TALK OF THE TOWN: Harry’s old haunt set to reopen (but guess who’s not invited?)
The nightclub where Prince Harry and Prince William spent some of their wildest nights is opening a new venue at the gates of Kensington Palace. But while the owners’ motto is ‘everyone is welcome’, there is one exception…
‘Everyone is welcome – except Meghan,’ says Boujis’ co-owner, and old friend of Harry’s, Carlo Carello. ‘I don’t like her.’
But the doors, I’m told, are wide open for the Prince and Princess of Wales, as Carello says they went on ‘one of their first dates at Boujis’. ‘They drank Crack Babies and they loved it,’ he adds.
Crack Babies, for the uninitiated, are shots of vodka with passionfruit juice, chopped strawberries and Chambord liqueur.
‘It’s been a home away from home for the royals,’ adds co-owner Jake Parkinson-Smith. ‘It’s been a safe space for them.’
The original Boujis closed in 2016 after a brawl, but the club reopened as B London in 2023.
Boujis 3.0, entitled Gallery, and co-owned by Carello, Parkinson-Smith, Barth Rougier and Steve Manktelow, will open in the coming months in the building which once housed Mahiki, another Noughties club owned by Carello and Parkinson-Smith and loved by Kate and William, as well as Princesses Eugenie and her sister Beatrice.
It is a stone’s throw from Eugenie and Jack Brooksbank‘s current home in the palace’s Nottingham Cottage, where Harry and Meghan, pictured above last year, used to live.
Meghan, Duchess of Sussex and Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex seen at the Unidad Recreativa El Vallado on August 18 last year
Prince William and Catherine, Princess of Wales attend the EE BAFTA Film Awards 2023
Boujis 3.0, entitled Gallery, and co-owned by Carello, Parkinson-Smith, Barth Rougier and Steve Manktelow, will open in the coming months
The club will feature a Cuban-style bar and a pizzeria called Carlo’s Pizza, while Earl Spencer’s son Ned is tipped to be a DJ there.
The King’s assistants are in need of assistants! Buckingham Palace is hiring two executive assistants to support Charles’s assistant private secretaries, with the successful applicants for the ‘fast paced’ jobs getting paid £38,000 a year.
Labour may drive F1 heiress away
Labour’s policies have been blamed for 10,000 millionaires and a dozen billionaires leaving the UK last year – now F1 heiress Tamara Ecclestone might join them.
Rachel Reeves’s tax grabs are ‘definitely making me think about moving’, Tamara, right, told me at the Autosport Awards. Meanwhile, her sister Petra is thinking of quitting the US because gun crime makes her feel unsafe.
Tamara Ecclestone on the red carpet during the Autosport Awards 2025 at the Roundhouse on January 29
Sophie’s girlies just wanna have fun…
It’s been 12 months since Game Of Thrones star Sophie Turner hailed ‘the year of the girlies’ after her gal pals helped her through the collapse of her marriage to US singer Joe Jonas.
And it seems the spirit of the sisterhood is still strong as she’s holidaying with her clique in the Maldives indulging in the likes of perfume-making and topless snorkelling. But will she still get her girly getaways if, as expected, her aristocratic beau Peregrine Pearson pops the question?
Game of Thrones’ Sophie Turner is pictured at a photocall in London in September last year
Sophie is holidaying with her clique in the Maldives indulging in the likes of perfume-making and topless snorkelling
Holly’s life is a piece of cake
Is Gordon Ramsay’s daughter Holly becoming a ‘tradwife’? The 25-year-old content creator, recently engaged to Olympic swimmer Adam Peaty, has shared a video of herself baking a lemon drizzle cake in the style of Nara Smith, the US influencer who projects a traditional housewife image.
The video ends with Holly, right, revealing the cake and Peaty indulging in a forkful. What a life!
Gordon Ramsay’s daughter Holly has shared a video of herself baking a lemon drizzle cake in the style of Nara Smith, the US influencer who projects a traditional housewife image
Ever wondered how Anais Gallagher, daughter of Oasis frontman Noel, met her actor boyfriend Callum Scott Howells?
The couple reveal that Anais caught Callum’s attention by ‘sliding into his DMs’ – that’s sending him a direct message on Instagram, in case you didn’t know – after watching him perform in the West End.
‘He asked me immediately to be his girlfriend,’ Anais, 25, tells me at the gala night of the Merchant Of Venice. ‘Straight away, at the stage door!’ Callum, 25, grins. These Gen Z types don’t mess around!
Anais Gallagher and Callum Scott Howells attend the press night performance of ‘The Merchant of Venice 1936’ at The Trafalgar Theatre on January 9
After Princess Beatrice and her property developer husband Edoardo Mapelli Mozzi welcomed baby Athena last week, it fell to the new father to wet the baby’s head. My spies saw a sharply dressed Edo toasting the arrival of his second daughter with a friend at the trendy five-star Ham Yard Hotel in Soho.
Looks like business is booming for Madonna’s artist son Rocco. The 24-year-old has filed accounts for his firm Maison Rhed for the first time, showing reserves of £79,183 and assets of £157,046. His mother last year attended his exhibitions in Miami and Paris.
