Celebcity: Brighton’s Royal Blood

Brighton’s Royal Blood; celebrities fine dining; French Connection & Trevor Sorbie’s beauty tips

SEASON GROOMINGS
All you fashionistas out there, here is a date for your diary that you won’t want to miss! Block out Thursday 6 November from 5pm, because French Connection will be unveiling their fabulous Christmas collection and the brilliant award-winning Trevor Sorbie team will be running a pop-up blow-dry bar in the East Street store, giving you great hair and top tips for the party season.

As if that wasn’t enough, the top beauty experts from Bare Minerals will be on hand for make-overs, advice and much more. The store will also be launching their ‘Movember’ campaign, so all you ‘tache growing folk out there can come along to get your groom on. Fashion, beauty and more … it’s high time you treated yourself. See you there!

For those about to rock
Brighton Rock duo Royal Blood have had an amazing year. Not only have they scored a No. 1 album with their debut eponymous release and been credited with single-handedly resurrecting rock music for a new generation, they have also been (at time of going to press) nominated for the Mercury Prize.

Statistics point to a home win for the south coast lads, as Sussex-based bands won the first two prizes; Primal Scream in 1992 and Suede in 1993, and of course Gomez in 1998. Album artwork was created by the amazing Dan Hillier whose atmospheric Victorian inspired etchings are just delicious. See more at www.danhillier.com.

Dinner companions
It’s certainly not all glamour at JBPR towers. But this week, we treated ourself to a spot of edible indulgence at the West End’s most glamorous dining room, The Wolseley. It was a special occasion, being our Clare’s 35th birthday (again) so we booked a table (via the restaurant’s delectable Jason) and settled in to enjoy the very best European cuisine with a side order of celeb spotting.

First up, we spied star of stage and screen Tom Conti looking in rude health, and dining with friends. Despite his many roles, Tom will always be for me the love-’em-and-leave-’em Greek lothario who wooed Liverpudlian housewife Shirley Valentine.

Seated not two tables from Tom was the UK’s most pre-eminent fashion and celeb photographer, Terry O’Neill, who was sat at the very next table to Burberry designer and all-round fashion Wunderkid, Christopher Bailey.

At 76, Terry was looking in fine form, while Christopher was looking rather agitated as he awaited his rather tardy dining companion.
 
To round the whole evening off, we spied actor Andy Serkis. The actor is known to millions for his role as Gollum in Peter Jackson’s Lord of the Rings, the eponymous ape in Jackson’s King Kong and as Captain Haddock in Steven Spielberg’s The Adventures of Tintin. Andy was dining with his family to celebrate his daughter’s 16th birthday; accompanying him was his wife Lorraine Ashbourne, an acclaimed actress perhaps best known for her role in BBC TV drama Playing the Field.

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