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TALK OF THE TOWN: The party's over for society darling Lady Sabrina Percy and her pizza heir husband Phineas Page
Their's was a high-society wedding to remember. But despite the glamour and promises of eternal happiness, I regret to reveal that Sabrina Percy and Phineas Page, heir to pizza chain Franco Manca, have filed for divorce after nearly four years of marriage.
Model Sabrina,, related to the Duke of Northumberland, has been to several public events this year with a bare wedding ring finger and no sign of her husband.
'It's been going on for a while now,' a source who knows the couple tells me. 'He's a bit of a party boy and she told me that she was partying less and less.'
I am told that Sabrina, 35, has had a lifestyle transformation in recent years – from a Tatler cover star attending society parties to become a qualified psychologist and founder of a personal coaching company.
The couple met 11 years ago through mutual friend David Tollemache, nephew of Lord Tollemache of Helmingham Hall, Suffolk.
They got engaged on Christmas Day in 2019 after Phineas, 41, left four rings in her stocking.
They married at Chelsea Town Hall, with guests including Sabrina's grandmother the Dowager Marchioness of Bute, Lady Violet Manners, heiress Isabel Getty and Hum Fleming, great-niece of James Bond creator Ian Fleming.
Since their split, Sabrina says her motto is 'Be Good. Do Good'. She adds: 'Whenever I am feeling lost, I say this to myself and it somehow brings me back.'
Sabrina Percy and Phineas Page were contacted for comment.
Model Sabrina Percy (pictured), 35, related to the Duke of Northumberland, has been to several public events this year with a bare wedding ring finger and no sign of her husband. 'It's been going on for a while now,' a source who knows the couple tells me
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His portrait of the late Queen with her eyes closed is his most famous work, and now I can reveal the subject of artist Chris Levine's next portrait is supermodel Cara Delevingne, 33,.
'I will be doing Cara with her eyes open,' he tells me. 'I am going to use lasers to show her because she has such amazing eyes.'
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'I was a soldier this time,' Hugh tells me at the premiere of his son's new drama, King And Conqueror.
'I didn't have to fight, but I was all dressed up in chain mail.'
His big on-screen moment? 'I had to shout 'To victory!''
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Naomi Campbell dancing at top Ibiza nightclub DC10 in the booth, left, with a new close friend, DJ Rampa.
Jenny Ortega having a boogie at the student haunt Sneaky Pete's during the Edinburgh Fringe Festival.
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'You're feted for your accent,' Cumberbatch, 49, says.
'You can get away with speeding tickets and all sorts by saying 'I'm so sorry, I'm English!' – go a bit Hugh Grant and they're like, 'Oh, OK, don't do it again',' he says. A trick worth trying...
Princess Beatrice and husband Edoardo Mapelli Mozzi went incognito to Wilderness Festival this month.
My spies tell me they were looking a little green around the gills by the Saturday of the four-day event.
'They were up for partying but were clearly a bit... tired, let's say, from Friday night,' my source says.
'They had lots of kids over to their Cotswolds house for a pool party on Friday night, then Wilderness on Saturday night for Supergrass.' Royals can party, too!
