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Ladies Day at Royal Ascot is meant to be a show of fashionable elegance, but one aristocrat managed to lower the tone.
I’m A Celebrity Winner Georgia Toffolo wore an outfit that prompted one racegoer to remark, somewhat unkindly, “She looks like quality street wrap.”
Socialite Lady Victoria Hervey, sister of the Marquess of Bristol, 45, wore a see-through top at the Royal Enclosure
Socialite Lady Victoria Hervey, sister of the Marquess of Bristol, 45, wore a see-through top at the Royal Enclosure. I’m A Celebrity Winner Georgia Toffolo wore an outfit that prompted one racegoer to remark, somewhat unkindly, “She looks like quality street wrap.”
Her BBC legal drama The Split was an addictive hit and now Abi Morgan plans to bring her own life to the big screen.
“As a screenwriter, I always look through that prism and it’s a natural progression for me to take that path,” she told me at the Women’s Prize for Fiction ceremony in Bedford Square Gardens, London. Referring to her own life story, This Is Not A Pity Memoir, which describes a tragic change in her family circumstances, she adds: “It’s about love and loss and all these issues that women deal with.”
Fillies can join the Racing World men-only club
Don’t forget the port red faithful of the Derby Club dinner, the annual £150-a-per-head black tie beano, hosted in the Savoy Hotel’s River Room, presided over by the Earl of Derby. I can tell you that barely a week ago, after being branded an all-male affair, the club committee capitulated and will allow women to join “if elected” and attend as guests – if invited. “It was a unanimous decision,” one athletic gentleman tells me, adding that “a couple of ladies will be invited to the committee.”
SAS hero finds sweet love with Cadbury scion Legal Eagle
Former SAS man ‘Christian Craighead’ has found love with member of Cadbury’s chocolate dynasty Tobi-Jayne Cadbury, 35
He froze the world when, alone but armed with a Colt Canada rifle, a Glock 9mm pistol and a combat knife, he confronted and killed jihadist terrorists who occupied a hotel in the Kenyan capital of Nairobi and freed scores of hostages in 2019 had.
Now, in a development that sounds like it’s straight out of a Hollywood script, the former SAS man, known by the alias “Christian Craighead”, has found love with a member of Cadbury’s chocolate dynasty.
Tobi-Jayne Cadbury, 35, comes from a world that couldn’t be more different than Christian’s.
While Craighead, who was born in the North East, enlisted in the Army at the age of 16, she is the daughter of retired judge Nigel Cadbury and a descendant of the founder of confectionery giant John Cadbury.
They were introduced by friends in London. Tobi-Jayne, who followed her father into law, says: “We are together and have been for a while. I support him wherever I can.’ As for the future, she tells me, “We’re very happy to be dating for now.”
The last name Christian took is that of a former flame, Shealah Craighead, who, in another Hollywood twist, was the official White House chief photographer for President Donald Trump.
Tobi-Jayne, who followed her father into law, says: “We are together and have been for a while. I support him however I can’
Soon after his outstanding heroism in Nairobi, for which he received the Conspicuous Gallantry Cross – Britain’s second highest award for bravery – Craighead met Trump. “He took the time to personally thank me for saving American lives,” Craighead wrote on social media, alongside a photo of him with the former US President.
The former SAS man, who left the armed forces 18 months ago, was off duty in Nairobi, where he was training Kenyan military personnel, when he received a call saying Somali terrorists were seizing a hotel and taking numerous hostages would have taken. He wrote an account of the 19 hours that unfolded, One Man In: The Explosive Firsthand Account Of The Lone Special-Ops Soldier Who Fighted Off A Major Terrorist Attack In Kenya.
Probably not bedtime reading for Tobi-Jayne. She can snuggle up to the author instead.
He’s captured everyone from Madonna to the Queen, but acclaimed photographer Rankin struggled to photograph the Rolling Stones.
‘Last time I did them, Mick [Jagger] grabbed the camera and started taking pictures of me,” he tells me at the opening of Rankin’s THE UNSEEN exhibition at Quantus Gallery in Shoreditch, East London.
“It’s great fun to photograph them. They give off such good energy and some mornings I dress up [the Stones’] Street Fighting Man or Start Me Up to get me going.
When I said stand up for charity…
Chic French shoemaker Christian Louboutin was in no mood for a walk during his visit to London this week.
Idris Elba and Christian Louboutin attend Christian Louboutin and Sabrina & Idris Elba’s “Walk A Mile In My Shoes” launch event at The Twenty Two on June 15th
The 59-year-old designer was piggybacked on by Hollywood star Idris Elba, 49 (left) as they launched their second charity footwear collaboration, Walk a Mile in My Shoes II.
Luther star Elba says this time it’s “supporting education, creative arts and the empowerment of youth, with 100 percent of proceeds going to six charities around the world.”