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Former super model Kate Moss has been spotted letting her hair down at recent festivals just weeks after the collapse of her wellness empire

Former supermodel Kate Moss appears to be back to her partying ways. The 51-year-old was reportedly seen necking cans of lager at the weekend as she enjoyed a day at the BST Hyde Park Festival.

She was taking in the occasion as music belted out by the likes of Van Morrison and Neil Young. It’s thought the scenes reminded pals of her party lifestyle in the 90s.

Those in attendance claims Kate very much looked to be back on the party circuit, with one describing her as “having it large”. “She was hanging out in Van Morrison’s private backstage area, before watching him from the side of the stage — before she went back to the bar for another drink,” an insider said.

Speaking to The Sun, the source continued: “When she watched Neil Young, she flitted between the audience and the suites to keep the beers flowing. Kate sank a fair few drinks with her friends and quietly slipped away before Neil finished his set.”

They added that Kate was seen to be laughing and giggling throughout the night, calling her “the life and soul of the party”.

Her appearance comes weeks after she had enjoyed Glastonbury. At the time, a source said: “It’s like old times when she’d been partying hard at Glastonbury until sunrise and everyone was looking out for her.”

The latest outing came shortly after Kate’s wellness empire Cosmoss collapsed. The premium skincare and wellness business filed to end all operations last month. Cosmoss then entered into liquidation proceedings, less than three years after launching.

According to the company’s most recent filings, liquidators were appointed on June 24, 2025. They filed to close its operations on June 25. As reported by Business of Fashion, the company last filed accounts in 2023 with the UK’s Companies House; it has never disclosed its revenue.

The company also faced compulsory strike-off because of “overdue” accounts. Speculation about the operation’s future began to emerge when heavily reduced products began popping up on discount sites. The company also went relatively quiet, not posting on social media for several months.

Cosmoss was branded as a holistic range promising “wellbeing for the soul and senses”.

It was created in collaboration with homeopath Victoria Young. At the time of its launch, the range offered just six products including a mist fragrance, tea, CBD oil, face cream and face cleanser.

Fiona Glen, managing director of the beauty consultancy group The Red Tree, explained why the brand didn’t succeed. She said: “Although Kate Moss is a well-known profile, she is not associated with wellness which the brand positioning was centred around.

She also highlighted that the premium pricing was unjustifiable given the differentiation of the brand.

US pop sensation Billie Eilish has won seven Grammy Awards and sold millions of albums – but she was raised in a modest bungalow in LA by actor parents Maggie Baird and Patrick O’Connell

With song and dance playing a key part in her life from the moment she could talk, Billie’s chosen career path was not entirely surprising. “Music was always underlying,” she once said. “I always sang. It was like wearing underwear. It was just always underneath whatever else you were doing.”

Billie was born in LA on 18 December 2001 to actor-musician parents Maggie Baird and Patrick O’Connell, who called her Billie to honour her grandfather William. Eilish was her middle name – a popular Irish choice – along with Pirate, which older brother Finneas affectionately called her before her birth.

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She wasn’t always entirely happy about it though, admitting in a recent interview, “I absolutely hated my name when I was a kid. I thought Billie was a boy’s name. I remember just being so mad, and all I wanted was to have a girly name, like Violet or like Lavender. Some sort of, you know, pretty flowery name.” However, it grew on her and she added, “Now there’s no other name in the universe that could be my name besides Billie. I love my name so, so, so much.”

Her mum Maggie, now 66, had TV roles in The X Files, Bones and Curb Your Enthusiasm, as well as a cameo in Friends , while dad Patrick, 67, spent time on Broadway and appeared in The West Wing and NYPD Blue.

But in a fiercely competitive industry, work was often hard for the two jobbing actors to come by. “For years, I saw my parents beat up over the fact that they didn’t have it better,” Billie has said. “My dad is the best actor I’ve ever seen. And my mom can do all these voices and characters – she’s incredible. So I wish they’d had more recognition.”

As a unit of four who loved performing together, former music teacher Maggie has said, “There was just always singing. Someone playing piano or guitar, lots of lullabies at night and always music in the car.” That meant Billie’s songwriting journey began exceptionally early. “When I was four, I wrote a song about falling into a black hole,” she recalled.

“But it was really upbeat, like, ‘I’m going down, down, down into the black hole.’” She also learned to play the ukelele aged six, and started performing at local talent shows and with the Los Angeles Children’s Chorus. Influenced by her parents, she tried her hand at acting too, but found it less enjoyable. “I went to an audition and I came back going, ‘I hate this. I’m not doing this ever again.’”

Both she and Finneas were homeschooled, which Billie believes was highly beneficial to her development. “I learned how to do math by cooking with my mom,” she said. “I learned, like, how to build sh*t from my dad.” Explaining their decision to educate their children themselves, Patrick said, “Our whole stance was ‘general knowledge is all’.”

Home was a two-bedroom, one-bathroom bungalow in the Highland Park area of LA – which her parents still live in. To ensure both their children had their own rooms, they even slept in the living room. “It was a modest upbringing,” says Thomas Smith, editor of Billboard UK. “She was certainly not a nepo baby, and doors were not opened for her in the same way they have been for other artists. But so much time together in that house created an incredible bond between them all, and a support system that has served Billie well throughout her life.”

She returned to the house in a 2019 episode of Carpool Karaoke , pointing out her “very red” bedroom, as well as her pet tarantula, which she insisted was “cute” to horrified presenter James Corden. Viewers got a peek inside Finneas’ bedroom too, which doubled up as a recording studio. “This is the belly of the beast,” Billie said. The room still even had pencil markings on the door frame which had tracked the pair’s height as youngsters.

One of Billie’s biggest influences in her early years was singer Justin Bieber, whose face adorned the walls of her small bedroom. In fact, she was such an ardent ‘Belieber’ that her parents nearly sought professional help for her around the time of his 2012 hit, As Long As You Love Me. Speaking on Billie and Patrick’s Apple Music show Me & Dad Radi o, Maggie told how her daughter would be “sobbing and sobbing” to the song in the car. “I just want to say we did consider taking you to therapy,” she told Billie. “You were in so much pain over Justin Bieber.” In response, her daughter admitted, “There was a period where I cried every single day of my life.”

As well as her Bieber crush, another source of distress was a serious hip injury she suffered at the age of 13, which ended her dancing aspirations. “My bone separated from my muscle in my hip. It was really bad,” she said. “Going through my teenage years, hating myself and all that stupid sh*t, a lot of it came from my anger toward my body, and how mad I was at how much pain it’s caused me, and how much I’ve lost because of things that happened to it.”

However, Billie began channelling her emotions into making music with Finneas, and when her dance teacher asked her to record a track in late 2015, she jumped at the chance. “He asked us to make a song and I thought that was the coolest thing ever,” she said. The result was Ocean Eyes , an astonishingly mature ballad that compared falling in love to falling off a cliff under “napalm skies”. Finneas had originally written it for his band, The Slightlys, but realised it was better suited to his sister’s vocals. “I remember doing Ocean Eyes as a band and just being like, ‘I’m failing the song,’” he said. “And I remember hearing Billie sing it… And it was just like, ‘Oh, this is what this song deserves.’”

Aged just 13 at the time, Billie posted the song on music-sharing platform SoundCloud, and the next morning woke up to a flurry of interest. “It just grew from there,” she said. “It was really confusing. I didn’t understand what was going on. I literally thought it was like my popular friend had reposted it. ‘Wow, it’s getting so many listens!’” It notched up 1,000 listens in one day and hundreds of thousands more over the next fortnight. Billie later premiered a video for it on her YouTube channel. “That song is the reason I have the life I have,” she later reflected.

“Ocean Eyes was just a classic song,” says Thomas. “It’s one of those numbers that has travelled through time and still sounds fresh today, because the craft and the lyrics were just perfect. And for Billie, it was the start of something amazing.”

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