Café Rouge

It also paid taxes.

now private equity is a huge rabbit hole in and of itself and i'm going to make a future video about private equity really focusing on how huge private equity funds bought up so much of britain but i'm going to use morrison's as an example for this video now if you walk down any british high street you're going to pass by private equity owned businesses So for example, Pizza Express, Burger King, Cafe Rouge, The Body Shop, Wagamama's, Zee Zee's, New Look, Bella Italia, WH Smith's, Boots, Waterstones.

Ring a bell? So all of these shops that we walk by on the high street, they're actually private equity owned.

But what does that actually mean? Well, at a high level, what happens in private equity leveraged buyouts is that a private equity institution or firm will buy a business and then they'll take the debt that they created for the buying of that business and largely place it within the business itself.

Yeah, so he was quite persuasive and then four or five days later, she agreed that she'd go to his house in Hampstead.

Now, Russell Brand told her to go to a Café Rouge to give a false name.

And his driver would then go and pick her up.

And that's what happened.

I thought, am I the insane one here?

She said a member of Russell Brand's staff then came in and told her that she needed to go because he was due on stage that night again at the Hammersmith Apollo.

So she said she got her stuff together and a driver, the same driver that picked her up from Café Rouge, took her to the tube.

She said the journey was silent.

He lived in a multimillion-pound house in Hampstead.

So he told her, "Go to this restaurant nearby," it was a Café Rouge, "Give a fake name, and my driver will come and pick you up."

Mm.

And she said that's exactly what happened.

Nothing English about it at all, as far as I can see.

And this is like their equivalent of a Café Rouge.

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I suppose so.

It's-

Oh, it beat Café Rouge.

What an institution that was.

They had a couple of restaurants on there.

I think it's a Café Rouge now, but at the time, it was a strada.

And it was kind of like a football-pitched, high-roofed strada.

And I think you've seen the script.