Rotting algae blights Mick's beach bolthole on Mustique: ALISON BOSHOFF

Mick Jagger ’s paradise retreat on Mustique has been blighted by tons of washed-up seaweed – a peril that is currently featuring in David Attenborough ’s Blue Planet III documentary. Earlier this year, the Rolling Stones frontman had his holiday spoiled by the stink of an ocean algae bloom, sargassum, which has been washing up on the beaches at night. It’s the same blight that has plagued the coastline in Mexico and other parts of the Caribbean. ‘Mick has been incredibly upset,’ says a source. ‘It comes up on shore every night and coats the sand.

It traps all the trash – so think empty bottles, flip-flops, nappies – all stinking in there, and it also comes with a cloud of tiny little midges hovering above it. You have to hire someone to dig trenches at dawn every morning to bury it and repeat every day. It’s just relentless. It’s in the sea, too, and you can get it caught in your hair. It’s really nasty.’ The problem is at its worst over the summer, so the singer will be hoping it’s not in residence when he arrives next month for his festive break with the family.

The Rolling Stones frontman bought Stargroves in 1983 and had a Japanese-style multi-pavilion compound built overlooking the sea. At first it was his retreat with Jerry Hall and their four children. Now he goes there with fiancee Melanie Hamrick and their son Devi, nine. Mick Jagger’'s paradise retreat, which he visits with his fiancee Melanie Hamrick and their son Devi, is being blighted by tons of washed-up seaweed His son by model Luciana Morad, Lucas, 27, is also always invited, as is daughter Karis, 56, by singer Marsha Hunt, and daughter Jade, 55, by Bianca Jagger.

Jerry and their grown-up children also go, plus the grandchildren. The clan is so large that in 2006 he bought a neighbouring villa to accommodate them all. Mustique has been the premium destination in the Caribbean ever since Colin Glenconner bought the island for £45,000 in 1958. He gifted a plot of land to Princess Margaret as a wedding present in 1959 and she had a villa, Les Jolies Eaux, built in 1972. The island became a playground for the rich and famous, with David Bowie owning a house for a time.

The massive sargassum bloom, which stretches from West Africa to the Caribbean, is a recurring phenomenon known as the Great Atlantic Sargassum Belt. It emerged in 2010, fuelled by fertiliser run-off from farms and deforestation, and now weighs an estimated 33 million tons. Dropping this month without warning? Adele's secret album... Is Adele about to ‘do a Beyonce?’ A very senior music industry source tells me that the singer has completed a new album, which she has actually secretly been working on for four years, since 2022. ‘I hear that it is done,’ I am told.

The plan, apparently, is for her to simply drop it unannounced overnight, as Beyonce famously did in 2013. That would happen as soon as this month, with November being the best time of the year for music releases. The release of Adele’s last album, 30, was a full-scale old media rollout, with covers of US and UK Vogue and the release of a concert film. This time around, though, I hear that she is going to do things ‘the modern way’ like artists she admires including Kendrick Lamar and simply release it without fanfare in its entirety.

As to a tour, I hear that she still hates the experience of touring, which she finds not compatible with her commitments to son Angelo, by first husband Simon Konecki, who is 14 and in school. However, a ‘hold’ has been put on some immense venues in the UK over the summer, and the word is that she is weighing the idea of doing just a few really huge engagements for fans in the summer holidays. She famously performed a residency in Las Vegas in 2024 and another in Munich, Germany.

Both were enormously lucrative. It’s already been reported that Adele has been recording songs with producer Paul Epworth at Church Studios in North London. Talk of a secret concert at Camden’s Roundhouse this autumn came to nothing. Sources say that the album, which could be called 39, will explore her experience of fame and her London roots. She’ll be seen early next year in her acting debut in the Tom Ford film Cry To Heaven, a period drama based on the 1982 novel by Interview With The Vampire author Anne Rice. 'Lady' Kim's romance with Sir Lewis is revving up The romance between Kim Kardashian and Sir Lewis Hamilton continues at full speed – and I hear that the Formula 1 star is now house hunting in Los Angeles.

In what seems to be a sign that the couple are growing ever closer, Hamilton has asked agents to find him a mansion in the city, where Ms Kardashian lives with her four school-aged children by former husband Kanye West. He is open to renting or buying and favoured areas include Malibu, Hollywood Hills and Pacific Palisades. The house would be a place to stay during the off-season so that he and Ms Kardashian could more easily continue their romance – at the moment, home for Hamilton is Monaco.

Sources say that the racing driver is ‘overwhelmed with how easy his connection to Kim is and how they make things work despite their very intense solo schedules’. Apparently some of Ms Kardashian’s friends jokingly call her ‘Lady Kim’ already. Ms Kardashian is the star of a new series of the legal drama All’s Fair. The show has got a second run even though the critics hated the first, and viewers stayed away. Kim, 46, said at the launch that they had made something, ‘just for the watchers and fans to enjoy,’ adding bravely: ‘It doesn’t have to be critically acclaimed.’

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The trouble is, the film has also bombed at the box office, taking just $1million in the US and being dumped out of cinemas after one week – despite an all-star cast and a $25million budget. Before Klara, Waititi brought us Next Goal Wins, which was also a flop, and Thor: Love And Thunder, which was considered a creative disappointment and a ‘franchise killer.’ Tough times continue at Holly Willoughby’s lifestyle brand Wylde Moon. The brand sells crystals and candles, and is supported by a website with a strong interest in horoscopes.

Latest accounts show net assets in 2025 of only £2,263 compared with a very modest £4,831 the previous year. Profit is not stated. However corporation tax was paid at £2,451, which would indicate only around £12,000 of profit. The previous year it was around double that. Holly has reinvented herself with a YouTube show, Holly Willoughby Together, after leaving This Morning. Taylor Swift is going all out to try to win an Oscar for her original song in Toy Story 5 next spring, pressing the flesh with Academy voters and their children at a screening in Manhattan last week after a performance at a Hollywood gala a week before that.

Watched by her publicist, she did a full hour of selfies and autographs with the 200-strong audience. The biggest media event of the year is almost upon us: the release of Grand Theft Auto 6 on November 19. It’s the first GTA game since 2013 and predictions are that it will take $5billion globally in its first week of release, making it the biggest gaming launch of all time. For perspective, the smash-hit film The Odyssey took $260million globally in its first week of release.