Pandora: Will Ken's revenge come at the expense of the BBC's glittering star?

Ever since Ken Livingstone was ousted from City Hall, he's spent his time plotting his revenge on the media, who he thinks drove him from his office on the back of a personal campaign.

The former London mayor is therefore delighted to have been handed a gilt-edged opportunity to embarrass the BBC's very own Evan Davis.

Next month, Cancer Research holds a turn-the-tables lunch, at which politicians are given the chance to interview leading journalists in front of the TV cameras, sketch-writers, and several hundred paying guests.

The event will see shadow business minister Alan Duncan cross swords with Sky's political editor, Adam Boulton in front of a packed audience at London's Dorchester Hotel.

Top of the bill, however, will be Livingstone grilling Davis, a prospect Ken's clearly thrilled about.

"Having spent most of my political life at the mercy of journalists' prying questions, Turn the Tables should prove to be somewhat therapeutic for me," he said yesterday.

There's no word yet as to what questions Ken's got lined up, but considering the revelations about his own private life which cropped up just before the mayoral elections, don't be surprised if he decides to get personal.

Davis's BBC nickname, after all, is "tinsel tits" – his nipples are pierced – and he's rumoured to sport an exotic piece of intimate body bling known as a Prince Albert.

Hogwarts' pupil may study in US

There's bad news for the legions of teenage suitors who've spent their summer following actress Emma Watson around.

Contrary to reports that she'd accepted an offer from Cambridge University, the Harry Potter brainbox tells me she's considering decamping to the US.

"I've applied to a few universities for next year, including several American ones," she told me at the National Movie Awards. "If I do go there I will do a liberal arts degree, but if I stay in the UK I'll do English literature."

Avert your eyes, Prince William – and Richard

The forthcoming TV drama featuring Prince William's former crush, the wonderfully - monikered Isabella Anstruther-Gough-Calthorpe, looks set to be steamy affair.

Calthorpe – as the actress modestly prefers to appear on cast sheets nowadays – is currently filming the new ITV series Trinity, created by Ricky Gervais's producer on The Office, Ash Atalla.

Several scenes in the series, I hear, will involve passionate clinches with Radio 1 DJ Reggie Yates.

"Me and Isabella have filmed lots of "before and after" sex scenes, but we haven't had any actual humping yet," the gentlemanly Yates told Pandora recently.

Calthorpe is currently stepping out with Sir Richard Branson's 23-year-old son Sam. No doubt her priapic potential father-in-law will be proud.

Frugal met by Fogle

Plummy-voiced TV presenter Ben Fogle was relegated to transport duties at the wedding of his sister-in-law Chiara Hunt in Salzburg over the weekend.

The intrepid star of the small screen was dispatched to the airport early on Saturday morning to meet frugal guests who had opted to take the 6am flight out of Stansted. A frantic Fogle was spotted flapping a clipboard.

"Ben was there waiting for them all at the airport showing them where to go to get the right bus," I'm told.

"At first some of us thought he was a holiday rep with his clipboard," added my informant, "but it was actually very sweet of him. "Such a nice, polite boy."

Naughtie, naughtie

James Naughtie was out covering the Republican National Convention in Minnesota for the Today programme last week.

Meanwhile, I couldn't help but notice that the name of a certain Andrew Naughtie appeared at the end credits of Newsnight's coverage of the same event.

Was this a coincidence, I wondered, or could they by any chance be related?

"Ah yes, that is Jim's son," says a BBC spokesman when I call.

"He's one of a number of students we've got on work experience at the moment.

"They are all helping out with our election coverage – though I'm not certain how many of them were actually sent to the convention."

Boris gives apes his silverbacking

Boris Johnson is the latest heavyweight, if you'll excuse the expression, to throw his support behind this year's Great Gorilla Run.

The annual 7km run, held in a fortnight in aid of the Gorilla Organisation, will consist of nearly a thousand participants donning gorilla suits and running through the streets of London.

In the past, the organisation has usually managed to convince a celebrity runner to put on a hairy costume. No word on who this year's VIP great ape will be, but sadly Boris (flatteringly described by the charity as "London's very own silverback") apparently wasn't available.

"Bill Oddie is definitely coming, though, but just to watch," says a spokesman excitedly.

"I don't think there's any way we'd ever get him into one of the suits."

pandora@independent.co.uk

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