TALK OF THE TOWN: Beauty mogul Charlotte Tilbury upsets locals – by turning getaway into a ‘mini-Ibiza’

She’s making more than £1 billion by selling the make-up company she built from scratch, but Charlotte Tilbury is causing unrest over the way she’s spending her fortune.

The cosmetics queen, who counts Kate Moss and Amal Clooney as close friends, has built up an impressive property portfolio on the exclusive Kenyan holiday islands of Lamu and Manda, I can reveal, including two sprawling homes and an ‘off-grid’ bar.

But locals are concerned her celebrated celebrity parties are turning the quiet resorts into an ‘African Ibiza’. And worse, they fear the influx of wealth will lure pirates from neighboring Somalia to the tranquil paradise.

A local tells me the cosmetics mogul “plans to buy more land” in the area, which has been a favorite of the gliteratti since the 1930s, and has hosted the Obamas, Princess Beatrice (whose husband Edo), among others Mapelli Mozzi has a family estate on Lamu) and The Crown star Dominic West. But locals complain that the parties are thrown by the 51-year-old

Tilbury, who grew up in Ibiza, is too loud.

One resident said: ‘It’s a quiet place and now we’re worried about pirate problems. It will soon become a no-go area.’

It’s not an unfounded fear. In 2011, British tourist Judith Tebbutt from Lamu was captured by Somali gunmen who murdered her husband David. It took years for tourism to recover.

Tilbury, who announced last week that she will transfer full ownership of her eponymous brand to Spanish luxury goods firm Puig by 2031, has been buying up properties including a watering hole called Gerald’s Bar, which has been renamed George’s Bar after her husband George Waud. , a film producer.

Tilbury often spends New Year’s Eve at Lamu with her family and celebrity friends. She declined to comment last night.

Chelsea’s Tabitha sets up the summons

Former Made In Chelsea star Tabitha Willett isn’t going down without a fight, despite losing a recent court case.

In October I revealed that the ‘mummy blogger’ was ordered to pay her landlady £4,749 for vandalizing a luxury apartment in Kensington.

Following Tabitha’s eight-month stay at the flat with her five-year-old daughter and King Charles spaniel Ruby, the owner complained about make-up stains on the walls and spaniel stains on a £9,000 carpet in the property, telling the court the damage had been a ‘nightmare scenario’.

Now I hear that Tabitha – who has sued the landlady – says she plans to file a misrepresentation claim against the law firm that fought and lost her case.

Guinness is not in the black!

It’s been more than seventeen years since Daphne Guinness founded her record label Agent Anonyme, although it never seems to have made a profit.

The brewing heiress has loaned her own company more than £7.3million since 2007 to cover running costs. Not that Daphne seems shocked by the amount; she posted a photo of herself with a guitar with the caption: “In my music den.”

License to grill?

Hollywood star Josh O’Connor was in fashionable company last week as he dined with his new girlfriend, Saltburn actress Alison Olive, designer Jonathan Anderson and Bridgerton star Jonathan Bailey.

The glamorous clique were spotted enjoying steaks at the historic Quality Chop House in Clerkenwell, East London.

I wonder if they were celebrating something? O’Connor, who played Charles in The Crown, has just been named the favorite to be the next James Bond…

Minnie volunteers to save mistletoe

Actress Minnie Driver has proposed a creative solution to the dilemma of whether a kiss under the mistletoe is problematic in the current climate.

“Maybe we should have a mistletoe with a dangling sign that says ‘Consent’ or ‘No Consent,’” she told me at a carol service held by the Quintessentially Foundation.

Sales of the festive sprig have fallen amid fears people would be accused of abuse for giving someone an unwanted kiss under it. “That makes me sad,” the Good Will Hunting star says.

I know the king likes to talk to his plants, but does the queen read to her dogs too?

Camilla apparently shared a book called The Royal Pup Pack: Catastrophe At The Palace with her two adopted Jack Russell terriers, Bluebell and Beth, and they loved it.

Author David Seow sent a copy to the palace before Beth died last month, and the queen wrote back urging him to keep writing. She added: ‘My dogs enjoyed it too.’

Speaking of possible 007s… my spies spotted Aaron Taylor-Johnson – another actor tipped to replace Daniel Craig – pumping iron at the swanky Third Space gym at Christmas.

The battle is certainly on. It’s Josh versus Aaron; King Charles vs. Kick-Ass. I know who I put my money on!