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AMANDA Holden’s protective daughter shakes a fist at beachgoers daring to snap her tickled mum.
Hollie, eight, sister Alexa, 14, and parents Amanda, 49, and Chris Hughes were at lunch on the French Riviera with F1’s David Coulthard, 49, and his wife Karen.
Good Morning Britain’s Piers Morgan joined them in St Tropez and offered to take the picture for the fans.
Amanda was amused that the Dutch youngsters wanting the photo recognised her from
TRAIN passengers need not be alarmed if they hear a strange voice calling for order in their carriage – it is probably just Sir Lindsay Hoyle’s parrot.
The Speaker of the House of Commons has revealed he takes his pet bird Boris on train trips from London to his Chorley constituency in Lancashire.
And the mischievous squawker has taken to calling out his owner’s famous phrases while making the journey north in his basket.
Sir Lindsay said: “I’ll put the
TV – but didn’t know celebrity snapper for the occasion Piers. She wrote on Instagram: “Thrilled to be known & asked for a photo from these lovely children from the Netherlands and the photographer @piers morgan (no clue who he is).”
Unabashed Piers, 55, instead posed for his own snap with Manchester City ace Raheem Sterling, 25.
The player is taking a family break in the resort after being given two days off work. parrot down and he’ll start shouting, ‘Lock the doors, lock the doors’, and people on the train start looking around saying, ‘Who’s shouting lock the doors?’
“They can see I’m not speaking, but there’s this parrot in my box going, ‘Order, order’ or, ‘Lock the doors.’”
Sir Lindsay said he believes Boris picked up the phrases because his wife “deliberately” places the parrot next to the television. In the
Commons, the Speaker makes the call for doorkeepers to “lock the doors” to the division lobbies eight minutes after calling a vote in the chamber.
Sir Lindsay also owns a tortoise called Maggie, Patrick the cat and Betty the terrier, with their names all inspired by politicians.
Along with Boris, named after the Prime Minister, the animals travel with Sir Lindsay and his wife each week to spend the weekend at their home in the NorthWest.
They often go by car, but
Sir
Lindsay sometimes takes the train, with the cat and parrot in baskets.
He said: “The parrot Boris will be shouting away to us.
“His latest is, ‘Point of order, point of order’ so I’ll have lots of points of order going north. It’ll be fun.The cat just ignores it all.”
Describing the travel arrangements, he added: “Even the pets go up and down with us.
“The tortoise will be going up, the parrot Boris is going up and Patrick the cat is going up, but the dog’s at home.”