Even Ed Sheeran enjoys BYOB! He’s worth an estimated £160 million but the singer surprises staff at swanky Chelsea restaurant by bringing his own wine – it did cost £440 though…
He’s worth an estimated £160 million, so you might have expected Ed Sheeran to splash out on the most expensive bottle of red on the menu when he went out for a curry last week.
But he surprised staff at swanky Chelsea restaurant Kutir by bringing his own – then taking the dregs home when he and pal James Blunt failed to finish it.
OK, it was a £440 bottle of 1990 Penfolds Grange, but Ed, who was joined by James and Kutir chef Rohit Ghai, was pushing his luck as the restaurant doesn’t normally allow guests to bring their own bottle.
Mind you, Ed is careful when it comes to booze. He has a ‘no free drinks’ policy at Bertie Blossoms, his new Notting Hill pub, which even extends to wife Cherry. Staff say the policy is to prevent ‘awkwardness’ if people who barely know Ed try to blag a freebie.
Sheeran (right) surprised staff at swanky Chelsea restaurant Kutir by bringing his own wine – then taking the dregs home when he and pal James Blunt (left) failed to finish it (Kutir chef Rohit Ghai is pictured centre)
The singer took a £440 bottle of 1990 Penfolds Grange to swanky Chelsea restaurant Kutir (pictured)
As if the Queen doesn’t have enough to worry about, now she has to decide who will take over one of the grandest pads in London.
The 21-room Apartment 1 at Kensington Palace remains empty after the Duke and Duchess of Gloucester vacated the property last month and moved into a home in a former stable block at the Palace.
So far the Queen has resisted offering the apartment to princesses Beatrice or Eugenie – insiders say they aren’t important enough for such a prestigious property. In the meantime, the apartment is gathering dust.
Crush of the week… Caitlin van den Bogaerde
My crush of the week is looking for a crush of her own. Aspiring pop star Caitlin van den Bogaerde is single again after breaking up with Alasdair Gill, the son of former Cabinet Minister Amber Rudd and the late journalist A.A. Gill. Caitlin, 20, is the daughter of concert pianist Sophie Roper-Curzon, and the younger sister of Brit Award-nominated star Birdy, with whom she regularly duets, sharing the videos on Instagram.
Perhaps the split will inspire some Adele-style bestselling hits for the youngster who will surely make a success of her music career – after all, it’s in her blood.
Aspiring pop star Caitlin van den Bogaerde (pictured) is single again after breaking up with Alasdair Gill
Could Prince Harry’s ex Cressida Bonas be preparing for a Klosters wedding? Cressie got engaged to property developer Harry Wentworth-Stanley in the summer and posh folk often marry within six months, which would mean a January celebration – perfect for a talented skier like Cressie.
She and Harry are obsessed with the slopes – and helpfully her father Jeffrey has a chic apartment in Klosters.
You can be a world-famous model with your own clothing line and a horde of A-list pals, but that won’t save you from having to make a desperate dash to the corner shop for some tomato ketchup, as Alexa Chung discovered last week.
After partying in New York, there was only one way for Alexa to get rid of her hangover – a fried egg sandwich, as she told her fans. But then disaster struck when she realised she had run out of red sauce.
Most of us would have headed off to the shops in tracksuit bottoms and an old pullover, but Alexa is a supermodel, so as my snap shows, she slipped into an ultra-chic £584 jumpsuit and coat combo before heading to the nearest all-night store and emerging with a bottle of Heinz.
Alexa slipped into an ultra-chic £584 jumpsuit and coat combo before heading to the nearest all-night store and emerging with a bottle of Heinz.
Ronnie Wood is ‘miserable and tight’…according to the man who was his brother-in-law for 26 years.
Artist Paul Karslake launched an attack on the Rolling Stones guitarist, who divorced Paul’s sister Jo Wood a decade ago, when we met at his Soho exhibition last week.
‘He is tighter than two coats of paint,’ Paul told me. ‘He’s just weird, twisted and miserable.’ Ronnie’s new wife, Sally, tells me this couldn’t be further from the truth – so I guess Paul is definitely off the Woods’ Christmas card list!
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