Cara and pals face backlash over holiday freebie Stop sending us snaps from SMUG ISLAND!
IT WAS the celebrity freebie to end all celebrity freebies.
But while the guests who joined Cara Delevingne for a week-long holiday on a private island paradise had the time of their lives, those left behind were infuriated by their endless stream of holiday snaps.
The party-loving model, her sister Poppy, and the 160 of their closest friends who were treated to the Maldives getaway, were asked to post photographs of their freebie on social media to drum up publicity for the Finolhu Baa Atoll resort.
But the hundreds of images emerging from the sun-kissed break last week stoked resentment and jealousy among those left behind in chilly Britain, prompting a string of sarcastic, rude and downright irritated responses.
Stylist Grace Woodward told Ms Delevingne’s PR pal Dean Piper: ‘You are getting blocked’ so she wouldn’t have to see any more images. TV producer Luke Alkin wrote ‘Intolerable. Absolutely intolerable’ under an image of a topless pal, while another follower joked: ‘Looks rubbish’.
The group of models, It Girls and hangers-on spent their week partying, with no fewer than five fancydress shindigs, each bringing a new flurry of social media activity. Alcohol flowed freely, with pina coladas the cocktail of the week. And there was no shortage of bubbly as several of the 136 villas had been set up with a ‘champagne hotline’ – a telephone with each number on the keypad ordering a different brand, including a £550 bottle of Cristal. But that had to be paid for.
Among the guests, who posted more than 600 photos between them, were model Arizona Muse, Kate Moss’s make-up artist Charlotte Tilbury, Helena Bonham Carter’s niece Rose, Ray Winstone’s actress daughter Jaime and Bryan Ferry’s ex-wife Amanda Sheppard.
Cara, by far the biggest star there, was actually one of the least smug, uploading just a few images for her 36million Instagram followers.
At the end of the holiday, one guest noted: ‘Once in a lifetime, that will never happen again.’ For those subjected to the stream of photographs, that idea will come as blessed relief.