Tallulah paints a picture of a typical Le Bon night in: ‘Amber’s plonking away on the piano, the dogs are barking, Dad’s playing guitar, Saffron’s singing and Mum’s shouting.’ She grins. ‘It’s complete and utter chaos.’ But it does sound fun. ‘It is a struggle sometimes, but life isn’t perfect, is it?’ she says. ![]() Yasmin describes her family life as ‘muddled’, and it does sound like precisely the sort of glorious messiness that we celebrate at Red – working parents with busy schedules, and never quite enough time in the day to get every job done. It happened the other night and Tallulah turned around and said, “What, without me?”’ ‘God forbid Simon and I ever want to go out for dinner on our own. I do worry sometimes that we’re all a bit like Siamese twins,’ says Yasmin of her crowded house. ‘These girls weren’t born thinking, “We’re going to wrap her around our little finger.” It’s my fault. ‘I’ve obviously enabled all of this,’ she smiles. And it’s clear Yasmin wouldn’t have it any other way. ‘The house is always full.’įilling this happy home are Amber, 25, Saffron, 23, and Tallulah, 20, plus Saffron’s boyfriend, Tallulah’s best friend and Yasmin’s niece. ‘Sometimes I think, this is like a shabby b&b, nobody pays and I can’t get on with my life,’ she jokes. ‘At the moment, we’re eight adults, two cats and three dogs.’ Plus Granny in a house at the end of the garden. She’s referring to the living arrangements at Casa Le Bon, where Yasmin and her husband of nearly 30 years, Duran Duran’s Simon, live with their three daughters, plus various friends, relatives, boyfriends, dogs and cats. Yasmin and her daughters in 2002 (Picture: Getty) ‘We’re a happy gang,’ says Yasmin, ‘and our gang gets bigger and bigger.’ Red’s shoot is perhaps some sort of reunion? An overdue family get-together for a mum and the three daughters she rarely sees? Um, no. Gathered by Red for their first family photoshoot in a long time (it was 2001 when we last managed to round them up), trying on monogrammed pyjamas and commenting on each other’s hair and make-up, supermodel Yasmin Le Bon and her three daughters are whooping like teenagers at their first sleepover. Really glorious laughs (but we’ll get on to that later). Just look at them, all four a gorgeous tangle of hair, legs, glowing skin and glorious laughs. It’s quite something to be confronted with the full quota of Le Bon women. Saska Graville meets the gang to discuss "bonkers" dad Simon and why a full house makes for a happy home. ![]() We'll have the Inheritance Tracks of actor Mark Strong who chooses Mr Soft by Cockney Rebel and Birgit Nilsson singing the aria Liebestod from Wagner’s Tristan & Isolde, and your Thank you.Beautiful and spirited, Yasmin Le Bon and her three daughters join Red for a rare family photoshoot. It was the start of a relationship she treasured for life.Īnd Andrew Cotter the sports commentator whose videos reporting on the behaviour of his dogs, Olive and Mabel, have accrued millions of views online. We also have Ruqsana Begum, who is a Muay Thai world champion, the world’s first female Muslim boxing champion, who for five years kept her sport a secret from her family.Īnd Cardiff based café owner Kemi Nevins, who was fostered as a baby, her parents advertising the opportunity in the local paper. Now a proud grandfather, Simon Le Bon will be live in the studio. He married a supermodel, had a family and explored his passion for yachts - his life the epitome of glamour. Nemone Metaxas and the Reverend Richard Coles are joined by Simon Le Bon.Īs lead singer of Duran Duran: a band that has sold over 100 million records, had 18 American hit singles and 21 UK Top 20 tunes, he continues to perform to sold-out audiences around the world.
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