How to chat up an A-list woman: The surprising tricks that worked on a string of supermodels

So I’m having lunch with a friend and the supermodel Rosie Huntington-Whiteley when the subject turns to chat-up lines.
We both want to know what sort of one-liner has worked on the woman described as the most beautiful in Britain.
Needless to say, the cover star of magazines such as Vogue, who is currently dating the action star Jason Statham, claims to have heard them all — and insisted none of them had any effect. 

Fame wall: How do you chat up a star like Emma Watson, who complained at the weekend that men rarely pursue her?

Only once did Rosie nearly fall for a stranger’s seduction tactics.
A handsome man she encountered in a Los Angeles café seemed too busy with his own thoughts to be interested in flirting. She tried hair flicking and staring, but he wasn’t playing.
Then just as Rosie was about to leave, he caught her eye and raised a finger to his upper lip. ‘He had this moustache tattooed on his finger and he waggled it at me,’ she explained. ‘And that worked?’ I asked incredulously. Rosie smiled in confirmation.
Amazing, isn’t it? We men spend our whole lives trying to be urbane and amusing around women — but sometimes a waggle of a finger moustache is all a chap has to do to get a famous lingerie model’s attention.

Man about town: Simon Mills, pictured with wife Yasmin, is well versed in the ways of winning over famous women

Determined not be outdone, I borrowed a pen from a waiter and scrawled a Hercule Poirot upper-lip tonsure on my forefinger.
Then, when there was a break in the conversation, I waggled my finger at Rosie. It didn’t work as well this time (inexplicably, she seems to prefer millionaire movie stars to middle-aged men with grown-up children), but the gag put her at ease.
And by talking about chat-up lines, my friend and I established ourselves as being non-predatory. The ‘fame wall’ that surrounds celebrities had been broken by us keeping things breezy.

 At the weekend, actress  complained that men rarely pursue her. ‘It must be the fame wall,’ she said. ‘Me, as a person, I find it hard to believe I would be intimidating.’
Her advice to would-be suitors? ‘Be brave.’ 
Now, I’m not suggesting Emma is in my romantic crosshairs, but I know what she means about being brave.
Into my third decade as a showbiz journalist and party reptile, I’ve learned that a bit of risk‑taking is the important factor when trying to win over a fragrant celebrity.

Be brave: Diane Kruger, left, was initially frosty but thawed out, while actress Rosie Huntingdon-Whiteley, right, found a moustachioed finger an ice-breaker

Even the most beautiful women in the world want to have a laugh sometimes. If you want to approach a supermodel, you have to have the right brand of bravery. Cheeky-brave maybe, but not downright rude.
Like the time my outspoken friend Nick greeted a well-known TV celebrity at a book launch by saying: ‘What are you doing here? I didn’t know you could read!’ He got a glass of room-temperature Chardonnay thrown in his face.
You see, we ‘civilians’ tend to behave strangely around the famous. And the more famous and beautiful they are, the more peculiar our behaviour.

'My advice to young men in search of celebrity romance with the  of this world? Simply ignore them — at first'

At a cocktail bar, I once saw a man trying to win over actress Patsy Kensit by telling her she had fat ankles. She slapped him hard.
While talking to the singer Sharleen Spiteri at a party, another man — confident that he had equipped himself with a Wildean quip — barrelled up and said: ‘Your last album was rubbish, wasn’t it?’ 
She took him to task. ‘And how did you think that comment was going to endear me to you? Did you think we would become great friends after that?’
The man sloped off looking crestfallen. But although an insult never works, it’s important to go easy on the compliments, too. Models and actresses are constantly told that they are beautiful, so don’t bother trying that.
I was introduced to Cindy Crawford recently, and we talked about the joys of the iPad backgammon application. I even persuaded her to try her hand at Scrabble. I didn’t come on like a simpering fan, nor was I too familiar.
My advice to young men in search of celebrity romance with the Emma Watsons of this world? Simply ignore them — at first.
If you want to win over these beauties, talk to her non-famous friends instead.
Not being at the centre of things is torture for beautiful girls and they will soon want to find out why you don’t appear to be interested in them.
Flying to New York on Concorde with 20 or so Victoria’s Secret lingerie models for a magazine shoot a few years ago, I decided to sit on my own at the back of the plane.

Getting Danni Minogue's attention was as simple as buying a caramel Kit-Kat

Mainly because I was one of only a few men on the flight, the girls soon became curious as the champagne flowed.
One by one, pretty much every Bambi-legged beauty came and sat next to me for a friendly chat.  
Ignorance is often productive, too. At a wedding in Istanbul, I sat next to the actress Diane Kruger, who had recently played Helen of Troy in a Hollywood blockbuster.
She was frosty at first, but when it became evident that I genuinely had no idea who she was, she thawed out.
When she said she was an actress, I asked: ‘So, been in anything I’d know?’ ‘I’m in a film called Troy with Brad Pitt,’ she replied, a bit defensively. I blushed. Diane laughed it off with grace. We got on just fine after that.
Doing a bit of research can also pay dividends. Before meeting Dannii Minogue, I found out that she was partial to caramel Kit-Kats, and casually pulled one from my pocket while we were talking. ‘How did you know?’ asked the cute Aussie star as she took a bite. I didn’t tell her, but getting Dannii on my side had cost just 45p.
In conversation, always presume even the most air-headed beauty is blessed with fine taste and an opinion.

'If you see a beauty, chaps, don’t be afraid to approach her - but for goodness’ sake follow my advice if you don’t want to go home covered in Chardonnay'

Ask what she thinks about a new exhibition or novel. I’ve found it’s best to stay off the subject of work, although if it’s unavoidable, always compliment your famous friend on their latest side project. Especially if its something niche and tangential. 
If you encounter a model, don’t bang on about her latest campaign for Calvin Klein, but inquire how the photography is going.
I once spent a very pleasant ten minutes discussing ayurvedic treatments with Christy Turlington.
I had no idea what I was talking about, but I managed to convince the world’s second most beautiful woman (after Mrs Mills, of course) that I did. You see, being zeitgeisty is everything in showbusiness.
Does all this sound a bit exhausting? That’s because it is. Make no mistake, the civilian/celebrity liaison can be thrilling — but it can also be precarious.
When you fall out, things can get ugly. One friendship I had with a well-known actress ended with a three-page fax of invective and a letter from her lawyer after I made unflattering comments about her, while a female TV presenter I’d got to know well once threw a drink over me at a nightclub. Although we got on much better after that.
So the message is: if you see a beauty, chaps, don’t be afraid to approach her — but for goodness’ sake follow my advice if you don’t want to go home covered in Chardonnay.

 

BAZ BAMIGBOYE: Just look what's happened to Harry's Hermione

  has graduated from Hogwarts and landed her first post-Harry Potter grown-up role.
The actress, 20, who has played Hermione Granger in eight movies, including the much-anticipated two final Deathly Hallows instalments, has won a part opposite Michelle Williams, Eddie Redmayne, Kenneth Branagh, Dominic Cooper and Judi Dench in the movie My Week With Marilyn.
The film tells the story of Colin Clark (Redmayne), who worked as Laurence Olivier's assistant on the picture The Prince And The Showgirl, which starred bombshell Marilyn Monroe (Williams) and Olivier ( Branagh), who also directed.
Clark penned a diary that charted nine days of close contact with Monroe, with whom he was smitten. He included tales about skinny-dipping with her in the Thames and taking her to visit his godfather at Windsor Castle.

All grown up: Emma Watson has landed her first post Harry Potter grown-up role

Emma will play Lucy, a wardrobe assistant working behind the scenes during the making of The Prince And The Showgirl in 1956.
Lucy and Clark had a few dates which, according to his book The Prince, The Showgirl And Me (a precursor to My Week With Marilyn), usually involved Clark whizzing her up to London in his Bristol sports car, visiting a club and going on to his parents' 'set' at The Albany, where 'she kisses like an angel'.
It's not a huge role, but it's an astute pick for a young actress making the transition from school-girl ingenue to adult parts.
She can probably shoot her scenes in a few days, meaning she won't require too much time away from university in the U.S. Her deal for the film is in the final stages of negotiation
The main shooting schedule at Pinewood studios begins on October 4. But Judi Dench, portraying Dame Sybil Thorndike (who played the Queen Dowager in The Prince And The Showgirl), has been filming her scenes this week because she has to scoot over to India to work on John Madden's The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel with her pal Maggie Smith, and Tom Wilkinson, Bill Nighy, Celia Imrie and Dev Patel.

Daniel Radcliffe, Rupert Grint and Emma in a scene from Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows - Part 1

Producer David Parfitt, director Simon Curtis and the Weinstein Company have also cast Derek Jacobi as Sir Owen Morshead, then royal librarian at Windsor Castle.
Philip Jackson will play Monroe's private detective; Zoe Wanamaker is Monroe's acting consultant Paula Strasberg, who drove Olivier into a fury whenever she appeared at the studio; and Richard Clifford is Richard Wattis, the gifted actor who played an officious courtier in Showgirl.
Dominic Cooper portrays Milton Greene, Monroe's snazzy business partner and a co-producer of The Prince And The Showgirl.
He will shoot his scenes in between working on Captain America: The First Avenger, which is occupying sound stages over at Shepperton studios.

  has grown up in the public eye since landing the role of Hermione Granger in Harry Potter, right

Smash and grab raid on Affleck's film

Jeremy Renner got a masterclass in the art of robbing banks when he worked on his new movie.
Ben Affleck hired Renner - who was Oscar-nominated for his role in the award-winning film The Hurt Locker - to star with him, Rebecca Hall and Jon Hamm in the caper thriller The Town, which opens today.

Smash and grab: Actor Jeremy Rennerhung out with real-life bank robbers for his new film The Town

Renner plays a robber who works with Affleck, hitting banks in Boston just as large amounts of cash are being delivered.
The 39-year-old arrived on location two weeks before filming so he could hang out with locals and meet a few career professionals. 'I had no experience of robbing banks or that lifestyle,' he joked, 'so I had to find out from the experts.'
He met several guys just out of prison and they were candid with their stories. 'It was so foreign to me, but for them robbing banks is an occupation. This is their job, and they take it very seriously.
'A lot of planning goes into it because, believe it or not, they don't want people to get hurt. It was really strange. One of them told me that they took the view that "that's our money in the bank and we just gotta go and get it".
'I couldn't wrap my brain around that, but those conversations gave me a sense of that life.' His homework paid off because his performance steals the picture.
The thing about Renner is that he has no vanity. I met him in Toronto two years ago when The Hurt Locker was first shown, and the success of that film has brought enormous opportunites - but he takes it all in his stride.
Next, he's shooting Mission Impossible 4 with Tom Cruise (he's one of the operatives).
'The studios kept trying to get me to do a romantic comedy and, in a way, Mission Impossible is my version of romantic comedy  -  it's some fun. I've played so many heavy twisted characters that this should be light by comparison.'
Filming will begin in Prague and continue in Dubai and Vancouver until next year, when Renner moves on to the superhero film The Avengers.
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At one point, the BBC considered fast-tracking its new drama, Upstairs Downstairs, to compete with ITV's Downton Abbey. That show, created by Julian Fellowes, follows relationships between a titled family, who reside in a grand house, and the staff who look after them.
The Corporation thought better of it  -  and just as well, because their series would have to be pretty damn good to top Downton Abbey, which stars Maggie Smith, Hugh Bonneville, Jim Carter, Elizabeth McGovern and Siobhan Finneran (who plays a maid who does something so malevolent in the first episode, broadcast on Sunday, that I found myself shouting 'you cow!' at the screen). Gripping stuff.

A Brylcreem boy gets Rachel's engine running

Rachel Weisz has been introduced to the new men in her life: Simon Russell Beale and Tom Hiddleston, two actors who will explore aspects of love with her on the screen.
They will play, respectively, her estranged husband William Collyer, a high court judge, and her lover Freddie Page, a former RAF World War II fighter pilot, in Terence Davies's new screen version of Terence Rattigan's The Deep Blue Sea.
As Rachel (right) put it to me: 'It's about Hester, a woman who, to put it bluntly, had never experienced good sex until she met Freddie.'
The Oscar-winning actress met her leading men at the Union club in Soho where they joined Davies in studying the text in preparation for shooting in November.
The project is being supported by Film 4 and the UK Film Council and should officially receive the green light in the next few days.
Rachel has carved five weeks out of a crazy schedule, which finds her with several movies ready to film back-to-back, in order to do the picture.
Last week, she attended the Toronto International Film Festival for the world premiere of The Whistle Blower, in which she gives a performance of major award calibre.
Davies remembered seeing Rachel in Beeban Kidron's Swept From The Sea. 'I fell off the sofa when I saw her,' he says. 'She has the kind of luminosity that will last till she's 90. When producer Sean O'Connor suggested we do The Deep Blue Sea I said: "Offer it to her!" '

On-screen love: Rachel Weisz will team up with Tom Hiddleston in a new screen version of Terence Rattigan's The Deep Blue Sea

Rattigan's play was first staged in 1952, but Davies intends to set his film in 1950. 'The country was coming out of the war and people were hoping it was going to go back to the way it was before. But the war destroyed an empire and made us realise we weren't the dominant power any more  -  America was.' That sense of the impotence of a nation is symbolised by Hester's husband William Collyer, who has been abandoned because he wasn't as exciting as Freddie.
'Basically, Hester's a conventional woman, but she does something deeply unconvent ional simply because she falls in love and has proper sex for the first time,' says Davies.
'As soon as it happens, it changes her profoundly. She finds this carnality, she finds her voice, she finds her rage!'
But while Freddie provides Hester with a shot of vitality, he can't give her emotional love.
Hiddleston's pretty hot right now, having spent six months in Hollywood filming Kenneth Branagh's feature Thor and is now shooting War Horse for Steven Spielberg.
He explained that Freddie never came to terms with the loss of so many of his friends in the war. 'As a result, he lives for the moment  -  for his kind of love, luck, golf and Guinness. He's drawn to Hester ' s soul and warmth.'But when he ' s confronted with the realisation that Hester might do something drastic, he can't cope with the thought of more loss.
No wonder Davies describes the story as being about 'the mystery of love'.
But the director also sees other layers in The Deep Blue Sea that are a commentary on society then  -  and now. He explained that, once upon a time, there was a quality in British life  -  'that quiet thing that we don't have any more. It's that sense that you carry on because you've got to'.
But he will hope to recreate that mood when The Deep Blue Sea hits our screens this time next year.
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The Dagenham Girl Pipers celebrate their 80th anniversary on October 2 with a party. There are few of the bagpipers left, so they've gone into semi-retirement but still perform the odd show, and they're doing something with Eric Idle.
The producers of the film Made In Dagenham wanted them in the movie, but there weren't enough of them to play their pipes on a march. The DGPs have always been the butt of jokes; Eric Morecambe used to enjoy ribbing them, but I wish them many happy returns.

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Jesse Eisenberg, Andrew Garfield (giving the performance of his career so far) and Justin Timberlake, who star in David Fincher's scorching new film The Social Network.

Andrew Garfield

The movie critic Pauline Kael used to say that certain pictures left her giddy with excitement, and after seeing The Social Network  -  and absorbing Aaron Sorkin's machinegun dialogue  -  I know what she meant. It's seriously cracking stuff.

The film is one version of how the networking site Facebook was founded. Eisenberg plays Mark Zuckerberg, the socially inept Harvard student, hopeless at connecting with people himself, who links them via the internet.

It's an awesome story about the nature of betrayal. Zuckerberg froze out his one-time friend Eduardo Saverin (Garfield), and others who may, or may not have, helped to create Facebook. Much of the film concerns the legal fallout that ensued and it makes for riveting cinema.

Zuckerberg's a fascinating character and Eisenberg nails him, but I think Garfield's take on Saverin is a masterful piece of acting.

Garfield's at the top of his game just now, what with his performance in Never Let Me Go, the movie that opens the BFI London Film Festival on October 13, and Spiderman, which he films at the end of the year.

The Social Network will be a major Oscar contender in several categories, and its major rival will be The King's Speech about the man who became George VI after the abdication of his brother.

Penelope Keith

Penelope Keith and Peter Bowles, who will bring Peter Hall's production of Richard Brinsley Sheridan's The Rivals into the Theatre Royal, Hay-market, previewing from November 10 and running through till late February 2011.

Hall will celebrate his 80th birthday on November 22 and will then direct his daughter Rebecca in Twelfth Night at the National Theatre from January 11 opposite Simon Callow and Marton Csokas.

John Owen-Jone, who lifts the 25th anniversary concert production of Les Miserables, on now at the Barbican (where the original show began).

This isn't Trevor Nunn and John Caird's electifying original version. It's very different, with new orchestrations, sets and staging, and it took me a while to get used to it.

But Claude-Michel Schonberg's score is still heartbreaking, and one of the most powerful written in the past quarter of a century, and Owen-Jones sings his numbers  -  particularly Bring Him Home  -  beautifully.

Cameron Mackintosh is also presenting a mammoth spectacular Lez Miz show at the 02 Centre on October 3. There'll be scores of stars on stage, but I will be training my eyes on Anita Land in the chorus.

Ms Land is an agent (her clients include Jeremy Paxman and John Sergeant) and she is so obsessed with Les Miz she took singing lessons to perform at the 02.

Give her a show of her own, I say! After all, her brother Michael Grade is about to buy up loads of West End theatres.

 

Harry Potter's Hermione turns to modelling

As Harry Potter's sidekick Hermione Granger, she plays the perfect pupil with a butter-wouldn?t-melt smile.
But as these pictures of   prove, the 17-year-old is growing up fast.
In a photoshoot for Tatler, the young actress swapped her neatly pressed Hogwarts school uniform for Yves Saint Laurent and Chanel dresses, cutting an assured figure.
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All grown up: 17-year-old Emma shows how mch she's changed in her new Tatler fashion shoot

But despite stepping out on the celebrity social circuit recently, Emma, from Oxford, said she remains reassuringly "normal".
"People who try to hide from fame can make it go completely the wrong way," she tells the magazine.
"All those huge designer shades make them look like bugs!
"And walking around with bodyguards draws more attention to you. I think the best way to cope is to try and live as normal a life as possible."
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Despite her new modelling career, Emma insists she is going to go to university to study philosophy

 

Part of that plan is to continue her education.
She is taking AS-levels in English literature, geography and art history and hopes to study philosophy at Cambridge University.
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Emma has become a regular on red carpet but says she still leads a 'normal life'

But Potter fans need not worry: the latest instalment of the popular film series, Harry Potter And The Order Of The Phoenix, opens on July 13, and Emma says she "definitely intends" to do another one.
She admitted: "I would do Harry Potter for nothing. It's not really anything to do with money."

The young actress swaps her neatly pressed Hogwarts school uniform for Yves Saint Laurent

 

Daniel Radcliffe enjoys a spell at the top of Forbes' rich list for young actors... and Emma and Rupert join in the fun

The three stars of Harry Potter have been named as some of the richest young entertainers in the world, with leading man Daniel Radcliffe taking home the biggest teen pay packet.
The 19-year-old actor pocketed an estimated £12.8million ($25million) last year, according to Forbes' magazine's Rich Tween List.
Tying with Radcliffe in joint first place is Hannah Montana star Miley Cyrus, who also took home £12.8million.

Rich kids: Daniel Radcliffe (£12.8million), Rupert Grint (£2.6million) and Emma Watson (£2.8million) are on the list thanks to their Harry Potter paycheques

While many of the celebrities on the list are no longer teens, they appear on the list because of the eight-to-14 demographic they appeal to.
Radcliffe signed an estimated £25.6million contract this year to star in the big-screen adaptations of the final two books in the JK Rowling novel series.

 

He will next been seen on screen in Harry Potter And The Half-Blood Prince in November.
Meanwhile, Radcliffe's co-stars  , 18, and Rupert Grint, 19, have also made the top 10, landing at seven and nine respectively.
Playing Hermione helped Watson net £2.8million, while Grint earned slightly less with £2.6million.

They're in the money: Radcliffe's fellow No.1 Miley Cyrus (L) earned £12.5million, while High School Musical couple Zac Efron and Vanessa Hudgens also make the top 10

Joining Radcliffe at No.1 is Cyrus, who has become a marketing dream for Disney after starring in their TV series Hannah Montana, about a schoolgirl who lives a double life as a famous pop star by night.
Cyrus, daughter of country singer Billy Ray Cyrus, has made her fortune from record sales, merchandising and her TV salary.
The 15-year-old is set to up her earnings later this year after signing a book deal and filming a big-screen version of Hannah Montana.

Tween queens: Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen have been making money in the tween market for years through their Dualstar company

New boys on the block: Relative newcomers Jonas Brothers have speedy earning power, picking up £6.1million

In third place were twins Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen, who found fame as babies on the U.S. TV show Full House, with £7.7million.
The 22-year-olds launched their merchandising machine in the mid-1990s, shortly after the end of Full House.
They starred in a series of TV shows together, including Two Of A Kind and So Little Time, as well as host of straight-to-video movies.
They currently control Dualstar, which produces tween merchandise and clothing.

Earning power: Ashley Tisdale and Hilary Duff earned £2.8million and £2.6million respectively

Following close behind are another family - relative newcomers the Jonas Brothers, who earned £6.1million thanks to sales of their two albums and their Disney TV show.
The Jonas Brothers comprise New Jersey siblings Nick, 15; Kevin, 20; and Joe Jonas, 18.
The Forbes list also includes three High School Musical stars - Zac Efron at five, Vanessa Hudgens at 10 and Ashley Tisdale at six.
Efron, 20, made £3million from his burgeoning acting career, which included a role as Link Larkin in last year's Hairspray remake.
His co-star Tisdale, 23, who has released a solo pop album, earned £2.8million while his real-life and on-screen girlfriend Hudgens, 19, took home £1.6million.
Singer/actress Hilary Duff, 20, who leaped to fame in Disney's Lizzie McGuire show, came in at eight with £2.6million.

Top 10 Highest Earning 'Tweens'

1.   Daniel Radcliffe - $25 million (£12.8 million)

       Miley Cyrus -$25 million (£12.8 million)

3.    Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen - $15 million (£ 7.7 million)

4.    Jonas Brothers - $12 million (£ 6.1 million)

5.    Zac Efron - $5.8 million ( £3 million)

6.    Ashley Tisdale - $5.5 million ( £2.8 million)

7.     - $5.5 million (£2.8 million)

8.    Hillary Duff - $5 million ( £2.6 million)

9.    Rupert Grint - $5 million ( £2.6 million)

10.  Vanessa Anne Hudgens $3.2 million ( £1.6 million)

 

Ethical Emma: Harry Potter star models second People Tree collection after visit to Bangladesh slums

In between filming and her university degree, it's refreshing to see that a star like  still finds the time to devote to a good cause.
The Harry Potter star, whose campaign for People Tree is the last featuring her long locks, decided modelling for the ethical brand just wasn't enough.
Emma also flew to Bangladesh to visit the slum homes of garment factory workers - where the collection she endorses is made.

Hair today:  's last campaign before opting for the chop as she models her second collection for ethical fashion brand People Tree (Aberdeen red check shirt, £48; Chester black mini skirt, £16 )

Down-to-earth Emma, 20, who is currently studying at Brown University, even got stuck in at the factory, helping workers with the sewing.
She said: 'I've been given a lot in my life and I have had so many fantastic opportunities. It's really important to me that I try and give something back.'
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'Following my summer collection for People Tree I wanted to visit Bangladesh to see the difference Fair Trade makes.

'The contrast between the slums in Dhaka where the people who work in the garment factories live and Swallows (the Fair Trade community supported by People Tree) was all too apparent. '

From left: Canterbury cream cardigan, £120; Exeter scoop tee-red and white stripe, £25. Goldsmith black mini dress, £45. Cumbria navy fair isle cardigan, £115; Sussex scoop T-shirt, £22; Brighton harem trousers, £42

'I still find it hard to convey what Fair Trade means to those producing our fashion -- it's just so impressive to see how the women have used Fair Trade clothing to escape poverty and empower themselves and their children. I was moved and inspired.'
Although Emma is not directly involved in the design, she selected the Fair Trade textiles used including cable knits and the first Fair Trade hand-woven brushed check.
The collection is comprised of tulip skits, dresses and shirts and is available to buy today.
Emma, who shot to fame when she was cast as Hermione in Harry Potter And The Philospher's Stone, has come known for her effortless style and was even cast in Burberry's Spring/Summer 2010 advertising campaign.

Potter's girl Emma is a hit with the boys at the polo

Harry Potter actress had no shortage of male admirers in the Chinawhite VIP tent at last week's Cartier International Polo, and I predict she'll soon be dating again. Emma, who plays Hermione Granger in the hit movies, is going through a seriously rocky patch with her boyfriend, financier Jay Barrymore, 27, who was notably absent from her 18th birthday party in April.

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Potter's girl:  was the belle of the ball at the Cartier Polo last week

'It's no coincidence that Emma was enjoying herself at the polo,' says a chum. 'She has hinted that it will all be over very soon and her parents are secretly very relieved. They thought Jay was too old for her.
'At the moment Emma's hoping she's got the grades to get into Cambridge, which is more important to her than having a boyfriend.'

 

Emma magics up a £1 million ski chalet in France

Emma Watson has celebrated access to her £10million fortune with the purchase of a £1million ski chalet

Harry Potter star  has wasted no time dipping into her £10million fortune.
The actress, who was granted access to her substantial savings account when she turned 18 this April, has bought a £1million ski chalet in fashionable Meribel, France.
Emma, who ranked 55th in a recent poll of the country’s wealthiest youngsters, is spending thousands having the property renovated and is planning a lavish house party when the works are completed.
A chum says: ‘The house is Emma’s way of celebrating her recent straight As at A-level and finally getting her hands on some of her hard-earned cash. She worked really hard this year and didn’t have much of a birthday party so this was her present to herself.’
Emma - Hermione Granger in the hit movies - was born in Paris and speaks fluent French. She is a keen skier and has told friends she plans to invest more of her millions in property.
‘Like her co-stars, Emma has received some pretty sound advice about money,’ adds the friend. ‘She always wanted a ski chalet and she’s having a great time doing it up. She’s looking forward to having friends to stay.’

 

Why DO women visit strip clubs?

Eleven o’clock on a Friday night in Central London. I’m sitting on a velveteen sofa in a cordoned off area of Sophisticats, a lap-dancing club in Marylebone.
A pretty young woman called Zoe is dancing in front of me. She can’t be much older than 21, with platinum blonde hair extensions stretching down to her waist, fake nails and far too much glittery make-up.
Unnervingly, she doesn’t break eye contact. There’s not a hint of awkwardness, as though she’s done this a hundred times before — which, of course, she has. Her electric green G-string has been carefully peeled off. She gives me a wry wink before dangling it inches from my face. I have no idea where to look.

Girls' night out: Singer Rihanna leaves Stringfellows with a friend last week

I’m more than uncomfortable. But unlike Rihanna, who was spotted exiting London’s Stringfellows last week, I’m not here for fun. I’m here to investigate the apparently growing trend of heterosexual women spending their hard-earned wages watching semi-naked girls pole dancing, rather than the more typical pursuits of a meal out or the cinema.
It’s been claimed more women than ever before are frequenting these ‘gentlemen’s clubs’ — some of which have reported a 30 per cent rise in female clientele in a year.

 

We’ve certainly seen a host of female celebrities patronising these venues, from singer Katy Perry, who visited Sapphire in Las Vegas last year for her hen party, to Harry Potter actress  , who celebrated the final premiere of the film series with a visit to a New York club this summer.
Spice Girl Mel B has been seen at the Fantasy Bar in Manchester and, astonishingly, Princess Eugenie was spotted at Sophisticats in London two years ago. So I’m here, at the same club the young royal visited, to find out just what the attraction is.
For the uninitiated, lap-dancing clubs are essentially nightclubs where women are paid to perform stripteases and pole dancing — either on stage or in a private room. They’re not a new invention, having arrived in the UK from the U.S. after World War II.

In a man's world: Katy Perry, left,  and Princess Eugenie have both visited gentlemen's clubs

Traditionally the preserve of men only, the past five years have seen a surge in British women visiting for fun with one chain, Platinum Lace in London claiming women make up a quarter of its membership. Secrets, another chain, hosts regular ladies-only nights, with the most recent earlier this month attracting 150 guests.
While countries such as Iceland have now banned such clubs, they’ve become a regular fixture on Britain’s suburban High Streets, after changes to the 2003 Licensing Act made it easier for venues to get a sex establishment licence. Since 1997, the number of strip clubs has risen ten-fold and three years ago a new club was opening almost every week.
The venues operate much like a nightclub. You pay an entrance fee (normally £15 or so before 11pm, after which prices rise steeply) and, once inside, drinks are eye-wateringly expensive.

LAPPING IT UP

The lap-dance industry has doubled since 2004 to more than 300 clubs across the UK

Customers often have to buy ‘a bottle for the table’, with a bottle of Smirnoff vodka costing up to £120. Some VIP tables come with their own dancer and have a minimum spend of £300.
Once at your table, you can either watch the main show or pay for a private dance, where for £20 a naked woman performs astride your legs for one song. The client must not touch the dancer, but the dancer can touch the client.
So far, so seedy. So why are so many professional, respectable women spending vast amounts of money at these kind of establishments? Why, when addiction to pornography and strip clubs is the third biggest cause of debt in men, are women falling for it, too? 
Paul Kennedy, director of marketing at Platinum Lace, says the industry is changing. ‘A few years ago, the lap-dance industry was stagnant: the same bankers were going to the same old clubs. So we encouraged female customers and they’ve breathed life into the business. With more girls coming here, it’s less of a taboo.’
But is it really possible to make these places acceptable to women, when many feel their very existence depends on exploiting vulnerable women who are desperate for money?
I visit Platinum Lace in Central London on a Thursday night, just after 10pm, and the club is already buzzing. Inside, I find about 40 men to every five female clients, including a couple of mixed groups. The club’s main area is big enough to seat about 100 people. Black chairs cluster around circular tables facing one of two small stages at either end of the room, which are lit up like a theatre show with a pole reaching up to the ceiling.

Strip tease: Some women are also paying for private dances for themselves or their boyfriends

Wrapped around each is a pouting dancer flicking her hair and arching her back in vertiginous heels. In the 15 VIP rooms located down side corridors, girls take men for private lap dances.
The owners have tried to make the decor feel glamorous, but there’s no way to mask the seedy nature of what goes on in here; women take their clothes off for money and no amount of gold gilt frames, crystal chandeliers and glittery disco balls can change that.
I ask some of the other women why they’re here. Sam, 32, an events manager from North London, says: ‘I go to a strip club every month with a few female friends and sometimes a male friend or boyfriend.
‘We know we’ll be able to sit down, get a table and won’t be chatted up by guys like in a normal clubs. The atmosphere is relaxed and quieter than some pubs or clubs.’
To me, this is a ludicrous excuse. There are hordes of venues across the country where even the most stunning women can have a night out without being pestered. And if you’re seeking a quiet, relaxed night why visit a strip club?
And if it’s one thing for a woman to come to this type of club, surely it’s quite another for them to pay for a private session?

'Our most loyal customers are women in their 40s - it's their naughty secret'

‘I buy the odd dance,’ says Amber, 23, a hairdresser from Hull. ‘But it’s mainly for Andy, my boyfriend, who likes to watch. He finds it sexier coming here with me than with the lads.’
As we chat, it becomes clear her motive for coming is to please her boyfriend and stop him visiting with a group of testosterone-fuelled guys.
Dr Teela Sanders, a sociology professor from Leeds University, specialises in the UK sex industry and has just finished the biggest-ever research project on lap dancing in the UK. She found women enjoyed how well strip clubs were run.
‘Security is much stricter than normal pubs and clubs. Violence is rare and women find the atmosphere to be more safe and relaxed — men aren’t looking to them for sexual titillation.’
She found couples were using strip clubs to spice up their relationship, while other attendees were there to prove they are liberal or to fulfil a personal fantasy.
The next night I visit, For Your Eyes Only, is in the City and is popular with bankers. It’s a more masculine club, attracting an older clientele. Manager Tony Osborne tells me two of his most loyal regulars are women in their late 40s — one a barrister — both living at upmarket addresses in Mayfair.
‘They come in, order a bottle or two of good wine and spend money on a couple of dances. They’re here to let their hair down. It’s their naughty little secret.’
However, not every woman here is having the time of her life.
I meet Karen, 23, from Glasgow, visiting a strip club for the first time. She’d been persuaded to go by a man she found attractive. ‘I’ve spent £100 on a bottle of vodka,’ she winces. ‘It’s not what I expected and it’s not my idea of sexy.’
Unsurprisingly, the women who dance at these establishments aren’t pleased with the sudden female influx either.
Summer, 23, who works at Spearmint Rhino, says the women clientele change the atmosphere. ‘They constantly look down on us and snigger,’ she tells me.

Supporting sexism: When women visit strip clubs, we send out a powerful signal that we not only condone, but actively encourage, our sexual subjugation

A few clubs are sticking to the mantra that a ‘gentleman’s club’ is for gentlemen only. Stringfellows is one.
Peter Stringfellow opened his Covent Garden club in 1980 and has been in the business for almost 50 years. He often turns away groups of ladies in a bid to maintain a high level of ‘affluent, corporate male’ customer.
But he will make exceptions. Last week, there was Rihanna and, in the past, he has hosted Kelly Osborne and Trudie Styler (who attended with Sting).
‘Men are inhibited when women come in. They can’t relax and won’t spend money,’ he tells me. ‘Women come here under sufferance, brought by husbands or partners. My advice to them is, have a look around the club, then go home. This is a male form of entertainment.’
He has a point. These clubs pander to the crassest kind of male fantasy. The fake hair, breasts and 5in platforms are miles away from what a real woman looks or acts like.
Fans may say it’s all just a bit of fun. But, in fact, the whole industry promotes a distasteful male-female dynamic and the image of a woman as a souped-up sex toy is one which can trickle into everyday life.
Take Imogen, a 30-year-old from Swansea, who I meet in one of the clubs. She’s worried about the effect coming here has had on her partner.
‘His image of what’s sexy has been distorted,’ she says. ‘He now really wants to push the boundaries in the bedroom and asks for things I feel uncomfortable doing. There’s pressure, as he feels let down when I say “no”. Places like these are putting his head in the clouds.’

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So why is she here if it’s such a bad idea? She shrugs and blames curiosity.
Anna van Heeswijk, of feminist group Object, refuses to believe stripping empowers women by celebrating the female form and allowing girls to make money.
‘Lap-dancing clubs are based on sexist ideas that have no place in a society in which women are fighting to be treated as equals, not as sex objects. This is a last attempt by the industry to hold on to a facade of respectability, which is rapidly being exposed for the illusion it is.’
After visiting four strip clubs in three nights, the industry has left me feeling hollow. The atmosphere is mechanical and depressing, and the clubs feel like livestock auctions. The dancers are there for money — and money alone.
Understandably, they all use fake names and are acting from the moment they walk through the door, while the men simply stare and whisper.
When women visit strip clubs, we send out a powerful signal that we not only condone, but actively encourage, our sexual subjugation. The further we pull lap dancing into the mainstream, the further we lose sight of the moral issues it raises.
As Anna van Heeswijk says: ‘If more women start visiting lap-dancing clubs, then the industry will have won. Now’s the time to decide what kind of society we want.’

 

Young guns Emma and Lily outshine the old guard - as Naomi forced to take a backseat

Move over Naomi.
That appeared to be the message young ingénue  sent as she and singer Lily Allen - both muses for Chanel - stole the show from the old guard - model Naomi Campbell - at an after-show party for Chanel last night.
Dressed all in black in a sheer blouse, sequin waistcoat and fashionable skinny jeans, Emma, 17, showed off her grown-up glamour outshining Naomi, 37, who looked less than fresh-faced.
 

Young guns having fun: Harry Potter star Emma Watson and Smile singer Lily Allen vanquished the old guard - represented by Naomi Campbell - as they stole the show at an afterparty for Chanel last night

Naomi, could only sit and look disconsolately on as the young pretenders hogged the limelight while the ageing model, who has weathered a storm of court cases for her phone-throwing behaviour, faded into the background.
Emma and Lily, 22, were feted by the great and the good at the afterparty for those who had attended Chanel's first London fashion show.
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Not looking so super: Model Naomi had to take a backseat at the party as Emma and Lily were feted by the great and the good

Both have been adopted as muses for the brand, and have become a fixture on the London social scene. And Emma was in attendance at an exclusive dinner hosted by fashion designer 'King' Karl Lagerfeld yesterday.
Emma's slick designer look, and poise, has drawn comparisons to red carpet regular Keira Knightley.
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No smile: King Karl keeps it couture with a haughty look, but Lily Allen gives the full 'Smile' treatment at the Chanel bash

And as well as stealing the show, the ingénues are also eclipsing the earnings of models such as Campbell.
Like Keira, Emma began her acting career aged 17, in the Harry Potter films. She is now said to be worth £8million.
And Lily headed over to the party after collecting £120,000 for just 40 minutes work last night.
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Dizzy heights: Emma has been courted as a muse for Chanel by Karl Lagerfeld and has recently showcased her new grown up look

She sang for an intimate audience at a Nokia Christmas party, which was held at Paper nightclub in London.
She boasted to the crowd: "That's the most money I've ever made in the shortest space of time."
That puts the supermodels classic boast of not getting out of bed for less than £10,000 somewhat in the shade.

 

LIZ JONES: Honour killings? What we've done to young Emma is just as shameful

 Two very different teenage girls made headlines around the world last week. The first was  , the 19-year-old star of the Harry Potter movie franchise.

She was named as the highest-earning female in Hollywood in 2009, only one of two women to make it on to the list of the industry’s top 20 earners.
The second was 16-year-old Medine Memi – her first name means ‘civilisation’. Her body was discovered tied to a chair in a hole in the garden of her home in a small village in south-eastern Turkey.
She had been buried alive as punishment for having talked to boys on the telephone. We know she was buried alive because of the amount of soil found in her stomach and lungs. Her father and her grandfather have been arrested.

Is it a coincidence that  is the highest paid actress in the world and also incredibly young?

The two young women are worlds apart, of course. Medine lived in a country mired in the dominance of a medieval, backwards-thinking, feudal patriarchy, albeit one that has been taking steps to stamp out violence towards women in its bid to be allowed into the European Union.
In 1998, the country’s supreme court overturned a law that criminalised adultery. In 2004, it introduced mandatory life sentences for those who carry out so-called ‘honour’ killings.
But despite these measures it continues to fail to protect its women and children. Four out of ten women in Turkey are beaten by their husbands. Half of all murders are ‘honour’ killings.
In an attempt to circumvent the stiffer sentences, ‘honour suicides’ have mushroomed.
Batman, a town in the south-east of Turkey, has been nicknamed ‘Suicide City’: three-quarters of all suicides here are committed by women – nearly everywhere else in the world, men are three times more likely to kill themselves.
Women who are told to kill themselves are usually given three options: a noose, a gun or rat poison. They are then locked in a room until they have done the deed.
Despite all of the above, President Obama made no mention of this shocking record on women’s rights in the speech he made during a visit to Istanbul last year in which he urged the EU to welcome Turkey with open arms.
He concentrated instead on the far less controversial issue of global warming.
But let’s look at Emma Watson for a moment. Is it a coincidence that she is the highest-paid actress in the world – and also incredibly young, known only for her portrayal of a virginal schoolgirl?
You might have thought Meryl Streep would have been up there on that list somewhere. Or Helen Mirren, or the director Kathyrn Bigelow. But no. The richest (and I hesitate to use the word powerful here) woman in Hollywood is also necessarily the weakest: a child.
The most powerful men are inevitably all ancient and unglamorous with old-lady arms: James Cameron, Steven Spielberg and their ilk. Like Islam, Hollywood is a clannish, backwards-thinking, oppressive, patriarchal society intent on keeping women firmly in their place.
I don’t mean to trivialise what happened to Medine. Her murder was horrific, and the perpetrators should be punished. But all cultures, the world over, celebrate pure, young women.
Girls in Afghanistan are staying home because of a spate of acid attacks. In Italy, a country where until 1981 ‘honour’ was an ‘extenuating circumstance’ for murder, a young Moroccan woman was murdered last autumn by her father for wearing jeans.
In Iran, honour killings are legal. In Pakistan, a 17-year-old girl who, it was claimed, became pregnant by a man who was not her husband was forced to give birth before having her baby thrown to its death in a canal. The teenager was then mauled by dogs before being fatally shot in the head.
But can we in the West really claim the moral high ground when it comes to condemning these ‘honour’ killings’?
I would counter that the number of women harmed psychologically and physically by the West’s obsession with extreme youth far outstrips the number of women who are murdered for adultery, or even for the ‘crime’ of being the victim of rape in Islamic countries.
Every society has things it should be ashamed of. We have battered wives, domestic violence, child abuse, rape. These crimes are not done in the name of religion, other than as part of our cult of worshipping only women who are barely adolescent.
Violence against women is widespread in all countries. In Britain, 45 per cent have experienced some form of domestic abuse. In Germany, that figure is 37 per cent. Let’s not make this a war against Islam.
Let’s make it a war between genders, and try to fix it with education and emancipation, not prejudice.

 

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The next Emma Watson? Atonement star Saoirse Ronan is all grown-up at The Way Back premiere

Now that is leaving her Harry Potter day behind her, there is an opening in the market for a young British actress set to take Hollywood by storm.
And it seems Saoirse Ronan could be just the girl.
The 16-year-old actress, who first rose to fame when she appeared alongside Keira Knightley in 2007's Atonement, was all grown-up last night as she attended the premiere of her new movie The Way Back alongside Colin Farrell and Ed Harris.

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All grown up: Saoirse Ronan at the premiere of The Way Back in London last night, and at the premiere of Atonement in 2007

Wearing a chic black and white lace dress, with opaque tights and heels, Saoirse looked worlds away from the innocent little girl in the long white dress and flat pumps at the Atonement London premiere.
After her role in Atonement, for which she was nominated for a Best Supporting Actress Oscar, Saoirse also appeared in Peter Jackson's The Lovely Bones, an adaptation of Alice Sebold's novel.
And Saoirse is already being tipped for an Oscar for her role in The Way Back, which tells the story of soldiers who escaped from a Siberian gulag in 1940, and is based on Slawomir Rawicz's memoir The Long Walk.

Co-stars: Saoirse poses up with co-star Colin Farrell at the premiere

Taking to the red carpet: Ed Harris (left) and Jim Sturgess also appear in the film

She can soon be seen in Hanna, alongside Cate Blanchett and Eric Bana, and is rumoured to have won a part in the highly-anticipated The Hobbit: Part 1, also directed by Peter Jackson.
But it was her role in Joe Wright's Atonement that led Saoirse to know 100 per cent that she was meant to be an actress.
She said in a recent interview: 'When I got to the stage of Atonement,  it really tested and challenged me. I was working with some really top-class people.

Fledgling: Saoirse in the 2007 Joe Wright film Atonement

'And Joe is a really great director. From that point onward I thought, "Maybe this should be my job. I know I can’t give it up now." I felt that passionate about it. I couldn’t imagine leaving it.'
And as well as impressing film critics, Saoirse has also left an impression on her castmates, including Ed Harris, with whom she stars in The Way Back.
He said: 'She was so present in a cool way and really mysterious. I loved working with her. She was just 16 when we made it, I think, a little bit older than my daughter. She had a wonderful work ethic, really friendly, always in good spirits, charming, pretty.
'I felt a little bit protective of her, though she didn’t really need that. We had a really nice thing. I loved just being totally simple and honest with her. She’s living and breathing in the moment and you’re able to just experience that with her.'
The Way Back is released in the UK on December 26th.