RAYMOND BLANC is clearly enjoying his status as a celebrity chef. At last night's 10th anniversary party for Cond Nast Traveller at the Foreign Office's Durbar Court he had little hesitation in sweeping the magazine's editor Sarah Miller off her feet (above).
Blanc is fronting the BBC2'S new show The Restaurant, which puts nine couples through the trauma of opening their own establishment.
It's a U-turn from the man who last year was more equivocal about such shows. "We have eight million morons watching these programmes," Blanc said . Ulysse Nardin Fake "The brains of the British have gone soft.
Replica Chopard Watches"We have become voyeuristic; we love sensation, extreme situations and the degradation of people." Other guests last night included Ruby Wax (pictured top right with her husband Ed Bye) and Lord and Lady Rogers (below right) who are just back from a break in Tuscany.
Cond Nast managing director Nicholas Coleridge congratulated Miller on outlasting three foreign secretaries during her 10-year editorship.