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MarriageA compelling mix of working-class front and middleclass polish, Daisy Donovan has made a career out of brazenness. Now Terence's daughter has hooked Hollywood and a husband. Donovan married her long-time boyfriend, although she would hate anyone to think she was about to become a smug married. “Bridget Jones has a lot to answer for. Me and my married friends catch ourselves going, ‘Oh, thank God we haven’t been left on the shelf for ever,’ because that is now the ultimate fear. All Bridget Jones did was give us a word for it — singleton — which was the worst possible thing. Women should be freer to say, ‘F*** it, I want to work.’ I have a friend with the most amazing life, so interesting, and she says (adopts a sad, little voice), ‘Everyone’s getting married.’” Perhaps other women also approve of Donovan because, unlike most young, female celebs, she is able to maintain stardom without help from Julien Macdonald dresses and tit tape. Her view of the celebrity party circuit is: “It takes time and energy, and if I’m working, then I’d rather flop in front of the telly than put on a tiny dress and work out how to get myself to God knows where.” She starts to giggle. “I mean, lazy some would call it.” Donovan says what other women might think, but would never dare express. She once asked Glenda Jackson on camera: “So, acting. Is it about getting into the part, or is it about getting that great big part inside of you?” Or Denis Healey: “Is it true you once gave Margaret Thatcher a pearl necklace?” Donovan admits that, “Sometimes I wake up in the middle of the night and wonder how I do these things. I can embarrass myself so badly that I literally get a hot prickle down the back of my neck.” She doesn’t mention how her victims might be feeling.
Daisy Donovan's hair is pure Farrah Fawcett it oozes in toffee- thick red curls to the low coffee table at the Electric where she is nervously nibbling pretzels while her face is a confetti of freckles punctuated by wide, curious hazel eyes. She looks poised, yet earthy. The 30-year-old daughter of the Sixties photographer Terence Donovan is on a roll at the moment. She's starring as the love interest in Danny Boyle's new film and is about to marry her boyfriend of six years, Dan Mazer, whom she met on The 11 O'Clock Show where he was producing the Ali G segment. So everything is going swimmingly, and she certainly looks the picture of health, in a fashionable brown shrug, gold chains slung round her neck. But she is so full of contradictions it is hard to get a handle on quite what kind of a person Daisy is. She comes across like a Sloaney public schoolgirl Terence Donovan once said her voice cost him Pounds 20,000 but her background on his side is solidly working-class. She is so shy that she comes out in rashes, yet she has built a career on embarrassing herself. She is posh and laddish at once, probably as a result of the class collision that was her parents' marriage. Terence was the son of a lorry driver, from London's East End; Diana, an elegant ex-model with colonial Guyanese roots, hung out with Princess Diana. Despite her high-profile family, it was The 11 O'Clock Show that introduced Daisy to a slightly shocked and bemused nation. She specialised in asking politicians filthy questions. Memorably, she enquired of Ann Widdecombe, 'You give heart, you give soul, you give head, am I right?' and of Norman Fowler: 'Politics must be like standing on the edge of a precipice
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