David Cameron's adviser Claire Perry lets rip over constituency home Cecil's triumph Mandrake is sorry to hear of the death of Sir Henry Cecil, the 10-time champion Flat trainer, who has died aged 70 after a long battle with cancer. His greatest achievement, he always told me, was beating alcoholism. "The odds were not great, but I managed it," he told me after his first "dry" year. Duff is ready to seduce on stage Anne-Marie Duff may have portrayed Joan of Arc to critical acclaim in Saint Joan at the National, but the 42-year-old actress says she is now hankering after a saucier role. "Who wouldn't like to be sexy for a while?" she tells Time Out. I've got a womb and nerve endings! Duff is at least able to show her sultry side when she reprises her role in Channel 4"s Shameless for the drama's final episode. "It's nice to pretend to be sexy for once," she says. When I left, I drunkenly agreed I'd come back for the last episode. Perhaps she can find a suitably seductive role opposite her husband and fellow Shameless star, James McAvoy. "I would jump at the chance to work with him again," she says.