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We live in Posh and Becks’ shadow F OOTBALL PLAYER D AVID B ECKHAM AND S PICE G IRL V ICTORIA FIRST MET BACK IN THE MID - 90 S AND THE GENERAL PUBLIC JUST CAN ’ T GET ENOUGH OF THEM . A NDY H AMMER , 24, AND C AMILLA S HADBOLT , 22, ARE THE UK’ S NO .1 P OSH AND B ECKS LOOK - ALIKES . H ERE THEY TALK ABOUT THE HIGHS AND LOWS OF DOUBLING THE COUPLE 1 So how did you two meet? Camilla: I’d been dragged along to this fashion show party by a friend of mine five years ago. I saw Andy there on one of his early Beckham look-alike jobs. I thought he was gorgeous. He came over and started talking. He asked me out on a date and we hit it off straight away. Andy: The night we met, I told her about my work as a look-alike. Camilla told me how people commented on how much she resembled Posh. I couldn’t see it myself at the time, as she had much longer hair than Victoria. I just thought she was stunning. 2 How did you start working together? 4 Andy: As soon as we started dating, Camilla: I met Posh when I doubled everyone would comment on how for her in an advert and she was really much we looked like David and nice. It took me ages to gather the Victoria. After a couple of months my courage to talk to her, but I went over stepmum put us in touch with this to her and introduced myself as a look- agent at ‘A-List Lookalikes’. We had to alike. She asked me: ‘Who for?’- as if send pictures of us dressed up as she didn’t know! She said she thought Posh and Becks and we got signed up. I was sweet and she kept smiling at Work started to come in and within me across the set and that eased my three months we were doing it full nerves. time. We’d do shop openings, turn on Andy: Although I’ve doubled for David, Christmas lights and appear at private either as his profile, hands or back of parties. My fee was £500 for three his head in several commercials, I’ve hours and we were working most days. never met the man himself. I’d really So I gave up my job and Camilla left like to chat with him, because I heard college. that I was on his most-hated list, for 3 Do you get mistaken for the real some reason. I’d like to ask him if thing? that’s true or not.

Why only the lonely watch the ad breaks T ELEVISION ADVERTISEMENTS ARE A WASTE OF MONEY , RESEARCH CARRIED OUT BY THE L ONDON B USINESS SCHOOL SHOWS . 1 As soon as the commercial break comes on, the vast majority of us do something – anything – else. Women will do a spot of housework or pick up the phone rather than 'waste' time watching. Men are more likely to channel surf until the programme they've been watching comes back on. And many people keep a newspaper at hand to pick up during the breaks – reading half an article in one break and the other half in the next. The researchers found that very few people actually watch the commercials. 2 The research also found that the bigger the audience the less likely they are to watch the adverts. And when they do watch as a group, people are far more likely to ridicule the adverts than praise them. So expensive primetime slots 1) could be the worst possible value for advertisers. noot 1 slots = vaste uitzendtijden

A day in the life of ...a cycle trainer LONDONERS know all about traffic and the problems involved. One way to beat it is to get on your bike, but that, in itself, poses problems: “Some 5 people are worried about cycling on London’s busy streets,” says Simeon Bamford, 27, who set up Cycle Training in July 2000. “But we can teach them how to use the roads 10 safely and confidently. We can teach a riding style which enables people to make lots of space around themselves and communicate assertively with other road users to get to where they 15 are going swiftly.” Bamford has always loved cycling and, although he learned to drive as a teenager, he has never owned a car. “I always cycled to school, at university 20 and I have always cycled to work in London.” At work he checks his e-mails and phones his instructors with bookings. His job is split between running the 25 office and acting as an instructor. Cycle Training has 35 freelance instructors, male and female. Most are former couriers, students, actors or retired teachers and all are trained to 30 do bike repair and maintenance checks, covering things such as gears, brakes and wheels. Cycle Training runs individual and group courses (the latter usually in schools) covering 35 complete beginners to journey accompaniment (helping cyclists plan their best route to and from work). With an estimated 160,000 regular cyclists in London and growing 40 concerns about traffic jams and pollution, he is increasingly kept busy running courses for local authorities, who have provided funding for training

false impression that cyclists shouldn’t be on the road.” 80 He also rejects the use of safety gear. “Some people see cycling as a dangerous sport. It’s not,” he claims. 100 are known to be more punctual and “It’s a simple, inexpensive way to get around. AII you need is a bike. We say 85 you don’t need a helmet or anything else. If you wear a suit, cycle to work in a suit.” 105 “In Holland everyone cycles. It’s the Bamford works long hours and will often stay late at the office. He doesn’t 90 mind doing it, because he believes in the promotion of cycling. He says more of us should abandon the car and 110 less stressful.” public transport. “Companies are going to have to produce a green transport 95 plan and there are likely to be

Miss Perfect 1 “ T hat’s 80p, please.” Her lovely face falls. “It’s 80p? Oh no, I don’t believe this. I’m still 20p short.” The 5 bus driver looks uncomfortable. She sighs. “Never mind,” she says. “Then I’ll have to 23 .” Finally the driver shuffles around a bit more and then says, “Oh well, 20p won’t break the bank. Go on, love,” he says cheerily. “In you go.” 2 Typical, I think. I almost grunt it out loud. Only Jenny Salter would manage to get a bus driver to give her 20p off! The girl’s unreal! I watch her angrily as she walks onto the crowded bus and 6 smiles at everyone, expecting them to love her. They do. Within seconds, a boy has offered her his seat. She thanks him prettily – yuk, yuk – then gets chatting to the girl next to her. They both crack up at some joke… I hate her. 3 It sums up our roles in life, really. I pay full fare, get on the bus first, and end up standing with no-one to talk to. She only pays 60p, is offered a seat, 7 and instantly makes friends. It’s so 25 . 4 You’d think we’d be friends. We were both new to the area at the same time and started school in the same 8 class. Fat chance. Within days, she’d made good mates and, within weeks, she’d established herself as the most popular girl there. Girls want to be her best mate, blokes do stupid things to get her attention, and even the teachers seem to really like her. Why? 9 She’s pretty. She’s clever. giving me a big hug. “I wish there was

something I could say to make you feel 12 better,” she says. “But … but, it will get easier. You can’t imagine it now, but it will. One day you’ll look back and remember your gran without feeling the pain. I promise.” 13 10 “What do you know about it?” I mutter, though I’m not really hostile. For what she’s said has somehow comforted me a little bit already. “Your life is so perfect.” 11 To my surprise, I see my tears mirrored in her eyes. “I do know about it.” She gives a trembly smile, hugs me tighter, then bites her lip. “My dad died last December.”

Miracle Model Film star Milla Jovovich might not be here today – if she hadn’t been kidnapped by her mum! Stunning actress, singer and supermodel Milla Jovovich was just a toddler when she went to hospital suffering from a mysterious fever. With 5 her condition getting worse, and doctors unable to diagnose or treat her, Milla’s desperate mother snatched her from her bed. The drama unfolded when two- 10 year-old Milla was living with her family in the Ukraine in the former Soviet Union. Her mother, Galina Loginova recalls: “Milla was taken to hospital with a fever and a cold. I think it was in 45 lights of Los Angeles. The beauty was 15 this hospital where she caught meningitis. 1) Conditions were crazy. Milla grew worse, but the staff wouldn’t recognise the fact. She didn’t move. I thought I was going to lose her. 50 1991, at the age of 15, she starred in 20 I wanted to take Milla to a clinic which specialised in children, where I trusted the doctors, so I asked some friends to come with their car. The hospital said they wouldn’t release 55 “I wanted to keep Milla away from all 25 Milla, so I took her without their consent. At the clinic they did a spinal tap. The doctors said her condition was very bad. They diagnosed meningitis and saved her life with 60 booze and drugs. I didn’t want Milla to 30 minutes to spare. It was a medical miracle,” reveals Galina. “Milla had turned into a vegetable, but suddenly she opened her eyes. She asked for something to eat.” 65 ‘The Fifth Element’, ‘The Story of Joan 35 Proud mum Galina always knew her daughter’s name would one day be up in lights. “Milla could act as soon as she could speak,” she says. “She was always performing. At Russian parties, 70 There’s nothing I like more than to see 40 the children entertain the grown-ups. noot 1 meningitis = hersenvliesontsteking