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Kenya: Campbell At Coast to Promote Industry
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The Nation (Nairobi)
24 March 2008
Posted to the web 24 March 2008
Daniel Nyassy
Nairobi
British super model Naomi Campbell, who jetted into the tourist town of Malindi over the weekend, is on holiday and will use the occasion to promote the local modelling industry, Malindi MP Gideon Mung'aro, who is a close confidant of the super model, has said.
Mr Mung'aro said the model wanted to make good a promise she made last year that she would assist the local modelling industry.
Map out strategies
During her visit in August, Ms Campbell had said she would meet representatives of modelling companies in Nairobi to try and map out strategies on the way forward to establish a modelling college for Kenyan girls.
She said then that the modelling industry in the country had a potential that had not been fully exploited.
Last Friday, Ms Campbell's chartered plane landed at 11.05am at the Malindi Airport amid tight security by her guards and local police officers.
She declined to be interviewed by members of the press, who were kept at bay by hawk-eyed security officers at the airport.
She was in the company of three men, but without her former boyfriend and business partner, Formula One boss and Italian billionaire Flavio Biatore.
Ms Campbell was immediately whisked away by officials from Kilili Baharini Hotel as opposed to tradition where she is usually received by officials from the luxurious Lion in The Sun owned by Mr Biatore.
Other celebrities
Ms Campbell and other celebrities skipped their usual Christmas holidays in Malindi last December, due to the post-election violence in the country.
When she was last in Malindi mid August, Ms Campbell had told journalists in a rare interview at Lion in The Sun that she and Mr Biatore would build a 6-Star hotel in the area, which would only be visited by the who-is-who in the world.
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The East and Central Africa and Middle East representative of the Lion in the Sun group of companies Dr Pierino Liana said the group had already acquired land where the former Jambo Village and Indian Ocean Beach Club used to stand.
"The Sh1.5 billion Billionaires Resort of Malindi would attract people like the princes, models and world-famous celebrities," Dr Liana said.
Ms Campbell begun modelling 24 years ago at the age of 15.
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