Jocasta Innes Diary

Have you noticed a new style of femme fatale popping up in the media ? So different from all those hard eyed titchy blonde babes whom the paparazzi swarm round at premieres and such. These are lush, brunette, and decidedly curvaceous, not to say plump.They have large melting dark eyes, `exocet' smiles, masses of dark locks, and proudly displayed cleavages. These are emphatically Womanly Women and they remind me, generically, of the Bollywood Beauties whose attributes spill out lavishly from movie posters the length of Brick Lane.
My choice would be Nigella Lawson, Beverley Fortier - alleged to be embroiled in an anguished affair with Mr Blunkett - and Daisy Goodwin, whom you may have seen sexing up poetry via the box and a host of little anthologies stacked up in your local bookshops.I have to declare an interest re Daisy, she being my eldest daughter, as well as a powerhouse of tv programme ideas ( Home Front, House Doctor, Other Peoples Houses etc etc) for the independent production company, Talk Back.Yes, she is a bit georgeous, but also - and this must be true of Nigella and Beverley too - warm, bright and funny. Can you wonder all males pictured with them are grinning from ear to ear when they arent peeking down the cleavage while juggling a champagne glass ? I have nothing against blondes, honestly, but I dont think your Ulrikas and Gwynneths and Scarletts and Reeses can compare with the Dark Ladies for oomph, laughs, conversational firepower and old fashioned sex appeal.
Jocasta Innes
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