Pop stars, luvvies and a Lady at Brits bash
PICK OF THE PARTIES
WHAT: The Warner Music Group Brits after-party sponsored by Ciroc and British GQ.
WHO: Idris Elba, pop star Mollie King and comedian Jack Whitehall.
DRESSED TO IMPRESS: TV star Anna Friel, 41, wore a decorous pink Temperley London dress when she took daughter Gracie, 12, to the awards, before arriving solo at the after-party in a low-cut, red Georges Hobeika gown split to the thigh. ‘I’m filming tomorrow morning so it won’t be a late night,’ she said.
BEST BEHAVED: ITV presenter Phillip Schofield doesn’t party like he used to. ‘The highlight of my night is Damon Albarn being carried out. It’s been a while since I’ve been carried out myself.’
HANGER-ON: Alan Yentob, who quit as BBC creative director in the wake of the 2015 Kids Company scandal, sat on a VIP table at the ceremony and gave Ed Sheeran a chummy pat on the back when he won an award.
UNLIKELY FRIENDS: East Londonborn pop star Pixie Lott rubbed shoulders with Emma McQuiston, wife of Viscount Weymouth, who is heir to the Marquess of Bath and the Longleat estate in Wiltshire.
U-TURN: I’m A Celebrity winner Georgia ‘Toff’ Toffolo was backtracking having hailed Jacob ReesMogg as a sex god. ‘I didn’t really mean to call him that, I wasn’t in the right frame of mind because I was monstrously jet-lagged.’