What Kate did next

Supermodel Kate Moss turned actress last night at a West End theatre.

Okay, so it was a non-speaking role and it did involve a lot of gratuitous display of flesh, but Moss was more than happy to oblige in her new role at the Duke of York's Theatre in St Martin's Lane.

When a friend like actress Sadie Frost calls in a favour, it would be churlish to say no. Frost, with designer Jemima French, 34, had chosen the novel setting of the theatre to showing off her new range of lingerie, as a well as a few bits of clothing.

The new autumn and winter 2002 Frost French range was incorporated into a 15-minute play about four different girls seeing the same man, written by Frost herself.

Models Moss, Rosemary Ferguson, Frost's 20-year-old sister Holly and Ronnie Wood's daughter Leah stripped off and changed into multiple outfits to the applause of a celebrity crowd including former EastEnders actress Patsy Palmer, Meg Mathews, Holby City's Lisa Faulkner, Sixties model Anita Pallenberg and Mario Testino, photographer to the rich and famous.

There to cheer their loved ones were Frost's actor husband Jude Law, Moss's magazine publisher boyfriend Jefferson Hack and Ronnie and Jo Wood.

"It's all very tongue-in-cheek, but I'm terrified in case it's a disaster," said a nervous Frost before the show. "I don't think I'll watch it, but go for a stiff drink in the pub opposite instead."

She shouldn't have worried. Watching Moss and Co struggle in and out of various revealing outfits was never going to make for dull viewing. And as for the clothes? Frost French are now in their third season since setting up in 1999 and are expert at producing the kind of sexy underwear and clothes that girls just can't get enough of - printed with cute butterfly motifs, flying geese and dice.

As for Moss's West End acting debut? Well, at least, with her new hair extensions and all, she had never looked better.

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