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The beautiful, crop-headed model du jour, Agyness Deyn, recently announced that she had moved to Hull, my home town, to live with her boyfriend, Josh Hubbard, the guitarist in the Paddingtons. It’s a brave relocation that must be some sort of first. Hull is the kind of place that you are from and not the kind of place you choose to live. Certainly, you’ll never overhear a yuppie in a Soho sushi bar saying, “Didn’t you hear? She got headhunted by a firm in Hull . . .� Ergo, this Paddingtons fella must be a veritable northern love god. Another first for the gateway to Humberside.
He's not the only one, either. Here's the Russian model-turned-actress Milla Jovovich waxing lyrical over the joys of Greggs cheese-and-onion pasties as an essential element of her regular jaunts to the northeast to visit her film-director boyfriend, Paul Anderson. “I have often said I would like to be the face of Greggs,� says Jovovich, currently the face of L’Oréal.
The people of Headingley, in Leeds, meanwhile, have grown used to the sight of a pram-pushing Liv Tyler on their streets since she married the Yorkshire-born Royston Langdon, formerly of the rock band Spacehog, now upping the northern ante by calling his new band Arckid (“Our Kid�, geddit?). Tyler and her son Milo enjoy jaunts to Headingley’s British Legion and Bettys Café Tea Rooms in Ilkley. “Everyone’s so sweet and polite,� she says of the Yorkshire folk. But it is Liv’s description of her husband that really made me smile. She once said that her Roy was, wait for it, “beautiful and from Leeds�.
He's not the only one, either. Here's the Russian model-turned-actress Milla Jovovich waxing lyrical over the joys of Greggs cheese-and-onion pasties as an essential element of her regular jaunts to the northeast to visit her film-director boyfriend, Paul Anderson. “I have often said I would like to be the face of Greggs,� says Jovovich, currently the face of L’Oréal.
The people of Headingley, in Leeds, meanwhile, have grown used to the sight of a pram-pushing Liv Tyler on their streets since she married the Yorkshire-born Royston Langdon, formerly of the rock band Spacehog, now upping the northern ante by calling his new band Arckid (“Our Kid�, geddit?). Tyler and her son Milo enjoy jaunts to Headingley’s British Legion and Bettys Café Tea Rooms in Ilkley. “Everyone’s so sweet and polite,� she says of the Yorkshire folk. But it is Liv’s description of her husband that really made me smile. She once said that her Roy was, wait for it, “beautiful and from Leeds�.
Milla Jovovich, the face of Greggs? If that doesn't make sales skyrocket, I'm not sure what will. Although, they do make a great pastie.
So ladies, the future doesn't just appear to be bright, it's Northern.
NOTE: yes I know James Martin is apparently a proper Charlie *in echt*, but it matters not.
And yes the spelling is deliberate.
