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Revision as of 09:04, 13 August 2011

Kelly Hoppen
MBE
OccupationInterior designer
Spouse(s)Graham Corrett (1982-1989), Ed Miller (?-2002)
Children1; also stepmother to Sienna Miller and her sister

Kelly Elaine Hoppen MBE (born 1959) is a South African-born British interior designer and owner of Kelly Hoppen Interiors.

Career

Hoppen began her career at the age of 17. Her first restaurant design was the Gary Rhodes restaurant Rhodes W1.[1] She went on to design apartments for a number of celebrities including Martin Shaw, who was one of her first clients.[2] As well as sharing her knowledge in the Kelly Hoppen Design School, Kelly also designs ranges of home accessories, furniture, taps, lighting, carpets, fabrics, paints, bed linen, candles & scents as well as a highly successful QVC range. Her business Kelly Hoppen Interiors had a turnover of 18 million pounds in 2007.[2]

Hoppen is famous for using muted colours such as taupe and beige.[2][1] Of her design philosophy she has said, "I absolutely believe that people should wake up in neutrals and go to sleep in neutrals. I know if I stay in a hotel and it is all florals I feel nauseous."[3]

In 1996 she won the Andrew Martin Interior Design Award. She has subsequently won a number of other awards including European Woman Of Achievement in 2007.[2] In March 2009 Kelly was appointed a Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) in the 2009 New Year Honours.[4] The award was given for services to Interior Design.

Personal life

Hoppen was born in Cape Town, South Africa.[5] She moved, with her family, to London when she was 2 but returned to South Africa every year for Christmas. She was bullied at school.[6] Her father worked in the fashion industry and her mother was a businesswoman specialising in antique maps of Africa and books.[7] During her childhood her parents divorced. Hoppen lived with her father[3] until his sudden death just before Christmas[8] when she was 16.[2] Her older brother,[2] Michael Hoppen, owns the Michael Hoppen Gallery.[6]

In 1982, aged 22, Hoppen married Graham Corrett and daughter Natasha was born a year later. They divorced in 1989 and she later married Ed Miller, the father of Sienna Miller. They were husband and wife for 15 years, but divorced after Ed Miller joined a religious cult. Hoppen was struck by the cult's leader as a part of the initiation ceremony.[2]

Main article: News of the World phone hacking affair

Hoppen has lodged a claim against the News of the World and one of its reporters, Dan Evans, for "accessing or attempting to access her voicemail messages between June 2009 and March 2010".[9] Hoppen's case is one of five test cases concerning the hacking of the mobile phones of public figures by the paper due to be brought before the High Court early in 2012.[10]

References

  1. ^ a b "An interview with Gary Rhodes". Caterer Search. 18 April 2007. Retrieved 17 May 2011.
  2. ^ a b c d e f g "Kelly Hoppen: 'I've had an amazingly colourful life...'". The Telegraph. 5 October 2007. Retrieved 11 August 2011.
  3. ^ a b Sabine Durrant (31 July 2009). "Interior design: interview with Kelly Hoppen". The Telegraph. Retrieved 11 August 2011.
  4. ^ "No. 58929". The London Gazette (invalid |supp= (help)). 31 December 2008.
  5. ^ [1]
  6. ^ a b Karine Kong (15 July 2011). "La Famille... C'est Important - Kelly Hoppen". Hufington Post:United Kingdom. Retrieved 10 August 2011.
  7. ^ [2]
  8. ^ Kelly Hoppen (23 December 2007). "The knowledge: How to have a stylish Christmas". The Telegraph. Retrieved 11 August 2011.
  9. ^ Milmo, Cahal (2011-01-28). "New claims suggest that phone hacking is still going on". The Independent. Retrieved 2011-01-30.
  10. ^ Katy Dowell (25 July 2011). "NoW phone-hacking saga: the legal line-up". The Lawyer. Retrieved 10 August 2011.

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