![]() ![]() Everything is done with permission from the stars. It’s not possible to obtain illicit pap shots there: legally, you need permission to take commercial photographs even in public places in Dubai. Perhaps you think that he, like the Kardashian/Jenners, can do that because he’s so rich? Not like those poor reality TV stars who just want to enjoy a quiet holiday in Dubai, but find photos of themselves all over the media from the beach and the pools? Surely, when they claim press intrusion they have a point? No one knew he was there because he chose not to make an issue of it. No photographers followed him and no one bothered him. Pleased with being somewhere almost totally unknown, I discovered from one of the local scuba-diving guides that Leo had been there last year. ![]() Recently, I was in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, on the paradise island of Palau. Leonardo DiCaprio is one of the most globally recognised people in the world, yet one of his big pleasures is to holiday every year with friends – and he manages it with zero publicity. But Adele? No mention.Īnd it’s not just UK celebs. And, sure enough, their pictures were in the press the next day. Dancing, kissing female friends, jumping around. A group of us sat quietly in the corner drinking wine and chatting while some other wannabe stars (not to mention any names cough Florence Welch) did everything to get journalists’ attention. I remember being at the after-party of a famous singer’s gig with her. Back when she had her first album out, I got to hang out a bit with Adele and see this for myself. ![]() By eschewing brand endorsements and celebrity haunts, she chooses places she knows she can be comfortable away from the public eye. But other celebrities? It’s harder, but not impossible. When you’re a family worth $1 billion, you can afford to make this look easy. The real sisters can then travel incognito – a ruse that helped Kylie hide her pregnancy, too. Sources at E! network say that Kardashian family appearances are routinely controlled by hiring lookalike models and sending them out in black SUVs, followed by hired paparazzi on motorbikes to give the illusion of authenticity. What about when she goes out? Well, this also requires money and planning. So, living on a private estate gives Kylie control over who sees her, but that’s not enough. (And I should know: a few years back, I was commissioned by a British TV station to help on a documentary about Robbie Williams, who, at the time, lived nearby a plan that failed spectacularly when we couldn’t even get permission to get the car or camera within half a mile of his house.) You have to be a resident, or an invited guest, or one of the many approved photographers on the Kardashian payroll to get anywhere near the Jenner house. It’s essentially a mini city, patrolled by zealous private security armies. Kylie’s home is in a part of LA known as Hidden Hills – the Fort Knox of gated communities. And, if you want to hide from prying eyes, it helps to be living in a gated community. It’s fair to say Kylie’s privacy was as carefully stage-managed as everything else she does. In a world in which the Kardashian- Jenners are some of the most photographed and followed people, where celebrities routinely lament the fact that their fame gives them no privacy, and where everybody’s every move is increasingly on camera, how on earth did she do this? Does this blow the lid on celebrity culture? Because, if Kylie Jenner can go through a whole six months unseen, surely anyone can? But – remarkably – not one paparazzi shot of a baby bump. Kylie’s news followed five months of speculation, carefully massaged by the Kardashian networks, of course. ![]() Less than a week later, her first picture of Stormi Webster had become the most liked photo in Instagram’s history, toppling Beyoncé’s 2017 pregnancy announcement. Kylie Jenner, the youngest and richest of the Keeping Up With The Kardashians clan, announced on social media that she’d given birth to a baby girl on 1 February. ![]()
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