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September 24, 2007

Hotel leaves Times man out in the cold

By Axegrinder axeblog

Spare a thought for Giles Coren, restaurant critic for The Times.

Just the other day, poor Giles was kicked out of the Lisbon hotel room he was staying in to make way for PR guru Kris Thykier and his four-year-old son Jake.

Kris has, I must admit, more claim to fame that Giles: not only is he the ex of Tara Palmer-Tomkinson, but he was Matthew Freud’s best man and Guy Ritchie’s shooting partner.

Giles told friends, who told Axegrinder: “I had the best room in the place, huge ceilings, suite of rooms, vast shower, 30m balcony views of Lisbon. I got turfed out, so I do want to come home now.”

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