Top model Edie Campbell is such a fanatical equestrian that she once won the Magnolia Cup at Glorious Goodwood. Yet she has just received a painful reminder of how dangerous the sport can be.
“I was kicked in the face and shoulder by a horse last week,” says Edie, 33, the daughter of Old Etonian Roddy Campbell and architect Sophie Hicks. “I had to have emergency plastic surgery.”
She shared photos of her post-surgery results. “Thanks to my surgeon, I came away with just a cute little scar,” she says. “I had the most swollen and wonky face for a while.”
Edie Campbell is such a keen equestrian that she once won the Magnolia Cup at Glorious Goodwood, but she just got kicked in the face by a horse
Model Edie, 33, the daughter of Old Etonian Roddy Campbell and architect Sophie Hicks
Jack gets creepy in Famous Five
Kids beware: the BBC's 'reinvention' of Enid Blyton's The Famous Five features a character inspired by infamous occultist Aleister Crowley, I can reveal.
The BBC's 'reinvention' of Enid Blyton's The Famous Five features a character inspired by infamous occultist Aleister Crowley, depicted
The courageous adventurers return on Saturday with a 'modern and exciting' take on the classic stories. The opening episode stars Game Of Thrones star Jack Gleeson as Wentworth, a ruthless antiques dealer looking for a trove of treasures discovered by the gang. “He's quite sinister and he's determined to get what he wants, which is power,” says Gleeson. 'Something very important for Wentworth is traveling to different realms in his mind. He's very spiritual and mystical, kind of like an Aleister Crowley-type figure.”
Magician and occultist Crowley, who died in 1947, was called the “worst man in the world” after the wife of one of his disciples blamed her husband's death on drinking the blood of a sacrificed cat. Take care of Timmy the dog!
Birthday boy Jade parties like it's the 70's
The hedonistic 1970s New York nightclub Studio 54, where Sir Mick Jagger's ex-wife Bianca was photographed on the dance floor on a white horse, was transferred to the Cotswolds this weekend.
Fashion designer Jade Holland Cooper celebrated her 37th birthday with a party inspired by Studio 54
Fashion designer Jade Holland Cooper, whose country label Holland Cooper is loved by the Princess of Wales, celebrated her 37th birthday with a party inspired by Studio 54.
White horses were even printed on the walls of the £50million mansion she shares with her husband, Superdry co-founder Julian Dunkerton, 58, and their two children. The designer was joined by friends such as fashionista Victoria Magrath, the Marchioness of Bath aka Emma Weymouth, James Bond actress Naomie Harris and her life coach friend Jade.
Czech from Helena!
Helena Bonham Carter agreed to star in James Hawes' new World War II film One Life, partly because it was set in Hampstead, near her home in north London.
Helena Bonham Carter stars in James Hawes' new World War II film One Life, set around her home in Hampstead
But then she heard that most of the film would be shot in the Czech Republic. “James came over and said, 'You were born to play this – and it's getting closer,'” she says at a West End screening.
'Very useful,' I thought. We ended up filming in Prague. We did a day in Hampstead.'
Joking that Omid Scobie couldn't even lie up in bed, a more forensic analysis of his investigative and imaginative talents comes from Philip Eade, author of Young Prince Philip: His Turbulent Early Life.
“(Scobie) doesn't seem to have spoken to anyone who knows the people he claims to know about,” Eade tells Richard Eden at a party they both attended
“Apart from perhaps the Sussexes, (Scobie) appears not to have spoken to anyone who knows the people he claims to know,” Eade tells me at the party held at Lady Amabel Lindsay's home in Notting Hill to prove this. to celebrate. the new book Soldiers Don't Go Mad, by war correspondent Charles Glass.
“If you look in the acknowledgments (of Scobie's book), there is no one who works anywhere near the royal family,” Eade says. 'None of his sources are mentioned. Surprise, surprise.'
When Rupert Murdoch was pictured leaving last weekend with the woman who would become his fifth wife – and eight cases of wine from his own vineyard – there was speculation about what he would be celebrating.
This could be the answer: I hear the media mogul just became a great-grandfather. His eldest grandson, James MacLeod, had a daughter, Oona, with his partner, whose name is not known.
James is the eldest son of Prue, Murdoch's daughter with his first wife, model Patricia Booker.
Rupert, 92, who retired as News Corp boss in September, was pictured with retired scientist Elena Zhukova, 66, at a private jet airport in LA.