Aristocrat ripostes

Press, 24 December 1985, Page 6

Aristocrat ripostes

NZPA-AAP London , Lady Teresa Manners, the blue blood lead singer in a band called the Business Connection, served yesterday a sharp rejoinder to the brother of the Princess of Wales, Viscount Althorp, for his criticism of her act. “Champagne Charlie,” as he is known, received a twopage spread in last week’s tabloids for telling Lady Teresa that she could not sing and that she had “a big fat bottom.”

Lady Teresa replied: “I don’t give a damn about Althorp’s opinion. Musically, he wouldn’t know Brahms from Wham!

“I call him All Slop. “He epitomises everything I loathe about chinless horrays. He gives the aristocracy a bad name. “Princess Diana must be mortified by his antics.” Lord Althorp delivered his broadsides after seeing part of the band’s show at the London Hippodrome but admits to having seen another performance at the Albert Hall. “If he says he hated our show when he saw it at the Albert Hall why did he come back for more at the Hippodrome?” Lady Teresa “Is he a masochist? I don’t care what he said about my bum. If he only came to look at it, well, he must need help. He’s certainly no oil painting himself.

“What the hell has he ever done except trade on his name?” The Business Connection, whose other members include two peers and a banking heir, hit the headlines at their launching earlier this year with Lady Teresa’s raunchy lead style. The convent-educated singer, daughter of the Duke of Rutland, said yesterday that her stage act came naturally. “Sure it’s sexy, but it’s not an act. I was dancing like that on nightclub'-tables' all over the.place long before I joined & band.”