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Castaway
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Founder of Storm Model Agency, best known for discovering a 14-year-old Kate Moss and turning her into a multi-million dollar brand.
On the island
Eight records
Mercy Mercy Me (The Ecology)Favourite
What's Going On was one of my favourite all-time albums and um Mercy, Mercy, Me I just loved because it's got such a message. It's a sort of real eco warrior's dream.
Oh, because it's the f I think it's the first music I ever listened to. My my grandparents um had an old wind up record player and um I think I was about three years old and they loved Caruso.
It's just all my, you know, early life in Yorkshire as a teenager and I had all these friends who were rushing around on scooters in their parkers with their mod haircuts like Stevie Marriott.
He's just at a time in my life when it was sort of first boyfriend, first love affair, first disappointment and, you know, it just epitomized, you know, the angst of teenage love.
(Sittin' On) The Dock of the Bay
I went to live in Berkeley in California with my first husband who'd started this independent record label and I lived in the in Berserkley Records in this sort of huge house ... and it overlooked the Bay of San Francisco. And so I used to listen to sitting on the dock of the bay.
Oh, I just, you know, I I only discovered him about uh eighteen months ago through my husband who well, I used to love pulp, but I never realized that Richard was impul and I was just knocked out by him.
Oh, it's, you know, that Almodivar film, my husband is mad about Almodovar film ... when I watched that film with him, I just that soundtrack was just, you know, I I loved it and so I listen to it all the time.
In conversation
Presenter asks
1:11What is the feeling as you're standing in the queue at Waitrose or wherever and you spot [a potential model]?
It's for me it's such an obvious thing that I just home in on a face. Beautiful cheekbones, aquiline nose, nice jawline. And the great thing actually about spotting people that aren't walking into your office and saying, Can I be a model? When you're out in the street, you can watch somebody move and you can actually see their sort of personality and then I really know.
Presenter asks
8:38What sort of expectations did [your parents] have for you?
Oh well I mean they had you know huge expectations. I knew I would go to private boarding school ... And my father just seriously believed in a really proper education and absolutely university afterwards. And then the only professions that were acceptable to them would be law, medicine, accountancy. I mean some, you know, a proper profession.
Presenter asks
9:44Why did you spend so much time with your grandmother?
It was geographically because she was in the New Forest and my prep school was in um Wickham in Hampshire. And my parents moved from London. He got a job in um South Yorkshire. I hated it up there, and every half-term and holiday was spent on the farm with her, which was a total joy.
The keepsakes
The book
Bruce Chatwin
I've read it, I don't know, two or three times. And I love Bruce Chatwin's work, all of his work. And Song Lines is just fascinating. I can keep reading it and I see, you know, learn different things from it.
The luxury
Presenter asks
18:07Why did you re-establish contact with [your father]?
Well he he did write letters, you know ... Well, I'd just had Noel, you know, my daughter and I was twenty five and Simon had just finished school, and we talked and we thought it would be a good idea to go and visit him. So I think without too much thought we jumped on a plane.
Presenter asks
30:55What was the saga element about [your relationship with Tim]?
Oh, well it was a saga of love because I'm terrible, you know, I hate change in my life. So I was very close to my first husband. It's just one of those things that wasn't right and it hadn't sort of worked for a long time. But I could never extract myself and I met Tim sort of several times and then we sort of started this quite intense love affair and I was still married so it was really difficult. And then. I got pregnant, which is not ideal when you're still married.
“I feel as if I go to work on the moon, and I definitely could not live that life on the weekend, and I couldn't get into the whole social razzmataz of it because it's so full-on in the day.”
“I think I became very self-reliant. I think it was quite an austere period of life. So it was pretty stiff upper lip. I don't remember crying too much, because I don't think it would have fallen on any sort of sensitive ears.”
“I'm very good at dealing with stress and the worse the situation, the calmer I get.”