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What recession? Tycoons spend £1.8 million on champagne in St Tropez
By Richard Eden
As Joan Collins and her friends descend on St Tropez this week for a party on board Lady Joy, the yacht owned by the American socialite Denise Rich, they have been made to look positively austere.
Mandrake hears that two rival billionaires spent a staggering €2 million (£1.77 million) on champagne at Les Caves du Roy nightclub. Zhen Low, the younger brother of the Malaysian tycoon Jho Low, became involved in a competition with Winston Fisher, a New York property developer, to see who could order more £600 bottles of Cristal for their chums.
"Even by the standards of Les Caves, this was something else," says my man on the Côte d'Azur.
Heston Blumenthal is a duck to water
Recruited to improve the food at NHS hospitals, Heston Blumenthal has taken on a still greater challenge: cooking on board a Royal Navy submarine.
"It was amazing, but very cramped," the chef patron of The Fat Duck said at the British School of Motoring's 100th anniversary celebration at Silverstone.
"I'll be the first civilian to cook underwater. It's for a TV series with the working title Michelin Impossible."
Paris Hilton watched as the rival tycoons Zhen Low and Winston Fisher competed to see who could order more £600 bottles of Cristal in a St Tropez nightclub.
By Richard Eden
As Joan Collins and her friends descend on St Tropez this week for a party on board Lady Joy, the yacht owned by the American socialite Denise Rich, they have been made to look positively austere.
Mandrake hears that two rival billionaires spent a staggering €2 million (£1.77 million) on champagne at Les Caves du Roy nightclub. Zhen Low, the younger brother of the Malaysian tycoon Jho Low, became involved in a competition with Winston Fisher, a New York property developer, to see who could order more £600 bottles of Cristal for their chums.
Guests included Paris Hilton, the socialite, who helped the cherubic Jho celebrate his 28th birthday with a four-day party in Las Vegas last year.
"Even by the standards of Les Caves, this was something else," says my man on the Côte d'Azur.
Heston Blumenthal is a duck to water
Recruited to improve the food at NHS hospitals, Heston Blumenthal has taken on a still greater challenge: cooking on board a Royal Navy submarine.
"It was amazing, but very cramped," the chef patron of The Fat Duck said at the British School of Motoring's 100th anniversary celebration at Silverstone.
"I'll be the first civilian to cook underwater. It's for a TV series with the working title Michelin Impossible."
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