As Taylor Swift performed her final concert at Wembley Stadium, she told her fans about the important role London had played in her career.
Swift, 34, spent the Covid lockdown in Primrose Hill with her then-boyfriend, actor Joe Alwyn, while writing her 2020 album Folklore.
“In my fantasy world, in folklore, I was a classic Victorian lady wandering through the woods in a lace nightgown, holding a candlestick and collecting feathers,” she said.
“The truth was, I was a lonely millennial woman, covered in cat hair in the house, who drank a lot of white wine.”
Taylor Swift gave her final concert at Wembley Stadium on Tuesday night
Kudos to Clint’s tips for actor Sam
His roles range from Jurassic Park and The Piano to the Brummie gangster drama Peaky Blinders, but Sam Neill regrets never appearing in a cowboy movie.
He says, ‘I ran into Clint Eastwood once at an awards show or something and I said to him, “I would love to be in a Western, preferably with you, Clint.”
He said, “What do you mean, Sam? You’re wearing a hat and you’re squinting a little bit.”
‘I thought, “Oh, that’s great. That’s all you need… All you have to do is put on a hat and squint a little bit.”‘
Sam Neill’s roles range from Jurassic Park and The Piano to Brummie gangster drama Peaky Blinders
Von Tresckow completes a labor of love
Fashion designer Beatrice von Tresckow, whose outfits were worn by the King’s niece Zara Tindall, has just completed a labour of love.
She and her team spent a whopping 1,800 hours making her daughter Frederike Gardiner’s wedding dress for her wedding to businessman Caldon Pike in Cheltenham this weekend.
“I put my heart and soul into that dress,” Beatrice tells me.
I can’t wait to see it.
Claudia and Matthew’s form raises £246m
Kingsman filmmaker Matthew Vaughn has had a successful year at Marv Studios, which he co-owns with his wife Claudia Schiffer.
Recently filed accounts show the manufacturing company posted a huge turnover of £246.4m last year and generated a profit of £77.4m.
Claudia Schiffer (left) and Kingsman filmmaker Matthew Vaughn (right) own Marv Studios, which made a huge £264.4m turnover last year
Vaughn’s earnings come despite disappointing reviews for his latest release, Argylle. Accounts state that Vaughn’s activities include “film production services, film and television distribution, and brand licensing and management of the Kingsman and Claudia Schiffer brands.”
Vaughn and Schiffer refused to pay dividends.
Besides the Kingsman series, Marv was also responsible for Rocketman, Kick-Ass, Snatch and Layer Cake, among others.
‘Browning 9mm from Malmstrom‘
His qualifications as a former member of the SAS have been the subject of fierce firefights, as I reported on Saturday.
But businessman Peter Malmstrom, 57, has always operated a certain way.
He had a Browning 9mm [semi-automatic pistol] “Behind his desk,” a visitor to his office in the 1990s tells me.
And there was a full metal jacket [bullet] in a glass frame. There was a small brass plaque on it that read: “In Case Of Emergency, Break Glass.” Malmstrom says the rifle was actually a discarded CZ-75, and that he had “a few dummy bullets” on display.
Perhaps they helped fend off his then mother-in-law, Mandy Rice-Davies, a showgirl in the Profumo Affair?