted "most hated man on television" by The New York Times last year. Donald Trump will have been disappointed. The Welsh actor has his fans, though. He was at a convention in Nashville recently where a man asked if he would propose to his girlfriend for him. "I think you should do it," Rheon said. The man explained that he would do it first but wanted to take a photo of the actor on his knee with a ring, too. Luckily she stuck with the boyfriend. judi is upstaged at last Dame Judi Dench has had a fine acting career, with ten Baftas and an Oscar in her loo, but her star is starting to wane with the young. She was recently out with her redheaded 20-year-old grandson, she tells Saga magazine, and was asked for a photo. "Oh lovely," she said. "Of course." But it was the grandson whom they wanted. "He looks uncannily like Ed Sheeran," Dench explains. When she mentioned this to her agent, he contacted Sheeran and the singer sportingly sent her grandson a message that read: "I hear I look a lot like you." Words to melt a grandma's heart. After his poll ratings plunged during two months of aloof silence, Emmanuel Macron has decided to make himself more accessible again. The French president has promised to give two radio addresses to the nation every month. Gossip in the Élysée says that he has chosen radio rather than television in order to keep down his make-up bills, which were running at £8,000 a month. gone to pot Rosa Monckton runs a charity in Brighton called Team Domenica that helps adults with learning difficulties. It has a café where they can experience work. One young man was showing a customer all the loose-leaf tea they serve. "That's Assam, that's Earl Grey, that's Oolong and that's er..." He searched his memory. "Ah yes, my dad's got some," he finally said. "That's marijuana." Gives a new meaning to the phrase "...and one for the pot". patrick kidd