The man of the moment, Trevor White, publisher of the newest mag on the streets, The Dubliner, is ready to meet the press. Here On the Town publishes previously unrevealed secrets. Prepare to be shocked. The budding jet-setter doesn't own a car, nor does the suave, debonair fledgling tycoon wear a watch. However, he is a Taurean and he has charm. Take Sophie Dahl, for instance.
The controversy-causing Opium model, who posed nude (well, she was wearing shoes) for the perfume company, flies in to attend the launch at Dublin's City Hall. "I met him in New York when I first moved there two years ago," the international supermodel star reveals. "He took me out and showed me the town and was very kind to me." That's our Trev. "She's one of the most charming and talented women I've met in a long time," he says. Thanks very much, we nearly say.
Here's more saucy shockers: White's older brother, Tremain White, is a day trader while the younger one, Tim White, plays the spoilt son of an embattled dynasty in the French soap, Monaco Blue. Tune in next week for more shocking revelations about the stars.
In between gobbling down chips from Burdock's, guests notice some babies at the bash, who look good enough to eat too. Jennie Guy has come with her six-week-old baby, Molly Lambton, to chat to her friend Laragh Stuart, who owns the olive and food outlet at the entrance of Georges Arcade.
The new mag is clutched by everyone. Will it survive? "It's the beginning of something significant," says an important-sounding young actor, Peter O'Meara, from Thurles, Co Tipperary, who relishes the fact that he has "just finished a series for Tom Hanks and Steven Spielberg". It's about the men who survived the second World War. The 10-part series, Band of Brothers, will be screened in September on BBC. Listening to his words are Callan, Co Kilkenny women: interior designer, Amanda Hogan, in a denim suit topped with a black cowboy hat and Anna Maria Barry, from NTL, who is in black.
Other faces spotted include portrait painter, Sophie McCormick; Sligo woman, Tara Wilbur; writer, Ita Daly; and writer, Jamie O'Neill[ RO], whose book, At Swim, Two Boys, will be out in September.