Saw the New Year in with a few intimate celebrity friends: the Dalai Lama, Cheryl Cole, Ed Balls, Meryl Streep’s gardener, Stephen Hawking and Torvill and Dean. Also, five coachloads of celebrity chefs, so there was a lot of knife fights. At midnight, Beyoncé popped in and sang two Irish folk songs
Re the massacre: the rich Russian says they were all Chechen terrorists, and he owns the island, so…
He is a very, very nice, sophisticated and laid back man and a good friend of Rebekah Brooks.