Peaches and Cream
Think you have a bad case of sibling rivalry on your hands? Try competiting for the attention of mummy, daddy and the adoring public and press like the Geldolf sisters...
Sibling rivalry can be an ugly thing. Surely you can remember a time when you were sitting in the car with your brother or sister, tugging at each other’s hair whilst screaming profanities at the top of your lungs. After all, it was only last week, right?
Celebrities may not have the luxury of calling their mum to solve such disputes when faced with the paparazzi logging their every move, but don’t be fooled by the happy smiles and close hugs: these kids can’t stand each together.
Just look at the daughters of Paula Yates and Bob Geldof, Pixie and Peaches. Despite bearing the perpetual expression of a child who had been denied her Barbie, Peaches was happy as a clam whilst she was hogging the media spotlight. The epitome of ‘poor little rich girl’, in 2005 Peaches struggled to show that she was more than Bob’s daughter with her precocious documentary on the ‘Teenage Experience’.
At the time, Pixie, two years her junior, posed little threat to Peaches’ attempt at celebrity status. However, fast forward to 2008 and Pixie has seemingly eclipsed her sister, having been awarded modelling campaigns from New Look to Agent Provocateur, all the while being portrayed in the media as the more pleasant Geldof offspring.
There can be few things more galling than finding out that your younger sister has managed to achieve in five minutes what you have been attempting for years with all those trips to any club willing to look the other way when it comes to your fake ID. Pixie had become a star in her own right.
Peaches was left with little recourse other than to play out her tantrum in the public eye. In March 2008, Peaches was dubbed a “flop star” by the Daily Mail after she trashed the instruments at a gig she was ‘performing’ at the Hospital Club in Covent Garden. And this was before June of that year when Pixie followed in their mother’s footsteps by appearing on the cover of Tatler magazine…
Peaches felt she had no choice. She had to outshine her sister at any cost. There can be little other explanation for her 5th August 2008 marriage to American musician, Max Drummey (no, we don’t know who he is either).
So mere mortals, beware. When you’re replaying that same old argument about that time that your brother stole your BMX or your sister borrowed your favourite top, stop for a moment. Consider the possibility that, one day, your dear sibling could be in a position to lend you a few quid. Play nice.
Elli Lewis
Sibling rivalry can be an ugly thing. Surely you can remember a time when you were sitting in the car with your brother or sister, tugging at each other’s hair whilst screaming profanities at the top of your lungs. After all, it was only last week, right?
Celebrities may not have the luxury of calling their mum to solve such disputes when faced with the paparazzi logging their every move, but don’t be fooled by the happy smiles and close hugs: these kids can’t stand each together.
Just look at the daughters of Paula Yates and Bob Geldof, Pixie and Peaches. Despite bearing the perpetual expression of a child who had been denied her Barbie, Peaches was happy as a clam whilst she was hogging the media spotlight. The epitome of ‘poor little rich girl’, in 2005 Peaches struggled to show that she was more than Bob’s daughter with her precocious documentary on the ‘Teenage Experience’.
At the time, Pixie, two years her junior, posed little threat to Peaches’ attempt at celebrity status. However, fast forward to 2008 and Pixie has seemingly eclipsed her sister, having been awarded modelling campaigns from New Look to Agent Provocateur, all the while being portrayed in the media as the more pleasant Geldof offspring.
There can be few things more galling than finding out that your younger sister has managed to achieve in five minutes what you have been attempting for years with all those trips to any club willing to look the other way when it comes to your fake ID. Pixie had become a star in her own right.
Peaches was left with little recourse other than to play out her tantrum in the public eye. In March 2008, Peaches was dubbed a “flop star” by the Daily Mail after she trashed the instruments at a gig she was ‘performing’ at the Hospital Club in Covent Garden. And this was before June of that year when Pixie followed in their mother’s footsteps by appearing on the cover of Tatler magazine…
Peaches felt she had no choice. She had to outshine her sister at any cost. There can be little other explanation for her 5th August 2008 marriage to American musician, Max Drummey (no, we don’t know who he is either).
So mere mortals, beware. When you’re replaying that same old argument about that time that your brother stole your BMX or your sister borrowed your favourite top, stop for a moment. Consider the possibility that, one day, your dear sibling could be in a position to lend you a few quid. Play nice.
Elli Lewis
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