Being Madonna's 'ami necessaire', fancying Colin Firth and liking Alastair Campbell: Rupert Everett on his desert island pictures By RUPERT EVERETT
Lip service, 1981: I’d gatecrashed this party. Andy Warhol was under a weird peroxide wig, and Bianca Jagger was sleek and glowing. Andy took Bianca’s lipstick and wrote on my forehead, ‘I love you’. A photographer took this shot. The following Monday I was in the Daily Mail beneath the headline ‘spotlight on Bianca’s new leading man’. My first brush with publicity left me with a sense of panic The farce be with me, 2009: Dreams do come true! Angela Lansbury, Julie Andrews and me backstage at the Shubert Theatre – I performed with Angela for six months in Noël Coward’s Blithe Spirit Ma, Pa and me, 1959: My mother met my father in Malta, where he was stationed after the war. It was a fairytale backdrop to a military Romeo And Juliet. My father was rigidly conventional, ambitious, suave and without any semblance of a ‘connection’ that might inspire Granny and Grandpa to part with their eldest child. However, my mother was headstrong and pretty ...