Emerald Fennell’s 18th birthday party: Where are they now?
Fresh off her Oscar win for Promising Young Woman, a film you must be either a sexist or a woman to not like, troll whisperer and bon vivant Emerald Fennell is already back on the press circuit for her upcoming musical adaptation of Cinderella with former Tory peer Andrew Lloyd-Webber.1 Along with being a vital player in the culture war being levvied by the Tory government against, erm, West End theatre makers, this updated take on the fairy tale is
Anyway, appropos of nothing, why don’t we look back on Fennell’s 18th birthday party, which was subject of a tasteful pubescent photo spread in Toff-bothering gossip rag The Tatler? A night where “more than 150 friends, many fellow Marlburians” gathered to cheerfully dance “till dawn around a tier of pink vodka shots singing Hotel California at the top of their voices, much to the dismay of the liveried butler in the building opposite.” We know how Emerald’s star has risen in the years since, but what happened to these other hot young caucasians in the interim?“A cautionary tale about overnight celebrity, not just royalty. Imagine, suggests Fennell, that your best friend suddenly becomes the most famous pop star in the world. ‘How does that change the dynamic of the relationship? How does it change the way you feel about yourself?’”
Graham Cooke is the founder Qubit, who “power the worlds largest ecommerce businesses with highly persuasive personalization,” and is a Non-Executive Director at ITV. He previously worked at Google, and “opened a coffee shop at school after buying an espresso machine” at age 13. According to a semi-reliable source, his assets are worth around £9.4m.
Poppy Delevingne, sister of Cara, is a socialite, actress and model. She “grew up in a Belgravia mansion.” Her paternal grandmother was the Hon. Angela Margo Hamar Greenwood and her paternal great-grandparents were Hamar Greenwood, 1st Viscount Greenwood and Margery Greenwood, Viscountess Greenwood. Her net worth is something like $28 million.
Alice Rugge-Price, whose wealth did not come from discount carpets, now goes by her married name of Keswick and now runs an interior design studio based in Hong Kong, “working on both commercial and residential projects.” There’s a weird Tatler article about how her infant child could marry Prince George someday. Her father was worth £1.7 billion as of 2011.
James von Simson, rightful heir to Latveria, is an Investment Director at Mayfair-based financial planning firm Tilney. He went to boarding school, worked in politics in Westminster and Investment Banking in London and Frankfurt, and is now an ambassador for the Diversity Project. He’s probably fucking loaded, let’s be honest.
Mickey Sumner played supporting roles in The Mend, Frances Ha, and every Noah Baumbach project since. They let her play Patti Smith once as well. She was, and likely always will be, the daughter of Sting and Trudy Steiner. Her net worth is estimated at $1.5 million.
And here’s a link to the BFI’s diversity reports. Happy reading! Viva cinema!
“A friend of her parents.”↩︎