Peaches Geldof
Katie Holmes Hangs Out With Peaches Geldof; British Press Incredulous
Transatlantic odd couple alert: According to the UK's Daily Star, imported socialite Peaches Geldof and Scientology captive Katie Holmes have totally connected (over what, exactly, is still unclear) in New York. Reportedly, Ms. Geldof so admired Ms. Holmes's turn in Broadway's All My Sons that she asked to interview the actress for Nylon, where she is a columnist of sorts. Either out of genuine interest in the budding fameball or just eagerness to escape the confines of her many East Village apartments, Ms. Holmes met the British 19-year-old for "afternoon tea" in a suite at the Rivington Hotel. Afterward, Ms. Geldof babysat Suri Cruise while Ms. read more »
Morning Memo: Angelina Jolie's 'Restless' Kids; Lydia Hearst Serious About the Economy; John McCain Militant (About Ribs)
Angelina Jolie has trained her brood well. She told Italian Vanity Fair, "I am still restless, but do you know that my kids are the same way? We were in France these last few months and after a while they started asking when we could get back on a plane." [R&M]
Imported socialite Peaches Geldof, who recently implied that she and Chester French's Max Drummey would likely divorce, got close to Donald Cummings of The Virgins at a V Magazine event. [P6]
Meanwhile, homegrown socialite Lydia Hearst is glad the family business cancelled its annual Christmas party: "It's time to work through this [financial] crisis, not party through it." [P6] read more »
British Tabloids Quick to Turn on Newly Americanized Peaches Geldof
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When celebrities leave New York and relocate to England, the glee on the part of British tabloids is unmistakable. In the past, The Mirror, The Sun and The Daily Mail have embraced American celebrities like Gwyneth Paltrow and Madonna as their own, staking out their homes and devoting no less coverage to their child-rearing than they do to Amy Winehouse's drug habits. In turn, the American tabs develop a scornful attitude, accusing Ms. Paltrow and Madonna of acquiring pretentious accents and slamming New York as no longer being an "exciting" city.
The latest import from the U.K., 19-year-old Peaches Geldof, who has been chronicling her move and recent marriage to musician Max Drummey in a column in Nylon magazine, seems to be stuck in the middle of this battle of the bi-continental celebrity tabloids. Which is to say, the British ones seem to turning on her.
Following Ms. Geldof's debut column about how she finally feels at home in New York (which she ends by saying, "there's no place I'd rather be"), the Daily Mail has published a lengthy piece about how sad Ms. Geldof's life has become in the States. read more »
Peaches Geldof Channels Her Inner Kerouac
British socialite Peaches Geldof is the 19-year-old daughter of singer Bob Geldof and television personality Paula Yates. Her full name is actually Peaches Honeyblossom Michelle Charlotte Angel Vanessa Geldof. A few months ago, she became a resident of Williamsburg, Brooklyn with her husband, musician Max Drummey, whom she married in Las Vegas three months ago and whom she may already be divorcing.
And now Ms. Geldof is sharing her adjustment to married life and her experiences in her new neighborhood in a column, "British Invasion," in Nylon magazine. (Her fellow headband-wearer Cory Kennedy wrote two "Cory's Corner" columns in August 2007 for the magazine before abandoning it to do Nylon TV. read more »
Fashion Roundup: Peaches Geldof Getting Divorced?; Fashionites Like Barack Obama; Victoria's Secret's Massive New Store
and Max Drummey on Oct. 11.
British socialite Peaches Geldolf reportedly plans to divorce her Harvard-grad musician husband Max Drummey, with whom she shacked up in Williamsburg, Brooklyn after a quickie Las Vegas wedding. [FWD]
The fashion and retail industries are funneling double the amount of contributions into Barack Obama's campaign than they are into John McCain's campaign, even though retail execs usually like Republicans, due to their more relaxed stance on taxes. [WWD]
The Brooklyn Industries store in Park Slope has put Barack Obama masks on all its mannequins. [Racked] read more »
The Transom in Print, Sept. 24: Still Gaga for Galas?; The New Headband Girls; Doubles Reopens; Clay Felker Remembered
Irina Aleksander asks the tough questions at the Metropolitan Opera's Opening Night Gala: Will New York's benefit scene suffer because of the Wall Street meltdown? Julie Macklowe says yes! But Real Housewives of New York City's Alex McCord says, "Cutting back is self-defeating." Mmmkay!
Ms. Aleksander also infiltrates a very exclusive subset of the city's young social set: the headband girls, led by suddenly-everywhere 19-year-old Brit Peaches Geldof (she's married, lads, so stay away from her headband!).
Meanwhile, George Gurley heads to Doubles, the club in the Sherry-Netherland, which seems to be one of the few places in the city impervious to doom and gloom. It's where Debbie Bancroft's hubby first told her he loved her!
And we borrow the Media Mob's Matt Haber for the night to send him to the memorial service for Clay Felker, where his old friends like Tom Wolfe, Gloria Steinem, and Lesley Stahl gathered to remember the New York magazine founder.
Headband Aid! Lasses Lasso their Luscious Locks
For years, “that girl with the headband” could mean only one person in New York—25-year-old socialite Arden Wohl, whose identity has become intertwined with her fondness for elaborate headdresses.
But as of late, this accessory has moved onto the preciously disheveled heads of alterna-celebrities like British socialite import Peaches Geldolf and Nylon magazine darling Cory Kennedy; there’s even a Marc Jacobs shopgirl starting her own line of headbands, and it’s morphed into a cross between the flapper band and a pirate’s head scarf tied not underneath the hair, but right on top like a hippie crown.
At New York Fashion Week, 19-year-old Ms. read more »
Morning Memo: A-Rod Out And About; Gossip Girl Makes A Mess; Peaches To Take New York
Recently separated Yankee Alex Rodriguez, who was recently linked with Madonna, has been playing the field. He's been spotted out with different women in Miami and Manhattan. [P6]
At New Jersey's Parker House bar, Ashley Dupre qualifies as enough of a celebrity to skip the line, though she apparently will never shake the hooker jokes. (First Item) [NYDN]
The Gossip Girl kids were a mess at a party held in their honor at the EMM Group’s estate in the Hamptons this weekend—cast members picked their teeth, inadvertently flashed the cameras, and spilled vitamin water. (Second Item) [NYDN]
Danity Kane's Aubrey O’Day, currently starring in Hairspray, defended herself to Wendy Williams, telling the talk-show host that she has not had plastic surgery. read more »
Morning Memo: "John Edwards in a Onesie"; Jay-Z Raises Cash; Paris Hilton Gets Sued
Nineteen-year-old British socialite Peaches Geldof (daughter of Live Aid impresario Bob Geldof) announced that she married 23-year-old Chester French frontman Max Drummey in Las Vegas last weekend. [P6]
In other Vegas news, Jay-Z is in talks to sell 50 percent of the Nevada branch of his 40/40 club for $44 million. [P6]
Sources are saying that Rielle Hunter's child looks like "John Edwards in a onesie." [NYDN]
Worldwide Entertainment Group is suing Paris Hilton for $74,000 over her prescient failure to promote her 2006 film National Lampoon's Pledge This! [TMZ]
