Wood, 57, points out that a younger woman also attended the event, the 33rd birthday party of Ben Caring, at Annabel's nightclub, without her underwear. Another girl did it, who's in her twenties, so, what the hell? Hamza harmony Many people are pleased that Abu Hamza has been extradited to America after eight years, but Sir John Madejski says it reflects well on Britain that the Islamist cleric's extradition took so long. "It shows this country in a very tolerant light," says the former owner of Reading FC. The fact that Britain leaves no stone unturned when making sure that due process is carried out is one of the reasons why people are so keen to live here. The tycoon adds: "In many countries, he would have been put on the first plane out." French leave Wedding planning is proving complicated for Hayley Westenra, the New Zealand-born soprano, who is engaged to Arnaud Sabard, a French sound engineer. "Arnaud has a lot of family and friends in France, as do I in New Zealand, but we live together in Kensington," Westenra tells Mandrake at the Classical Brit Awards. We might need to spread the celebrations across them, so everyone can attend. Hugh's breathless? Once upon a time, Hugh Bonneville, who plays the morally upright Earl of Grantham in Downton Abbey, had to tell women that he was an actor. Now, women are, literally, overcome with emotion when they catch sight of the actor, who appeared in the film Conspiracy of Silence and the play 'Tis Pity She's a Whore. "Brendan Coyle [who plays Bates, the jailed valet, in Downton] and I were wandering round a market in Hollywood and we had a few people coming up to us and asking for autographs," say Bonneville. "But this one woman walked up to us, uttered a sort of stammering 'hello" and suddenly started struggling breath, gasping and going red. It took us a full hour to calm her down and make sure she was okay.