Given her star power—older readers might well think ‘Taylor Swift’ is synonymous with ‘modern music’—it is no surprise that after the songstress endorsed US Democratic Party presidential candidate Kamala Harris (see below), over 337,826 of her followers visited the vote.gov website run by the US Government, with voting and registration information.
On the far right, vice-presidential nominee for the Republicans, Sen. James Vance, said that one shouldn’t be swayed by the endorsement from a ‘billionaire celebrity who is fundamentally disconnected from the interests and the problems of most Americans,’ in an interview with the Murdoch Press, but seems to have forgotten who is seeking the presidency in his own party.
Nepotism isn’t our thing, but the children of famous people do seem to net headlines, and it’s not just royalty.
The Beckham children have appeared regularly in our pages. Kaia Gerber netted some extra views on this site in August. Anja Ambrosio Mazur has a reasonably large following on social media (113,000 on Instagram). And we notice that Clementine Vaughn, daughter of Claudia Schiffer and producer–director Matthew Vaughn, has made the cover with her mother in the UK’s Pop magazine.
Paul Wetherell
You will have seen two obits for the talented designer, stylist and author Mandi Kingsbury. One was written by staff the moment we knew of Kingsbury’s passing. The second, penned by Carolyn Enting, came a few days later after she sought quotations from Dame Suzie Moncrieff and Sir Richard Taylor. Not only is it more complete, it has the Kingsbury family’s blessing. Unlike another we know of in the media, it gets its facts right.
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