EDEN CONFIDENTIAL: Sienna Miller spotted at 'party rottweiler' Fran Cutler's 62nd birthday - but former Primrose Hill friend Kate Moss is nowhere to be seen

Daily Mail​

26-04-2025

Sienna Miller was among the guests at Fran Cutler's 62nd birthday party this week, but there was no sign of Kate Moss, for whom the host used to act as 'gatekeeper'.
In the 1990s, Fran was known as the 'party Rottweiler' for the Primrose Hill set.
She would organise hedonistic gatherings for Moss, 51, and her friends, while refusing to admit anyone who she deemed not important enough to join them.
The supermodel was conspicuous by her absence at the birthday bash in London, at South Kensington's Nexus Club.
Surely Moss can't still be sore about an unfortunate incident that happened between the pair back in 2018?
That year, Cutler, pictured, accidentally sent an unflattering message about Moss's appearance directly to her.
Hollywood star Sienna, 43, wore a white slip dress under a brown Denebola jumper and was joined at the party by her boyfriend, actor Oli Green, 28, who appeared in Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy.
The smart set's talking about... Pearson follows polo pal and pops the question too
My colleague Vere Harmsworth's engagement to horse-loving Alexandra Wood seems to have inspired another.
I hear Vere's best friend George Pearson also got down on bended knee last week.
'I proposed while we were on holiday in the south of France,' says George, 29, whose father, Charles Pearson, is the half-brother of Viscount Cowdray and owner of Dunecht estate in Aberdeenshire.
George's bride-to-be is lawyer Chesca Durnford, 30.
'Vere and I did discuss things beforehand,' George tells me. The double engagement amused the family of Vere, 30, whose father is Viscount Rothermere, chairman of the Daily Mail and General Trust plc, publishers of the Daily Mail, Mail Online and The Mail on Sunday.
'George and I were at Eton and Oxford together,' Vere says. 'We also played in the same polo team.'
They will not, however, have a joint celebration. George says, laughing: 'I think we'll stick with separate weddings.'
(Very) modern manners
West End star Ruthie Henshall, an ex-girlfriend of Prince Edward, may return to the Big Smoke to find Mr Right.
'I've thought about moving back to London and getting an apartment,' says the Olivier Award-winning actress, who lives in Clacton-on-Sea, Essex.
'I do have this lovely thatched cottage. I could stay here, but most of my life is in London. How can I meet people if I am not going anywhere?'
Henshall, 58, who has two adult daughters with her ex-husband, actor Tim Howar, has not enjoyed online dating.
'I did that twice, but found it awful,' she says. 'I didn't match with many people and some would drop off halfway through a conversation. It's just swipe, swipe, swipe.'
Fatboy's boy surprises DJ dad with award
As superstar DJ Fatboy Slim, Norman Cook would fly to Ibiza one day and be back behind the decks in London the next.
These days, the former Housemartins bass guitarist, 61, doesn't seem to leave his home in Hove, East Sussex, very often.
But he did turn up at the Music Producers Guild Awards this week, in east London, to collect a prize for Outstanding Contribution to UK Music.
And he was taken aback when his son, Woody, 24, came out to present it to him.
'It takes a lot to get me up the A23 [to London from Brighton], but this is great,' Cook joked.
Woody's mother is the DJ's ex-wife, broadcaster Zoe Ball, who Cook last month said remains a close friend and his 'soulmate'.
The awards were described as a 'magic moment' by his son.
Medal for Wood's forgotten war hero
He has walked the length of the Nile and been embedded with Iraqi troops fighting ISIS, and now Levison Wood has completed an even more poignant mission.
The TV explorer went to India to present a Second World War veteran with a Burma Star medal and a letter from King Charles.
Corporal Con Herh, of the Burmese Chin Rifles, who turns 100 in June, served in the Burma campaign. 'We tracked this guy down, he never received his medal,' says ex-Army officer Wood, 42. 'We thought it'd be a nice touch to go and meet him.'
Aspinall curse as Tansy shuts brand
Has the Aspinall name been jinxed?
A week ago I disclosed that Aspers Group – the casino company founded by Damian Aspinall – had gone into administration.
And his daughter, Tansy, has now put her jewellery firm, into liquidation.
Tansy, pictured right, set up Tada & Toy with a friend in 2013 and fans were said to include Harry Potter star Emma Watson.
But now £119,000 in debt, the company has been brought to a halt.
'It's not goodbye, it's see you later,' the website says. Tansy, 35, last night declined to comment.
Townshend: the fame got to Rod and Jagger
The Who guitarist Pete Townshend, who turns 80 next month, clearly feels it's time to tell some home truths about his fellow rock stars Sir Mick Jagger and Sir Rod Stewart.
Talking about the latter's band, he says: 'The Faces and The Who did a gig together at The Oval [in 1971]. It was such a great day, and they were such a great band.
'Then Rod became the "face" of The Faces, a sex symbol. And I hope he won't mind me saying this, because I love Rod, but I think it kind of went to his head.'
Of Rolling Stones singer Sir Mick, Townshend questions whether riches have made him happy.
'I wonder, for example, whether Mick Jagger really gives a f*** whether he has a plot on Mustique where he can spend Christmas, or whether he'd prefer to come and have dinner with a bunch of friends in London,' he says.