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PM: NO REGRETS Clinging on ...OAP * * * * * * * * * THE DAILY TELEGRAPH SATURDAY, MAY 26, 2012 * * * | 19 Cam defends giving Hunt asay on BSkyB bid DAVID Cameron gave his By KEVIN SCHOFIELD That was areference to the fact thing to do in the circumstances.” Video of Chief Political Correspondent that both men had children in the Shadow culture secretary Harriet C<=G@\ full backing to under-fire same hospital on the same day. Harman said: “David Cameron Jeremy Hunt yesterday, even though the Culture Sec- Labour renewed calls for Mr might think this will somehow OAP in Hunt to be sacked but Mr Cam- draw aline under it, but people By Victoria Ward that had Witty been successfully prose- ground and they believed his word over again denied the allegations and escaped victims’ courage in giving evidence. Sen- retary had already sent him Brian Witty, a insisting he had “no eron stood by his Cabinet pal. will not accept that.” cuted at an earlier stage, he “may well theirs, which is devastating for the victims. charge. A thorough investigation was tencing Witty, from Hull, to a minimum amemo backing the contro- A FORMER Army captain felt he was have not have been free to commit these People slapping themselves on the back former Army started only when Witty, who served in the of eight years imprisonment, he said it The PM said: “The key thing News Corp dropped the BSkyB “untouchable” after police failed to pros- later serious offences”. He said: “Justice need to look at the way things are done captain, avoided Parachute Regiment and later became a was clear he set out to prey on vulnerable regrets” about appointing prosecution over versial takeover. wasn’t what he had said in the bid last July. ecute him for two rapes and one sexual has been for too long delayed.” for the future.” City banker, raped his fourth victim, a 42- women. skydive assault, leaving him free to go on and Lisa Longstaff, of Women Against Rape, Witty had attacked his first victim, a 24- three previous year-old woman he met last year through He described Witty as a “bullying, him to oversee News Pressure is mounting onGOLD Mr past, it was howLION he was going to The Leveson Inquiry yesterday rape his fourth victim, a court was told. criticised the police and the Crown Pros- year-old nanny, after meeting her in a assault claims a dating website. He was arrested after the self-obsessed, arrogant sexual preda- Brian Witty, 41, was jailed indefinitely ecution Service for failing to charge Witty pub in 1995, Kingston Crown Court woman fled from his flat “shaking and tor”. Hunt over claims he wastoo do the job. heard how Mr Hunt told his as a judge described him as a “demand- until his fourth victim came forward. heard. The woman reported the incident crying”. Police subsequently reinterviewed Det Insp Michael Murfin of the Metro- Corp’s bid for BSkyB. close to News Corp executives. “He took independent advice at adviser Adam Smith he should ing, frightening and determined rapist” She said if sex offenders managed to to police and Witty was questioned but heard. She too, reported the attack to the all three previous victims. politan Police urged anyone who believes who posed a very real danger to women. escape prosecution they felt emboldened claimed that the woman consented. police but Witty was not charged. In a statement read to the court, Witty’s they may have been raped or sexually The PM said it was “right” Text messages were released yes-WINNERevery stage and he did it in a quitover his News Corp contacts. disaster The father of two was arrested and and able to keep “getting away with it”. In In 2006, he sexually assaulted a 25- Two years later, Witty met his third vic- fourth victim said: “I will still have to find assaulted by Witty to contact the police. terday showing he sometimes very thorough way. Former PM Tony Blair will questioned after all three attacks but Witty’s case, she said: “We have to assume year-old recruitment consultant in an tim in a City bar, where he saw her “sug- a way to live with myself now, a changed Witty will be released only when the to give Mr Hunt the role — managed to escape charge for 16 years. that it was because of who he was socially. alleyway in Covent Garden, London, after gestively” eating chicken. He raped her and very different person.” parole board considers that he no longer called News Corp’s former public “I don’t regret giving the job to give evidence on Monday. By HARRY HAYDON Judge Nicholas Price QC said yesterday He was well spoken, had a military back- meeting her on a dating website, jurors two days later at his riverside flat but Witty Judge Nicholas Price QC praised the poses a risk. ‘Thorough job’ ...Jeremy Hunt affairs chief Fred Michel “daddy”. Jeremy Hunt. It was the right 2013 [email protected] ASKY-diving pensioner is left desperately hang- -JGD>@>CJGJBDNONC 2(HJM@MPI>C MDNFAMJH H@@ODIBN ?DNMPKODJIOJ RDOCDIQ@NOJMN By James Quinn and Helia Ebrahimi

THE £1bn bid for Royal Bank of Scot- land’s Williams & Glyn branches will gather pace today as investors hold JDGNPKKGD@N crunch meetings with Andrew Higginson, the man leading a takeover attempt. Mr Higginson, who was the long- standing finance director at Tesco’s, #@R@MK@OMJGNOGJNPM@N where he set up the supermarket’s fast growing bank, is holding meetings today KJDIOOJKMJ=G@HN M@KJMON/JG@NCDKN ture NatWest. Coverage hFair i Trading,g rejected h arguments froml yearsi wouldg pose a “serioush risk tot energy s: Online The mini-NatWest strategy has pro- independents that competition in the security of supply and resilience”. duced interest from a much broader market was not working because super- An imbalance in the production mix By Louisa Peacock alongside higher education as the from 260,000 in the current financial spectrum of potential buyers. markets with their purchasing power means that Britain exports petrol but automatic options considered by year to 480,000 by 2022, said the report. Aside from Mr Higginson, private controlled the market. imports large quantities of diesel and JUST one in 10 parents said teenagers when they finish their exams. Several employers are taking on more equity firms JC Flowers and Apollo are Deloitte was asked to assess risks to aviation fuel. The consultants say that, apprenticeships were their preferred But Peter Cheese, chief executive of the apprenticeships this year, including also working on making offers for the the security of supply and the impact on while the market changes had improved qualification for their children, with fewer Chartered Institute of Personnel and British Airways, which is hiring up to branches, while at least one more buy- motorists of the market upheaval and, the efficiency of the supply chain, a than a fifth believing an on-the-job Development, which published the study, 200 apprentices, and Barclays, which out rival is believed to be interested in although the consultants had reserva- reduction in spare capacity had damaged training scheme has the same status as a said: “This new research shows that will double its number of apprentices tabling a bid. tions, DECC is satisfied the retail market the resilience of the system to supply university education, a study has found. misperceptions about apprenticeships to 2,000. Under one proposal being considered, can cope with disruptions. disruption. The research, published at the start of prevail, which is likely to impact the Elsewhere, TeamSport, which runs Mr Higginson’s institutional consortium John Hayes, energy minister, said the High volume supermarket sites buy National Apprenticeship Week, reflects supply of potential candidates for indoor go-kart tracks, is launching a would inject money before the full IT report showed the retail sector had more most of their supplies from importers the uphill struggle the Government faces employers that do offer apprenticeships recruitment drive this week for “starter separation was complete. than enough stocks to “meet fuel supply but, with limited storage, need frequent in convincing parents – and young and deter those that don’t from adapting jobs”, which include full NVQ training. This could see institutional fund man- shocks” before contingency measures refuelling. That means that during supply people – of the merit of doing vocational their recruitment methods.” The Government wants to raise the agers becoming cornerstone investors were taken. But the Petrol Retailers Asso- disruptions they will quickly run out of work placement. A report by the Centre for Economics standing of vocational training to make it ahead of a planned public market flota- ciation, dismayed by the OFT report on petrol. David Cameron will today pledge to and Business Research showed that a credible alternative to university. tion further down the track. * * * * * * the competition issue, claimed the The consultants said that, while the make it the “new norm” for school apprenticeships are forecast to This week it is expected to say that Although the deal remains in very early * * * Deloitte analysis demonstrated that the market changes had improved the effi- leavers to take an apprenticeship or go contribute £3.4bn a year to the economy school-leavers will be able to become stages, the bids being weighed up repre- B8 * * * MARCH 24 2013 / THE SUNDAY TELEGRAPH majority of forecourts were running with ciency of the supply chain, a reduction in to university. The Prime Minster wants through productivity gains by 2022. airline pilots and accountants – among sent new-style banking entrants within T “dangerously low” levels of reserves. spare capacity had affected the resilience the country to follow Germany’s lead The number of people completing other jobs – without needing a university what has traditionally been a closed-off BUSINESS The total number of petrol sites has of the system to supply interruptions. where work-based training sits apprenticeships is predicted to increase degree, with various firms detailing plans. sector. 1%" +"14,/( Learn the art of 4DOC<I@R?@JHKO<CJHDIB more observant. In a test AJJ? NT>G@?=JOOG@N <G@T>G@?KG 1%&+( recorded 12 different women walking down a corridor. T'OF psychopaths and the other of Lady Onslow, chief executive of Liam Knowles, sales and marketing grateful her late father students, were asked which breakthrough – food-safe cups and had such a poor choice women had been attacked and plates made from 100pc-recycled plastic Invicta, which also counts Unilever and director at Greenpac UK, which develops of reading material which hadn’t. The psychopaths while fighting in Burma were almost spot on at bottles, lids and milk cartons, writes Reckitt Benckiser among its clients, said: green packaging, said no business Lduring the Second World War, n my last company, I was identifying vulnerability, Louisa Peacock. should ever have to use virgin polymers The only English book Ted brilliantly outmanoeuvred. whereas the students were Jones-Fenleigh had was a for- I’m still not quite sure how little better than random. Invicta Plastics has beaten global again for thes types of products. bidding tome on the world’s it happened but, despite We tried a similar experiment competition to create the first rigid and $,,! cccc “This puts Britain years ahead of other emerging plastics industry. Per- being the company’s top among ourselves in which we haps because one of the many Iperformer on almost all watched a series of genuine TV durable products made wholly from injection moulders,” he said. “The horrors of war is said to be in- objective measures and a clips of people broadcasting +"40 ccc terminable boredom, Jones- director of the business, I pleas to the public to find their plastic bottles, lids and milk cartons, processes make moulding in recycled Fenleigh pressed on. found myself in what one missing family members. Our following four years of research and materials very cost effective and can It proved a life-changing executive unsympathetically challenge was to assess which /&1&+ choice. Surrounded by soldiers called “the old goats’ pen” and, were genuine. millions of pounds of investment. lower carbon footprints significantly. in leather-soled boots who were before long, out on my ear. I was doing alright until my /@JHKJ PFADI@ time and time again.” eventually alighted on a poly- in the office – Oliver James poisoned him and chopped mer and rubber mix to create (author of, most recently, Office him into pieces. More the world’s natural resources – and can Invicta can trace its roots back to 1946, durable soles for military boots. Politics: how to thrive in a world “gullible” than “psychopath”, be used to make anything from cups when it invented a polymer and rubber “Goodness knows what I’d of lying, backstabbing and dirty I was beginning to understand be doing now if he hadn’t read -GA<BM@@Itricks) and Professor Kevin where I had gone wrong all and tableware to toys, marketing “It is our mission to work with major mix to create durable soles for military that book,” says Lady Onslow, Dutton (who wrote The Wisdom those years ago. products, fashion accessories and brands to spread the word, help protect boots. It went on to invent the first chief executive of Invicta Plas- of Psychopaths). The good news is that I tics, the company Jones-Fen- According to James, those wasn’t born this way. The educational equipment, the company the world’s natural resources, save our plastic ruler and fake pearls. leigh founded in Leicestershire people who succeed at the top latest research on the human in 1946 after returning from of any organisation are far more genome is coming down said. customers and the consumer money and During the 1980s and 1990s, Invicta the war. likely to have mastered the firmly on nurture over nature. Coca-Cola, a long-standing client of reduce carbon footprints.” produced the first red noses for Red “He started it off with a £100 political arts. Junior people who You can learn, or unlearn, war gratuity. He was an Army NJGPODJIAJMOC@DI?PNOMT say they won’t have any truck what it takes to survive at Invicta, is among the first companies to Many manufacturing businesses, Nose Day – a contract it now hopes to child who left school at 14 – he with playing office politics will corporate altitude. test the new products, making a series conscious of their carbon footprint, win back by offering red noses made hadn’t had a traditional educa- Lady Onslow, top, with the the family farm and thinking important than specialist cups and tableware to toys, She is hoping the company’s remain as junior people. Top of the list of skills you tion. He was a street fighter Coca-Cola cups made out of about environmental issues. knowledge, she says. marketing products, fashion latest invention will help restore Talented, productive and need is being astute. The of brightly coloured Coca-Cola glasses already use a blend of new, or so-called from 100pc-recycled plastic bottles. really, but also a visionary; very Invicta’s 100pc-recycled “I was always the environ- “I understand the fundamen- accessories and educational it to former glories – and per- committed they may be, but psychopaths’ almost instinctive inventive and he was one of the plastic mentalist of the family. I know tals – but you’d have to ask our equipment, says Lady Onslow. haps even win back Comic Re- they will also remain ability to read signals and spot first to see some big opportuni- that’s a tough statement to boys here any technical ques- The breakthrough could lief as a client by offering red bystanders while others who weakness gives them a huge ties in plastic.” make when you’ve ended up in tions. But we’ve had to change eventually mean that no busi- noses made from 100pc-recy- are less capable pass them up advantage. Invicta has totted up a number plastics.” and I’ve had to think on my feet ness should ever have to use cled plastic bottles. the career ladder. Watch for who is talking of world firsts over the years, in- Her hand was forced when to lead us down this path.” virgin polymers – and therefore However, Lady Onslow is In the old manufacturing to whom, how they respond l THE INDEPENDENT THE INDEPENDENT l cluding the first Comic Relief Invicta fell on hard times in The result, she says, puts natural resources – again for surprisingly relaxed about model with performance to each other, when you hear $JJ?OCDIF@MNRCJKPO>PNOJH@MNADMNO Coverage highRed l Noses,i fakeg pearls (“be-hts: 2006.O The companyn had slowlyl Invictai –n and Britaine – “years these types of products. sharing the process – under the measures such as cars off the the same phrase from Tuesday 12 March 2013 Tuesday 12 March 2013 cause people couldn’t afford ex- slipped from being an indus- ahead of other injection “I’m at the stage where I’m right circumstances she says factory line or crates shipped, different lips. Once you can 46/Business Businesspensive jewellery after the war”), /47 try leader to a commoditised moulders”. excited – we’re having these she’ll work with other British there was some hope for “read” people sufficiently and even the plastic ruler. manufacturer that was under While recycled plastics have new polymers put in our laps. manufacturing partners for free objective assessments. In the to understand why they By Louisa Peacock ducts or services online and companies stop an organisation lurching off on a The company’s most recent pressure to cut costs and was long been used in products Now I’m just like my father, tri- to build a bigger plastics recy- more complex, matrixed, behave as they do, you innovation – the first ever food- steadily losing business to including packaging and plas- alling them to see what applica- cling movement. service economy, this is all but are off the “office politics” cannot control what is said about them. short-lived fad.” safe products such as cups and The Telegraph overseas rivals. tic bottles, they previously had tions they could have. Hopefully Since companies interested impossible. How you’re bench and on the field. plates made from 100pc-recy- “British manufacturers need to be blended with new plastic the majority of products made in using the process to bolster perceived has a much greater Of all the political skills we WHAT ARE the qualities you need to be a “If you want to win your customers’ faith, Mr Berkett believes that partnerships cled plastic – could be its most an edge. It’s: ‘What can we do (so called “virgin polymers”), this way won’t end up in land- their green credentials can’t effect on your advancement need, ingratiation is the most successful chief executive? Being a you’ve got to go onto Facebook and Twit- with appropriate companies offer a better impressive and important F ESTIVAL that’s different? Yes, we’re especially for more solid items fill. I want to make products turn to a distant overseas alter- than what you achieve. universal – go out of your way breakthrough yet. OF BUSINESS designers, yes we’re clever – but and anything that comes into that will last 20 years and then native – the transportation Reputation trumps results. to be nice and make people visionary? Having a strong personality? ter and say, ‘sorry, we’ve made a mis- way of being more customer-centric. However, it emerged as much CELEBRATE LEARN PROFIT EXPAND let’s find something Asia can’t contact with food. The split they’ll go to a recycling plant would wipe out an environ- This would be easier if you feel good about themselves. from necessity as from any in- compete with’,” says Lady can be as little as 95pc virgin and end up as something else mental benefit – Lady Onslow were dealing with normal Businesses spend ages Possessing business acumen? take’,” she said. “We have now reversed the cycle, we telegraph.co.uk/festival-of-business Economies/UK Recycling/ grained inventive zeal. Onslow. to 5pc recycled. that’s plastic.” is hoping Invicta’s invention people, but those who reach the identifying people with high Actually, none of the above are judged Other leadership attributes highlighted used to outsource anything that moved, Lady Onslow, who holds a pi- }The Telegraph Festival of That spirit saw Lady Onslow Invicta’s low-cost, injection- Coca-Cola, a long-standing will be a boon to many British corporate heights are anything potential to accelerate them up especially important by the men and by the executives include being “flexible now we are developing strategic partner- lot’s licence and modelled for Business network provides news and her two sisters take the moulded items are free from client of Invicta, is among the manufacturers. but normal. Psychopaths are the corporate hierarchy. The growth slows as Coca-Cola tests Vivienne Westwood when in her and advice for the directors of helm to lead the company “new” polymers – helping to first companies to test the new “It puts us in direct competi- four times more likely to logic of this is infallible – on Is Ladbrokes chieftwenties, hadon little interest in mid-sizeda companies. It is through a four-year research protect the world’s natural products, making a series of tion with Asia – to my mind we’re exist in the executive suite the one hand they save on women who know best – the 46 chief not floppy”, with successful bosses need- ships so we can bring back the customer business DAY taking on the business, prefer- supported by Grant Thornton programme that cost around resources – and can be used brightly coloured drinking ves- doing it better than Asia because than in the general population external recruitment costs, on your essential daily round-up executives and business leaders asked by ing to know when to be resolute and interface under our control, we need to ring to spend her time running and the Business Growth Fund £2m. The vision was more to make anything from sels out of the material, while you can’t get it there. Here, we’re (so, you’re not paranoid, he or the other, internal appointees Canada $ slides the Marketing Society to come up with a pragmatic. carefully measure metrics and work with Invicta’s cups retailers including Asda have on your doorstep – where recy- she really is nuts). are more likely to succeed. also expressed an interest. cled materials should be. The University of Surrey The challenge is what to do definitive list of attributes. Alan Brown, chief executive of Ren- some people both in partnership whilst Lady Onslow, whose title “We need to develop this as a pitted top business executives once you’ve spotted them. loser as he makes a deal comes through marriage to the cooperative for the betterment against hospitalised criminals The answer lies in teaching Instead, they rated strategic thinking tokil, said: “Being flexible is vital and the at the same time being in competition Earl of Onslow, is hoping the of lots of different businesses. I from a maximum security unit tomorrow’s leaders how to be By RUSSeLL LYncH as the single most critical skill for a chief only way for a business to succeed, but with them.” By james thompson invention will find customers want people to come us to say, by testing them using a robust office politicians today. The among branded restaurants, ‘we’re making this in polysty- evaluation for psychopathy. good news is, not only will they executive, followed by customer focus sometimes a little rigidity and inertia can Surrounding yourself with great people dairies, soft drinks brands and rene, can you make it in [recy- Those behind desks scored rise faster and survive for is seen as an essential skill too, rather than major retailers. cled plastic]? higher than those behind bars longer but they will suffer less uK growth is showing “slowing and the ability to communicate clearly. The beverages giant coca-cola is Invicta currently turns over “It needs to be carefully and on the majority of attributes stress, have fewer days off sick Among those interviewed for the report having to be a dominant “personality”, the to woo internet punters? around £5m, but she says that’s slowly developed with the right including superficial charm, and be far more effective at momentum”, according to the testing the world’s first drinking a small fraction of what the com- partners. What I’m hoping is to egocentricity, persuasiveness, getting things done. If only were easyJet chief Carolyn McCall, )@

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IT is the DNA test that would prevent any suspicion falling on the milkman Test detects should a child be born with an unexpected shock of red hair. Scientists will be offering couples ginger DNA saliva tests to see if they carry the “ginger gene” at an exhibition next month. About four in 10 people are thought to for parents carry a variant of the MC1R gene that is responsible for red locks, despite not COUPLES who want to know being flame-haired themselves. if they could have ginger The test, available at the Who Do You babies are being offered red Think You Are? Live exhibition at London hair-detecting DNA tests. Olympia, should mean that a future red Ginger gene carriers can head in the family would be no surprise. have redhead babies even if

DNA test that reveals whether you carry the ginger gene

COUPLES are being offered Daily Mail Reporter another carrier, a red-headed baby DNA tests to see if they are car- cent have red hair, while in Eng- carriers. Half of the children of a can appear seemingly out of land only 6 per cent of people have carrier will also inherit the variant, rying the ‘ginger gene’. riers. Dr Jim Wilson, chief scien- nowhere.’ Organisers of a heritage show red hair. even if their other parent is not a tist at BritainsDNA – the ancestry It is estimated that about On the Continent, only about 1.3 are bracing themselves for an four in ten people carry the red- carrier. company behind the test – said: per cent of people are red-headed, Recent research indicates mil- influx of couples keen to dis- head gene variant without having cover if they could produce red- ‘Through a simple saliva test to getting much rarer heading lions of Britons carry ‘silent’ genes determine deep ancestry, we can red hair themselves – accounting towards the south-east. for redheadedness. headed children. for many surprise births of babies Carriers of the gene variant can also identify whether an individ- When counting the entire world While this does not turn their hair have ginger children even if neither ual is a carrier of any of the three who are red-headed. population only just over 0.5 ginger, it may expose them to a parent has red hair. common red-head variants in the About 40 per cent of men and per cent (one in 200) have range of increased health risks that women in Ireland carry a red head A simple DNA test, available at gene MC1R. red hair, which is nearly 40million afflict redheads. the Who Do You Think You Are? variant, but only 10 per cent have people. These can include increased sen- ‘This means that families can red hair. Live exhibition at Olympia in Lon- carry a variant for generations, and About one in four of the children sitivity to pain, skin cancer, Parkin- In Scotland, just over 30 per cent of two carriers will be born with don next month, can identify car- when one carrier has children with son’s disease and even Tourette’s are known carriers and up to 13 per red hair and half will themselves be syndrome. We fi red Angry Birds at the showbiz press with Samsung

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Stones who used to play in a Interview Richmond pub, so I took in some pictures of them and the editor was horrified. ‘These guys look like prehistoric monsters,’ he told me.” Celia Walden In O’Neill’s mind, there was one key difference in the national psyche then. “Everyone wanted ot many photographers people of our age to succeed. We all need a moment to pulled together as opposed to consider whether or not fighting one another the way we do Nthey’d like to take the now. There were the toffs and us Duchess of Cambridge’s young lads doing all the work – portrait. Terry O’Neill ponders the then suddenly we were given the question nonchalantly. “Kate? Nah – chance to have a say. You can’t I don’t think so. Why not? Because I explain the enormity of that.” don’t fancy her.” And he rattles off a Whether it’s Britain he’s great big East End laugh – a laugh disillusioned by, or contemporary that says ‘‘I’ve seen, slept with and culture – or whether, having photographed more beautiful survived bowel cancer six years ago, women than you’ve had hot he’s reassessed life’s priorities – is dinners’’; a laugh that tells you that hard to tell. In any case, O’Neill no personally and professionally, every longer accepts many jobs and only aspiration has been met. photographs “friends” now. “I’m not You can’t blame O’Neill for his lack interested in today’s people,” he of enthusiasm. As one of the most shrugs. The Prime Minister and famous documenters of the 1960s Deputy Prime Minister are both alongside David Bailey, Terence dismissed with a tetchy wave of the Donovan and Brian Duffy, the 73- hand. “I don’t think they’d year-old has photographed everyone respond to the camera.” Not like from Elizabeth Taylor, Marilyn Thatcher, “an amazing woman” he Monroe and Audrey Hepburn to The photographed on several Beatles, Frank Sinatra and Nelson occasions. “She ran all those guys Mandela. His romantic back in the Cabinet like schoolboys. It catalogue (which includes a was like a Carry On film the way relationship with Jean Shrimpton she would boss them about. I’d be and marriages to actresses Vera Day laughing inside.” and Faye Dunaway) is almost as These days the access impressive. photographers are given hardly O’Neill’s raw charm was as much makes it worthwhile, he says. “You of a trademark as his reportage style have 30 minutes in a hotel room. In of photography. Today, slouched in my day, I used to work with people an armchair above a Dover Street art for two weeks.” He spent three weeks

gallery in light-wash Levi jeans and ANDREW CROWLEY with Sinatra after Ava Gardner – a vast rubber-soled black trainers, that friend – wrote a letter of charm is still palpable. He’s that rare “They would’ve been much racier “Oh no, no, no. It’s all an illusion, Caught on camera: there. God…” O’Neill chuckles. “I by birth I’m Catholic, you see, so I introduction. “I could have followed thing: an interviewee with a than the other ones she did. Diana you see. I never got involved with any Terry O’Neill, above, dropped such a terrible clanger with have all these guilty feelings.” Frank to the loo. For the next 30 thousand stories to tell and enough needed loosening up and I could of them.” and his pictures of her.” He tells me about one drunken The son of a foreman in a Ford years I was with him on and off – detachment to tell them all. have done it – it would have been so That’s not quite true. There was Brigitte Bardot (left) night at Shrimpton’s. “Someone factory, the would-be jazz drummer long enough to know that he was still “I mean that poor girl, Kate…” he easy for me. She was getting freer Shrimpton, of course, and Dunaway, and Katharine Hepburn jumped into bed with me, so I carry from Romford only picked up a in love with Ava. But you have to says with the shake of a head. and she was fanciable, you know? to whom he was married when he on with the machinery of it all, as you camera when he was 20 and working spend time with a man like that to “What’s going to happen to her? Like I say,” he adds with an Alfie-like took the famous ‘‘post-Oscar do,” he grins, “wake up the next for a photographic unit in Heathrow realise what the reality of being a Hopefully William will be king and laugh, “as long as you fancy them, it’s Breakfast’’ photograph the morning morning and find that it’s Jean’s best airport. It was an accidental shot of giant star is.” That reality isn’t easy, she’ll be a new breed… And she fine. If you don’t: forget about it.” after the actress won her award for friend. Of course, she told her Home Secretary Rab Butler, asleep in he says, for men or women. “You does seem very together, but, well…” In the gallery beneath us, an Network. “Well, there were some everything and that was that.” a waiting room among African know what always amazed me? That he shrugs, dismissing the Duchess in exhibition of O’Neill’s most great-looking women about then,” “But I really wished it hadn’t ended chieftains that caught one newspaper none of the beautiful women I’ve two quiet words: “Too thin.” celebrated pieces is being hung. he chuckles when I point this out. that way,” he adds, suddenly wistful. editor’s eye. “I like your approach,” photographed ever thought they were O’Neill’s passing concern may Alongside photographs of The “Now…” he looks around derisively, “Jean was a fabulous girl.” the editor of The Dispatch told beautiful. Ava didn’t. Marilyn didn’t. stem from the friendship he enjoyed Beatles rehearsing and Sinatra “pfff… well there’s Angelina Jolie, A cause for greater remorse was O’Neill, promising him a salary of Michelle Pfeiffer doesn’t. Such a with Prince William’s mother – a walking the Miami boardwalk with but there aren’t many real stars left.” his and Dunaway’s divorce in 1987. “I five pounds a week. “It’s refreshing – waste.” woman he knew so well that he his Mafioso-mugged minders, there’s There’s a blandness to today’s bitterly regret breaking up that it’s different.” Crises of confidence aren’t “never thought to photograph her”. Bardot sucking on a fat cigar, Raquel famous faces, he feels. “These men marriage,” he admits. “I was the It was the start of the 1960s. O’Neill’s style. As we make our way “I used to have a house in South Welch strung up on a cross and and women are around six months wrong age but we had kids.” He “Everywhere you looked in London, down to the gallery and I ask which Audley Street and whenever she Hepburn, beatific with a white dove and then gone. The supermodels pauses. “Nobody ever says this but something was happening,” says of the greats – Adams, Cartier would go to [the upmarket china perched on her shoulder. The sexual were the last great girls, and Kate when you walk out the door and your O’Neill. When the young Bresson or Capa – adorn his own shop] Thomas Goode she would interplay between artist and female Moss only just scraped in under the kids are lined up to say goodbye… photographer – by then working for walls, he curls his lip. “I don’t collect drop in for a cup of tea. She was such subject is all too obvious in O’Neill’s wire.” O’Neill is underwhelmed by That image has stayed with me The Daily Sketch – was sent to other people’s shots. Nah, because a nice woman. I suppose I kept work. Just as he found the women he the Croydon-born model. “I never forever.” O’Neill remained close to photograph a new band called The most of the time I think, ‘Well I could thinking that it would come about photographed “fanciable”, they too rated her – Kate only endured his son, Liam, now 31 and happily Beatles, it was the first picture of a have done that’.” quite naturally when she was older were seduced by the power of his because she was associated with married to former model agency group published in a newspaper. and more sophisticated.” Today, lens – if not the man himself. Ask those supermodels. I mean, Jean head Laraine Ashton, but the subject “The paper sold out and the editor Alon Zakaim Fine Art presents Terry O’Neill has a very clear idea of the how often he acted on that attraction [Shrimpton] was the best of all the is still painful. “I did everything I told me to go and find another group. O’Neill’s ‘‘Infamous’’ from May 1. photographs he would have taken. and the photographer feigns outrage. English models and sadly it ended could – I really did,” he insists. “But Fortunately I’d been following The Visit alonzakaim.com for details

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Like us on Facebook facebook.com/eveningstandard SPOTLIGHT IN TOWN TONIGHT ON A &O]NOJJGJJGOJ1@MMT,]+@DGG THEATRE OPERA FREEFR hen I was younger Lauren Bacall at a first- resent those who are cool, Infamous at the Alon dear David Bowie posing WASTED MADAM LLONDONO W I wasted a lot of night party and ask her or even envy them now Zakaim gallery in Dover in a ridiculous titfer that GOLDEN AGE time wishing that I about her memories of that I am deep in middle Street, London W1. only he could get away with, A drama by acclaimed BUTTERFLYY TERRYTER O’NEILL: was cool. It was never Humphrey Bogart? Did I age. There is something There’s Brigitte Bardot alongside a huge Great performance poet and rapper Anthony IINFAMOUSNFAM going to happen. I’m the really wee all over my comforting about in her glorious prime, with Dane. Celebrity snappers with telephoto lenses have killed the art sort of person who only shoes when Max Hastings, muddling your way the wind blowing her hair This was a promotional of the honest portrait, writes photographerTerry O’Neill Kate Tempest, also known for Minghella’s A mimixturexture of unseen has to put on a new tie for then the terrifying editor of scruffily through life, and over her face and a shot for his Diamond Dogs a posh lunch to discover at this paper, loomed up next not feeling you have got to suggestive cigar between album, and the moment ACK in 1960, it never occurred doing something new — designer Mary the London scene really opened doors using a Hasselblad, doing studio shots. her music with band Sound Olivier Award-winningd-winning images and iciconico celebrity to me that I could have a career Quant one day, model Jean Shrimpton for me over there. Fred Astaire and I changed my style, learning to use lights the end of the meal that I to me in the office gents put on an act all the time. her lips. There’s Frank when the dog, which had as a photographer. I wanted to the next. And for once, we had the say. Shirley MacLaine threw a dinner for me. and work with colour. I remember meet- Of Rum, about three old staging of Puccini’sini’s operaopera, B be a musician. When I started It was the poor people from the East All they wanted to hear about was The ing Annie Leibovitz on a job when I was portraits, including Bridget have dribbled gravy all and barked: “Top five How tiring that must be. Sinatra attracting the eyes been sitting quietly beside working for British Airways as End taking over from the toffs in the Beatles and the Stones. That’s when I shooting Elton John. She studied every- a technical photographer, it was with West End. People took us seriously. thought maybe the whole thing would thing I did, and improved it. friends on one life-changing mixing cinematic images and over it. shows in London, For anyone who likes of everyone as he strolls Bowie, suddenly reared six the intention of becoming an air stew- In a way, photographers such as last. I didn’t come back to England until the Bardot (pictured) and The ard so I could fly to New York and be a myself, David Bailey, Terence Donovan The most charismatic Hollywood star late Eighties. I married an American girl And when I’m in a self- Charlie?”, like an gazing at cool people, down the boardwalk in feet into the air, barking jazz drummer. and Brian Duffy created the Sixties. It was Frank Sinatra. I was introduced to [the actress Faye Dunaway]. These days day in the parks, raves and traditional Japanese theatre, The job was interesting, though, and wasn’t just who we were shooting but him through Ava Gardner. She wrote a I just work with people I know, such as Beatles, taken by the British flagellating mood, blush- impatient schoolmaster however – and in this Miami with his frightening madly, terrified everyone it entailed going to art school once a the way we shot them. I was using letter of introduction for me to give to Eric Clapton or Michael Caine. cafés of South London returns to the Coliseum week. We were given a homework 35mm, which was a whole new Frank when I met him. I don’t know You can’t take candid shots of today’s photographer making memories of grilling a grubby schoolboy celebrity-fixated age when minders. in the studio except Bowie, assignment to take pictures of emotion. approach. Before that, portraits were what the letter said but Frank opened celebrities because they are brands and social gaffes and deeply about his homework? fame has become the new There are the Stones and who didn’t even flinch, and I went across to Heathrow airport with done in studios using special lighting the door to me and I never looked back. their management demand control of Until May 19, Roundhouse. Tonight and in rep until Jun 2, Until Jun 8, Alon Zakaim Fine my Agfa Silette to capture people saying and hoods, which took a long time to I worked with him for more than 20 the images. It means the public only gets uncool behaviour come Reader, in both those religion, who doesn’t? – I the Beatles, bursting with O’Neill, who got the money goodbye and crying. I shot a picture of set up; 35mm film brought a whole new years, covering his concerts, rehearsals to see what the stars want them to see www.roundhouse.org.uk the then Home Secretary, Rab Butler, candid look to photography because and films. Frank never queried anything — or what the paparazzi can snatch. Coliseum. www.eno.org Art. www.alonzakaim.com Brigitte Bardot in Terry highly recommend Terry hope and youth at the start shot, perfectly in focus. asleep among a crowd of African chief- you could carry your camera around I did. I could walk in whenever I liked It also means the big-name photogra- flooding back. Did I really cases, I confess that I did. tains. The editor at the [now defunct] and you had 36 shots on a roll. and take photos of whatever I liked. phers today are more like art directors, mistake Dora Bryan for Yet strangely, I don’t O’Neill’s superb exhibition O’Neill’s superb exhibition of their careers, and there’s Now that really is cool. Dispatch saw the shot and hired me to I didn’t realise the impact of my work Frank had this air about him; he really with teams of assistants and technicians work at the airport every Saturday. at the time. None of the Sixties stars took did light up a room when he walked in. to create imagery that is planned and In the old days, there was only one themselves seriously either. I used to The only person Frank looked up to was orchestrated. We product placed for Robinson Pelham Follow us on Twitter @standardnews News HUMPTY DUMPTY SITS ON A WALL AMONG 200 DESIGNS AS CAPITAL AIMS TO BREAK RECORD

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Picture: REXFEATURES,PA Labour leader Ed Miliband, by dating website BeautifulPeople. with a young lady dressed up as a are expected to follow com was topped by Prince Carl William, 28, by one place. The Prince Philip, 89, once thought of as as Princess Grace and Queen Rania. of Japan at 10th. At the bottom of Philip of Sweden, the only son of the brothers took fourth and fifth spots a handsome cove with irresistible I think the world is breathing a sigh the women’s ranking was Anne on Mr Cameron’s lead. current King Carl XVI Gustaf and respectively. charm, also came near the bottom of relief that the British monarchy 14 per cent of votes, followed by But James Sleater, “sexy” Virgin Mary, in a blue dress Queen Silvia. Their father, Prince Charles, 62, on 29 per cent, level with Andrew. can only get better looking in Fergie on 16 per cent, and George co-founder of bespoke Prince Andrea of Monaco, son of was voted the 10th best-looking Greg Hodge, managing director of generations to come.” IV’s Queen Consort Caroline tailors Cad & The Dandy, Princess Caroline, was voted second royal male. But his brother Prince BeautifulPeople.com, said: “Kate In the women’s vote, Diana was of Brunswick-Wolfenbuttel, then said: “Is it not more of a and Prince Frederick, heir to the Andrew, 51, often considered a Middleton is no typical beauty. followed by Princess Charlotte of Camilla, the Duchess of Cornwall, statement by not wearing cut rather high on the thigh, and Danish throne, came third. lothario, fared less well. “But her style, deportment and Monaco, Indian Princess Gayatri 63, with 24 per cent of votes. a morning suit? Adhere to Prince Harry, 26, the best man at He joined the lowest-ranking immaculate grooming have clearly Devi, Princess Madeleine of Sweden, Princess Beatrice, 22, on 32 per your true dress code, David, this month’s wedding at Westmin- royals for looks – trailing slightly won her an army of admirers, Crown Princess Mary of Denmark, cent was pipped by one place by you will be more respected posing in a raunchy nativity scene. ster Abbey, beat his elder brother behind King Henry VIII. His father, propelling her to the same heights then Margaret, and Princess Masako younger sister Princess Eugenie, 21. Style icon Princess Diana, eclipsed in poll by Kate Middleton Bride-to-be Kate voted ‘most beautiful ever’ British royal Second was Princess Rania of Jordan as a man of conviction.” Whil h tt t d h f i h f

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Monday, June 21, 2010 METRO 25 timesonline.co.uk/business 25.10.09 7 Beauty JUSTIN GRIFFITHS-WILLIAMS Beauties-only site sets \ogi\jjpflij\c]>\kk_\c`]\pflnXek up ‘virtual sperm bank’ in the By hippos and warthogs’ of its rivals and Tariq Tahir gMusic ‘key to getting a hot date’ recently culled 5,000 members for A DATING site that allows only gaining weight over Christmas. ‘beautiful’ members is expanding its The company will not actually han- I will don aything to g SINGLE lads looking for a date could do worse than offering by giving people the chance playing a cheesy ballad by Barry White (pictured) dle the donation process but direct eye of a to have attractive children. before asking a girl out. More than half of women (52 members to clinics and information Beautifulpeople.com has launched per cent) agreed to go on a date with an ‘average’ man on the rules for donating. what it calls a ‘virtual sperm bank’, a when a love song was played in the background. The move was about ‘responding to forum matching people who cannot The same suitor received a positive response from 28 a demand for attractive donors’, said have children with potential donors. per cent of the 87 women when a neutral tune was played, French researchers found. The study appears managing director Greg Hodge. The site is relaxing its rules barring website in the journal Psychology of Music. ‘We are all more open and accom- less blessed people and will allow modating to attractive people and have a beautiful baby non-members to benefit from the anyone would nwa t their child to have Beautiful Baby service. like to bring good-looking children the site and set up the beautiful DNA as many advantages as possible,’ Mr IN CONTRAST to husband The internet dating agency that Founder Robert Hintze said: ‘Init- into the world and we can’t be selfish bank to accelerate the process. Hodge added. ‘Intellect is important Wayne, Coleen Rooney has just ARISSA MOBASHER PARISSA MOBASHE R best vision of ourselves. Having a child ially, we hesitated to widen the offer- with our attractive gene pool.’ The dating site styles itself as a as well, so maybe Mensa could do a been picked as an ambassador – celebrates her 42nd birthday is so determined to is an extension of this. However beauty, judges potential members on It claims 600 babies have already game reserve of ‘leopards and gaz- this month but she’ll be too as subjective as it is, is only one aspect In with the in-crowd: ing to non-beautiful people. But every- similar thing with the people on their for Littlewoods autumn TV Picture: PA busy talking with potential have an attractive ch ild she has signed up in the total package of a good partner. their looks is making a global Parissa Mobasher one – including ugly people – would been born to people who met through elles’, compared to the ‘jungles of databases,’ he suggested. advertising campaign made the grade at sperm donors to blow out “Often you will fi nd couples who at pitch, says Matthew Goodman Beautifulpeople.com her candles. Parissa’s to a controversial f ertility website that fi rst seem mismatched in the looks biologicalE clock is ticking but she isn’t department but then fi nd that the said Greg Hodge, 34, the web- prepared to procreate with anyone. prizes good looks a bove everything else partner has other qualities such as arissa Mobasher further $4m from the same wave of consolidation in a mar- nues behind them, will be in a Motorcycle enthusiasts have meet a millionaire, a vegetari- his company definitely would A member of BeautifulPeople.com, kindness, humour and consideration.” checked the internet site’s managing director. group a year later. ket that has become highly frag- position to snap up smaller Bikerkiss.com, science-fiction an or someone who works in not target is those who fail to every few hours to “If you are in a bar or a club Hodge said that the comp- mented. sites if there is a potential mar- buffs may get lucky at Trekpas- uniform, there is a site for you, get admission to Beautiful the dating site for those who consider Even if Parissa fell head over heels see if she was good- and you are going to approach any regularly received inquiries Matt King, senior leisure ket they are not tapping into.” sions.com and golf fans can although how many of these People. “We will leave Ugly themselves blessed in the looks concept of trying to create beautiful for a man, she says she wouldn’t want P someone, you’ll approach some- people.com to somebody else,” looking enough. “I from prospective buyers, but he analyst at Mintel, said: “The It seems no niche is too take their pick from Golfmates. will be of sufficient interest to one you are attracted to. There’s department, Parissa believes it children might sound shallow but you to have his children unless he was was so nervous and excited,” would not give names. Experts big companies, the likes of small for there to be an internet com or Dateagolfer.com. attract bidders is unclear. he said. “Someone has regis- is her duty to fi nd a good-looking man don’t have to dig deep to see it’s attractive. “I would either fi nd a donor she said of the two-day wait to nothing shallow in that. believe there is bound to be a Match.com, with huge reve- dating site catering for it. Whether you are trying to One niche that Hodge said tered the domain.” discover whether she had been Beautiful People is exclusive. to have a baby with. A new “fertility human nature. As a parent you should through the fertility forum or adopt a accepted by Beautifulpeople. In that sense, it’s like Mensa — introduction service” on the site could give a child the best possible start.” child,” she says. “It isn’t fair to a child com, a dating website. you need to have a certain IQ to join.” make her wish come true. Parissa’s choices are controversial to risk giving them unattractive genes.” “I was lucky enough to get The Beautiful Baby service, in but according to anthropologist Jean She is confi dent fi nding her perfect in,” said the 41-year-old florist. A site dedicated to serving WEIGHTY “I’m not sure what I would only attractive people might essence a virtual sperm and egg bank, Smith, the BeautifulPeople fertility man will yield an adorable baby but Dr have done if I hadn’t — prob- not be considered politically cor- launched last month. Aimed at people service is doing something people do Alan Thornhill, scientifi c director at ably licked my wounds and not rect, but it is lucrative. The who want to maximise their chances of automatically anyway: securing what The London Bridge Fertility, told anyone about it.” business, started by Robert Hintze, 32, after he lost his job attractive offspring, the forum founders they believe to be the highest level of Gynaecology and Genetics Centre, Beautiful People was say they are responding to demand. genetic material. “The members says there is no guarantee you’ll have a launched in Denmark seven at a radio station, generates PROBLEM years ago and since then it has more than $8.5m (£5.2m) in sub- “Every parent would like their child who sign up will have a good-looking baby from an attractive opened for business in several scriptions from its sites in Brit- to be blessed with fi ne attributes, common physical ideal of egg or sperm donor. “Attractiveness is ain, America and Japan. countries, including Britain attractiveness being one of the most beauty,” she says. “This not just down to genetics,” he says. and America, arousing delight Hodge said the company had and despair in equal measure set a target of reaching $100m sought after,” says BeautifulPeople’s service makes it easier “Eye and hair colour have a strong and even some controversy. Its within three years. He declined managing director Greg Hodge. “For a for those who genetic component so you can to divulge other financial FOR SITE fans, such as Mobasher, love it, site with members who resemble Brad subscribe to that make quite accurate predictions saying it separates the singles details, but said the business was profitable. Pitt, George Clooney and Angelina ideal to fi nd donors about them. However what happens wheat from the chaff. Critics who they perceive brand it superficial, claiming it A report published this year Jolie, you can imagine the demand.” in the womb and during birth can panders to our baser instincts. by Mintel, the market-research Interested donors or recipients log on supply affect the appearance of a baby and firm, estimated that the UK to the forum in the hope of fi nding their appropriate individual life experiences affect online dating sector is worth about £80m and said it is dream match. Parissa, who is a single genetic appearance too. Many beautiful expected to grow by more than IT MAKES fl orist from north London, is already an material. We people have beautiful children but TOP DATING SITES 10% next year. active forum member. “I haven’t had are drawn to there are also people who aren’t good The recession is good for the children and it’s something I need to people looking with gorgeous offspring. UK visits to dating industry, Mintel added, ME LAUGH think about at my age,” she says. “I’m who Recessive genes can also play a part websites ranked by % because people need to econo- mise and they try to be more Debunking stereotypes ready for motherhood. The fertility refl ect but rather than physical attributes, 1 Plentyoffish.com 13.9 efficient financially in their forum has opened my eyes because I’ve the people should be more concerned 2 Gaydar.co.uk 8.2 quest for love. Why head out for spoken to men on the same level as me: about recessive diseases. That’s why a potentially fruitless night in good-looking guys willing to donate the focus on screening potential egg or 3 Match.com 7.2 an expensive nightclub, the I HAVE to confess I 4 Datingdirect.com 5.3 argument runs, if you can find sperm if they don’t meet the right sperm donors is on common genetic 5 Smooch.com 2.7 a date simply by staying at Stereotype number six: Two years ago a dat- woman to settle down with.” disorders and not what they look like.” home and surfing the net? sniggered when 5,000 Source: Mintel, February 2009 Parissa says that being attractive has Hodge said Beautiful Peo- ing website that opened doors for her and she wants to ple’s business model was chang- Polish women are all beautiful members of an exclusive ing with the global launch. It is claimed to only give her child the same opportunities. dropping the basic subscription “Being attractive is a blessing. In my This week, Beautiful People, social networking site were charge — at present it costs just 20s I worked in property and I was LTHOUGH 600 babies which has 180,000 members, is under £15 a month in the UK — accept the most being relaunched. Its disparate in favour of an advertising- dismissed for slapping on successful and made a lot of money have already been born as international incarnations are funded approach. However, The notion of Polish women be- beautiful singletons purely because of the way I looked. a result of relationships uniting into a single website members will be able to pay for a bit of weight over A pretty face makes people warm forged through BeautifulPeople’s that will be available all over extra services, such as video ing of unparalleled beauty is an warned Polish men 6 the world. This will leave it to you and you can use that. It’s dating site the fertility service doesn’t networking. my utmost duty to pass that on.” open to potential hostility in a The company is also looking old one: the 19th-century German (as well as Russians Christmas. offer a “quick fi x”. If a potential donor host of new markets. to make money from other Parissa, who was married for fi ve is found they still need to go through Unlike most dating web- sources. For example, last year Heinrich Heine was a big fan, de- and Brits) to expect a years in her 20s, hasn’t met Mr Right donor protocol which includes genetic sites, where customers simply BeautifulPeople.com — Heavenly dates a no go on eBay it ran a reality television series sign up, Beautiful People oper- schöne Polin through the dating side of the screening and HIV and hepatitis tests. on a Canadian cable station, scribing the “ ” as an knockback . website but has always been If Parissa can’t fi nd a donor she still ates a strict door policy. Those and it is now in talks with pro- which only permits new wishing to join must submit a ducers about a similar venture “angel on earth”, an “ Aphrodite of Greg Hodge, man- determined to have the perfect baby. wants to pass on her genes. “I’m old photo and existing members for the larger American market. members if existing clients and wise enough to accept that I might then vote on whether the appli- Other opportunities include DATING website BeautifulPeople. The dating site only accepts cant is attractive enough to be the Vistula”. aging director of not fi nd the right partner,” she says. launching a magazine and a ver- rate them as sufficiently “However I do want to pass on my accepted. sion of Beautiful People for the com has come to blows with members voted for by other Its defenders say this may be gay market. More recently, a journal- BeautifulPeople.com, genes. My great-grandmother is still harsh, but at least it is demo- The website’s backers are attractive — axed the HE says: “My alive at 103. My grandmother is in her cratic. It is estimated that clearly hoping for big things. ist from the Sydney Morning claimed only 9% of online auctioneer eBay over a members who deem them ex-husband had all 80s and her skin is incredible. I feel I’m about 20% of applicants make it The site raised $10m of external members following through the vetting procedure. Herald enthused (honestly): male Polish applicants the characteristics blessed with such beautiful genes it fundin date with the Virgin Mary. beautiful. But in a “charitable” “Is it shallow to want to be with g from a collection of complaints from their I’mH attracted to including would be a crime not to pass them on. “Polish women may not were attractive enough olive skin and dark hair. If I’m not destined to have children, I If you’re easily offended by the move, anyone can win a date However although he want to help the right couple who want be famous worldwide to join his site, com- peers that they had put on was gorgeous, a beautiful baby by donating my eggs.” for their beauty but pared with 39% of Polish cynical commercial exploitation with the parents of Christ. intelligent and had a Parissa may be thwarted by time as some timber. great body I was most egg donors in the UK are under the average girl on women. Helen Pidd Even for a site which of Christmas, look away now. eBay removed the posting, worried about his 35. “If you’re in your 40s and want to be genetic lineage. His a donor the odds are against you,” says the street can fair calls itself “the largest The fall-out occurred after claiming the pictures were father died young Dr Thornhill. “Being attractive has no dinkum stop your from a brain tumour and bearing on fertility. It doesn’t matter network of attractive BeautifulPeople.com launched “adult” in content. there were other health SITTING how young you look, your ovaries don’t heart with Arctic Miss Poland 2010, problems in his family. Even before PRETTY: function as well as a younger person’s.” people in the world” I a raunchy version of the Greg Hodge, managing we separated I had decided not to Parissa is Undeterred, Parissa is ready to put eyes peering out Agata Szewiola . She is an nativity scene, featuring some director of Beautifulpeople.com have children with him. comfortable her plans into action. “By this time from under a example of the kind of thought putting on a few “An ex-boyfriend was cross-eyed. in her views next year I’ll be trying to conceive with I thought it was cute because I loved on beauty a partner or using a BeautifulPeople fur-lined hood.” beauty that an Australian journalist pounds over the festive of its 730,000 subscribers and fought back: “Everyone is him but I would never have had and babies sperm donor. I’m already drawn to one above children with him. There are Picture: guy on the fertility forum. And as for the said ‘could fair dinkum stop your period is one of those models, . It then tried to dressed and although Mary is mothers who don’t even think about DANIEL LYNCH “Looks and good genes help a child these things. They have children get ahead. By trying to give a baby the men? Not so much. heart in the street’. inevitable facts of life. auction off dates with Mary busty, she has just given birth.” with a man who has enormous ears best possible start with the right genes or a bald head. Is it fair if you have a they could have an incredible future.” Serves these arrogant and Joseph on eBay. How holy inappropriate. son who goes bald in his 20s? It can sorts right if you ask me! mess with his emotions. I know the JOHANNA PAYTON We ran four consecutive campaigns for Samsung and breast cancer EVENING STANDARD THURSDAY 14 OCTOBER 2010
27 News Facing up to breast cancer with new Venus Artwork made of 1,096 photos to be auctioned

Sophie Goodchild Health Correspondent Raising awareness: Grant and Conway ACTRESS Olivia Grant and socialite appear in the artwork, circled right Henry Conway are among hundreds who have contributed to a giant art- part because of her family’s history. work for breast cancer awareness. The 27-year-old, from west London, London-trained artist Samira Harris said: “My own awareness of breast can- has recreated Botticelli’s Venus using cer — and particularly the importance more than a thousand personal photo- of early detection — came from the loss graphs including the faces of people of my great aunt. I feel strongly about affected by the disease. It will be auc- the work of Breakthrough.” tioned to raise funds. About 300 men a year are diagnosed Singer Alexandra Burke will unveil with breast cancer in the UK and Mr the 6ft by 5ft installation today for the Conway said he wanted to highlight Everyone Is Art project involving 17 how the disease affects both genders. European charities such as Break- He said: “I have had two good friends through Breast Cancer. The aim is to very sadly lose their battle with breast improve early detection rates. cancer over the past few years. A lot of A total of 1,096 images were selected people perceive ythat it onl affects mid- which represents the number of women dle-aged women but that’s just not true diagnosed every day with breast cancer — one of my friends was a 27-year-old in Europe. Twenty of these photos will girl and the other a 28-year-old boy.” be shown on the big screen at Piccadilly O A charity has donated £10 million Circus this month as part of the Sam- to help build Britain’s most advanced sung More Than Talk European Breast cancer centre. The money from Mac- Health Awareness campaign. millan Cancer Support will help fund Grant, who appears in the film Mr the £100million unit at University Nice, revealed she was inspired to take College Hospital. Personal stories: the new version of Botticelli’s Venus is made up of hundreds of pictures of people affected by breast cancer

Eastern Daily Press, Saturday, October 23, 2010

BARNHAM BROOM Pink is the colour of Sarah’s cancer quest

By DAVID BALE

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DAVID GANDY Coe sets gold standard to help brain disease charity HE helped mastermind London 2012 condition. His mother Angela died of but now Seb Coe has a new the condition in 2005. ‘It’s a hideous challenge – to raise £1million for a disease and the degeneration takes charity that helps sufferers of a four years which is pretty disease that killed his mother. unpleasant,’ Lord Coe said. Lord Coe has set himself the target He will be interviewed on stage by for the Progressive Supranuclear Sir Michael Parkinson next Tuesday. Palsy Association that cares for those Tickets are £250 from Cameron. with the degenerative neurological [email protected]

SARAH ANN MACKLIN

TUESDAY 20 SEPTEMBER 2011 EVENING STANDARD EVENING STANDARD TUESDAY 20 SEPTEMBER 2011
23 Feature

the UN’s International Peace Day, and celebrities and politicians line up to support him. Jeremy Gilley tells Alison Roberts what it took to make September 21 so special

least in the Democratic Republic of Friends in high Congo when he came face to face with places: Jeremy child soldiers. In Somalia he was hospi- Gilley with talised for three weeks. When I ask what Victoria’s Strictly Mini-break Sharon Stone the hardest thing about the past 12 years and, below from has been, he replies, “… the incredible left, supporters ABACA/ BARCROFT MEDIA BARCROFT ABACA/ intensity, physically and emotionally, former athlete of working 12-hour days every day and Peace man Linford Christie, of my body just giving up”. A SPECIAL London 2012 edition BMW will preserve under varnish. ence — would last a year at most. 4.5 million children in Afghanistan over ering of humans ever recorded, and anyone to stop fighting,” says with his best Having a daughter, 11-month-old Rose, elve years on, Gilley has seen the successive years as a direct result of a what he hopes will be the biggest global Gilley,“which was a pretty fundamental mate Jude Law, means he won’t travel for months on Mini has been touring the coun- After 800 miles criss-crossing the unanimously pass Resolution mutual ceasefire on the 21st by both the reduction in violence, as an extraordi- flaw.”) He and two friends wrote literally actress Vanessa end any more — though he still expects 82, which officially designates Sep- Western allies and the Taliban; he has nary finale to the Olympics next year. thousands of letters — then someone Paradis and Kate to visit 20 to 30 countries in the next try collecting the signatures of UK, the car will tonight be auc- ber 21 as that day of peace; he’s seen visited 76 countries to press his case; The gigs Gilley puts on nowadays hap- suggested he write to British diplomat Nash year, including Somalia, to promote the Team GB athletes — among them tioned at a glittering fundraiser sands of medical workers vaccinate and now he is planning the biggest gath- pen at the O2 Arena — Razorlight, Eliza Sir Kieran Prendergast, one of the UK’s 2012 campaign. Gilley met Emilia Fox, Doolittle, Newton Faulkner, AfroReggae, leading diplomats. “I worked it with Sir with whom he lives in Richmond, at a cyclist Victoria Pendleton (pic- thrown at The Dorchester by Youssou N’Dour, Flawless, Yusuf Islam Kieran for a long time until I was finally POD concert just as her marriage to (Cat Stevens), plus the English National sat in his office in New York.” Jared Harris was falling apart. He tured) and gymnast Louis Smith, Olympics chief Lord Coe. Ballet are appearing tomorrow for Peace Gilley didn’t have the money for the squirms when I ask what it’s like joining One Day (POD) as a launch concert for flight to the US to see Sir Kieran and with clan Fox, and blusters about liking to who interrupted their Strictly Other guests include Sir Philip the 2012 Global Truce campaign. Next jaw-dropping tenacity phoned British meet the press with Law in tow because Come Dancing rehearsals to sign Green, Sir Michael Parkinson, year Gilley and POD have two special Airways to beg one for free. “BA have no one’s interested in him then. Being concerts planned for the Cultural Olym- flown me many times around the world a father is just the best, he says instead. the car’s bonnet. singer Emeli Sande and Lord piad, including Sir Elton John at the for free. And not just me, all my team “For the first time in my life there’s Olympic Stadium itself. The man who too. Without them, I honestly couldn’t something more important than me.” Other signatories include paral- Archer, who will auction the Mini was once tormented at school for his have done this.” Nowadays Gilley has many important stupidity, incidentally, also counts Jude It took him 18 months of letter-writing friends, and a recent conversation with ympians David Weir and Ellie Sim- for the PSP Association. Sebastian Law as a great mate and has a baby and working the corridors of the UN the former UN envoy to Afghanistan and daughter with partner Emilia Fox. before an eventual meeting with Kofi special adviser to the Secretary General, monds, boxer Anthony Joshua Coe’s mother Angela and my So what happened? How Annan. But on September 7, Ambassador Lakhdar Brahimi, has and rower Anna Watkins. distinguished predecessor Nigel did one man do all this? 2001 — “the greatest of my sparked a new touchpaper. “I asked him In person Gilley, 41, is slight ‘This is as life” — he watched as the what he would do to rally people around

Picture: GETTY In all, 15 medallists have signed Dempster both lost their lives to and informal and a bit much about resolution enshrining the 21st the world to Peace Day 2012, expecting touchy-feely with a passing riots in as the International Day of him to say, lobby governments, talk to Signed up: Victoria the bonnet which manufacturer PSP, a degenerative brain disease. resemblance to a young Peace was passed by the Gen- leaders … Instead he replied, ‘Go Bjorn Borg. He speaks qui- London as eral Assembly. “I sat there straight to the social media, Jeremy.’ I’m etly but with a kind of inten- conflict alone, with my little camera, guessing he, like everyone, has learned sity verging on anger. As a anywhere and it was a truly wonderful some lessons from the Arab Spring.” child, unhappy at school in else in the moment. Annan was to give So that is what Gilley will do. Next year, AN EVENING With Sir his career to Joe Graham, a THE BBC inquiry into Jimmy Savile’s Southampton, he was a deep a press conference about the a Facebook and Twitter campaign will Roger Moore became predatory behaviour at Television thinker who buried himself world’ resolution later that week. My begin. He says that in Afghanistan on ‡ voice coach at Warner Broth- PS in the TV news. crew and I got there at 8am Peace Day 2007, the UN Department of emotional as 1,000 fans, ers, who demanded: ‘Do you Centre will find one area where the DJ “I was concerned and and then, just as we began Safety and Security recorded a 70 per was singularly unsuccessful— with dance frightened about what was running the cameras, the first cent reduction in violence — a statistic including Bond girl Eunice think you are less equal and happening in the world. My plane hit the World Trade reached by looking at hospital admis- Gayson and Sir Tim Rice, less intelligent than every- troupe Pan’s People. Former dancer Babs Powell mum and dad weren’t together, and that Center …” It was September 11. The press sions and violent deaths. “If we can do worked with Savile from 1968 to 1975. Babs, 65, creates a bit of tension and makes you conference never happened. that there, surely we can do it any- who wrote the lyrics to the one else?’ When Sir Roger think about relationships generally. I In Gilley’s 2008 film The Day After REX FEATURES EUROPE; XPOSUREPHOTOS.COM; SPICER; GETTY IMAGES ALPHA-JEFF where,” says Gilley. “That’s the logic Octopussy theme, burst into married to actor Robert Powell, says: ‘My was small, and dyslexic, and there was Peace, 9/11 is a pivot. As a direct result he behind Peace Day 2012 … And if we can admitted he did, the coach relationship and that of the other girls with a bit of bullying going on. All those and Jude Law, whom Gilley met through But Law was more than just a do it for a day, perhaps we really can Happy Birthday after he said: ‘That’s why you are 6ft things catapulted together made me try actor Sean Pertwee, found themselves famous name in Afghanistan, start changing the culture of war to a Jimmy was entirely professional. I didn’t even to understand what the news meant.” seven years later in Afghanistan, pushing insists Gilley.“All the running culture of peace. Because we can’t just announced it was his 85th. 1in but only stand 5ft 10in. Partly as an escape, aged 12 he audi- for the ceasefire that allowed the first around, all the meetings, Jude did give up on that eight-year-old in New- The star of seven Bond know where his dressing room was. What he did tioned for the West End musical Bugsy mass vaccination of children against with me. It was a real game- ham, can we?” And why you don’t open your was awful and it is a pity he is not around to Malone, and wound up getting the lead. polio to happen. Far from giving up, the changer because suddenly eve- O Peace One Day Celebration 2011 is at films, Sir Roger revealed at mouth properly to speak.’ Theatre and ballet school followed in 9/11 attacks made him “even more deter- rybody was interested.” the O2 Arena tomorrow night (peaceone the Rose Theatre, Kingston answer these charges. 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