Nicole Appleton On Her Night With Dicaprio
The Mirror - 13th May, 2000
WITH
a toss of her expensively styled hair, All Saints singer Nicole Appleton
dismisses the Leonardo DiCaprio myth.
The
idolised star of films Titanic and The Beach is, she says, a stupid little boy
who makes her seven-year-old niece seem mature.
And
what's more, the rumour that she was closeted in a bedroom with him after a
celebrity bash makes her angry - very angry.
She
remembers the occasion: "Basically we were all hanging out in this VIP bar
at The Beach premiere.
"A
friend of mine introduced me to him and he said 'Yeah, I heard your song. It's
really good and the video - I saw it twice. Come on, let's have a drink to it'.
"He's
a sweet guy. he didn't say anything nasty to me. He was just observing the room
and seeing girls, the way they were with him. And that's what really f***s me
off because he probably did go off and get someone and sleep with them. And I
get the blame for it."
She
says mysteriously: "He was already wasted before I met him. And, er, it's
not my scene, the whole thing - I can't get into that."
Nicole
adds heatedly: "He's quite like a child. Like a big, immature child. And
he's surrounded by a bunch of idiots as well.
"To
be honest with you, he acts like a spoilt brat. A big one though - he's very
tall."
Friends
of 25-year-old Leonardo come in for a roasting too.
Nicole,
26, says: "They all seem really young. Like one of his friends kept on
coming up and pulling my hair. I said 'Ohmigod, your friend is a freak'. It was
like little schoolboys having fun. It totally changed my impression of Leonardo
DiCaprio. My niece doesn't even act like that and she's seven years old."
Soccer
ace David Beckham and his Posh Spice wife Victoria also get a sideswipe after
an interviewer for Esquire magazine mentions that the couple can't even walk
down the street without being besieged.
Nicole
exclaims: "But they want that. That's the whole reason they are doing
that.
"I
feel so sorry for them because they are going to live sheltered lives.
"Nothing's
going to make me like this big wrapped-in-cotton-wool type person.
"I
won't put myself in horrible dangerous situations. If I go to a concert I'm
going to want one of our security to go with me because there's going to be
fans there, fans of mine and I'll get harassed - but that's it. There's no way
I'd stop going to Sainsbury's or any of the things I do, no way, because
sometimes it just reminds you that life is normal."
Nicole
talks about her All Saints colleagues Mel Blatt and Shaznay Lewis. And she
reflects: "Mel calmed down a lot when she had a kid. But you life changes.
"It
will be nice the day it stops - I'll go 'Thank God'. I'll still be friends with
Mel and Shaz but I won't miss the whole party scene."
She
also speaks of her screaming matches with Shaznay.
"We
were doing Jools Holland's show and Shaznay and I got into this big
fight," she says. "Then we had to do a soundcheck and the fight broke
out across the microphones.
"We
went down to the dressing room and we had the biggest fight and I said I'm not
going to America. I need a break'." She recalls that she stayed with
singer Robbie Williams for two weeks.
And
she says: "The next thing, I hear on the radio 'Nicole from All Saints has
left'."
Nicole,
still single after her relationship with Robbie, is enthusiastic about her role
in the All Saints film Honest, directed by Dave Stuart.
She says: "All Saints got me in the position to get
this film in the first place, so there's no way it would ever result in me
leaving All Saints - unless no one likes us any more and we all fall out."