Sean Connery

RICHARD EDEN: Sir Sean Connery's granddaughter Saskia was understandably left devastated when the James Bond star died in October 2020, aged 90.

'I'm no good in the modern world,' says the 76-year-old director of films including Distant Voices, Still Lives. 'I can't see contemporaneity as interesting. But the 59-year-old said she does see a certain irony in earning recognition from somewhere she once longed to leave. So, when she married then unknown hairdresser John Frieda in 1975, it seemed she'd gone off grid. But it turns out her 16-year-marriage to the man she calls the 'love of her life', and with whom she has son Jordan, was written in the stars more than initially thought. 'Saskia ended up asking why they were getting married at all,' a close pal of the former couple informs me. Pugh played the role of college student Dani in the 2019 horror film Midsommar which sees her character in the clutches of a pagan cult at a Swedish mid-summer festival. 'Unfortunately, it didn't work out,' he confides. Pugh played the role of college student Dani in the 2019 horror film Midsommar which sees her character in the clutches of a pagan cult at a Swedish mid-summer festival She's dating a lot. She's worlds happier. She's happy to be single now. Phillip, meanwhile, who stands to be the beneficiary of the Austro-American Muhr banking and bottled water dynasty, says he has fond memories of their four-year relationship