I dunno, Dave. Each time a bloke crawls up on all fours to hand me another bucket of rubies, I just throw them on the pile.

I saw a judge ask Mia Farrow had she seen the film Blood Diamond and was it possible she was remembering a conversation from that film and not an actual one she’d had with Naomi Campbell.

It was the most surreal thing I’d seen since Inception.

“And while I have not personally dated a supermodel for any length of time”

Stroppy is going to pissed off at that

Still, the saga does illustrate an important lesson for warlords and presidents everywhere – you can kill as many people as you like, providing you don’t associate with celebrities. Once you do, the world’s media will become interested.

“I dunno, Dave. Each time a bloke crawls up on all fours to hand me another bucket of rubies, I just throw them on the pile.”

I’ve spent quite a bit on those rubies Kate

@Carl – I smelt a rat in yr bucket, son. Yr rubies were all exactly the same size and they still had the price tags on them.

Naomi can be easily confused it seems – one minute she was campaigning on behalf of PETA, snarling “I’d rather go naked than wear fur” – next she is draped in Russian sable to promote Dennis Basso’s exciting autumn/winter collection;
http://www.vogue.co.uk/news/daily/090706-naomi-campbell-fronts-fur-campaign.aspx

Mind you I think very few super-models enjoy such lofty status because of their record on political issues or their ability to identify with those who seldom join the glitterati at exclusive fashion events in New York, Milan or Paris?

While it’s all very easy to have chuckle and a dig at Ms Campbell’s naivity, with this case I’m left wondering why the hell did Mandela invite the criminal Taylor in the first place?

leave it out Kate, the guy who sold them to me, Terry his name was, he sells DVDs at the weekend, he’s under stress for gods sake

@5 @8

Get a room!

I just heard a bit more on Radio 4 PM. Apparently the charming Ms Campbell was disappointed when the stones weren’t all shiny and nice. It certainly rang true compared to her testimony last week.

I guess Taylor was too busy butchering his opponents to fully understand the finer points of wooing a super-model, and anti-fur campaigner like our Naomi?

Unpolished diamonds, even Terry, the antreprenurial ruby and DVD salesman could do better than that?

@9

I’d be delighted to get a room with young Mr Raincoat, except that I suspect any date we have will be fish and chips on the bus and a quick shag on the stairs. You should have seen his rubies, man. They floated in the bath.

Fish & chips?!

Very want. Where do I sign up?

I want fish N chips

p.s. sorry Dave

@7 Quite

Nor was Mr Mandela alone, you may recall Sarah Brown raising a few eyebrows when she nominated Naomi Campbell first as “global ambassador” for the White Ribbon Alliance and then as a “heroine of the 21st century”.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2009/dec/06/sarah-brown-naomi-campbell-harpers

It is just depressing that charities seem to be so utterly beholden to the power of celebrities that they are compelled to overlook the fact that their “spokesmen” are often ignorant of and indifferent about the causes they purport to espouse.

Naomi Campbell claimed it was a “massive inconvenience” for her to be giving evidence at a war crimes trial when, presumably, she could have been doing something far more important with her time such as…modelling.

She has a fairly decent history of sucking up to tyrants:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/59225.stm

@15 exactly, would really recommend marina hyde’s book to see how much damage celebs are capable of wreaking in the name of charidee. angelina jolie in namibia anyone?

So what gave you the impression that Naomi is lying and that same instinct says to you Mia is saying the truth…You have got no moral right to judge a situation you were not privileged to be a part off. Remember Mia lied about her divorce with Moody before now…

My friend Naomi has committed no war crime…the West just want to nail Charles Taylor to the diamond so as to convict him..for goodness sake Naomi never benefited from the Diamond and she has recanted what she could remember and stop your nonsense

[18] it’s perfectly understandable that you are protective toward a friend – but don’t be too hard on LC commentators, it seems very few regard Naomi’s version of events as likely to be truthful (a mere 3% according to YouGov)
http://today.yougov.co.uk/sites/today.yougov.co.uk/files/YG-Archives-Pol-Sun-NaomiCampbell-110810.pdf

For some reason the public suspect that she has not been entirely honest? – in fact 79% of those questioned think Naomi Campbell should be recalled to court “to re-examine her testimony”.

Personally I don’t care if Naomi is lying or not, and I certainly don’t think she should be recalled to give further evidence.
The world’s contempt should be reserved for Taylor, and Taylor alone – a man who is undoubtedly guilty of unspeakable acts of cruelty to his fellow countrymen and political opponents.