To the manor born at Sandy Lane Footballers and their WAGs may have a certain reputation, but Darren Bent and his new wife Kirsty were models of decorum at the Sandy Lane hotel in Barbados during their honeymoon. Fellow practitioners of the beautiful game Darren Gibson, Phil Neville and Michael Carrick were also on best behaviour within the environs of the smartest hotel in the Caribbean. "Prima donna stuff never goes down well at Sandy Lane, and that's why nobody ever liked it when Michael Winner was here," a regular tells me. He used to insist on a total exclusion zone around himself when it came to other guests, and, all things, considered, we were happy to grant it to him. Like David Cameron and the entire Royal Family, Mandrake was, alas, otherwise engaged on the day of the late film director's memorial service last month. After Jessie J announced that she was leaving The Voice, Holly Willoughby, the show's presenter, is adamant that it must be a woman who replaces her. "For the sake of the panel, it needs to be, otherwise it would be the wrong balance," Holly tells me at the Barclaycard unwind lounge at the Rolling Stones concert in Hyde Park. I'm really going to miss Jessie. We were lucky to have her for as log as we did. Whoever replaces her is going to have big shoes to fill.