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STOP PRESS!!! I have just returned from Bangladesh where I went to see the work of 'my' (I am an Ambasador for them) charity, FOOD RELIEF INTERNATIONAL. FRI founder MOTHER RYTASHA and international director RAZZAQUE KHAN do sterling work for the poorest of the poor in countries like Bangladesh, India and Mexico.
While I was there I visited the charity's projects in the slums of Khulna: a free medical clinic and free children's school for 4 - 6 year olds and was struck by the sweet nature and respectfulness of these good people who live on rice in huts made of mud and straw and are lucky to own a pair of plastic flip flops.
The children at the school and their mothers are all given milk and cookies every day after school and, if the little ones can just learn to read and write, they may have a chance of getting out of the slum and getting some sort of start in life when they are older.
The charity was also running a medical eye camp at Pykegasa in the interior while I was there and this was really inspirational. Over 5,000 people walked from miles away to attend the camp and some of their stories were heartbreaking. Eminent eye surgeon DR ZAKIUL FARUQUE and his team gave each person a consultation and medication and performed 135 operations, mainly to remove cataracts which are prevalent due to malnutrition and poor living conditions.
All the patients were fed 3 times a day and so the first day was literally the 'feeding of the five thousand'; they must all have been so hungry but waited patiently for all to be served before any of them started eating.
The plight of some of the poor people moved me to tears but I managed to watch the operations and help as best I could. All the operations were one hundred percent successful and the patients were all given strong pairs of spectacles afterwards.
After spending just one week with the charity I am full of respect and admiration for MOTHER RYTASHA and RAZZAQUE who travel around the world doing this wonderful work. Not to mention for DR FARUQUE and his team who travelled 400 miles to the camp and brought their own generators as there was no electricity there.
Here are some photos taken by MOTHER RYTASHA and RAZZAQUE KHAN:
My first job this month is a happy one: I would like to mention 2 of my pals who received NEW YEAR'S HONOURS! Best congrats to PINEAPPLE's gorgeous DEBBIE MOORE who received an OBE and to lovely medical tattooist DAWN CRAGG who received an MBE. Laydeez, I am so proud for you both.
Secondly best congrats to lovely singer-songwriter TALLULAH RENDALL whose video of her new song KALITKA is currently zooming around the globe courtesy of YOUTUBE:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f-PPY1Xmd18
The vid was filmed in Russia and TALLULAH's voice and the images are hauntingly beautiful.
TALLULAH's dad, JOHN RENDALL is of course a huge star on YOUTUBE himself with his pal CHRISTIAN THE LION and her mum is LADETTE TO LADY star LIZ BREWER whose best friend and PR client IVANA TRUMP recently proved such a hit on CELEBRITY BIG BROTHER.
Thirdly more huge congrats to HG's lovely MODERN NUTRITION AND HEALTHY LIVING Editor VALERIE AUSTIN and her gal partners VALERIE 2 and KATIE for launching THE LOVE ROOMS (www.theloverooms.com), an exciting new concept, this month. We hope you like the laydeez' fab cover and do go to VAL's column to 'read all about it' when you've finished reading this one. You will 'love' it, excuse the pun!
My own personal news for spring is also very exciting: I am returning to the West End stage for the first time in years after all our chicks have flown the nest (well, one's come back but he's now old enough to feed, dress and transport himself!) This chicks business is all very apt as I will be acting opposite a parakeet in the brilliant JANE HUXLEY's thrilling new play, WHEN THE LILAC BLOOMS, MY LOVE. Never fear, dear readers, I am the leading lady in this production and PERICLES, the parakeet will get muzzled if he tries to upstage moi! The play is a 'lurrrrrrrrve quadrangle' - 'Sex and the Suburbs' you could say - and I am playing a 'cougar' = an older woman (I am resisting the temptation to say 'bird') who beds a younger man..........I told you it was thrilling. Although LILAC is a serious drama, full of passion, jealousy, secrets and lies, there are some wonderful comic moments too. The amazing JUDY CORNWALL of KEEPING UP APPEARANCES fame (she played DAISY and this play has lilacs in it!) will be co-starring with PERICLES and moi and the brilliant producer and director, TATIANA VON SAXE and SIMON BEYER have found the most stunning young actor, STEVE SMITH to play my luvverrrrrrrrrrrrrr. STEVE is gorgeous and I promise you he will be the new COLIN FARRELL, the R. PATZ of the stage - watch this space..............
All HG readers are welcome to see the play at THE LEICESTER SQUARE THEATRE – please pop round to the Stage Door after the show to say 'hi' to me and 'squawk' to that darn bird if you can.
WHEN THE LILAC BLOOMS, MY LOVE flier.
My LILAC character, SIMONA is definitely a flirty eyelash flutterer so I will be asking wonderfully fast, accurate and patient 'lash technician' CHO at JINNY LASH's Bond Street branch (020 7495 8385) to maintain my lashes for the whole of the run. Scroll down for the whole s.p. on the amazing JINNY LASH technique, available in New Malden and Kingston as well as Bond Street.
JINNY LASH also offer their fab JINNY RAINBOW Glitter Body Art which is just the job for jazzing up your party look - check it out.
JINNY RAINBOW GLITTER BODY ART advert
Let's hope the weather will be better by the time I have to undo my buttons on stage! It is more or less spring now, isn't it? Anyway I have plenty of good books to stay in with on the less spring-like evenings when I am not out getting into my 'cougar' character. You have to read DENNIS MCKENZIE's BEING THE SOHAM PSYCHIC: THE MAN WHO TALKS TO THE OTHER SIDE (HEADLINE). Psychic and medium DENNIS is the real deal and will give you some hope if you have sadly been bereaved.
Here in the UK we all remember the terrible 'Soham murders' when young schoolgirls HOLLY WELLS and JESSICA CHAPMAN were abducted and killed by evil school caretaker IAN HUNTLEY with help -allegedly-from his creepy girlfriend MAXINE CARR. Thank God, they were eventually both caught and sent to prison . DENNIS MCKENZIE was the psychic who was called in by HOLLY's father and who immediately knew the terrible truth that both girls were dead, where to find their bodies and clues about HUNTLEY, long before the police.
DENNIS has 'spirit guides' who tell him what has happened and he has been brought in to successfully assist with various police cases, including that of the horrific BTK ('bind, torture, kill') murderer in Wichita. He has also helped many private individuals to find their loved ones' bodies and finally lay them to rest. BEING THE SOHAM PSYCHIC, DENNIS' story is absolutely fascinating and makes one aware that it's important to keep an open mind in these matters. Sadly there are many charlatans around who pretend to be psychics and mediums (I've met a few myself!) and con the public but there are a few genuine ones, the best undoubtedly being DENNIS who is booked solidly for months ahead for psychic readings and mediumship.
I recently had a long chat with DENNIS on the phone; although he has such an extraordinary gift, he is a charming and completely down to earth chap with no airs and graces in spite of his relatively new world-wide fame. He has kindly agreed, in principle, to do a telly show with me in the future about a certain fascinating superstar. When we film it, it will be explosive – again all I can say is "watch this space"......................
And now for something completely different: ALUN SHULMAN's new book A MESS OF IGUANAS, A WHOOP OF GORILLAS...AN AMAZEMENT OF ANIMAL FACTS (PARTICULAR BOOKS / PENGUIN) is delightful. ALUN, son of intrepid explorer and author NEVILLE SHULMAN, has gathered together the correct names for collections of animals, birds, insects and other creatures along with a few facts about all our feathered, furry and fabulous friends. I haven't yet found the correct word for a collection of parakeets but I can now tell my fellow HURLINGHAM members that the gorgeous birds on the club's manicured lawns are in fact a 'muster of peacocks'. Our kids once owned a 'horde of gerbils' and sometimes we can hear a 'murmuration of starlings' in our garden. I particularly liked the 'tittering of magpies' and the 'pungent of sasquatch' - whatever they are when they are at home! Great fun and makes a fab present.
Thank you for all your kind emails about my new production company with veteran director / producer R. KAZ, KAZZY AND SALLY TV.
KAZZY AND SALLY with company teeshirt. C.r.: H. UNEL.
The business is moving on apace and we are happily awash with beauty vids, my personal area of expertise. On the TV prog front, THE MAN WHO ROBBED BANKS IN HIS LUNCH HOUR is in the developing pot and we are now working on CHANNELLING MICHAEL JACKSON: WHAT REALLY HAPPENED. This is something I have been researching for several months (long before that naughty DEREK ACORAH jumped on the bandwagon!) and it's a truly thrilling (excuse the MJ pun!) project – watch this space........................
Here's the late lamented superstar with lovely Brit singer PATTI BOULAYE.
MJ and PATTI BOULAYE. Private collection.
The film awards season is upon us and I've been busy viewing and voting like mad. This year there's a bumper crop of fab films. The most spectacular is of course JAMES CAMERON's extraordinary and beautiful (15 years in the making) sci – fi epic, AVATAR, using the new 'motion capture' technique and viewed with 3D glasses. And HARRY POTTER AND THE HALF-BLOOD PRINCE has some pretty whizzy special effects too. At the time of writing I'm also loving IT'S COMPLICATED, ME AND ORSON WELLES, A SINGLE MAN, AN EDUCATION (which my daughter Voice Overed), MOON, THE LOVELY BONES, INGLOURIOUS BASTERDS, UP IN THE AIR and foreign film THE WHITE RIBBON but I have many more to see.
My fave Q AND A this year was after the screening of this year's best rom com, DID YOU HEAR ABOUT THE MORGANS? with the inimitable HUGH GRANT and the ultimate Skinny Goddess SJP, both of whom are just as fresh, funny and modest off screen as on.
My fave prem was NINE where all the glitzy guests made a huge effort to keep up with the film's gorgeous female stars in the fashion stakes. NINE is the film version of the musical and stars the amazing DANIEL DAY LEWIS who is totally convincing as a FELLINI like director and ladies' man going through a mid life crisis both professionally and privately. The ladies in his life are played by – wait for it – SOPHIA LOREN, NICOLE KIDMAN, PENELOPE CRUZ, DAME JUDI DENCH, KATE HUDSON, MARION COTILLARD and FERGIE and the film is an extravaganza of song, dance, angst and glorious cozzies.
Here are pix of the stellar cast braving the cold and KATE HUDSON in her stunning 'train' dress which caused a sensation.The pix are by gorg snapper ROWENA CHOWDREY (rowenachowdrey@thinkpositive.co.uk)
who will, we hope, be writing a page on HG very soon if she can fit us in!
THE CAST of NINE and KATE HUDSON. C.r.: ROWENA CHOWDREY.
You need to be dead skinny to wear some of the stunning frox around this season, btw. Have you tried SKINNY WATER (www.skinnywater.co.uk) yet? X-FACTOR Runner Up OLLY MURS who, like Winner JOE of course, has a deservedly glittering career ahead of him, loves it – allegedly!
(Wasn't THE X FACTOR fab this season? With performances by SIR PAUL MCCARTNEY, ROBBIE WILLIAMS, GEORGE MICHAEL, JANET JACKSON, et al and some really talented and fun contestants.)
OLLY MURS.
Talking of THE X-FACTOR, wanna have gorg long fluttery lashes like sultry CHERYL COLE?
CHERYL COLE. C.r.: DAILY EXPRESS.
Then you will have to get JINNY LASHed! JINNY LASH (www.jinnylash.com / 020 7495 8385), the UK's leading semi-permanent lash extensions and firm fave with loads of celebs, are the longest, lightest and most natural looking around. I recently tried them out at their cosy head salon at 16 James Street, W.1. where the delightful YEONWHA (yes, really!) applied them for me. YEONWHA truly has the magic touch: she removed my own gunk from my lashes and stuck on the JINNY LASHES in just over an hour. I didn't feel a thing and actually nodded off at one point - that's what I call good hands! And now I have stunning fluttery butterfly lashes which are easy to care for, don't require mascara and last for weeks. Fantastic – I dearly love them! This is what they look like:
JINNY LASHES.
Thank you for all your emails about my fast and pain free Botox with DR PATRICK BOWLER, by far the best Cosmetic Doctor in the business. It was a huge success and I have now had a filler, RESTYLANE with the brilliant DR B too. (COURT HOUSE CLINICS: 0845 555 5050 / www.courthouseclinic.com)
These injections were also completely painless and my middle-aged skin is now looking nicely plumped up. No doubt my next big acting role will be playing a teenager! (Or maybe not – will have some news for you next month, dear readers.)
PATRICK favours the subtle approach – a little at a time – and, if you stick to this, you will always look natural. The RESTYLANE has been great – you massage it in a bit for the first 3 days then the effect lasts for months. Totally excellent!
DR PATRICK BOWLER with SAL and LIZ FULLER.
DR BOWLER's COURT HOUSE CLINICS offer all the latest procedures. I recently had permanent laser hair removal there and was thrilled with it. If you can't get to a clinic regularly, try the TRIA HOME LASER HAIR REMOVAL KIT, which I mentioned last month. This small but perfectly formed little gadget allows you to laser away your hairs painlessly and quickly 'in the comfort of your own home'. It's dead simple to use : you just charge it up for 3 hours then touch the - previously shaved - areas with the laser for a few seconds and the effect lasts for 6 weeks. Then the hairs gradually stop growing back at all. It's completely painless, quick and convenient – I do it in front of the telly while viewing my BAFTA movies.
This little machine is going to take over the world, trust me! Now we can all 'get smooth' all over. I am working on my legs and will let you know how many sessions I need until I NEVER HAVE TO SHAVE MY LEGS AGAIN!!!
www.TRIA.co.uk / 0845 555 2121.
TRIA fans allegedly include those super smooth gals DENISE RICHARDS and LINDSAY LOHAN.
Here are my fave MEN'S PRODUCTS this month:
Leading US shoe company ROCKPORT have brought out a truly extraordinary and revolutionary new shoe called the DRESPORT. This is a classic silhouette dress shoe with athletic soles. So it looks like a dress shoe but feels like a trainer. And you can run in it. My trialler, JON said "these DRESPORT shoes are great. I can wear them for business meetings, dinners, whatever but I can also run in them. They feel so comfortable, they are amazing and no-one would guess they have trainer type soles."
Personally I can't think why no-one has dreamed this idea up before. It'samazing.
Stockists: 0870 850 7083 / JOHN LEWIS, JONES, ARNOTTS, BESTS, THOMAS PATRICKS.
Just to prove the point, ROCKPORT director ROB LAMBERT actually ran the Dublin Marathon in a pair of DRESPORTS and here he is, looking as fresh as a daisy after his exertions:
ROB LAMBERT in ROCKPORT DRESPORT shoes.
If you like cufflinks – and all men need to wear them sometimes – you will love CHRISTOPHER SIMPSON's fun and innovative collection.
www.christophersimpson.com / 020 7370 2889.
There is something for everyone in this range – from cheap and cheerful ball cuffs to sexy exy 't..s and a...' silver plated jobbies and coloured glass ones, from animal ones for the animal lovers in your lives to cartridge cufflinks for the non-animal lovers! My male triallers have given them a really hard time but, in spite of this and in spite of the cheap price (from £7.95), the links have not broken or chipped at all. Great! They make fab prezzies too. Here's a couple of pix of 2 of the styles featuring designer CHRISTOPHER SIMPSON's stunning young nephew TOMMY SIMPSON (Agent: AMANDA at LOOKS: 020 8341 4477.)
TOMMY SIMPSON models for CHRISTOPHER SIMPSON CUFFLINKS.
The gorg TOMMY is an aspiring actor and I predict great things for him. He will soon be seen in RIDLEY SCOTT's new ROBIN HOOD movie with RUSSELL CROWE. Now here's a photo of the brawny one himself, MR CROWE in GLADIATOR mode (well the ROBIN HOOD cozzie can't be that different, can it?)
RUSSELL CROWE. C.r.: STAR.
My fave UNISEX prod this month are the URBANZ STUD EARPHONES which fit into anything and come in all sorts of great colours. My triallers found them super comfortable and completely unbreakable and they also come with a handy carry pouch. A pic tells a thousand words and here is one of the Pretty in Pink URBANZ STUD BOOM BUDS EARPHONES.
THE URBANZ STUD EARPHONES.
And this is what my pet triallers have to report re SKINCARE:
GLORIA says: " I love ELEMIS' VISIBLE BRILLIANCE SERUM which I used morning and night and it lasted for a whole month. It's got space age packaging, is easy to apply and is absorbed immediately by the skin. I have never known any product which is so easily absorbed. My face and neck are definitely looking fresher and my under eye circles are much less dark after using this for a month. It comes with a complimentary home facial treatment as well, which is nice."
020 7907 2703 for stockists.
JENNY says: " my favourite new product is IKOVE's ACAI AGE RESISTING SERUM for 30 plus 'and emergency' skin. It smells and tastes just like chocolate but it really worked well on my dry skin which now feels much softer and plumper after using for 4 weeks. I will use this one regularly now."
www.ikove.com
Talking FASHION, I am thrilled to report that our very own HG Psychic Ed VICTORIA BULLIS is currently enjoying amazing success with her fab new handbag collection. Regular readers will know that VICTORIA who writes the CELEBRITY PSYCHIC SCOOP page on HG (do check out her column when you finish reading this one) is also an accomplished handbag designer and her psychic 'handbag readings' where she combines her 2 talents have become legendary.
The multi talented VICTORIA has just been featured big time in GLAM magazine where she is known appropriately as 'QUEEN VB' = congrats, VICTORIA!
and talking of queens, this month VICTORIA has done a handbag reading for our own dear QUEEN - check it out.
BOOK NEWS:
This month I have 3 great books for you which are all the best of their genres and also completely different.
The elegant and charming PETER LEWIS-CROWN, OBE has written a fascinating memoir about his life and times in the world of haute couture, HOUSE OF LACHASSE: THE STORY OF A VERY ENGLISH GENTLEMAN (DELANCEY PRESS), featuring lots of stunning photos of Royalty and the Rich. PETER designed for and ran the world famous LACHASSE until it closed down - which then gave him time to pen this wonderful book. The Foreword is written by one of his favourite clients, DAME NORMA MAJOR, DBE and HOUSE OF LACHASSE is full of fascinating anecdotes about the colourful people that PETER knew and designed for, including THE QUEEN herself, the ASTORS, HARDY AMIES (who designed for LACHASSE before starting his own fashion house) and even my dear departed pal SIR DAI LLEWELLYN, BART. So if you want to know the inside stories about what went on in the dressing rooms of BUCKINGHAM PALACE, CLIVEDEN, et al, this is the book for you.
The delightful PENNY SMITH has also turned her presenter's hand to writing and penned an hilarious novel called COMING UP NEXT – an inside story about the sofa wars on a breakfast TV show. Who better than PENNY to write about the naughty and not so nice goings on in the competitive, back stabbing world of telly biz? It's laugh out loud brill with a cast of extraordinary characters from vacuous TV bimbos to a completely batty mum and a sexy horticulturist. PENNY is seriously witty and this is by far the best telly com book I've read. Next month I'll also be reviewing her next book, AFTER THE BREAK – watch this space.................
Finally the grand master of the bonkbuster genre, ROBIN ANDERSON himself has come up with his most hilarious book yet, LA DI DA DI BLOODY DA! (ATHENA PRESS available on www.amazon.com and from GARDNERS.)
The suave and elegant ROBIN has cornered the market with his bonk-buster thrillers but LA DI DA DI BLOODY DA is not just murder and mayhem but a rom-com too. It's all about a pair of super-trannies with a 'lurrrrrrrrrve' agency, Miz Miranda Maracona and Miz Kookie Kombuis who, with the help of real life etiquette expert LADETTE TO LADY's LIZ BREWER, have to find a tranny princess for KYLIE MINOGUE lookalike, Prince Igor 'Princey Poo' Pisskossovitch of Bejesustan. What a romp! Especially when Princey Poo's sister Princess Petitfive (one better than petits fours – geddit?) falls in love with ski champ BORIS BALSWICHITZH (b...s which itch – geddit?) and goes for a bit of a schuss!
LDDDBD is dedicated to ROBIN's uber muse, IVANA TRUMP and I will be reporting on the upcoming fab book launch in the March issue.
ROBIN with IVANA and hubby ROSSANO. Private collection.
ART NEWS:
KAZZY AND SALLY TV were recently privileged to film the Private View of my favourite artist, the great ENDRE RODER's new exhibition, WOMEN ARE BEAUTIFUL, mounted by my sister in law, CAROLINE FARMILOE of CAROLINE FARMILOE FINE ART (www.farmiloefineart.com )
The champagne reception was attended by all sorts of glam art lovers including MATTHEW MCFADDEN, another actor from LE MISANTHROPE who was there incognito, film producer GEORGE PAVLOU and HG art critic, MICHAEL BARNETT who kindly allowed me to interview him.
ENDRE's paintings are all totally stunning and exotic and here he is in front of one of my favourites with CAROLINE.
ENDRE and CAROLINE.
JADE is seen here with GEORGE PAVLOU.
JADE and GEORGE.
The pix are by GABOR SCOTT, a good snapper but the most unpunctual one in town who needs a giant firework up his backside – any offers?
CHARITY NEWS:
My dear friend DR ANNA, LADY BROCKLEBANK has just produced a wonderful charity DVD of Gospel songs, A MIXED BAG SINGS FOR SIERRA LEONE, available for just £10.00 from:
Discet UK, c/o Rev. Simon Holloway, St Wilfrid's House, Horley Rd, Horley, Surrey, RH6 8DF. (Reg'd Charity No: 1109438.)
The songs are truly uplifting and ANNA and her enthusiastic choir of 'locals with voices' all gave their time voluntarily to rehearse and record every weekend for 3 months. The dynamic ANNA was moved to make the DVD after hearing about the terrible atrocities in Sierra Leone when REV CANON DR MODUPE TAYLOR-PEARCE came to her local church in Surrey to preach.
All proceeds from the DVD will go to DISCET, an excellent Charity that helps to rebuild lives shattered by the terrible 10 year war in Sierra Leone. Please buy a DVD or 2 if you can.
Best congrats to lovely ANNA.
DR ANNA, LADY BROCKLEBANK. Private collection.
If you are 'flying tonight' (or any time really) do choose The World's Greatest Airline, SIR RICHARD BRANSON's VIRGIN. I recently had a bit of a do trying to get my daughter and her gal pal to and from NYC on their gap year and being stymied by a couple of rather laid back Jamaican travel agents (don't ask!) Without super patient VIRGIN booker SCOTT and brill VIRGIN p.r. KATIE I think I would have shot myself! Anyway the girls, both 18, are off now, thanks to VIRGIN and I know they will be in excellent care in the air (on the ground in The Big Apple? Who knows?)
VIRGIN ATLANTIC has just launched its stunning new GATWICK CLUBHOUSE that features, among other things, a luxurious COWSHED SPA for their Upper Class passengers. In these days where you have to check in 2 and a half hours before take off, what better way of relaxing and unwinding than in a Spa as well as a Bar? You can refresh and refuel in luxury in the CLUBHOUSE while the plane gets refreshed and refuelled on the tarmac or in the hangar or whatever! Flying is a dehydrating business so my advice is to have a nice moisturising massage and not too much alcohol.
The Clubhouse also features a Restaurant, Bar, Family Lounge, Entertainment Lounge, Business Area and Snug. Excellent!
www.virginatlantic.com
RICHARD BRANSON.C. r.: VIRGIN.
Btw, my heart goes out to gorgeous comic and EASTENDERS star BOBBY DAVRO whose computer has caught a virus which sends out I.M.s from him to all his pals extolling the virtues of frisky totty sites!!!
After I'd received a few from him I smelt a big fat rat, asked BOBBY about it and learnt the truth.
Do protect your pooters, dear readers and never open any attachment with a virus warning – it's just not worth it!
Now heeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeere's BOBBY in happier times with top designer CHARLES SVINGHOLM, lovely presenter LIZ FULLER and moi at one of CHARLIE'S fashion shows last year where LIZ compered, I modelled and BOBBY encouraged us all.
CHARLIE, LIZ, BOBBY, SALLY. C.r.: GABOR SCOTT.
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