The Evening Standard – December 2003

The Rehabilitation of Addicted prisoners trust and its very smart committee (including Sir Anthony Hopkins and Ben Elliot) elected to throw their fundraising dinner at Tamarind. Well, after all, there’s something titillating about eating curry in black tie.

Titillation was the order of the day as Alison Jackson donated a picture of the Queen watching horny horses. Zoe Appleyard’s fiancé Sven Ley used some of his Escada fortune to bid for the print for his loved one – he got it for a spicy £4,000. Sadly, Ringo Star’s drum skin merely went for the reserve price: just not hot enough.