TV's Nick reveals new wife needs another operation: RICHARD EDEN

Just weeks after she became the third wife of BBC star Nick Knowles last summer, Katie Dadzie was rushed to hospital for life-saving surgery.

The lingerie entrepreneur, who is 27 years younger than her husband, had suffered a ruptured cervix following a hysterectomy.

Now, Katie, 36, has to undergo another major operation, which will see Nick ‘disappear’ from our screens.

‘I’ve been looking after my wife a lot because she has been through it,’ Nick, 63, tells me at the TRIC Awards at Grosvenor House hotel in Mayfair.

‘She’s had a lot of tough times. She’s got another operation coming up.’

The popular television presenter, who persuaded Prince William to appear on DIY SOS, adds of Katie: ‘She has an amazing surgeon going into this next one, so we are hoping it’s going to be the final one.’

Nick, who had four children with three different women before he met Katie, will be taking time off screen to care for her. ‘I will disappear for a while because I’ll be looking after her,’ he says. ‘I’m always worried [about her], but she’s a warrior and a fighter, so I know she’ll be fine.’

Katie, who has two daughters from a previous relationship, has spoken candidly about her health battles with polycystic ovary syndrome, endometriosis and adenomyosis, all of which affect the female reproductive system.

BBC star Nick Knowles and his wife Katie Dadzie attend day three of the Royal Ascot 2026

‘It was migraines, stabbing pains in my legs, butt and stomach. It was chronic fatigue.

‘It was hiding in loos, crying over another ruined day. It was my daughters terrified of getting their periods in case they end up like Mummy.

‘Years of misdiagnosis and being fobbed off. Told to take painkillers. That it was “normal”. It wasn’t.’

Nick is a royal favourite

having also worked on a two-part documentary for William, Harry and Catherine’s Heads Together campaign, which followed ten mental health sufferers coming together to run the London Marathon.

Disgraced Lord ‘Eddie’ leaves nearly £3 million

Few have taken the down-escalator of life as convincingly as Lord Edward Somerset, who died in 2024 aged 66.

The dashing good looks of his youth had long since been raddled by addiction – not helped by the prison sentence he earned in 2014 for domestic violence, after a jury heard how he had punched and kicked his wife, Caroline, the second of Viscount Davidson’s four daughters, over the course of two decades.

But ‘Eddie’ never quite reached the bottom, as is made plain by probate documents, which validate the assertion by his older brother, ‘Bunter’, the Duke of Beaufort, in 2023, that Eddie was, by then, ‘living a sensible life’.

They reveal that Eddie managed to leave very nearly £3million, divided equally between Francesca and Rose, his daughters by Caroline.

Waddingham plays a blinder

Hannah Waddingham arrives at a special screening of Ride Or Die in London this week

With Richmond upon Thames now a popular destination for devotees of TV footie comedy Ted Lasso, its star Hannah Waddingham reveals she inadvertently found herself in the middle of a fans’ tour.

The actress, 51, who plays AFC Richmond owner Rebecca Welton, explains: ‘It’s a tourist attraction, I didn’t know that. I was there and someone said, “You might want to get out of here, because the tour’s starting”.’

Hannah jokes that she will have to pretend: ‘I’m a lookalike!’

Jagger: I’m itching to get the Stones rolling

Sir Mick Jagger, who turns 83 in a month, is getting itchy feet at the Rolling Stones’ prolonged absence from the stage.

‘I’m a performer,’ he says. ‘If you’re not performing what are you going to do? I don’t mind doing a few skits on [late night US TV host] Jimmy Fallon but it’s not quite the same.’

The indestructible Keith Richards’ reluctance to embark on a gruelling world tour to promote new album Foreign Tongues is said to have grounded the band for now.

‘I’d love to play live with the Stones again,’ adds guitarist Ronnie Wood.

Surely, the Stones couldn’t roll on without Keef?

Rinder to marry Tonia’s daughter!

Rob Rinder at the Variety Club Showbusiness Awards at The Londoner Hotel in Leicester Square back in October 2025

Best known for giving his verdicts in the reality courtroom series Judge Rinder, Robert Rinder is to marry a couple this weekend.

The former practising barrister, 48, is to officiate at the wedding in Italy of the daughter of Tonia Buxton, aka ‘the face of Greek food’.

Sophia Buxton, 27, is getting married to 29-year-old wellness business executive Oliver Motisi in Puglia.

‘Rob is the loveliest of men and he knows Sophia and Ollie really well,’ Tonia tells me. ‘We’re very honoured to have him. I bet Rob will get us all crying. In his heart, he is so romantic.’

Badminton House in Gloucestershire gave its name to the game in the 19th century but current custodians the Duke and Duchess of Beaufort are not fans. The sport was invented in the North Hall and to this day every badminton court replicates its exact dimensions. Georgia Beaufort, who’s hosting Britain’s biggest garden festival, RHS Badminton, next month, admits to the Mail’s Queens, Kings And Dastardly Things podcast: ‘Actually, we have a ping-pong table there now.’ 

SNP’s Lara not such a rebel MP?

She swore the oath of allegiance to King Charles while crossing her fingers and ditching her English accent – which, as one headline put it, is usually more St Trinian’s than Trainspotting.

But the new, privately educated SNP MP Lara Bird can always turn to her own family for parliamentary guidance – or, indeed, to be inspired by extraordinary heroism for Crown and Country. Her mother’s second cousin is General David Leakey, formerly Parliament’s Black Rod, while two other cousins have been awarded the Victoria Cross.