Good Evans! Chris forks out £75,000 on five-week staycation
IF HER career modelling eco-friendly clothes doesn’t take off, chic Lady Amelia Windsor has a fallback position… as a dinner lady. Amelia donned a pinny last week and volunteered at The Felix Project, a foodpoverty charity.
WE ALL inherit quirks from our parents, so spare a thought for model Edie Campbell, who says her obsessive behaviour is all down to her mother, Sophie. Edie, 30, says architect Sophie loves everything to be super-neat – and now she follows suit, even attaching stickers to items of make-up and colour-co-ordinating them. ‘Every day is a day to label your cosmetics,’ says Edie. ‘I can’t just put them somewhere willy-nilly – I’d never know where anything was.’
Too much time on your hands, Edie?
BROADCASTER Chris Evans has joined the millions enjoying a Great British staycation this year – albeit in a slightly more luxurious style than the rest of us.
The Virgin Radio DJ and his family checked in for a lengthy stay at a five-star Hampshire hotel, I can reveal, booking a huge suite of rooms costing a hefty £15,000 a week.
Situated within more than 100 acres, the hotel has been named one of the world’s best and boasts all the amenities possible to keep its A-list clients occupied.
‘Chris and the family have stayed for five weeks,’ my source tells me. ‘They’ve taken a suite of rooms which would probably cost about £15,000 a week. So, on the face of it, it’s cost him £75,000 – and that’s before he’s had so much as a toasted sandwich on room service.’
However, I’m not sure the hotel is the type of establishment to sell midnight sarnies. Instead, it offers guests mouth-watering £75 a head tasting menus, and should anyone fancy some bubbles, Krug champagne comes in at more than £200 – for a mere half bottle.
Evans, 55, checked in with his wife Natasha, 40, and their children – Noah, 12, Eli, nine, and twins Walt and Boo, who are about to turn three.
Neither the hotel nor Evans’s spokesman would comment last night on his stay.
But it seems unlikely that the former Top Gear host – who previously earned up to £2.5million a year during his stint at the BBC as one of the Corporation’s highest paid talents – will struggle with the bill. After all, ‘as a valued customer, he’d get special rates,’ I’m assured.
And it’s not been all pleasure and no work for poor Chris during his staycation – last weekend he took a break from all that relaxing to host Carfest South, the UK’s biggest fundraising festival, which he created to raise funds for children’s charities.
Luckily, he had a swimming pool in which to unwind after a hard day at the office!
MORE bad news for TV chef Hugh FearnleyWhittingstall – two of his restaurant businesses have now been formally dissolved.
The Old Etonian, 56, closed his River Cottage outlets in Winchester and Bristol last year due to the ‘unprecedented challenges from Covid-19’ and last week the filing of official paperwork means there is no prospect of them reopening. Hugh’s film company, KEO Films, went into administration last month with debts of more than £5million.