I'm going to keep one and give the other one away. She's stunning in the flesh, even without her hair and makeup done, with cheekbones that could cut glass and flawless, dewy skin. I eye the phones with concern, worried that something I say could make her angry.
But throughout our conversation, each time I expect a sharp retort, I get a laugh. Campbell's laughs come from her diaphragm, deep and strong and, when she chortles, the rest of the room two publicists, a makeup artist and a hairstylist sifting through a giant Ziploc bag filled with wigs joins in. I don't take myself that seriously. Trust me, I don't.
I can't. In spite of everything I've read about her, all the scandalous tabloid tales of temper tantrums and violent outbursts, I so want to believe that this centred woman is the real Naomi Campbell. Because if Naomi Campbell can find her inner zen, isn't there hope for the rest of us?
We all know Campbell's story, and the two phones perched on the table serve only as a reminder. Who could forget that decade where the supermodel was accused no less than 10 times of various acts of violence against assistants, employees, police officers - anyone within arm's reach?
In she pleaded guilty to assaulting her personal assistant with a mobile phone and in to assaulting her former housekeeper with a BlackBerry. The following year she assaulted a pair of police officers at Heathrow, spitting at them during a dispute over lost luggage. Campbell was subsequently banned for five years by British Airways. She recently reached an undisclosed settlement over a claim from the paparazzo Gaetano Di Giovanni, who had alleged that in she hit him with her handbag and left his face scratched and bruised after he took a photo of Campbell with her then-boyfriend, Russian billionaire Vladimir Doronin.
Campbell has consistently denied the allegation. She and Doronin split last year after five years together and he was spotted soon after squiring Campbell's protege from her reality TV model competition show The Face , the Chinese model Luo Zilin. Granted, she's got authority, rejecting three wigs before finally settling on a tousled one with a centre parting, but she's polite and almost excessive with her pleases and thank yous.
I start carefully, observing that she seems happy. She pauses. I'm happy now. What has made me so happy is just accepting life on life's terms, trying not to control everything, going with the flow, doing what I want to do. That's what's important. Campbell has been hitting the town in London and New York: visiting Chiltern Firehouse for photographer Mario Testino's OTT Gatsby-themed 60th dressed as a flamenco dancer in a daring silver gown with a neckline down to her belly button and flowers in her hair; dining out with Rihanna; she was delightfully silly in a recent charity skit for a celebrity Gogglebox with her long-time pal Kate Moss and rock star Noel Gallagher, eating chips but not looking like she watches much primetime television.
The people who know me know what I'm about. You can't please everyone. You can't judge a book by its cover. You know my story. I don't live in denial about it and that's it. Bake Off certainly needed something to help its dough rise again.
But the last series was a disappointment , to many fans and viewers. The contestants were all too young, and it was sorely lacking in a couple of seen-it-all-before grannies who could show the Instagram bakers how to do it.
Bake Off was supposed to be nice, and watching people cry over split custard was never what it was there for. But, as unlikely a pairing as it first sounded, they made it work.
And it will work again, particularly if they step back from being quite so hard on the participants. After all, the show is bigger than its parts, bigger, even, than the new trousers Lucas is having made. Any announcement that a much-loved videogame will be turned into a TV show or a film is usually about as promising as finding out that a successful British sitcom is being remade for a US audience. Yes, The Office , but for every show that worked, there are a thousand Skins and Inbetweeners , ideas that ended up so neutered you were desperate for any character to be allowed to say a single, even minor, rude word.
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