In the name of the father
A party boy whose conquests included Lindsay Lohan and a Girl Aloud, Calum Best seemed to be following the self-destructive example of father George when he became a fixture on the London social scene. Now in his 30s, the former model says he has turned over a new leaf and made peace with the dad who was never there for him. He talks about orgies, prostitutes, cocaine, his acting ambitions and why he’d desperately like to fall in love.
Olaf Tyaransen, 17 May 2011
It’s a beautifully sunny Saturday afternoon in April, and Calum Best – best known as the famous-for-being-famous son of late football legend George Best – is keeping Hot Press waiting in the bar of the Galway Radisson Blu.
In town to make a paid personal appearance at Movida nightclub, he was taking a shower in his room half an hour ago. Given the handsome 30-year-old’s red-top reputation as an arch-lothario, we decide he’s probably shagging the maid. Or possibly, the maids.
When he eventually comes down, he walks over, firmly shakes my hand, and apologises. “Really sorry about the delay, babe,” he drawls in an accent that oscillates somewhere between Californian and London. “Can you give me another minute? I’ve just got to check something at the front desk.”
I turn to the photographer. “Did he just call me ‘babe’?”
My ears weren’t deceiving me.
The only son of George Best and his Playboy Bunny wife, Angie, Calum was born in San Jose, California, in 1981. His parents divorced when he was five and, although he remained in irregular touch with his father, Angie raised him alone in LA. Calum began modeling in the US in his mid-teens, but wasn’t known on this side of the pond until he moved to London in his early twenties. Shortly after his father’s death from alcoholism in 2005, his colorful personal life began providing fodder for the tabloids, as he slept and snorted his way around the world. Rightly or wrongly, he has been romantically linked to various high profile models and celebrities, most notably Lindsay Lohan, Agyness Deyn, Kate Moss and Simone Sofia.
Although he has appeared in countless reality TV shows and has his own fragrance (Calum), nobody is quite sure what he really does for a living.
Ten minutes later, we’re sitting on the hotel terrace with a couple of cold ones. He tells me he doesn’t really know Hot Press, but has done some research. “I was in Dublin last weekend doing a TV show and I talked to this girl, Rosanna Davison. I asked her about it. She said, ‘Yeah, they like to find out, like, the sex, drugs and rock ‘n’ roll about things’. And I thought, ‘Fair enough, really; I don’t mind that.’”
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