Caught & Social: Just lie back and think of Freud

John Malkovich was guest of honour at the fundraising dinner for the Freud museum. The actor gave a talk to guests, who included Helena Bonham Carter, Jemima Khan, Giles Coren and members of the Freud family, on the impact Sigmund Freud on his life. After several glasses of Champagne, molecular gastronomy dinner from Bubble Food and intellectual discussion, the temptation to recline on Freud’s famous psychoanalyst’s couch was too great – and a number of the guests did just that.

Proof it’s better up on the roof…

To the WTA Pre-Wimbledon Party at London’s Kensington Roof Gardens (it’s only over the road from the i office). We navigated all the Range Rovers outside (sponsors of the do), then spotted Maria Sharapova and Laura Robson enjoying the warm-up to the world’s biggest tennis tournament. But where was Sir Richard Branson, owner of the venue and a regular at the party? He was in Miami, dressing up like a cop in Miami Vice and jumping into the pool at a five-star hotel with supermodel Karolina Kurkova. It’s not easy being a billionaire…

Shot – and dressed tequila

This is a picture we never thought we would see at C&S:  Stephen Fry drinking tequila shots with a drag queen. Well, we always hoped, but never thought it would be possible… The avuncular writer/comic was at the Wyld bar in London with Daniel Lismore. We’re told Fry was drinking out of Natasha Law shot glasses, which are designed to be stolen. Whether he obliged we don’t know.

Scene & heard

If the CDs, the biography and the YouTube videos weren’t enough to satisfy your Susan Boyle needs, then maybe the stage play will. From next year, I Dreamed A Dream will chart the singer’s “meteoric rise from obscurity to International stardom”and will tour internationally. A former star of Rab C Nesbitt will play SuBo. That’s Elaine C Smith, not Gregor Fisher.

International star Cee Lo Green meanwhile, is exhausted by fame. “To have to talk and talk and talk — it takes a toll on you,” he tells the Hollywood Reporter. “There’s no way you can avoid people unless you can afford to fly private all the time, and I can’t . . . It’s a toll of being talented.”Heavy indeed.

Perhaps not as heavy, however, Geraldine James, who in the comedy Little Britain played a mother who breastfed her adult son (David Walliams) whenever he said “bitty”. “I do get 12-year-olds on the tube coming up and saying, ‘Bitty’, which is a little disconcerting,” she told the BBC. “And also men of a certain age.”Own up, chaps.
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