The Londoner: Rose McGowan backs Joe Corré’s anti-greed show

Rose McGowan flies in to support ash-art show / Radleians come out to play / Rudd in the front row / Philip Hammond booed 
Supporting punk art: Rose McGowan, with Asia Argento
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10 April 2018

HOLLYWOOD actress Rose McGowan, pictured, one of the first to allege publicly abuse by Harvey Weinstein, is joining Dame Vivienne Westwood’s son Joe Corré, the controversial artist and designer, for what he describes as a “dramatic” show.

In 2016, Corré burnt his entire collection of punk memorabilia as a statement against the “commercialisation of the punk movement”. The resulting ashes will be presented at the Lazinc gallery in Mayfair next week, with McGowan as one of the guests of honour. A representative for Corré tells me that she will be attending with Westwood, who she is close to.

The actress was uncompromising in her pursuit of Weinstein, and her decision to go on the record about alleged rape by Weinstein has been credited for paving the way for other actresses to come forward.

Her attendance at Corré’s show, which rejects corporate greed, is sure to lend weight to his message. Earlier this year, McGowan called for a cocaine possession charge to be dismissed, stating that there was no evidence the contraband belonged to her. Weinstein, meanwhile, is still receiving treatment in rehab. Fresh assault claims emerged in London in February. Weinstein has denied all allegations of non-consensual sex

Corré’s ash pile comes from a £5 million collection of punk memorabilia, which included Johnny Rotten’s trousers. Corré arranged for the collection to be torched on a boat in the Thames in November 2016. He was protesting a year-long celebration of punk run by various museums. At the time outraged fans described it as “selfish and pointless.”

“This expensive pile of ash commemorates the demise of punk but also society as we know it,” Corré says. Proceeds, he says, will go towards anti-fracking initiatives.

Old Radleians come out to play

FIRST there was the Eton Dragonflies, then the Harrow Byronics and now the Radley Wildebloods. Not Edwardian boating clubs, but the latest LGBT+ alumni societies from famous public schools. Named after Old Radleian Peter Wildeblood, whose conviction for gross indecency helped prompt the decriminalisation of homosexuality, it will officially launch on Wednesday evening. Organisers say it has taken “two to three years” to be accepted by Radley and they are celebrating with a talk by Peter Tatchell in The Phene in Chelsea. Worth the wait.

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Wary: Mo Farah (Photo by John Patrick Fletcher/Action Plus via Getty Images)
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Mo FARAH is in Ethiopia, training for this month’s London Marathon, where he has discovered an unusual impetus for those arduous moments. “We were knackered and with another six or seven miles to go, these three dogs started chasing us,” he tells BA High Life magazine. “We’d yell and they’d fall back but they’d get going again.” Good to see him taking the ruff with the smooth.

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JACOB Rees-Mogg is a proper champagne Charlie. As the student chairman of Trinity College’s ball, he had a rubber stamp of his signature made so that he could more speedily approve bubbles for the bash.

Downton girls swap pearls for potato peel and a movie premiere

Premiere party: Glen Powell, Jessica Brown Findlay, Lily James and Michiel Huisman (Photo by David M. Benett/Dave Benett/WireImage)
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IT’S A Downton reunion – of sorts. Actresses Lily James and Jessica Brown Findlay both made their name in the ITV period drama, but never shared a scene: Findlay’s character was killed off before they had the chance. But they appeared together at the Curzon Soho last night for the premiere of their new film, The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society. It also stars Tom Courtenay and Michiel Huisman, who were there with Annie Burrows, who wrote the book on which the film is based.

James has said that her relationship with Dr Who actor Matt Smith, who plays Prince Philip in The Crown, has prompted her interest in the Royal Family. “As an actor he’s so brilliant and versatile.” she told us. “He can play anything.”

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Nero or Costa? Seumas Milne (Photo by Leon Neal/Getty Images)
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SEUMAS Milne, above, was known as “Pret man” on The Guardian — he bought the same salad every day. Now Labour’s director of comms, he has switched allegiance to become a “Nero man”: he is regularly seen with a bag from Caffè Nero, says a source in Portcullis House. “He also goes to Costa. Jeremy teases him because to his mind that’s posh coffee.”

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PHILIP Hammond was seen at Heathrow last night — he had been in Berlin — heading through Immigration. The Chancellor was spotted by rowdy Brits, who were waiting in a long queue to get through passport control. According to Reuters journalist Simon Robinson, the mob “repeatedly shouted out ‘Thanks for Brexit, Philip!’ and then booed over and over.” Robinson didn’t see fit to point out that Hammond is actually a Remainer, and is positively loathed by the hardcore Leavers.

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Rudd hails fashion at front row of show

Fashionistas: the Rudd sisters, Amber centre

AMBER Rudd was in the front row of a private fashion show by her favourite designer and sister-in-law Sophie Hale last night.

Rudd is no stranger to couture —since becoming Home Secretary she’s often photographed in Hale’s trim jackets and Chloé shoes. Fashion people say she favours “block” colours. She recently told us: “I like clothes. I like shoes — perhaps not as much as the Prime Minister, but there we are.”

Rudd was joined at the event by her two sisters Mel and Amanda as well as PR executive Anji Hunter, Sky News editor Adam Boulton, and her mischievous son Alasdair Gill.

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