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    As she prepares for next Sunday’s TV Baftas, Made in Chelsea’s Millie Mackintosh talks for the first time about her controversial relationship with East End rapper Professor Green

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    Red-carpet ready in a Marina Qureshi dress and Gianmarco Lorenzi shoes

    Millie Mackintosh had to kiss a few frogs before she found her prince Stephen Manderson, aka tattooed rapper Professor Green. But viewers of E4’s Bafta-nominated ‘structured’ reality TV show Made in Chelsea, in which privileged 22-year-old Millie appears as part of an ensemble cast, will be aware that, while her male co-stars may be good-looking with posh pedigrees, they are – in the main – frogs. Particularly old-Harrovian Hugo Taylor, Millie’s ex, who cheated on her with her friend Rosie Fortescue. But when she met Stephen – who was born in Hackney and raised by his grandmother Patricia – Millie knew he was a prince among men.

    Stephen and Millie may seem like an odd couple, but it is obvious that they are in love (they communicate constantly on their mobiles during our interview). When it was first rumoured that they were seeing each other last November, it was claimed that they had met at a yoga class. ‘Actually Stephen saw my picture on the cover of FHM [she’s also just been voted 15th in its 100 Sexiest Women poll] and his publicist said, “I can get you her number.” She knew the editor of FHM who sent me an email and I said, “Is he a nice guy?” and he replied, “Yes, he’s really funny, he’s great,” so I thought, “Why not?” Half an hour later Stephen called.’ Six months on they are inseparable and although we’re meeting to chat about everything from MIC to her new role as ambassador for self-tanning brand St Tropez, which she is representing on the red carpet at next Sunday’s Arqiva British Academy Television Awards, she is at her most animated when talking about Stephen.

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    With boyfriend Stephen Manderson (aka Professor Green)

    ‘This feels like my first proper relationship because we actually want to treat each other properly. I feel so comfortable with him – when we are hanging out I hardly ever wear make-up and I am even happy wearing my glasses. Equally I love to dress up for him. We like to surprise each other. Not long after we met he was working in New York and I sent red roses and a teddy to his
    hotel. Now whenever he is away I have the teddy – we call him Edward – in bed with me sprayed with Stephen’s aftershave,’ she says in the dreamy tones she adopts whenever the conversation links back to him (which it does a lot).

    Millie – great-great-granddaughter of the man who created Mackintosh’s Quality Street – wasn’t actually made in Chelsea, but in Marlborough, Wiltshire, where her parents, Georgina and Nigel, ran a fine-food delicatessen for 18 years (they have now retired and live in a £1.4 million house in Bath). She has a younger sister Alice, 21 (who is more interested in horses than MIC), and the girls enjoyed an idyllic childhood. Artistic rather than academic, Millie had a varied education that started at a ‘St Trinian’s-style’ prep school in Dorset and progressed through two more single-sex boarding schools before she ended up in the co-ed sixth form of Millfield, where she took a two-year art and design foundation course in place of A-levels.

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    It’s Bafta dress-up time. Will it be the Alexander McQueen gown or the Vivienne Westwood gold mini?

    One of Millie’s greatest concerns when initially approached to appear in MIC was the reaction of her family, but, she says with a giggle, even her grandparents are now fans. ‘My grandfather rang me recently and said, “Oh darling, we watched last night’s episode.” I was cringeing at the thought of him watching it because it was the one where I was wearing my underwear and holding a whip. But he said, “Don’t be silly. We think you looked great.” My family are so tolerant.’

    Are they, I ask, tolerant about her relationship with Stephen, whose background is so different to their own? (He has compared cruel comments on Twitter about their differences and his difficult early life – his mother was just 16 when he was born and he saw little of his father who committed suicide four years ago – to racism.)

    ‘Stephen has met my parents, although it was very casual. I think the only thing that ever worries my mother about boyfriends is how I am treated and Stephen is just so thoughtful. He’s had a difficult life by anyone’s standards and he has come through that and is a great guy. Of course he comes from a different background to me, but he’s been brought up very well by his grandmother who is an amazing woman.’

    Such is the strength of Millie’s new relationship that Stephen was even prepared to risk damaging his street-cred by making a fleeting appearance on MIC. Was it hard to persuade him – and will we be seeing more of him? ‘He was in it just to establish that he is in my life, but he won’t be on the show again. I did have to work hard to persuade him to do it, but in the end he did it for me and I paid him back by going to his latest video shoot. I am in it but you have to watch carefully because I’m wearing a mask,’ she says.

    Ironically, a little over a year ago, it took quite a lot of pressure to persuade Millie to join the cast of MIC. E4 had the idea for a ‘structured’ reality show involving a group of good-looking privileged young people who already knew each other, and having secured Hugo Taylor, Rosie Fortescue and Francis Boulle, they began talking to their friends to recruit the rest of the cast.

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    Millie (left) with Caggie's cousin Alice in Made in Chelsea

    ‘I knew Rosie and she was also friends with my two housemates. I came home from work one evening – I was a make-up artist/beauty adviser for Space NK – and the producers were there. I was really preoccupied because I was going out, so they only met me briefly. The next day they called and I just said no and hung up. But they persisted and asked me if I had any other friends who might be good. I mentioned Caggie Dunlop and although she was a bit reluctant they interviewed us together and we were like, “I’ll do it if you do it.”’

    Caggie remains one of her best friends (and gets on with Stephen ‘like a house on fire’). Millie is also fond of Louise Thompson and forms an unexpectedly close friendship with her ex-boyfriend Hugo’s new girlfriend Natalie Joel. ‘I am a girls-girl. I have a few male friends on the show such as Jamie, Spencer and Proudlock but I hang out with girls more,’ she says. Her eyes roll when I mention Rosie (who slept with Hugo) and she says that although they have ‘spoken’ it has been very difficult and in future episodes of MIC there’s ‘a bit of confrontation which definitely wasn’t staged as I am very open with my feelings’.

    A tall, slender, natural beauty, Millie did briefly consider modelling, but her main ambition was to be a make-up artist and as an emergent style icon she dreams of one day having her own clothing line. Filming MIC – for which she receives only a small fee to cover her expenses – makes pursuing her career as a make-up artist difficult and despite the young and privileged stance of the show, Millie does not own a vast designer wardrobe (her two most expensive purchases have been a Mulberry handbag and a Joseph coat).

    Stephen, she says shyly, is very generous – he gave her the Annoushka bracelet she is wearing. But it isn’t just his thoughtfulness that she finds attractive – she loves the fact that ‘he is so intelligent and talented’, although she admits that before they met, she didn’t ‘have anything by Professor Green on my iPod. But now I love his music; I know the words to every song – even the songs on his third album which hasn’t come out yet,’ she says.
    The couple spend all the downtime they can together (he took her to Paris for Easter) and these days she is more often to be found hanging out with Stephen and his dog Alfie in his East London home than in Chelsea. She has previously said he would make a ‘great father’ but denies being broody (though when she tried on one A-line Alexander McQueen dress, she said, ‘I would love this dress to go out in if I was pregnant’).

    As the interview comes to an end (she is catching a plane to meet Stephen in Dublin) I ask her if she could compare any of her posh previous boyfriends (she had a brief flirtation with MIC’s Fredrik Ferrier before she dated Hugo) to her new love. ‘Oh no!’ she exclaims. ‘On our first date he picked me up from home in his car and took me to dinner – he hadn’t told me but it was his 28th birthday, which made it even more special – and then at the end of the dinner he drove me home. He is completely different to any of my ex-boyfriends. He is the perfect gentleman.’



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    Oops! Millie Mackintosh is left red-faced on the TV Baftas red carpet as a gust of wind forces her black gown to blow up and almost reveal a bit too much

    Oops! Millie Mackintosh is left red-faced on the
    TV Baftas red carpet as a gust of wind forces her black gown to blow up
    and almost reveal a bit too much



    Wardrobe malfunction: The Made In Chelsea star laughed as she struggled with the frock as she attempted to contain her modesty


    Wardrobe malfunction: The Made In Chelsea star laughed as she struggled with the frock as she attempted to contain her modesty


    Wardrobe malfunction: The Made In Chelsea star laughed as she struggled with the frock as she attempted to contain her modesty


    Perfect pose: SHE arrived hoping to just show off her stylish outfit but gave onlookers more than they bargained for

    Perfect pose: SHE arrived hoping to just show off her stylish outfit but gave onlookers more than they bargained for



    Giggles: She at least saw the funny side as she walked along the red carpet struggling in her outfit thanks to the weather

    Giggles: She at least saw the funny side as she walked along the red carpet struggling in her outfit thanks to the weather

    Giggles: She at least saw the funny side as she walked along the red carpet struggling in her outfit thanks to the weather


    Giggles: She at least saw the funny side as she walked along the red carpet struggling in her outfit thanks to the weather

    As the 23-year-old reality TV star posed for photographs obviously feeling confident in the get-up as she pouted up a storm.

     
     
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