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TONY PARSONS
There’s a reason why losing a dog cuts us so deeply – just ask Meghan Markle
Meanwhile, police have been offering advice to families living near the fabled Fab Four zebra crossing in Abbey Road
MEGHAN MARKLE is in mourning for her dog Guy.
And when she paid an emotional tribute to her rescue beagle on Instagram this week, she spoke for millions of us who still miss our own dogs.
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It is a simple and emotionally devastating little film.
We see Guy when he was a young puppy, given a home by a young, single actress in 2015.
And we see him grow and become part of a family.
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With her small children. In the car. On the beach.
Pottering about the house.
In the arms of the family who love him, and totally a part of that family.
We see him growing old.
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Guy could have been your dog.
He could have been mine. And how fast it flies, the lifetime of a dog.
How heartbreakingly quick it goes.
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Guy was nine when he died — a senior dog, but you always hope for double figures.
Stan, our Cavalier King Charles spaniel who died in May, was 12 — a good age for any dog.
But 12 was still too soon. Whatever age they go, it will always be too soon.
Because when your dog dies, you finally understand the true meaning of grief.
No matter how much they love us, we grow away from our parents.
And no matter how much we love them, our children grow away from us.
But a dog is as close on that tear-stained last day as when they came home as a puppy, when laughter was everywhere.
There is a purity about our bond with dogs because their love is so unconditional.
My friend Fred always says that if he locked his wife and his dog in the boot of his car and then came back after four hours, only one of them would be pleased to see him.
Crazy but true!
Dogs love us even when we do not really deserve to be loved.
That is why losing a dog cuts so deep.
Meghan was never more relatable than when she mourned Guy.
Because the unbearable pain she feels knowing that she will never see that dog again in this lifetime is a pain that millions of us can relate to.
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And although a dog’s lifetime is so heartbreakingly brief, they still take up a sizable chunk of our own years.
Guy was by Meghan’s side when she was living alone in Canada, filming Suits.
Guy was there all through her courtship with Harry, and the royal wedding, and all the ructions, rows and self-imposed royal exile.
A dog is life’s great consolation.
No matter how bad your day, no matter what the world thinks of you, seeing that familiar doggy face, running your fingertips through that fur, always has the power to lift your spirits.
We give our dogs a home. And they give us so much more.
While they live, your dog is always by your side — because there is nowhere else in the world that dog would rather be.
And when they die, the sense of loss is overwhelming.
Grief is indeed the price we pay for love.
Just ask Meghan.
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Meghan's full tribute to Guy the dog
In Memory of Guy
In 2015, I adopted a beagle from a dog rescue in Canada.
He had been at a kill shelter in Kentucky and given a few days to live. I swooped him up….and fell in love.
They referred to him as ‘the little guy’ because he was so small and frail, so I named him ‘Guy’.
And he was the best guy any girl could have asked for.
If you followed me on instagram back in the day, you saw a lot of him - and on The Tig too.
He was with me at Suits, when I got engaged, (and then married), when I became a mom….he was with me for everything: the quiet, the chaos, the calm, the comfort.
He endured a terrible accident shortly before I moved to the UK which had him undergoing surgeries for several months and unable to leave the clinic.
Doctors said he would never walk again, but Dr Noel Fitzpatrick said he could do it.
H and I would drive late at night, after hours, to see Guy as he recovered in Surrey for months on end.
I will always be grateful to Noel and his team, the team at Queen West Animal Hospital in TO, our vets now, and my friends and community: Thank you for loving him so.
Because many of you will now see Guy in this new series, I hope you’ll come to understand why I am so devastated by his loss. I think you may fall a little bit in love too.
I have cried too many tears to count - the type of tears that make you get in the shower with the absurd hope that the running water on your face will somehow make you not feel them, or pretend they’re not there. But they are.
And that’s okay too.
Thank you for so many years of unconditional love, my sweet Guy. You filled my life in ways you’ll never know
As ever,
Meghan
Only one? Demi should have won Moore
When Demi Moore picked up her Golden Globe for a dazzling performance in The Substance, it was shocking to hear it was the first major award she had received in her 45-year career.
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And the reason it is so shocking is because many of the best films in the Nineties starred Demi Moore.
Off the top of my head I can think of Ghost (1990), A Few Good Men (1992), Indecent Proposal (1993) and of course she produced Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me (1999).
No gong for any of those? Apparently not.
So congratulations to Demi on her very first major award, for a role where she plays an ageing star who finds an elixir that will allegedly give her eternal youth.
Which is ironic, because at 62 Demi really doesn’t look any different from when she was 26 and making pottery seem steamy with Patrick Swayze in Ghost.
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Tribute to the King
IN the week that Elvis Presley would have turned 90, dozens of tribute acts gathered in Birmingham for the annual search to find his top mimic in Europe.
For all serious Elvis contests, the ultimate goal for the winner is playing Graceland, Memphis, home of The King.
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Every summer since 2007, Elvis Presley Enterprises has run a contest there to find “the best representation of the legacy of Elvis Presley”.
The current Ultimate Elvis Tribute Act Champion is Emilio Santoro from Weston-super-Mare in Somerset.
And Emilio can do all the eras brilliantly – the snake-hipped young Elvis, leather-clad comeback Elvis, the lot.
Emilio is astonishing.
When I was a lad, impersonating Elvis was a bit of a joke.
These days, it’s an art form.
Taking a pounding
THE Pound in freefall. The threat of strike action by militant unions.
The growing shadow of a national debt crisis.
And – inevitably, given our moronic over-reliance on weather-based wind and solar power – the sudden threat of the lights going out.
So 2025 is beginning to feel a lot like the Seventies.
Who’s at number one this week?
Alvin Stardust?
Police tuned out...
POLICE have been offering advice to families living near the fabled Fab Four zebra crossing in Abbey Road, North West London.
They are being plagued by drug gangs brazenly conducting their business around the clock.
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One family found junkies shooting up and burning crack cocaine on their doorstep.
Another resident was told he would be “shot and chopped up” after he confronted a dealer carrying out a transaction in broad daylight.
Around 20 cars have had their windows caved in.
The police advice to petrified locals is to fight back by playing a bit of Bach or Mozart.
A Met PC emailed a concerned resident to advise: “You can also contact your housing association/the council and ask them to play classical music as this is proven to deter and prevent crimes.”
Yes, that should stop them! Playing Classic FM to a bunch of violent crackheads who can’t tell their Carl Orff from their Elgar.
I live in the same neck of the woods as the Abbey Road residents and one of my neighbours had the same problem with drugs being bought, sold and enjoyed in his secluded parking space.
It made life a misery for everyone on the street.
My neighbour hired a private security guard for a month to watch over the parking space that had become a crack den, and the problem moved swiftly on.
Which suggests that the one thing that would stop neighbourhoods being blighted by drug gangs is the police turning up.
But of course that is far too much to hope for.
Nicole ends dry Jan
IN Babygirl, Nicole Kidman plays a bored middle-aged CEO who catches the eye of a hunky young male intern.
Promoting the erotic thriller at the National Board of Review Awards, naughty Nicole languidly slurped a glass of milk on stage and then purred, “Good girl!” – a key catchphrase from the multiple-orgasm movie.
Looks like dry January is over already.
Voters Trump celebs
“You’re all so famous, so talented, so powerful,” compere Nikki Glaser told a room full of movie stars at the Golden Globes.
“You can really do anything – except tell the country who to vote for.”
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A good joke – but also incisive political commentary.
When you are worried about how to pay next month’s bills, you do not need some celebrity millionaire telling you how to vote, or who should be running your country.
Kamala Harris had every star of stage and screen backing her for President, from Oprah Winfrey to Taylor Swift and Bruce Springsteen.
And the American people still voted for Donald Trump.
Now Tesla titan Elon Musk – the only superstar to endorse Trump – is telling us that Nigel Farage should be replaced as leader of Reform and Keir Starmer should be replaced as the UK’s Prime Minister.
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