It’s ski poles at dawn. Tara Palmer-Tomkinson (left) is at the centre of a frosty love triangle. TPT split before Christmas with Fiat heir Eduardo Teodorani-Fabbri.
But only weeks later Teodorani-Fabbri, who is now dating actress Natalya Manoukian, bumped into his best friend, the financier Fabien Pictet, who had a new girl on his arm ... none other than TPT.
As everyone knows, your best friend’s ex is generally a no-no, and if you must, try and leave it longer than a matter of weeks. (And don’t expect him to talk to you.) All four, however, are skiing in Gstaad.
Pictet is a former Merrill Lynch banker turned hedge funder. When they all came face to face in the lobby of the Palace Hotel, I am told the temperature quickly plummeted by several degrees.
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A source said: "They looked very much like a couple. They were the talk of the resort." Lythgoe`s dance talent show, So You Think You Can Dance, is on BBC1 tomorrow.
• Who is briefing against Tory strategic adviser Steve Hilton? Isn’t it odd that his failure to produce a train ticket on 1 October 2008 and his use of the word "w***er" should surface 15 months later?