Fancy dinner with Harry and Meghan? It’s yours for $100,000, writes ALISON BOSHOFF

It was revealed that Prince Harry and Meghan had silently auctioned off their access to the highest bidder as a way to raise money.

Tickets to attend a dinner with the Sussexes are said to cost around $100,000 (£75,000) per plate, as they use the company CharityBuzz to raise funds for charity Archewell.

Until now, the charity has relied on anonymous wealthy donors, allowing them to donate to good causes of their choice.

Last night a spokesperson for Archewell confirmed: ‘We have partnered with a number of fundraising partners over the years and CharityBuzz is one of them.’

A source revealed that Archewell used the company to support a fundraising dinner on World Mental Health Day.

CharityBuzz has raised $650 million (£485 million) for charity since its launch 20 years ago and has hosted charity events with George Clooney, Beyonce and Sir Paul McCartney.

Having dinner with or paying for access to a working member of the Royal Family is considered a no-no, and one of Fergie’s many exploits was offering access to then-prince Andrew in exchange for cash. But the Sussexes have not been working with the royal family since Megxit.

Access to Harry and Meghan does not appear to have been announced on the company’s website; therefore, it may have been offered specifically to ‘high rollers’ who had previously paid to rub shoulders with celebrities.

A source told CharityBuzz about their relationship: ‘People will pay hundreds of thousands of dollars to have dinner with them.’

Current offers include dinner with Better Call Saul actor Bob Odenkirk for $10,000 (£7,500) and platinum tickets to attend the Grammys for $50,000 (£37,000).

Meanwhile, sources reveal that change is afoot at the Archewell Foundation, with talk of a ‘restructuring’ of staff.

The spokesperson commented: ‘Yes, we are making some Archewell changes and will be sharing exciting developments on how we will deliver our charity work moving forward at any time. We look forward to further communication in due course.’

Founded in 2020, the Archewell Foundation is the centerpiece of Sussex’s philanthropic focus. Last year, he donated a total of £1,026,240 to charities and received grants of £4,183,892; The bulk of these donations came from a cash injection of £3,947,148, which appears to have come from Fidelity Charitable, a US-based fund that also donated £789,415 the previous year.

The remaining income came from five unknown people.

Timothee’s new black is orange

Timothee Chalamet and girlfriend Kylie Jenner at the Marty Supreme premiere in Los Angeles

Timothee Chalamet is going all-in on the promotional tour for his ping-pong movie Marty Supreme, including color-coordinated looks with girlfriend Kylie Jenner (pictured).

By the way, the orange ping pong balls they wear is a reference to a plot point. Her co-star Gwyneth Paltrow does the same, appearing on Seth Myers’ late-night chat show in an orange sweatsuit.

The movie is based on the incredible true story of eccentric ping-pong star Marty Reisman. Director Josh Safdie talked about how he convinced Chalamet by giving him a copy of Reisman’s 1974 book, The Money Player: The Confessions Of America’s Greatest Table Tennis Champion And Hustler.

Reisman, who died in 2012, was the 1958 and 1960 U.S. men’s singles champion and the 1997 U.S. hardbat champion.

An entertainer known as

Due to his slender build, ‘Needle’ was famous for his skills such as splitting a cigarette in half with a ping pong ball and playing with his eyes closed.

In the movie he is called ‘Marty Mauser’. ‘Marty was very impressed by the movie and absolutely loved it,’ Reisman’s close friend and protégé Jimmy Pelletier tells me. The only thing he might have had a problem with was that they changed his surname and never contacted his daughter Debbie for permission.’

Changing the actor’s name will allow the film’s producers, A24, to avoid paying Reisman’s heiress Debbie for the copyright of the book.

Similarly, incidentally, Wicked: For Good owns the rights to Frank L. Baum’s The Wizard of Oz book and the Wicked stage show, but not the 1939 MGM film The Wizard of Oz.

That’s why in the new movie, Dorothy’s slippers are silver, not ruby.

A brief look at Tom Hiddleston from the new series of The Night Manager

Tom Hiddleston doesn’t sweat, according to the director of The Night Manager.

Georgi Banks-Davies said: ‘We shot the second series of The Night Manager in very hot locations like Colombia and Spain and Tom didn’t break a sweat. But when we put him behind the wheel of a Porsche sports car with a transmission instead of an automatic, attached a camera rig to the side of the car and had him drive fast through traffic, he started sweating…a little.’

Tom returns as secret agent Jonathan Pine in the second series of The Night Manager, broadcast on BBC1 on New Year’s Day.

Stellan gets too close for comfort

The relationship between actors and directors may be close, but this is a new relationship.

Stellan Skarsgard says he and director Joachim Trier were ‘like two dogs sniffing each other’ when discussing the movie Emotional Value.

Skarsgard, 74, said: ‘When I got the offer to make the Joachim movie, of course he knew I would say yes.

‘I invited him to dinner in Stockholm. I insisted on paying because I said, ‘I don’t want to owe you anything.’

‘We were dancing around each other like two dogs sniffing each other: ‘Can I trust you?’

The film was Norway’s entry for Best International Feature Film at the Oscars.

Davina’s ex reveals he almost committed suicide

Davina McCall with ex-husband Matthew Robertson in 2013

TV presenter Davina McCall is newlywed and enjoying marital bliss with her hairdresser husband Michael Douglas. However, it turned out that her previous husband, 56-year-old Matthew Robertson, was having trouble.

The former Pet Rescue presenter was married to Davina from 2000 to 2017 and they have three children: Holly, 23, Tilly, 21, and Chester, 19. They met while Davina was walking her dog.

Robertson was working as an adventure holiday guide, but his business suffered during the pandemic. He currently runs an organization called Momentum Men, which offers guided tours, also produces podcasts, and has a mission to ‘uplift and energize’ men through the ‘power of the outdoors.’

The initiative was born after Robertson went through a crisis following his split from Davina.

He explains on the Momentum Men website: ‘My mental health has recently suffered due to the loss of my father, divorce and a business collapsing due to Covid.

‘Conditional fortitude and masculine pride kept me from seeking help, and I desperately contemplated a tragic choice to quiet the storm in my head.

‘But the outdoor space where I planned that tragic event served as a catalyst for nature to unexpectedly become my guide on my journey back to health.’

He explains in more detail how he reached the bottom in a podcast. He said: ‘There was a time when I almost took my own life and I believe my late father prevented that from happening. At that moment I believed he was there.’

Records at Companies House show Momentum Adventure collapsed in August 2021 with debts of £408,500. It will be dissolved on January 24 next year.

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Lily is still tempted by her bad habits

Lily Allen’s new album West End Girl caused a sensation after she revealed intimate details of her failed marriage to actor David Harbor

Lily Allen is reflecting on her upcoming tour with her West End Girl album.

He said: ‘Being on stage, being vulnerable, being exposed and not drinking alcohol; I’m nervous. I don’t think there’s any risk of anything happening, but it’s a real adrenaline rush you feel when you’re on stage and people are reacting to your words.

‘When you come off stage the adrenaline is flowing through your body and looking for somewhere to go out, and drugs and alcohol really help with that.’

He adds: ‘When you take that out of the equation… I haven’t done it yet but I can imagine it would be quite difficult.

‘There will need to be a routine or some kind of ritual to help me in this area.’

You little devil!

Jacobi Jupe stars as Jessie Buckley and Paul Mescal’s ill-fated son in Hamnet

Jacobi Jupe was a revelation in the movie Hamnet, and the 12-year-old will star alongside Scarlett Johansson in the next installment of the iconic horror series The Exorcist, which is set to shoot in New York next year.

Jupe is the younger son of former Coronation Street actress Katy Cavanagh and isn’t the first Corrie child to make it big: Cavanagh’s cast member Sally Dynevor has seen her daughter Phoebe go on to do great work, including Bridgerton and the film Fair Play, and Bill Roache’s son Linus is also an actor.