The kittenish Camille has clearly conquered new hearts in her move from the rowdy Spiegeltent, to the Georgian pews at the Queen's Hall, home to a more classical crowd with double the audience.
The French-Irish singer miaows like a cat in her show, and is used to the same treatment on the streets of Edinburgh. "There were new people miaowing at me today. I heard a miaow behind me in a shop, and it was a woman around 70," she said. An ar
chitect in an earlier life, Camille liked the Presbytarian feel of the former church, where her last night was a raucous sell-out.
Leslie has a new reason to smileTHEY say laughter can transform lives. So perhaps the Festival has helped John Leslie get over his recent troubles.
The former TV star, cleared of false allegations last month, recently said he was single, but seldom went out as he was "scared stiff" of the public's reaction. But on Wednesday at the 21st birthday gala of So You Think You're Funny, presented by the Gilded Balloon, Mr Leslie looked happy and relaxed with a charming young lady he called his "new girlfriend". That's the magic of Edinburgh in August.
Even ballerinas take night offSPOTTED sitting modestly on the no 37 bus at midnight: the Georgian prima ballerina Nina Ananiashvili, who recently spoke up for her country in The Scotsman. What was the world-famous ballet star taking in on her night off? The Spirit of Samurai at Zoo Southside. Echoes of the war zone continue today, with the Anchiskhati Choir singing secular and religious music from Georgia; the Russian conductor Valery Gergiev, raised in North Ossetia, conducts Prokoviev at the Usher Hall.
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