CHECK IN July 2007
2 MINS WITH… SARAH HARDING
Q You’ve just finished the Greatest Hits tour. What can we expect from Girls Aloud during the rest of 2007?
Lots more tunes, fun and frolics! We’re working on a new album. We are all still very ambitious. We’re feisty females and we still have a lot to achieve.
Q Who is the celebrity you admire most?
Madonna. She’s iconic, confident, outspoken and a strong female.
Q Where’s the strangest place Girls Aloud have ever played a show?
The Oval cricket ground. It was full of men and the atmosphere was very rowdy, with the audience fuelled by lots and lots of beer. There weren’t any women there at all.
Q The papers portray you as someone who likes to party. Does that bother you?
Yes it does bother me, only because I actually don’t drink and go out as much as other people my age do. It just looks that way in the paper.
Q Do you hate paparazzi photographing you on the beach?
I love the beach. With regards to the paparazzi, most of the time you don’t even know that they’re there. If they use nice pictures then that’s fine, but I don’t like seeing my cellulite!
Q Did you have any worries about modeling underwear for Ultimo, the lingerie brand?
I think every woman would feel nervous about modeling lingerie, but still I jumped at the chance..
Who wouldn’t want to follow in the footsteps of supermodels like Rachel Hunter and Helena Christensen? I was honored when Ultimo asked me to model.
Q Two of Rod Stewart’s girlfriends have been the face of Ultimo – how would you feel if you got a phone call from him?
I’d laugh! Not that it is ever likely to happen.
Q What’s the best piece of advice you’ve ever been given?
I don’t need no good advice! Ha ha!
Sarah Harding is the face of Ultimo lingerie and swimwear, available in Debenhams stores nationwide. www.ultimo.co.uk
view: Sophy Grimshaw
PICTURE THIS…
Fishing boats in the village of Puerto de las Nieves, Gran Canaria, retire for the evening. Fly there from Leeds Bradford with Jet2.com, from November!
GET PACKING
Inspect the gadgets
Nifty toys for motormouths, aspiring David Baileys, and obsessive-compulsives
BLUEYE
If you’re travelling to get away from it all, the BluEye headphone system could be a curse rather than a blessing. It’s a Bluetooth remote-control system that links your iPod with your mobile so you never miss a call. When the phone rings it automatically pauses your music, displays the caller’s number on your screen and leaves you free to answer. Only if you want to, of course. £49.99 www.gear4store.com
CANON IXUS 900TI CAMERA
New face-recognition technology from Canon means this camera gives you the best possible chance of your friends’ faces being in focus in your holiday snaps. Insert your own alcohol consumption-related joke here. £349.00 +44 (0)1737 220000, www.canon.co.uk
VIOCLEAN UV STERILISER
Neat freaks will rejoice at this portable steriliser. Pop your toothbrush inside and the eerie blue UV light shows you it’s doing its job and killing those germs. But if someone’s taken you away for a dirty weekend, seeing you unpack this kind of tech could be a bit of a passion killer. One for the obsessive-compulsives, maybe? £13.99 (plus £2.95 p&p) +44 (0)845 800 1111, www.vioclean.co.uk
WEBCRAWL
www.the-b-list.com
Over 100 celebrities around the world have helped to compile Blackberry’s B-List, a VIP-authored address book of the planet’s coolest hang-outs. Blackberry users can download the directory to check out Jade Jagger’s favourite Ibiza haunts and Dita Von Teese’s tips for lingerie shopping.
www.Jet2holidays.com
If you haven’t yet discovered the new one-stop online shop for flights, hotels, travel insurance and hire cars, get clicking that mouse. Jet2holidays.com launched earlier this year and saves you a bundle.
www.360travelguide.com
Fantasising about your future holidays while stuck behind a desk? See 360° images of that beach, hotel or bar you’re still deciding whether to visit.
BORN LIPPY
The column where JetAway’s Sophy Grimshaw gets to mouth off. This issue: are holiday tattoos ever a good idea?
The beach: as photos of Pamela Anderson and Tommy Lee on holiday this summer remind us, it’s the place where you see everyone’s tattoos in their full glory. But it’s not necessarily a great place to get one. The spontaneous holiday tattoo is like the fifth cocktail: indulging in one on a balmy night in the Balearics seems just what the carefree ‘new you’ would do. But come the morning, it’s the old you who looks worse for wear in the bathroom mirror.
Like the gossip that I am, I’ll cite the example of a friend. To symbolise her travellin’ ways, while on holiday in Spain this jetsetter asked for a tattoo of footprints on her back – but the distracted body artist gave the design two left feet. She is a pretty bad dancer, but that’s not the tat she had in mind. And a friend’s brother who got a tattoo while drunk in Texas (yes, wise!) now feels rather sheepish about the profanity emblazoned on his back.
When Pammy herself regretted a tattoo after a break-up, ‘Tommy’ became ‘Mommy’; but with most words, or that charming tat of a dolphin leaping in front of a setting sun, changing your mind won’t be so easy. Pam still has the armband from her failed movie Barb Wire to prove it.
That’s the thing about holiday tattoos: if the mood takes you, do what you feel – but don’t forget that you’ll be taking that tat on holiday every year.
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