Helen Fielding is mad about the boy

 
13 March 2014

Some unlikely passions were revealed at Save the Children’s Night of Reggae at the Roundhouse last night.

A silent auction in aid of the charity saw 007 producer Barbara Broccoli bid £3,500 for work experience at Island Records, while well-heeled deal broker Amanda Staveley bid £2,500 to meet One Direction at a concert.

After a dinner of Jamaican patties and jerk chicken, Bridget Jones author Helen Fielding showed she learned lessons from her last book: in Mad About the Boy, her hopeless heroine woos a toy boy, and last night Fielding was spotted being twirled by a much younger man.

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