The Dorchester

-which was eye-opening in extraordinary ways, and I'm going to read some of it.

I was literary editor of The Standard, and he came to one of our literary lunches at The Dorchester to, to promote a book only days before his trial for perjury.

I introduced him to the audience by saying he did not need to say anything, but anything he did say might be taken down and used in evidence.

He was absolutely furious.

But some people you meet are really disappointing.

I remember going to The Dorchester Hotel to meet, um, Robert De Niro.

Yeah.

And I got very excited about it.

Have you been to the

Dorchester in London?

I've been in the reception area, but I've not stayed in it.

The best breakfast in London.

She honestly says it's one of the favorite hotels in the world.

so Ishka which is one of our favourite

obviously Ishka skincare you can actually get Ishka treatments in there in the Dorchester in London fabulous hotel

yeah so tell me does Adam Stewart switch off when he goes on holiday how good are you

I'd go out for dinner to every nice place.

Uh, I would, in between castings when I was modeling, I'd be like, "I'm gonna go and have a coffee or a c- a cup of tea in The Ritz or, or The Dorchester, uh, or, or, you know, whatever." I would go, literally go anywhere.

In The Ritz, you have to wear certain clothes, right? You're not allowed to just go in anywhere.

Right.

You actually have to have a reservation.

But The Savoy, I could walk in.

The Dorchester, I could walk in.

InterContinental, Four Seasons, you name it, I went to every single one.

went straight for him.

A whole evening is arranged, a dinner party at the Dorchester Hotel.

B for book pays for a skin-tight gold lame shoulderless dress.

She looks phenomenal in it.

And then when he died, she met up with Averill again, and they were married within a very short time.

And that really was happy for both of them, I think.

Decades after their wartime affair at the Dorchester Hotel, she reconnected with her first wartime lover, Averill Harriman, who was then nearly 80 and widowed.

She was in her 50s.

So I think the period piece idea is out, but...

I hope that this is a film where we're going to see James Bond in the modern Dorchester Hotel.

We're going to see James Bond in the same sort of luxury locations, maybe getting a martini at Duke's.

I know I'm going to hear it from Peter Brooker for saying that.

They really wanna be in an environment, in a wellness, uh, space, in a vacation space, in a holiday space that fe- that is just as luxurious, and that's where they're throwing their money.

And so we've been very fortunate to have had collaborations with Passalacqua in Lake Como, with The Dorchester in London, and then we just did this, our most recent partnership with, uh, Belmond in, um, Villa San Michele-

Mm-hmm

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