NICKY

Haslam is one of London’s most famous — and expensive — interior designers, but there are some clients for whom he refuses to work — however much they might offer to pay. Of Formula One billionaire Bernie Ecclestone’s socialite daughter Petra, waspish Haslam tells me: ‘She’s really annoying. I was asked to do some work in her house years ago. I couldn’t work with her she is so irritating. I turned the job down.’