THE DUKAN DIET

Mother-of-the-bride Carole Middleton may have wowed everyone in her ice-blue Catherine Walker coat dress at Westminster Abbey, but it was her neat greyhound pins that really got us whispering, “How did she do it?” The answer was the Dukan diet – or, this year’s Atkins – with everyone from Jennifer Lopez to Gisele Bundchen following its protein-rich doctrine, which declared bananas as the enemy and invented the weekly “celebration meal”. The diet beloved by 1.5 million French women (it had us at French) meant the phrase “grilled chicken, hold everything else” was frequently heard in restaurants all over Britain. Hot moment: when we found out that The Duchess of Cambridge was also a Dukaniste – those hips certainly don’t lie.