Who says charity work has to involve hardship? A posse of glamorous socialites headed out to Singapore and Malaysia in the name of saving the tigers… but they certainly weren’t slumming it.
The group, including Lila Moss, Poppy Delevingne and Lady Lola Bute, took a luxury £4,000 train journey on the Eastern and Oriental Express and stayed at both a five-star beach resort and Singapore’s historic Raffles Hotel, where rooms start at £1,000 a night.
The tour, which actress Jaime Winstone organised with Save Wild Tigers, took them into the Taman Negara rainforest where they learned all about conservation efforts.
And the group – many of whom were at Lola’s ‘spectacularly indulgent’ 25th birthday bash in Scotland a couple of weeks ago – also got to watch a five-minute film about the big cats starring Jaime’s actor dad Ray. It’s all work!
Lila Moss , Poppy Delevingne and Lady Lola Bute, took a luxury £4,000 train journey on the Eastern and Oriental Express while in Singapore and Malaysia campaigning to save tigers
The group, including Poppy Delevingne, stayed at five-star beach resort and Singapore’s Raffles Hotel
Lila Moss gushed: ‘Thank you for bringing this dream trip to life and giving us the experience to immerse ourselves in a country where tigers are so precious, showing us how important it is to save these beautiful creatures from extinction.’
Jaime also vowed: ‘I shall continue to raise awareness to protect the majestic wild tiger.’ I’m sure the tigers are grateful
The brain who’ll reign!
Is Princess Elisabeth, heiress to the Belgian throne, the cleverest royal in Europe?
After graduating from Oxford, where she has been reading history and politics, the 22-year-old, left, she will head to Harvard in September for a two-year masters in public policy.
Elisabeth, who attended UWC Atlantic in Wales in her secondary school years, is rumoured to be close to 20-year-old Nicholas Dodd, from Manchester, whom she met while on the same course at Oxford’s Lincoln College.
Heiress to the Belgian throne Princess Elisabeth is studying history and politics at Oxford, and will start a two year masters at Harvard in September
Today programme stars Martha Kearney and Simon Jack set tongues wagging about their sleeping arrangements.
Martha asked listeners yesterday: ‘Did you see the Northern Lights? Simon and I were tucked up in bed’ – before hastily adding: ‘Separately I should say.’ ‘Yes, make that clear,’ chimed Simon.
I do hope comic actor Stephen Merchant, isn’t getting too big for his size 14 boots, as the 6ft 7in star, right, admits he struggles to be friends with people who aren’t famous.
Comic actor Stephen Merchant admits he struggles to be friends with people who aren’t famous
‘You do start to drift away from them,’ The Office co-creator says of his old pals. ‘You get to do so many exciting things… but you don’t want to be the person who comes back to the pub and starts boasting. So you feel like, ‘Who can I share this stuff with?’
A cat or a dog might be the conventional options for a four-legged friend, but socialite-turned -midwife Chloe Delevingne has different ideas.
I can reveal that the big sister of supermodel Cara and her property developer husband Edward Grant, both right, have adopted a bearded dragon lizard, inset. They have named it Cal after a safari guide they met on a recent trip to South Africa. Cute…
Chloe Delevingne and property developer husband Edward Grant have adopted a bearded dragon lizard
Historian Tom Holland has delved into his past – and discovered enough scandal to make it worthy of one of his podcasts.
The Rest Is History co-host asked the Your Tour genealogy service to research his family tree, and his great-great-grandmother Henrietta was a servant who may have had an affair with her boss at Ingestre Hall in Staffordshire – a Jacobean mansion that was formerly the seat of the Earls of Shrewsbury.
The father’s name was omitted from her son’s birth certificate, and Tom tells me: ‘In those days if no father was named on the birth certificate, and you were a housemaid, then it’s invariably because the father is your employer.’
Posh reveals her style queen
The Princess of Wales, Meghan Markle and the Duchess of Edinburgh have worn her designs, but Victoria Beckham takes her fashion inspiration from a different royal – Queen Letizia of Spain, right.
The former Spice Girl, inset, who launched her clothing line in 2008, says the 51-year-old wife of the Spanish monarch is her ‘definitive muse’ when it comes to style.
‘I don’t know her in person, but I find her beautiful and elegant. She’s never wrong in terms of fashion,’ says Victoria. Posh has other royal muses, too, having once hailed the late Queen Elizabeth as a ‘source of inspiration’.
Emma wants an invisibility cloak
It seems actress Emma Watson is feeling a little camera-shy these days. At the first birthday party for her gin label Renais last week, guests had no chance of snapping a selfie with the star as little stickers were placed over their phone cameras as they entered the event at the Savoy Hotel.
Actress Emma Watson kept a low profile at her gin label Renais’s first birthday party, with stickers placed over guests’ phone cameras so they couldn’t snap pictures
Choosing to keep a low profile, 34-year-old Emma, left, spent much of the event chatting to her Harry Potter co-star Tom Felton, 36, who confessed to having a ‘secret love’ for Emma in his 2022 memoir.
Did Dua forget about Callum?
She is rumoured to be dating The Capture actor Callum Turner having been pictured together at events such as a Brits after-party, above.
Dua Lipa and Callum Turner are seen attending the BRIT awards after party in London in March
In her weekly newsletter Service95, Dua wrote about the joys of singledom, describing it as ‘an important part of everyone’s life’
So it’s a surprise to hear pop star Dua Lipa, right, waxing lyrical about the joys of singledom.
Writing in her weekly newsletter Service95, Dua, 28, says: ‘I really do believe being single is such an important part of everyone’s life, because it allows you to learn so much about yourself.’
Dua, who has said her new album Radical Optimism was inspired by the single life, went on to praise evenings home alone and dining by yourself as a good way to find out what you need in a partner. Like Callum?
Will it be third time lucky for celeb haunt Julie’s? The restaurant in Holland Park, where Kate Moss hosted her 21st, reopened last week after its second closure.
Hopefully new owner Tara MacBain can tempt fans Paul McCartney and Mick Jagger back!
