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Thursday, 23 January 2003 10:53 |
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Supermodels and celebrities were gathering in Dublin today for a star-studded fashion show to raise money for three children's charities. Naomi Campbell, Heidi Klum and Helena Christensen were tonight due to take to the catwalk at Dublin's Point with singers, international rugby players and actors. Organisers hope the Brown Thomas fashion show, hosted by presenter Cat Deeley, will raise more than £460,000 (700,000 euros) for three charities. Among the stars due to appear at the show are singers Simon Le Bon, Andrea Corr, Samantha Mumba and Westlife's Nicky Byrne. Sports stars include Formula 1 driver Eddie Irvine, rugby players Brian O'Driscoll and Denis Hickie, and Manchester United star Rio Ferdinand. They were appearing alongside Gisele Bundchen, Yasmin Le Bon and former model Jerry Hall to raise cash for the Children's Chernobyl Project, ISPCC and the Christina Noble Foundation. Also due to appear is ex-Boyzone star and Coronation Street actor Keith Duffy, and actors Gabriel Byrne and Liam Cunningham. Designer labels being modelled together for the first time included Gucci, Alexander McQueen, Philip Treacy, Prada, Versace, Dolce & Gabbana, Valentino, Christian Dior and Roberto Cavalli. Singer Lulu was providing musical entertainment for the event. Some 6,000 guests are expected at the show, which was a sell-out in 1996 and 2000. Previous Brown Thomas fashion shows have featured celebrities such as Robbie Williams, Patsy Kensit, Lisa Stansfield, Damon Hill, Dawn French, Natalie Imbruglia and Chris Evans. Organisers had hoped that Davina McCall would present the show alongside Cat Deeley, but they disclosed last night that the Big Brother presenter had cancelled her appearance. |
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Tuesday, 17 December 2002 10:53 |
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The stars turned out in force at an intimate venue in London yesterday where Sir Elton John provided entertainment at an AIDS Foundation fundraiser. Sponsored by M-A-C Cosmetics and the M.A.C AIDS Fund at the Shepherds Bush Empire, rock icon Sir Elton returned to west London in style for his first performance in the area since December 1980 - his last being at the former Hammersmith Odeon. Celebrity friends including Elizabeth Hurley, Jennifer Love Hewitt, Anna Friel, Lulu, Denise Van Outen, Joely Richardson, Martine McCutcheon, Neil Tennant, Cat Deeley, Ralph Little, Bond, Nick Moran, MC Harvey, Sophie Anderton, Sam Taylor Wood, Jay Jopling, Matthew Williamson, Alexander McQueen and Vivienne Westwood danced in the aisles to some of Elton's classics including 'I'm Still Standing' and 'Crocodile Rock'. To date, the M-A-C AIDS Fund has raised more than £16.5 million in order to provide daily services for men, women and children affected by HIV/AIDS around the world. President of M.A.C, John Demsey, said: "We began the partnership with the Elton John AIDS Foundation one year ago and it has served to increase our strength in raising funds and awareness of this pandemic." The Elton John AIDS Foundation, which was founded in 1992, is one of the most prominent non-profit AIDS organizations which funds prevention education and direct patient care services worldwide. The Foundation has to date raised £19 million. The collaboration of the Elton John AIDS foundation and the M.A.C AIDS Fund will help more than 40 million people affected by this global epidemic. |
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Monday, 27 May 2002 10:54 |
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I’m in the bar, waiting for Lulu and, when she arrives, you feel the testosterone level rise. |
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Tuesday, 14 May 2002 10:55 |
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Lulu had plenty to shout about yesterday after learning that her son is to play Prince William in a film. Jordan Frieda, 24, fought off fierce competition from other up and coming British actors to appear in the movie which is being made by Fox TV Pictures. The film, which will be shot in England and Ireland and will hit American screens on October 13, begins with the 1997 car crash which killed Princess Diana. The controversial project has upset both Prince Charles and Diana's mother Frances Shand Kydd. But Lulu was understandably delighted that her only child by her second husband, hairdresser John Frieda, was taking the first steps to emulating her fame. 'Naturally I'm delighted for Jordan,' she said. 'We're all very excited and I can't wait to see it.' Frieda, who dated former Hong Kong governor Chris Patten's daughter Alice while at Cambridge, admitted that the film would upset some people. In an interview with the American TV show Good Morning, he was asked whether he thought there would be any criticism when the film was screened. 'Well, hopefully there'll be a little bit,' he replied. 'I mean, you'd be disappointed if there was no response. But I think it will be well taken, knowing what we're going to do. 'I think the key is that we're trying to fill in some gaps and actually take a guess at what he (William) might actually be like in private. So that's really a question for the imagination more than anything else.' Frieda, who lives with Lulu in Maida Vale, North London, was educated at Eton and has a degree in philosophy. His first appearance on stage came during the Edinburgh Fringe Festival in a Cambridge University Amateur Dramatic Club production of Britannicus, by the French dramatist Racine. He had a small part in the war drama Band of Brothers and his only other acting work came in the ITV teen drama 24Seven, about a group of boys at an exclusive boarding school. Most recently, he supported his mother at a filming session for LWT's An Audience With Lulu, which will be broadcast later this month, and attracted a good deal of attention from female admirers with his blond good looks. The young actor's parents split up in 1994 and he lived with his father in New York for five years. It is not known whether the film about William will be shown in Britain. Mrs Shand Kydd called for the project to be shelved. 'I find this film is insensitive and appeal to the makers to think again,' she said. 'William has come to terms with things privately - and that is how it should remain.' Mrs Shand Kydd was named in Princess Diana's will as the guardian of William and Harry and her thoughts echo those of Prince Charles, who has expressed his 'deep concern' about the project. The Prince of Wales will be played in the film by British actor Martin Turner, who has appeared in a number of TV series, including minor parts in Rumpole of the Bailey, Bergerac and Poirot. Prince Harry will be portrayed by unknown teenager Eddie Cooper. David Madden, a Fox TV Pictures executive, said: 'We basically took the tack that we were going to do a true coming of age of a kid who is going through, in some ways, all of the things that every kid goes through of dealing with adolescence, coming of sexuality and dealing with your dad.' He admitted he was 'immediately terrified' when producer Bonnie Raskin brought the idea to him 'because any time you go near the Royal Family or celebrities of that ilk, it terrifies you that you're gonna do something that will feel exploitative or just tabloidish'. |
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