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His age has long been a mystery, but fashion designer Karl Lagerfeld has finally revealed that he is 77. Inviting people to play a guessing game, he held a 70th birthday bash in 2008 and a party celebrating his 79th four years later. But in an interview with Paris Match the white-haired Chanel creative director stated that his real birthdate is September 10, 1935. Man of mystery: He has kept people guessing about his age for years, but Chanel designer Karl Lagerfeld, pictured at the label's couture show in January, has finally revealed that he is 77 He said that for decades he didn't know exactly what year he was born. It was only when his mother died that he discovered it was 1935 and not 1938 as stated on documentation. '[She] changed the [year]. It was easier to make a 3 or an 8 ... I don't know why she did it,' he explained. More... Great minds think alike! Marc Jacobs and Anna Wintour snapped wearing matching Prada fur coats to Great Gatsby premiere &#

Juan Murdoch, a father-of-six from Idaho Falls, Idaho, has invented interactive pajamas which, when scanned with a camera phone or tablet, can tell bedtime stories. The pajamas are adorned with 47 clusters of dots that act like barcodes. When a child scans each cluster with a tablet or smartphone camera, a different bedtime story or lesson about an animal is launched. 'Kids have a patience level of about ten seconds,' the inventor, whose own children range in age from six to 18, told Today.com. 'The nice thing about these is they're instant.' Interactive sleepwear: Smart PJs are adorned by clusters of dots that act like bar codes. When they are scanned by a smartphone or tablet, they launch a bedtime story or animal lesson There are currently two apps that sync with his invention, called Smart PJs. The Smart PJ Stories app contains 47 different bedtime tales including Mother Goose classics and tales by the Brothers Grimm and Hans Christian Andersen. And the origi

If you ever get so hungry you could eat a horse, a recipe book - launched in the wake of the horsemeat scandal - is here to help. The Horsemeat Cookbook by Chris Windle includes recipes for Pastissada de Caval (a horse stew), Pot-au-feu de cheval (another horse stew), Korean Yuk Hui (raw horse salad) and Khazakhstan’s national dish, Beshbarmak (boiled horse and noodles). With the help of Chris Windle's new cookbook (complete with horsemeat jokes), left, you too could learn how to rustle up a tasty plate of horse fillets, right The book - which comes with a handy guide to the nutritional benefits of gobbling My Little Pony - also points out it's lower in fat than beef, and has twice as much iron and vitamin B12. There are even some horsemeat jokes thrown in for good measure. More... Rowan Pelling's sex advice column: My friend thinks my husband is a sex pest JANET STREET-PORTER: Hand back our bus passes and TV licences?! You must be joking, Iain Duncan Smith JA

A new study by a Western Illinois University researcher has found that couples who have more interaction on Facebook are happier in real life. Professor Christopher Carpenter says users who appear in more photos with their partner and regularly 'tag' each other in status updates report closer romantic relationships. He also claims that the reverse is true, and less interaction leads to less closeness. Status update: A new study has found that couples who 'tag' each other in more Facebook photos have closer relationships in real life This flies in the face of previous research that blamed the site for everything from causing jealousy to making heavy users more disconnected to their partner. Carpenter is also the author of last year's widely-covered study linking Facebook and narcissism. More... The new book club? Women desperate to kickstart their careers are forming 'Lean In' circles inspired by Facebook's Sheryl Sandberg Martha Stewart admits sh

Jackie Siegel's partially finished dream home known as Versailles will include a theater inspired by the Paris Opera House, a bowling alley, roller-skating rink, and 30-car garage. The 47-year-old mother-of-eight from Windermere, Florida, is the star of The Queen Of Versailles, an award-winning documentary chronicling Mrs Siegel and her billionaire husband, David Siegel, as they build their 90,000-square-foot mansion modeled after France's 17th century Palace of Versailles. Mrs Siegel, who recently resumed construction on the sprawling house after creditors went after her husband’s company, Westgate Resorts, and work on Versailles was halted, told New York Magazine: 'We’re going to inlay the floors with a lot of onyx and amethyst and semiprecious stones.' Queen of Versailles: Jackie Siegel's partially finished dream home, known as Versailles, will include a theater inspired by the Paris Opera House, a bowling alley, roller-skating rink, and 30-car garage The m

Ask any of my five children whether I lovingly hand-stitched their school play costumes years ago and I’m sure they’d smirk and shake their heads. ‘Oh, that was the nanny,’ they’d say. That’s because they were all tucked up in bed asleep while I sat up well past midnight at the kitchen table. The hours would tick past unnoticed as I fed swathes of material through my sewing machine to make the perfect Little Bo Peep gown with puffy sleeves. I don’t mind that they took my creations for granted, because the pleasure of sewing was as much for me as for them. Frankly, I would have felt I was letting them down as a mother had I not made them myself. Riches and stitches: 'Superwoman' Nicola Horlick used to make her own curtains and costumes for her children's school plays For there is no greater satisfaction than making something from scratch, by hand, for yourself or your family. And when you’ve spent the day taut with work stress, the sensation of a needle pulling thread is

We have Jilly Cooper’s raunchy novel Polo to thank for making the sport sexy. When it was published in 1991 polo was still an elite sport, reserved for royalty and the extremely rich, but its popularity is booming today and the number of polo clubs in the UK has doubled in the last decade to more than 80. Inspired by the polo frenzy and believing I was a competent horse rider, I went on a crash course at the Royal County of Berkshire Polo Club. Saddle up: Lisa heads to Berkshire for a crash course in Polo; the sport made famous by Jilly Cooper How hard could trying to look glamorous while juggling a stick, ball and horse be? Further buoyed after meeting my teacher, dashing England team captain Jamie Morrison, I headed to the arena to find my mare chomping at the bit. Alas we were told to get onto wooden 'horses' first to learn how to swing the mallet without bashing our ponies’ heads, and I connected with the ball only rarely as we practised our swings. Then came the safet

Depending on whom you believe, there are two versions of how the then Arsenal footballer Cesc Fabregas met his glamorous girlfriend Daniella Semaan. Her account of events goes that they swapped numbers after she nervously went up to him at a Japanese restaurant in London to ask for his autograph for her football-mad son. Her fellow WAGs at Barcelona, where Fabregas now plays, prefer a more colourful tale. In their version, the gorgeous Miss Semaan hip-swayed provocatively across the room, followed by the popping eyes of every male diner, before brazenly dropping a piece of paper, on which was written her mobile number, on to the player’s table. Fabregas had called it by the time she’d sashayed as far as the door, so the story goes. Where both tales converge is that pneumatic, Lebanese-born Daniella was, apparently, happily married at the time, to her London-based, millionaire businessman husband, Elie Taktouk, with whom she has two children. The first inkling 38-year-old Mr Taktouk ha

Actress Emily Lloyd has revealed for the first time that she was sexually abused when she was five years old. Emily, 43, who shot to fame as a 16-year-old in the hit 1987 film Wish You Were Here, makes the revelations in her forthcoming autobiography Wish I Was There, which is serialised in The Mail on Sunday’s Event magazine today. She says her abuser was a family friend who babysat for her and her younger sister. Emily writes: ‘Mum had so many demands on her time that she often trusted babysitting duties to friends. ‘One family friend was an older man. What she didn’t know was that he was a depraved predator. ‘The man, once invited into the family home, betrayed that trust in the most sickening way imaginable. ‘He would come into my room after I’d gone to bed and subject me to acts so abhorrent it’s too painful to recount. ‘They were accompanied by the classic threats; if I told a soul about what was happening, worse would happen. ‘I felt dirty and worthless, invaded and helpless. ‘

She -and her famous rear - turned heads with her bridesmaid's gown at her sister's royal nuptials. And now Pippa Middleton's making sure all eyes on her at another wedding, as she stepped out in a bold, fitted azure-coloured dress. The Duchess of Cambridge's sister attended the wedding of Michael Marsham, son of the Earl and Countess of Romney and Lucy Beaumont, daughter of Viscount and Viscountess Allendale. Pippa Middleton looked stunning as she attended the wedding of Michael Marsham, son of the Earl and Countess of Romney and Lucy Beaumont, daughter of Viscount and Viscountess Allendale Wedding bells? Pippa, sporting a bright outfit, beamed after the ceremony in Northumberland Mike Marsham who is a director at Black Rock, married partner Lucy at Hexham Cathedral in an hour-long Church of England ceremony. More... No half-blood prince here as Kate and Wills do battle at Harry Potter film studios Date night: Pippa Middleton steps out with beau Nico Jack

There are few times when Rachel Stevens’ new life as a mother, and her old one as a sex symbol and No 1 pop star, collide. But when they do it’s almost always at children’s parties. Reach, the S Club 7 song Rachel and her six bandmates had a hit with in 2000, may be more than a decade old but its catchy beat still makes it a firm favourite when it comes to toddler discos. 'Whenever it comes on everyone looks at me to see how I’ll react,' she smiles. 'I think it’s brilliant that people are still playing our music. But all that stuff feels like a lifetime ago. So much has changed.' Scroll down for video Fame: Rachel Stevens admits that she struggled with the pressures of her S Club 7 pop career S Club 7 split up ten years ago and Rachel, as the band’s most famous face and resident FHM poster girl, went on to have a successful solo career and even acted in a couple of films. But then record sales fell and it went a bit quiet. Next came Strictly Come Dancing in 2008 (Ra