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Your support makes all the difference.* After the high of London Fashion Week, there are stormy waters ahead for Sadie Frost. Her latest money-spinning scheme is to be targeted by campaigners opposed to the multinational food company Nestlé.
* After the high of London Fashion Week, there are stormy waters ahead for Sadie Frost. Her latest money-spinning scheme is to be targeted by campaigners opposed to the multinational food company Nestlé.
Last week, Frost announced that her fashion label, FrostFrench, is designing a series of "limited edition" wrappers for Nestlé Double Cream chocolate.
Now, I gather that groups opposed to Nestlé's sale of powdered baby milk in developing countries intend to launch a campaign against her.
"I'd imagine the decision to associate themselves with Nestlé is down to ignorance," says a spokesman for one group, Baby Milk Action. "We'd like to make contact to raise awareness of Nestlé's human rights abuses, so they'll reconsider. I suppose this depends what you want to make a profit from."
It could all cause diplomatic problems. Baby Milk Action has many high-profile patrons, including Emma Thompson and Zoe Wanamaker.
More pertinently, Frost's chum Kate Moss supports Breakthrough Breast Cancer, a charity that recently hit the headlines after turning down a £1m donation from Nestlé.
Frost, meanwhile, has previously endorsed breast feeding. Her spokesman refused to comment yesterday, though last week endorsed the following release: "As a design duo responsible for indulgent, feminine designs, FrostFrench embody the spirit of Nestlé Double Cream perfectly."
* LIZ HURLEY'S boyfriend Arun Nayar has gone on the offensive over allegations that he's about to become the father of her child.
Approached by journalists in his native India, Nayar - pictured left with Hurley - says that reports of a pregnancy, carried in various British Sunday newspapers, are "totally untrue".
A reporter from The Times of India was recently told: "It's not true. It could be, but it isn't. Have a good morning."
The Indian Express , meanwhile: "I never read the newspapers. What did they say again? It's always great that newspapers know what is going on in my life before I do, but unfortunately the answer is no. We aren't having a baby as yet."
It could all be a cunning plan to throw Fleet Street off the scent. But any fib will be exposed imminently: the British tabloids reckon that Hurley's child is due in February.
* HUGH DANCY, a rising star of British cinema, is upset by my recent item on his friendship with the publicist Ciara Parkes.
In June, I asked Parkes about reports that she'd been "canoodling" with Dancy at the Serpentine summer party. She strongly denied a romance. "Hugh is one of my greatest friends," she said. "I've known him for years and I certainly wasn't canoodling with him. I was far too busy for that."
Now Dancy, who met Pandora at Dunhill's Vanity Fair party on Tuesday, has taken up the cudgels.
"I've just spent several months in central Africa," he said, cheerily. "Why don't you go and write that I'm having an affair with a gorilla?"
Happy to oblige.
* BETTY BOOTHROYD has reservations about the proposed tightening of security at Westminster.
Discussing Otis Ferry's invasion - which she believes to be "an inside job" - the former speaker says: "Although it doesn't really affect me, because I'm now in the Lords, I believe the Sergeant at Arms does a great job. There are always risks, but the House is a public place, so such risks can never be taken away."
Apropos of a recent rash of reports that Tony Blair is unhappy with her successor Michael Martin, Baroness Boothroyd - speaking at the opening of The Solid Gold Cadillac - adds: "I don't believe them. It must have been a slow day for the papers."
* A delightfully petty row has jollified proceedings in Hartlepool, where voters are currently going to the polls.
The other day, Newsnight reporter Michael Crick arrived in the town square, to record footage of the UK Independence Party inflating a giant balloon. He took a few shots and then disappeared.
"We started letting the balloon down," says UKIP press officer Clive Page. "Then, a few minutes later, I discovered Crick hiding around the corner, about to jump out and video our balloon deflating."
Page rapidly re-inflated the balloon, and dispatched Crick - whom he (perhaps unfairly) describes as "a very slimy man" - with a flea in his ear.
Says Crick diplomatically: "Their campaign is not the most professional I have ever seen."
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