Other names rumoured to be in the frame include the northern Ireland secretary, Owen Paterson, and the international development secretary, Andrew Mitchell.
Other names in the frame include the leader's second oldest son Saif al-Islam and Mahmoud Al-Baghdadi, in effect, the nation's prime minister.
I assumed the producer, Dana Brunetti, had wooed her, but it turns out other directors were in the frame, including Angelina Jolie and Steven Soderbergh.
There have been more than 20 suspects in the frame including Queen Victoria's grandson Prince Albert Victor, the artist Walter Sickert and a Liverpudlian merchant named James Maybrick.
A wide variety of interior and exterior surfacing materials could be applied to the frame, including timber siding, stucco, and brick veneer.
The other candidates potentially in the frame include the former England manager Sven-Goran Eriksson and Yilmaz Vural, the Turkish journeyman whose name has kept cropping up over the past few tumultuous weeks.
High-profile contenders who also failed to make the frame included Monbeg Dude, who owners include the former England rugby internationals Mike Tindall and James Simpson-Daniel, who ran on to finish seventh, while The Package, another to attract solid support, finished 12th.
Other names on the centre left are also in the frame, including Helle Thorning-Schmidt, the Danish prime minister, José Luis Zapatero, the former Spanish prime minister, and Pascal Lamy, the director-general of the World Trade Organisation.
Names in the frame include Gregory Doran who, as longstanding associate director at the RSC, is surely the crown-prince-in-waiting (though that is never a guarantee, of course).
