Were it not for the frill-free Shoreditch small plates joint Duchy being all but empty on the damp, September Wednesday lunchtime we meet, I’m sure the whole place would have spun 180 degrees in their spindle-back seats as Jean Campbell walked in.
The model and podcaster is the epitome of an English rose living in Dalston, which she has done for the past four years. She possesses an Elizabethan beauty: elfish features, glass skin, white-blonde hair which folds over her forehead to the right, piercing blue eyes and a slender, 5ft 9in frame. The following day, as she smokes her Golden Virginia roll-ups on Portobello Road wearing a scarlet velvet Richard Quinn ball gown and towering Vivienne Westwood platforms for this photoshoot, passers-by inevitably stop, holler “wow!” and gawp. In front of the camera, she is a transfixing sprite whose body twists to the sound of the clicker.
