Katie Price at Celebrity and Royal polo match

 Her musical efforts might have bombed this weekend, but Katie Price was all-smiles at the Mahiki Rum Celebrity and Royal polo match.

The reality TV star was among a host of celebs, including Professor Green, Ruby Wax, Ronnie Wood and Mollie King from The Saturdays, to turn up the high-profile event, held at Hurtwood Park in Surrey.

Prince Harry also made an appearance and played with his team raising money for his charity Sentebale. while everyone else sipped on fancy cocktails.

Check out the pictures below of the stars at the fun-filled event!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Prince Harry got stuck in!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Musician Professor Green holds a unique pineapple rum cocktail while he watches the polo.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Mollie King smiles sweetly for the camera!

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Lovebox Festival @ Victoria Park – 16/07/2010

Guest Blogger: Tina Hart

The blisters on the soles of my feet were worth it. My first ever trip to Lovebox on its first ever Friday was brilliant. A delightful mixed bag of musical goodness in the sunshine.

It had been described as the poppiest day of the weekend but there was a lot of specialist Dance and Grime, Latin and Indie rock beats resonating through Victoria Park in London’s East End too, an eclectic combination which definitely made the day all the more enjoyable.Â

Warming up the Gaymers Stage was one of two mega-exciting discoveries I made of the day, promising new talent: guitarist, rapper, singer, songwriter Maverick Sabre. He caught my ear with his gorgeous soulful, warm Finlay-Quaye-ish voice and smart hip hop lyricism with an acoustic set that switched from mellow to funky to show off his repertoire.

Moving over to the main stage, I was bombarded by the mad natterings of The Midnight Beast. Within minutes these guys had me giggling away at their silly but cleverly assembled lyrics and dance routines, pom poms and all.

On the ‘cooler’ end of the spectrum of acts to grace the main stage included a couple of Dizzee-Rascal-endorsed, Dirtee Stank-signed acts. Teenage MC Smurfie Syco bringing his swagger and chart-friendly rap tunes to the stage in a Tinchy Stryder kind of way, followed by grittier MC duo, Newham Generals comprising of grime veterans Footsie and D Double E whose Street Fighter Riddim features a very familiar sample.

I’m secretly quite glad that the queue outside the NYC Downlow area for MJ Cole made me detour and find mega-exciting discovery of the day number two, Tinashé. Playing his first festival, reminding me a little of Bloc Party with his tone of voice and heavily guitar infused tracks, this Indie Pop gent was impressive and I’m sure we’ll be seeing him making a chart assault soon…

Keeping the specialist dance vibe bubbling throughout the day were many a DJ in the open-air Rizla Arena with sounds of House and Garage, including appearances from Sticky and Todd ‘the God’ Edwards which pleased me muchly. The undercover and freakishly dark Relentless and NYC Downlow tents boasted sets from Mistajam, Crookers and several other high-profile turntable masters. I happened across Sinden dropping a bit of Swedish House Mafia in the Relentless area and it went crazy!

The wee Gaymers Bandstand saw more Grimey acts including MCs Griminal and Ghetto who had their fans hyped and raving along to their beats and rhymes, and the pretty but punchy Mz Bratt who showcased her tough lyrical dexterity of which I particularly enjoyed on Who Do You Think You Are? A very attractive and dapper looking Aggro Santos wrapped up proceedings here.

Drawing a massive crowd to the Gaymers Stage were Indie rockers Bombay Bicycle Club and at the other end of the park, kitted out in gold and white on the main stage, belting out the anthem that is Don’t Upset the Rhythm was The Noisettes.

Taking the energy up to ‘cor blimey’ level were Dubstep kings Chase and Status who had the crowd tirelessly flinging themselves around for a whole hour at the drop of tunes consisting of the filthiest basslines.Â

Darkness descended and we were treated to one of East London’s most successful exports, Friday’s headlining act, Dizzee Rascal. He dedicated Chillin’ with the Man Dem to his mates and then went into Heavy with its distinct Chase and Status bassy banger sound. At this point my size fives couldn’t physically handle any more so I strolled home with my tequila-endorsed straw hat and plonked into bed after one of the best days out I’ve had this Summer. For me, the ninth annual Lovebox Festival is in the diary as a must-attend event for next year.

Nanny McPhee and the Big Bang DVD – MSN exclusive Susanna White interview

by Andy Gibbons

Acclaimed family film Nanny McPhee and the Big Bang arrives on DVD and Blu-ray today so we grabbed a chat with director Susanna White to talk about sequels, animals and the appeal of a bygone age…

You weren’t part of the first Nanny McPhee film so how did you get involved in the sequel?

Well I was working on (Iraq war mini-series) Generation Kill in Africa when I was sent a brown envelope from my agent and I was completely transported by the script. I thought it took you back to an England I remember from my childhood; there was a freedom about it that I loved and also I really loved the character of Mrs, Green, this working mother who’s struggling to hold it all together. So I went and met first of all with the producer Lindsay Doran and with Working Title and then I went round to Emma’s house and met her and rest is history.

It’s quite a large leap between Nanny McPhee and Generation Kill. Was it a tough transition for you?

Yes, (laughs) they are very different worlds. Actually it was much harder making Nanny McPhee than making Generation Kill because there was a real structure to working with the Marines and filming the big explosions and working in the desert – it was more of a military operation whereas there were more unpredictable elements on Nanny McPhee, working with children, working with animals.

They say never work with children or animals but on Nanny McPhee you worked with both. Which were more troublesome?

The children were really lovely, really wonderful and really picked things up very quickly; they became very good actors very fast by watching the people around them. They were working with some great actors like Maggie Smith, Ralph Fiennes and Emma Thompson. But the difficulty really was the hours they were allowed to work. We had to work very short days and then they had to have breaks every so often so you’d just be getting into a scene but then everything would have to stop while the children went off and had lessons for a bit so that was challenging. The animals though were just incredibly unpredictable; the script would say ‘A pig runs from A to B’ and then the pig would run from A to Z and you just had to accommodate that. I think I was very lucky to have a background in documentaries as I was able to go with the flow of it.

With the kids playing such a prominent role, how hard were they to cast?

It was my biggest worry going into it because I knew with Emma’s script we could attract really good adult actors but I’d seen a lot of films with bad acting from children and I really, really didn’t want to make one. So thousands of children came through our doors and I must have seen hundreds myself. But we had a mixture like Asa Butterfield, who I’d loved in The Boy In The Striped Pyjamas and I thought had a great screen presence and knew he could act, to someone like Rosie (,who plays Celia) who had never been in a film before but just walked into an open audition; I put the camera on her and thought ‘My goodness, this girl’s got something special’. They had a wide level of experience but all got there in different ways?

The film got a great reception. What do you think it is about Nanny McPhee that appeals?

I think there are very few films that you can all go to and everyone in the family gets something out of it. I remember as a child going to see things like Fantasia or The Railway Children where the film would work on different levels and adults would get a lot of pleasure out of it as well as children and I think those film are very rare now; I think the great thing about Nanny McPhee is that it’s a film that Granny’s going to want to see, men are going to want to see it for the gorgeous Maggie Gyllenhaal , women want to go see it because of the character of Mrs. Green or Rhys Ifans or Ralph Fiennes and hopefully your kids are giggling away at flying pigs and the delight of that world. And I think also there’s a mythical quality to Nanny McPhee that appeals to people – the idea that she starts out ugly but then as the children learn to behave she becomes beautiful and I think people respond to that.

You’re a mother – did that shape your approach to the film at all and especially to Nannies?

Yeah, it did. Generation Kill isn’t something that my kids could watch and I wanted to make a something for them that they’d get a lot out of and they came to the set a lot and were very involved. And I’m sure my own experience of having Nannies would our children feed into it. One of my favourite scenes is at the end when Nanny McPhee is leaving and Maggie Gyllenhaal says ‘Please don’t go, I need you desperately’. There have been scenes like that when I’ve had a Nanny leave and I’ve been due on set somewhere.

How hands on are you when it comes to decided what extras go on the DVD?

Well I kept an eye on the deleted scenes and what we showed there and I did the commentary myself so I was quite involved in packaging all of that.

Finally,any chance of a third film?

There’s talk of it if this film carries on doing as well as it has done; it opens in America in August so we’ll see how that goes down but Emma has certainly started dreaming up scenarios for Nanny McPhee 3 so we’ll see.

Nanny McPhee and the Big Bang is released on DVD and Blu-ray on 19 July from Universal Pictures