Bond girl deported

Michelle Yeoh, who will been seen this autumn as Burma detention heroine Aung San Suu Kyi in Luc Besson’s biopic The Lady, has just been banished from … you’ve guessed it, Burma.

Yeoh, a former Bond girl (Tomorrow Never Dies) and martial arts wiz (Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon), had hoped to pop in and see Suu again, having first met her last year when the democracy champion was finally released from house arrest.

This time round, the authorities stepped in before these two formidable women could get together and Yeoh was summarily deported before she could even exit Rangoon airport. She is now on a ‘blacklist’.