Jemma flashes a huge sparkler on date with Arki

ENGAGEMENT rings are a contentious subject for billionaire Arpad ‘Arki’ Busson, who accused Pulp Fiction star Uma Thurman of failing to return the £1.2 million sparkler he bought her after they called off their wedding plans.

So friends of Arki’s current girlfriend, Jemma Kidd, were intrigued by the huge gold ring, with multi-coloured encrusted diamonds, that she wore on her ring finger at Mayfair’s 5 Hertford Street night spot. ‘It was the talk of the club,’ one member tells me.

Model and make-up artist Jemma, 48, split up with her husband Arthur Wellesley, the Duke of Wellington’s son and heir, in 2020. She started going out with Arki, 59, the following year.

BEN GOLDSMITH has revealed he moved to the United Arab Emirates with his family during the pandemic because of an alarming change in British people’s behaviour. ‘On one occasion, an angry young man threatened to carry out a citizen’s arrest on my wife, Jemima, for buying too much bread in the store,’ the financier says, referring to fears of panic buying. ‘I think that may have been when we decided to skip the country.’

Talk of the club: Kidd and boyfriend Busson this week