Chris Huhne gives first interview after prison to potter Grayson Perry "It's a psychological sexual thriller set around the naval dockyards of Portsmouth," says Vicki Michelle, his co-star. It's a big change for Hugh from being in Downton. Quite so. Who could possibly imagine Bonneville involved in any sexual intrigue? Belt up Tracey Emin has come up with an unusual way of wearing her Royal Academician's medallion. The artist attended the private view of the summer exhibition with it slung around her waist. "I'm wearing it as a belt," she told Mandrake. As a woman, it's difficult to know how to wear it. Emin wore her CBE badge on her lapel. Unlike Danny Boyle, who turned down a knighthood, she is proud of her honour, which she received in March "I'm not a snob," she said at a Terrence Higgins Trust 30th anniversary event. I don't go around vetting what I should be given and what I shouldn't be given. I feel honoured and privileged by the fact that someone gives me an accolade in the first place. She added: "Some people don't believe in that. Some people don't accept them because they don't think that they need an accolade, or they don't think they deserve one. Clash of the titans While the Queen has been marking the 60th anniversary of her coronation, in Lebanon they are celebrating her birthday. Trooping the Colour will mark the monarch's official birthday later this month, but Our Man in Beirut, Tom Fletcher, has been given special dispensation to hold a week-long programme of commemorative events now. "She gave permission, to avoid clash with, ahem, Lebanese elections," the ambassador tells me.