Wednesday 2 November 2022 10:34 PM Robbie Williams employs builders using '19th century hand-tools' to keep noise ... trends now
Used to blasting out his hits in huge stadiums, Robbie Williams is undertaking what must be the quietest ever house renovations, to avoid further antagonising his next-door neighbour, Led Zeppelin star Jimmy Page.
The team building Williams's 'super basement' have gone to great lengths to make virtually no noise at the £17.5 million mansion in London's Kensington.
Planners gave the green light for the work in May but Williams's workmen have to use '19th-century hand-tools', and £50,000 monitoring devices to make sure the level goes barely above a whisper.
Robbie Williams is undertaking what must be the quietest ever house renovations. He is pictured performing last year
The team building Williams's 'super basement' have gone to great lengths to make virtually no noise at the £17.5 million mansion in London's Kensington
It is to avoid further antagonising his next-door neighbour, Led Zeppelin star Jimmy Page (pictured above)
She has starred in a TV drama series, married a Prince and inscribed bananas with messages of support for sex workers.
But perhaps nothing has given the Duchess of Sussex more intense satisfaction than The Tig, her lifestyle blog, in which she reflected on the full spectrum of human experience — from hot sauces to self-love.
So her fans will be thrilled to hear The Tig is a step nearer resurrection, more than five-and-a-half years after Meghan, in a prelude to becoming a fully fledged member of 'The Firm', posted a 'final' entry, announcing: 'It's time to say goodbye.'
I can reveal that Meghan's bid to trademark 'The Tig' name is 'under examination' by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office — over a year after the initial application was submitted.
Six months ago, this appeared to be imperilled when, as I disclosed, the Patent & Trademark Office rejected the application, saying the description of the website was 'too broad' — and the paperwork was unsigned.
This has been rectified, with the assistance of an additional lawyer, Danielle Weiss.
The revised application scrupulously delineates five 'classes' in which Meghan is seeking The Tig trademark: travel, interior design (including 'environmentally conscious living'), food preparation (including cooking and recipes), health and 'wellness', and personal relationships (including, rather surprisingly, fashion and personal lifestyle).
A fee of $1,750 [£1,500] has been paid. It's the sort of sum that could be found down the back of a typical sofa in Montecito, the California enclave where Meghan and Harry live.
Perhaps Meghan could seek to apply The Tig trademark to her own range of goods — an $18 neon toilet roll set, perhaps, or a $28,500 black leather chair, both of which appear on the Christmas list of fellow Montecito resident Gwyneth Paltrow.
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