EMILY PRESCOTT: Damian Lewis was pleased with bizarre Silverstone National Anthem performance

Damian Lewis was widely mocked for his bizarre jazzed-up rendition of the National Anthem at Silverstone last week, with one Twitter wag suggesting: ‘If he’d done this in Band Of Brothers, the Germans would have surrendered in minutes just to make it stop.’

But I’m told the 52-year-old actor-turned-singer was pleased with his performance at the Grand Prix, below – which actually caused ticket sales for his current Mission Creep album tour to skyrocket.

Each to their own, as the old saying goes…

Damian Lewis was widely mocked for his bizarre jazzed-up rendition of the National Anthem at Silverstone last week

Actor-turned-singer Damian Lewis, 52, was pleased with his performance at the Grand Prix

Honeysuckle blooms again

Now Foyle’s War star Honeysuckle Weeks will be making her theatrical comeback – stripping down on stage

She has been out of the limelight for a while – but did make headlines earlier this year when she claimed she was drink-driving to avoid being coerced into a threesome.

Now Foyle’s War star Honeysuckle Weeks will be making her theatrical comeback – stripping down on stage.

However her modesty will be preserved by well-placed food and flower arrangements in the new touring production of Calendar Girls, in which the 43-year-old plays Cora.

The show about the Women’s Institute fundraisers who dared to bare all opens next month, and although Honeysuckle, right, hasn’t started rehearsals, she is very excited about it. ‘I love the movie,’ she tells me with building anticipation.

Make-up mogul Charlotte Tilbury learned a thing or two about brush skills from her late artist father Lance. Tonight she hosts a memorial to him at Can Talaias hotel in Ibiza, 13 months after his death. A-list guests are set to include Mick Jagger’s daughter Jade and members of the rock band Pink Floyd.