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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Lifestyle
Marina Hyde

Tamara Ecclestone: social commentator

Poor little rich girl … Tamara Ecclestone
Poor little rich girl … Tamara Ecclestone Photograph: Tyler Shields, Beyond The Gates exhibition Imitate Modern, London

An appreciative click of the knitting needles for French Revolution metaphor Tamara Ecclestone, who has once again got herself involved in some art.

I say "art" – what I mean is the above poorly framed stab at controversy by some bargain basement David LaChappelle. The good news is that Bernie Ecclestone's bilionheiress daughter has agreed to collaborate again with the photographer who last year snapped her lying naked on the million quid she keeps lying around her £56m house.

Lost in Showbiz won't trouble you with the shutterbug's name – he seems to court press mentions – but you should know the rest of the set includes Tamara doing other hilariously infra dig things, like standing behind a burger bar counter.

Racking my brains for the last time I saw such sensationally endearing pictures, I alight on that 2008 series of photos of Henry Conway – son of expense-fiddling Tory MP Derek – arriving at a nightclub in a horse-drawn, pumpkin-style coach. In one picture, a Big Issue seller is looking on, open-mouthed. As for Tamara's latest photoshoot, she doubtless imagines it to be a searing comment on something. And quite unintentionally, it is.

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