Jemma Melvin, 31, British hobby baker, sweetens the Queen’s party. The Southport copywriter won the final of the “Platinum Pudding” competition, making her lemon and amaretto trifle the official royal dessert in the 70th Jubilee year. According to British media reports, the layered dessert consists of lemon-soaked sponge cake, orange-lemon jelly, lemon cream, amaretti biscuits, tangerine puree, whipped cream, candied lemon peel, chocolate chips and crushed amaretti biscuits (bottom to top). Melvin was inspired by the dessert at the 1947 royal wedding, when Lemon Posset was served, and by her two grannies. “This particular trifle is a tribute to three women: my grandmothers and the Queen herself,” she told the PA news agency. Her one grandma taught her to bake, trifle was her other grandmother’s specialty, and the Queen had Lemon Posset at her wedding. 5000 recipes had been submitted for the royal dessert competition.
Lech Walesa, 78, former President of Poland, chatted up history over a flat tire. According to the Polish newspaper, his SUV broke down on Highway 84 in the US state of Connecticut Dziennik reported. The police officers who were summoned recognized the Nobel Prize winner immediately by his mustache, and the local police Facebook page said: “You never know who you’ll meet as a state trooper.” Among the officers was a police officer of Polish origin, Lukasz Lipert, 35. He took the opportunity to speak to the politician from his native country. He was “more than grateful for the opportunity to help such an influential person and to have a brief chat with him about the history of Poland,” the post said. “It was definitely a great opportunity to meet the man who had an important voice in these times,” Lipert told a local newspaper.
Thomas Kuchaty, 53, SPD candidate for the office of Prime Minister of North Rhine-Westphalia, makes his own children’s program. After the television duel, he gave his competitor Hendrik Wüst from the CDU a radio play character for his daughter. According to a spokesman, the SPD had 100 such figures produced that look like Kuchaty, with glasses and a beard. On it are four stories spoken by Kuchaty “impartially child-friendly” on topics such as educational justice. Wüst’s daughter is one year old.
Kelly Osborne, 37, British presenter, is happier than happy. The daughter of hard rock legend Ozzy Osbourne, who is in a relationship with US musician Sid Wilson, 45, shared a selfie in which she kisses her lips and holds ultrasound images up to the camera. She wrote, “I know I’ve been very quiet the last few months so I thought I’d share with you all the reason… I’m beyond excited to announce that I’m going to be a mom.” To say that she is happy does not describe her condition sufficiently, the British continued: “I’m euphoric!”
Timur Bartels, 26, actor, raves about his Ukrainian guests. Two months ago he took in an elderly couple. “I have learned how important and beautiful it is to have family around you, for example at dinner together,” Bartels told the German Press Agency. “Sometimes you don’t realize how much you lack such familiarity until you experience it again.” However, there are also irritations. “They couldn’t understand, for example, that as a heterosexual man I still like to paint my fingernails. Even things like not being allowed to clear the table because women do it were difficult at first.” However, they would talk about such subjects. “I also had to get involved with a few things. In return, however, they also accepted how I live and am,” explained Bartels.