Here’s a photo of one of our black card members, Michael, with his friend Stephen Dorff.
Stephen, of course, is a Hollywood A Lister, probably best known for his role as Deacon Frost, the evil vampire in the film Blade.
Stephen also, in my opinion, stole the show in his most recent role as porn star Dick Shadow in Born to be a Star.
Stephen was instantly recognised by the girls so there was a lot of swooning going on! He’s an absolute gentleman and had a fantastic time with us.
If you have checked out the celebrities site before you will know that Sven-Göran Eriksson has been a Stringfellows fan for quite a while now. This time I arranged to meet him at Angels and introduced him to our new chef’s food which he immediately claimed to be “the best cod he had had in London for a long time”.
Sven wanted his cod as fish and chips but our new chef talked him into trying one of our new speciality dishes two which Sven agreed and it more than pleased him.
As usual he came with his very good friend and business associate Jarl who – let me clear up a point here – last time I spoke about Jarl I said he was Swedish and that got him very hot under the collar as he told me very sternly “I am Norwegian not bloody Swedish”. When I said surely there isn’t much difference. He then asked how would I like to be called a Scotsman instead of an Englishman. Point taken Sorry Jarl.
Whenever Sven is in London it is always for business and he’d just been offered an extraordinary amount of money to manage an internationally renowned football team… but sorry guys I have to say that what is said in Stringfellows/Angles stays in Stringfellows/Angels so you’ll have to guess.
David Haye may no longer be the boxing champion of the world but let me tell you you’d never know. He is turning into one of my most regular celebrity guests and here he is looking lean and fit but definitely not mean. He tells me he is very happy with life and is enjoying himself.
I asked him how his film work was coming along and he laughed and said great. Then he told me that, yes, he may make a comeback in boxing but the only guy he would come back for is Wladimir Klitschko providing they put enough money on the table to tempt him. And when I asked how many millions would that be he just looked at me and smiled.
On a regualr basis I am contacted by various charities usually in the guise of magazines, newspapers, radios and charity dinners to ask if I would give auction prizes. Usually I say yes and offer a champagne dinner for four in either of my clubs. It’s suprising how much money these dinners go for. The point of this story is to introduce Clive and Donna Smith from Marbella who bought a champagne dinner for four at auction from Radio Europe.
They paid £1800 but they decided to take the prize on their own and turned up a couple of days ago on one of their weekends in London. On this occasion part of the prise was myself joining them for dinner and that’s what we did. I showed them both clubs, Stringfellows and Angels, had a fabulous dinner, pink champagne and glasses of gin and tonic. An absolutely delightful couple and I really enjoyed their company. They gave me all the gossip from the Marbella nightlife.
Looking forward to seeing you two back as soon as possible.
Bella and I were invited by Marco to visit his new restaurant which he opened along with his partner – believe it or not – Piers Morgan, the new CNN TV chat show star.
It’s in Earls Court Road, called ‘The Hansom Cab’ which was a very old victorian pub converted into a fabulous new restaurant and the food of course is fantastic.
Piers Morgan has great history with Stringfellows and I like to count him as one of my close friends, and that goes for Marco as well.
Marco worked the room like the pro that he is shaking all the hands of the guys and had all the women swooning. No wonder he’s known as ‘the lovable rogue’…
It is well known that we make the armed forces more than welcome any time they visit either Angels Soho or Stringfellows Covent Garden and we also give complimentary admission if they show their IDs or better still wear their uniforms.
So it was no surprise when at least 50 marines from the UK and USA turned up last Saturday after a big military show at the Royal Albert Hall which featured boxing between the UK and the USA.
The boys in this photograph are all marines. For security reasons we are not going to use their names but as you can tell by their medals we can call them four heroes and two angels.
Sadly we couldn’t show you any photos of the USA marines because they have a security blackout on all photos of their guys and of course the world being what it is, it’s more than understandable.
Everybody had a good time, lots of champagne was drunk and the guys had lots of dances from the girls. The girls names are Alaisha and Kayla. I am not sure if the girls gave the guys their hats back but but let’s hope they did.