“I think it’s very sad that Gemma gave up on modeling. She’s a very beautiful woman and I think she could make a name for herself in the plus-size niche. You know, give Crystal Renn a run for her money. I would love to see curvier girls in fashion and Gemma Ward represents curvy women like no other.”

… and I stand by, 100%, what I said. Gemma is absolutely beautiful and I think (this is just my opinion; agree to disagree everyone) that she’s a perfect fit for plus-size (or any for that matter — I just want her to be THERE) modeling as opposed to the world of high fashion which we all know, let’s not be hypocrites here, require girls to fit a very rigorous and very specific standard.

I just it find puzzling how the media thought of it as an attack.

There were any number of reasons that Bailey, the creative director of Burberry, might not wish a reporter to see his flat that day. It might be messy. Or, maybe, Bailey knew how it would look — how he would look — to have the hub of his private life presented as a kind of totem for his success at Burberry, which had just reported record profits of $167 million on sales of $1.2 billion.

He remains happiest in Yorkshire, among “the cows and trees” of his childhood or playing with his dog, George, a brown labrador. In 2005, his “situation changed from black to white” when his partner, Geert Cloet, brand director of Miu Miu, died of a brain tumour. “That experience puts everything in perspective. It makes you love life every day. It completely changed the way I approach everything. Life’s too short to be doing things that make you unhappy.