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Lloyd Webber and Cowell take starring roles at Norwood dinner

November 15, 2012 16:58
Sir Philip Green with Myleene Klass at the Norwood dinner

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Sandy Rashty,

Sandy Rashty

1 min read

A showbiz element has always been a feature of the Norwood dinner and Andrew Lloyd Webber and Simon Cowell headed a stellar cast.

The composer — who was interviewed about his career—saw the irony in Norwood inviting a “Tory peer to be the warm-up act for the leader of the Labour Party”.

Myleene Klass posed the questions, having informed the audience: “According to the Jewish Chronicle, I’m six per cent Jewish — you’re in safe hands.”

Lloyd Webber spoke about the importance of arts, also offering the London Palladium or the Theatre Royal Drury Lane as a venue for “awards about [young] people who embrace trades…not necessarily about people who go to university”.

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