More events. April 2012, BTW, marks the 15th anniversary of the publication of
the famous "Arena" cover.
30/04/2012 Guest at the Christian Louboutin Exhibition after party, The Ivy,
London
18/05/2012 Talk with Daisy Garnett and Mary McCartney at the Words In The Park
event, Opera Holland Park, London. Followed by book signing, webmaster
recognised by Mrs Cullum - again!
23/05/2012 Guest at the "A Celebration Of The Arts", Royal Academy Of Arts,
London
26/06/2012 Guest at the Serpentine Summer Party, Hyde Park, London
05/07/2012 Guest at the Jo Malone dinner party, Battersea Park, London
18/07/2012 Announced as the "face" of Aubin & Wills' Autumn Fashion
Collection. A similar image to this, minus coat, appeared in the "Metro"
newspaper same day
31/10/2012 Guest at the Harper's Bazaar "Women Of The Year" awards, Claridges,
London
15/11/2012 Hosting the "Gladrags & Handbags" Charity Party, Welbeck Street,
London W1
17/12/2012 Carols concert at St Peter's Church, Eaton Square, London
04/03/2013 Birth of Margot Cullum, but not announced until 7th March
02/04/2013 Publication of images for Brora's "The Lost Weekend" clothing range,
billed as "a new spring collection" by Sophie
21/05/2013 Sophie attends the launch party of the new Jamie Cullum LP,
"Momentum", The Shard, London
03/09/2013 Guest at the GQ Awards, Royal Opera House, London
15/09/2013 Guest at the British Vogue London Fashion Week party, Balthazar,
London. Sophie turned 36 the same day
28/10/2013 Guest at the launch dinner for "The Conversation With Amanda De
Cadenet" TV show, The Arts Club, Mayfair, London
31/10/2013 Guest at the UNICEF Halloween Ball, One Mayfair, London - footage
shown on "Daybreak" following morning
05/11/2013 Guest at the Harper's Bazaar "Women Of The Year" awards, Claridges,
London
07/11/2013 Guest at the dinner to "celebrate the exclusive collaboration between
Toms and Tabitha Simmons", Marks Club, London
09/12/2013 Guest reader at the Place2Be charity Carols concert, St Peter's
Church, Eaton Square, London. If you are lucky, you might still be able to see
more here:
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10151779132111053&set=a.10151779129616053.1073741842.343254621052&type=1&theater
- blame Facebook if not!
17/02/2014 At Prince's secret gig, Ronnie Scott's, London
19/02/2014 Guest at the Sony Music "Brit Awards" afterparty, London (multiple
venues listed on the web, for some reason, so not quite sure where it was to be
honest)
06/03/2014 Guest at the "Kids Company : Heart Of Gold" fundraising dinner,
Porchester Hall, London
29/03/2014 Assisting at a Charity Car Wash (no, really) in Great Missenden
xx/06/2014 Announced as the face of Boodles Jewellery in the UK during first
week in June. This image is from the July edition of "Harpers Bazaar"
01/07/2014 Guest at the Serpentine Summer Party, Hyde Park, London
18/11/2014 Host of the 2015 Pirelli calendar launch, Milan
09/12/2014 Guest at the GQ Christmas Lunch event, Quaglino's, Mayfair, London
19/12/2014 FINALE of the Jamie Cullum photo exhibition, "Life And Music", Leica
Studio-S, Mayfair, London. One of at least 6 exclusive images shot of his missus
for the event
19/02/2015 Announced as the face of Debenhams' "Principles Weekend by Ben de
Lisi" clothing range
22/02/2015 Modelling at London Fashion Week for Temperley London, RIBA - first
catwalk show for 10+ years
30/04/2015 Guest at the preview of the Idris Khan exhibition "Conflicting
Lines", Victoria Miro Gallery, Mayfair, London
29/05/2015 As announced on her Instagram account, etc, follow up shoot for
Boodles revealed on this date
08/06/2015 Guest at the Blue Marine Foundation's 5th Birthday party, London - Mr
Cullum played live and Mrs Cullum was here for moral support
13/06/2015 Talk at the Althorp Literary Festival, Althorp House, Northampton.
Talk went under the title "Great Literary Loves", and was followed by book
signing. Ticket shown is the webmaster's own unused one from his personal
collection
02/07/2015 Guest at the Serpentine Summer Party, Hyde Park, London
12/10/2015 Guest at the Chanel Exhibition Party, Saatchi Gallery, London
18/11/2015 Switching on the Marylebone Christmas Lights, Marylebone High Street,
London
23/11/2015 Guest at the British Fashion Awards, London Coliseum
03/12/2015 Guest at the Charlotte Tilbury "Naughty Christmas Party", to
celebrate the launch of Tilbury's 'flagship beauty boutique', Covent Garden,
London
19/01/2016 Guest at the "Dior by Avedon" book party launch dinner, Beaumont
Hotel, Mayfair, London
09/02/2016 Guest at the "Vogue 100 : A Century Of Style" exhibition, National
Portrait Gallery, London
26/02/2016 Guest at the 'Film Is Great' reception, Fig & Olive, West
Hollywood
23/03/2016 Guest at the press night for the play "People Places And Things",
Wyndhams Theatre, London
23/05/2016 Guest at the Vogue Centenary Gala Dinner, Kensington Gardens, London,
followed by afterparty at Tramp
25/05/2016 Host of the "Boodles Cocktails With Friends" event, promoting the new
campaign launch, Boodles New Bond Street store, London
26/05/2016 Guest at the WGSN Futures Awards, 8 Northumberland Avenue, London
WC2N 5BY
06/07/2016 Retweet from Sophie's Twitter account to the BBC Radio 4 website to
plug "Seriously" - a series of podcasts from the station which in the first week
of July uploaded one called "Roald Dahl In His Own Words". The Beeb originally
released an audio CD under the same title featuring archive Roald interview
clips some years before, this broadcast was a revamped 2016 edition with Sophie
contributions
06/07/2016 Guest at the Serpentine Summer Party, Serpentine Gallery, Hyde Park,
London
09/07/2016 Beginning of the 2 month long "BFG Dream Jar Trail", an art
exhibition in which various celebrities designed jars containing sculptures of
'their dreams'. This is Sophie's, located on New Bond Street, London
14/07/2016 (and dates either side) Online launch of the "Sophie Collection", a
Boodles Jewellery range inspired by Miss Dahl. Sophie shot a series of new
pictures for the company, and had really kickstarted the event with the
"Cocktails With Friends" event in May (see above). Both Boodles and Sophie
showed a "new" photo on their Twitter account on July 14th. This photo, however,
was published earlier, and is taken from the July '16 edition of (UK) "Vogue",
and was being used as the Boodles Twitter banner on dates in and around 20th
July
15/09/2016 Sophie's 39th birthday. The same day, several bits of footage from
recent "Vogue" events (see above) were featured in BBC2 show "Absolutely
Fashion". The above is a screengrab from footage at the National Portrait
Gallery
28/09/2016 Guest at the "Bobbi Brown Cosmetics 25th Anniversary" dinner,
Farmacy, London
08/10/2016 One of numerous 'celebrity speakers' at the final night of the
"Letters Live" event, Freemasons' Hall, London
29/11/2016 Guest reader at the Place2Be Carols Concert, St Luke's Church, Sydney
Street, London SW3
04/12/2016 Attendee at the "Help Refuges - Choose Love" awareness campaign
launch party, Jazz Cafe, London
22/02/2017 Guest at the Universal Music "Brit Awards" after-party at 180 Strand,
London
18/05/2017 Guest at the "Talk Of The Townhouse" event, London
12/06/2017 Guest at the "Save The Elephants" dinner, The Orangery, London
22/06/2017 Guest at the leaving party for outgoing "Vogue" editor Alexandra
Shulman, Dock Kitchen, London
27/09/2017 Talk as part of Red magazine's "Smart Women Week", Asia House,
London. This shot is a 'behind the scenes' portrait taken beforehand, as
uploaded on Twitter by her makeup artist Sarah Reygate
21/02/2018 Guest at the Universal Music "Brit Awards" party, The Ned, London
15/03/2018 Guest at the MIH Jeans 'Marrakesh 1971' party, Laylow, London
18/05/2018 As per Sophie's Instagram - publication of photoshoot for the latest
Lisa Eldridge Jewellery range. One of the rings was called 'The Sophie' but
despite this photo existing, the official website (on this data) didn't seem to
actually show any Sophie images
06/06/2018 Guest at the Royal Academy Of Arts "Summer Exhibition Preview Party",
Burlington House, London
20/09/2018 Guest at the Mercury Music Prize awards ceremony, London
29/11/2018 Guest at the Claridge's Zodiac Party, to celebrate the Claridge's
"Tree Of Love" Xmas Tree, Claridge's, London
07/12/2018 Guest at the Evgeny Lebedev Christmas Party, London
20/02/2019 Guest at the Brit Awards Universal Music afterparty, The Ned,
London
09/05/2019 Guest at the Michael Kors private dinner party, to celebrate 'the new
Collection Bond Street Flagship Townhouse opening", London
13/09/2019 Backstage at London Fashion Week, in, well, London
19/09/2019 Guest at the Mercury Music Prize awards ceremony, London
01-02/10/2019 Various promo engagements to plug "Madame Badobedah", including
BBC Radio interviews on the 6Music Breakfast Show on the 2nd and with Nikki
Chapman on Radio 2 the previous day
03/10/2019 Publication of "Madame Badobedah" - Sophie held a private party at
Claridges in London to celebrate, this photo cheekily nabbed from her Instagram
page. Earlier the same day, Sophie did an interview on BBC Breakfast, broadcast
live on BBC1
04/10/2019 Guest on "The One Show", broadcast live on BBC1, filmed at
Broadcasting House, London
06/10/2019 Talk at the Bath Children's Literature Festival, Masonic Hall, Bath.
Sophie later chaired her own talk with Philip Pullman for the launch of his book
"The Secret Commonwealth", recorded for the Penguin Podcast, Sheldonian Theatre,
Oxford
08/10/2019 Interview on the Chris Evans Breakfast Show, Virgin Radio UK
09/10/2019 Official Launch party for "Madame Badobedah", Ognisko Polskie - The
Polish Hearth Club, South Kensington, London
19/10/2019 Talk at the Worcester Beeline Storytelling Festival, The Hive,
Worcester, followed by book signing. Webmaster recognised yet again, despite the
7-year gap between book tours.
29/10/2019 Guest at the "Harper's Bazaar Women Of The Year Awards", Claridge's,
London. For some reason, Sophie didn't win Woman Of The Year but was instead
giving out a prize
10/11/2019 Talk at the Stroud Book Festival, Lansdown Hall, followed by book
signing. Webmaster recognised again, and this time, even her assistant guessed
who I was. Sophie signed my Polish copy of "From Season To Season" and told me
she had never ever seen a copy before today.
30/11/2019 Guest on "Saturday Kitchen Live", broadcast - well, live - on BBC1
13/12/2019 Guest at the Evgeny Lebedev Christmas Party, London
07/04/2020 Release in the US of "Madame B". Sophie hosted an "Instagram Live"
session to promote the book, and posted this photo on her Insta to advertise the
event.
26/09/2020 Photoshoot at Odettes Restaurant, London, in connection with the release of the Jamie Cullum "Pianoman At Christmas" LP
03/12/2020 The Place 2Be 'Virtual Carol Concert', live-streamed from St Marylebone Parish Church, London. This image of Sophie was used to plug the event online, but was also originally used on Twitter etc. when she was announced as their ambassador in July 2020.
12/11/2021 Promo duties for "The Worst Sleepover In The World". Interview on Virgin Radio, contributing to the 'Everything Under The Sun!' podcast, and book signing/reading at Daunt Books, Marylebone, London. Photo 'borrowed' from Sophie's IG
14/11/2021 (Pre-recorded) interview on BBC 6Music with Cerys Matthews
11/12/2021 Guest on "Saturday Kitchen Live"
13/06/2022 Guest at the "Place2Be's Wellbeing In School Awards", BAFTA, London
30/09/2022 Guest at the Ruthie Rogers' Dinner to celebrate the "Elvis" movie, River Cafe, London
01/12/2022 Guest reader at the Place2Be Carols Concert, Holy Trinity, Sloane Square, London
01/10/2023 'Official' release date for the BBC Radio 2 podcast, "Tracks Of My Years", in which Sophie discusses her 10 favourite songs with Vernon Kay. It was split into 5 sections, and broadcast piece by piece from 2nd October to 6th October on his Radio 2 show
04/10/2023 Interview with Lauren Laverne on the BBC 6Music Radio show
05/10/2023 Publication day for "Madame B & The Old Bones". To celebrate, Sophie appeared in another one of Lisa Eldridge's online makeup tutorials
15/10/2023 Performance of "Madame Badobedah & The Old Bones" at the Cheltenham Literature Festival. Sophie read the entire book, and was accompanied by a puppeteer, who helped visualise scenes from the book. Event took place at a pop up venue in Montpellier Gardens, called The Hive. Followed by book signing, where your webmaster was recognised again, and she complimented me on my iPhone case (designed to look like an old C90 cassette).
06/12/2023 Guest performance at the Place2Be Carols Concert, Holy Trinity, Sloane Square, London
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