Inside the temple of decadence: Dancing dwarfs, £120,000 bubbly, and Rihanna and Beatrice mixing with VERY shady characters in Britain's most louche nightclub
Tom Berg with Cara Delevingne (centre) and Rihanna
Various Methuselahs — each six litres — range from £10,000 to £40,000. That’s equivalent to more than £800 for every single glass.
For the real big spenders, there seems to be only one option, though. At the end of the wine list is a 30-litre, gold-plated Midas of Ace Of Spades champagne, made by high-end producer Armand de Brignac. It boasts a pewter label, and a truly eye-popping price tag: £120,000.
As displays of conspicuous consumption go, buying this Midas takes some beating: the fizz, which will go flat if it’s not drunk within a couple of hours, costs the equivalent of almost five years’ wages for an average Briton.
Any punter who buys the bottle, which is so heavy that four waiters must pour it, is paying quite a premium for the privilege of drinking it here, too.
Satanic: Singer Miley Cyrus was pictured kissing
one of the entertainers wearing a giant baby mask
on a recent visit to the venue
In recent months, Cirque, as it is known to regulars, has made headlines worldwide, welcoming an extraordinary succession of stars into its dimly-lit interior, to be entertained by circus acts performing on small podiums.
Singer Rihanna, supermodel Cara Delevingne, musicians Will.i.am and Kanye West, Hollywood actors Bradley Cooper, Leonardo Di Caprio and Jason Statham are just some of the famous patrons to have recently crossed the threshold.
They have often brought scandal in their wake, too. Only last week, for example, photos hit the internet of a peroxide blonde Miley Cyrus, the American pop star, seated on one of the circus-themed club’s purple sofas.
She was locking lips with one of its ‘trademark’ male go-go dancers — a dwarf dressed in a bib and white nappy.
‘The dwarf is one of our regular performers, called Leon,’ Tom Berg, Cirque’s spokesman, tells me.
‘He wears a big rubber mask, which is very hard to see out of. So he had no idea what was going on until she stuck her tongue in his mouth. It was a wild night.’Days earlier, it had been the turn of Sherlock actor Benedict Cumberbatch to make headlines at the venue, where guests are treated to nightly stage shows from magicians, clowns, sword-swallowers, acrobats and burlesque dancers who strip to their nipple tassels.
The supposedly-shy 37-year-old — who days earlier had been photographed in Ibiza with Russian model Katia Elizarova — was accompanied at the venue by flame-haired actress Charlotte Asprey. Later, they were joined at their table by the unlikely duo of [homosexual Jew] Stephen Fry and fashion designer Matthew Williamson.
‘They were served champagne and vodka by dancing dwarfs,’ says one witness.
‘It wasn’t what you might call a politically-correct evening’s entertainment, given the group’s Left-wing politics. But they had a blast.’Video: (Move your mouse over it and select 'play')
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