Once the toast of London society, Caroline Stanbury was a stalwart of Mayfair parties and counted Prince Andrew among her close friends.
But the Ladies Of London star now declares she will never return to live in the capital, citing what she calls an epidemic of street crime.
‘I’m very sad by what’s going on in England right now,’ she says. ‘I actually have not had one girlfriend that’s visited lately that hasn’t been mugged, and it’s insane.
‘Every time I come – and I don’t wear tons of jewellery, but I don’t bring anything. I can’t even wear my handbag. I’m worried to wear my handbag.
‘I don’t want to live like that. Who wants to live like that?
‘What’s the point of having all this stuff if I can’t use it?’
Caroline, 49, shot to fame on the reality TV series Ladies Of London in 2014, but had quietly left the capital four years earlier to move to Dubai with her then-husband, Turkish financier Cem Habib.
The couple had three children before divorcing in 2019, though Caroline remained in the Gulf.
She married ‘toyboy’ Spanish former footballer Sergio Carrallo, 30, in 2021, and the couple became stars of The Real Housewives of Dubai, which launched in 2022.
Caroline, 49, shot to fame on the reality TV series Ladies Of London in 2014, but had quietly left the capital four years earlier to move to Dubai with her then-husband, financier Cem Habib
Life in the UAE, Caroline adds, could not be more different. ‘If I fill this most-wanted handbag up,’ she says, referring to one of her Birkin bags, which retail from £10,000 upwards, ‘and put it in the mall here, it will be there when I get back.
‘A woman that sells pre-loved Birkins in London moved here, and the other day she went golfing… put her handbag on top of her car and went golfing for two hours and came back. Wild.
‘We couldn’t do that for two minutes [in England].’
Mystery of Cabaret’s missing millions
She’s dazzled as a singer, dancer, talent show judge and pretty much anything she turns her hand to, so might Nicole Scherzinger now have a crack at scripting a drama – inspired by the case of the Broadway show and the missing millions?
The question’s prompted by a seemingly unprecedented legal action in New York by investor James Lorenzo Walker Jr. He’s filed a claim against the producers of Cabaret At The Kit Kat Club, which, despite raking in ‘more than $90 million [£66.4 million]’ since opening in April 2024, is about to close – without, Walker alleges, paying him and other investors so much as a single cent.
Walker claims that they’re the victims of ‘wholesale misappropriation of investor funds’, courtesy of ‘multi-layered structures designed to conceal revenues [and] divert payments’.
The producers retort that his claim ‘lacks any merit’.
Scherzinger will surely be intrigued. She starred in Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Sunset Blvd which played to packed houses – but closed in July after a ten-month run, racking up a £4.5 million loss, as I disclosed last month.
Simon swaps Duran Duran for a (very) crowded house
Yasmin Le Bon with husband, Duran Duran singer Simon Le Bon, earlier this month
Save a prayer for Duran Duran singer Simon Le Bon and his model wife Yasmin, whose £5 million London home is bursting at the seams with three generations of family.
Not only have their daughters Amber, 36, and Saffron, 33, yet to fly the nest, but both have also moved in their boyfriends and children. Saffron lives in a cottage in the garden with Benjamin Compston and their three children, while Amber, who gave birth to a son in January, lives in the main house with her boyfriend, Ben Mercer.
Also still at home is the couple’s youngest daughter, Tallulah, 29.
Simon, 66, enjoyed a rare moment of calm at the Nela London launch at The Whiteley in Bayswater, where he was joined by Yasmin, 60.
He tells me: ‘They all live with us. We’re an important part of the parental responsibility machine.’
He adds: ‘It’s quite nice because we don’t have to make any decisions.
‘We just play with the kids and then hand them back to their parents.’
Snowdon’s birthday serenade to lover
King Charles’s cousin David, Earl of Snowdon performed Happy Birthday to his girlfriend
Isabelle de la Bruyere, 54, was presented with a chocolate cake at the Nela London launch at The Whiteley in Bayswater
The Earl of Snowdon has found happiness again – and he isn’t afraid to sing about it.
King Charles’s cousin David performed Happy Birthday to his girlfriend, Isabelle de la Bruyere, 54, at the Nela London launch at The Whiteley in Bayswater, where she was presented with a chocolate cake.
David, 63, who divorced his wife Serena in 2020, may have inherited some of his performative flair from his late mother, Princess Margaret, who often delighted palace guests with impromptu performances, even if she wasn’t always perfectly in tune.
Tony Porter, who founded London Fashion Week, an upstart rival to Paris and Milan, has died aged 90. ‘We had wonderful designers. I couldn’t see why there was no such event here,’ reflected Porter, who sold dresses to Twiggy, Marianne Faithfull and Mia Farrow. Another 1960s icon, he said, eclipsed them all – Brigitte Bardot. ‘Made me weak at the knees…’
Never Gonna Give You Up singer Rick Astley has revealed why he quit flying. The pop star, 59, recently drove 28 hours from Italy to Britain. ‘It was a monster journey, and it was bonkers,’ he admits. ‘It was just a lot of changes in my life where I thought, “I want to live a different life, and I just want to have more control”.’ He adds: ‘I’ve been on flights where they’ve shut an engine down. I’ve been struck by lightning in Japan, which was fine evidently but it didn’t feel fine at the time.’
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