TALK OF THE TOWN: Cate Blanchett buys a home in sleepy Cornish village

It’s a sleepy Cornish village where most of the locals are old grannies (including my own!) who live in pebbledashed 1970s bungalows.

But could Mawgan Porth be about to become a magnet for celebrities – with Cate Blanchett set to buy a home there. I’m told developers are snapping up modest houses in the village for up to £2.5 million, knocking them down and building flash new properties in their place.

One is earmarked for Oscar-winning actress Cate, 52.

Oscar-winning actress Cate Blanchette, pictured here in October 2018 is believed to be buying a house in Cornwall

The rumour locally is she is buying a house in Mawgan Porth, where even modest homes are exchanging hands for upwards of £2 million

Says my source: ‘The talk of Mawgan Porth is that Cate has bought a home here.’

Last week Cate’s PR rep simply said ‘yes’ when I asked if she was about to become Mawgan Porth’s first star resident.

 Joe’s gin joke headache

Joe Wicks’s two-year-old daughter Indie left him with a lot of explaining to do when she casually mentioned at nursery school she was heading home for a ‘gin-ton’.

It turns out that fitness king Joe – a gin fan despite his clean-living lifestyle – allows Indie to have a tonic water in the evenings and pretends to pour the spirit into her glass so she doesn’t feel left out. 

‘She really loves the flavour of the tonic,’ says Joe, 32. 

Indie sounds like a girl after my own heart!