Mom and daughter compete for beauty crown

I know beauty pageants are not all that PC, but I think this is such fun. Cressida Grant is competing with a close rival in her bid to be crowned Miss Great Britain -- her 40-year-old mum Philippa. The pair, the first-ever mother and daughter to compete in the same major beauty pageant, insist they won't be falling out. A-level student Cressida, 17, who entered first said: "I saw it on the internet. I noticed there were no age limits so I told mum she should enter too. Mum is drop-dead gorgeous and turns heads wherever she goes. I really want to do well but I just suspect mum might get that little bit further." Sales manager and former model Philippa, from Putney, said: "I'm not sure how either of us will do, but we will both be rooting for each other. Hopefully at some point we will be standing on the same stage together. It's not going to cause any rivalry, it will be fun."

THOMAS MANN wrote a novel in which the hero gets it on with a mother and daughter. Maybe that accounts for why I like this story. Guilty, guilty, guilty.