‘It’s the key to everything,’ says Yasmin. But he’s inherently very funny, which is lucky, because if he wasn’t funny, you’d want to batter him.’ And a family that laughs together, stays together. ‘He’s demanding of time and energy – in a charming way. ‘Dad’s as mad as a March hare,’ says Tallulah. Simon can, it seems, sometimes test the patience of the women in his life. ‘They have cocktails and play backgammon.’ It sounds like a riot, no wonder the girls don’t want to leave. ‘Mum and Dad end up partying longer than any of us,’ adds Saffron. ‘Dancing, singing and having way too much wine,’ agrees her mother. ‘There’s never any peace and quiet in our house.’ Tallulah paints a picture of a typical Le Bon night in: ‘Amber’s plonking away on the piano, the dogs are barking, Dad’s playing guitar, Saffron’s singing and Mum’s shouting.’ She grins. ‘It’s complete and utter chaos.’ But it does sound fun. ‘It is a struggle sometimes, but life isn’t perfect, is it?’ she says. Yasmin describes her family life as ‘muddled’, and it does sound like precisely the sort of glorious messiness that we celebrate at Red – working parents with busy schedules, and never quite enough time in the day to get every job done.
It happened the other night and Tallulah turned around and said, “What, without me?”’ ‘God forbid Simon and I ever want to go out for dinner on our own. I do worry sometimes that we’re all a bit like Siamese twins,’ says Yasmin of her crowded house. ‘These girls weren’t born thinking, “We’re going to wrap her around our little finger.” It’s my fault. ‘I’ve obviously enabled all of this,’ she smiles. And it’s clear Yasmin wouldn’t have it any other way.
#Simon le bon plus
‘The house is always full.’įilling this happy home are Amber, 25, Saffron, 23, and Tallulah, 20, plus Saffron’s boyfriend, Tallulah’s best friend and Yasmin’s niece. ‘Sometimes I think, this is like a shabby b&b, nobody pays and I can’t get on with my life,’ she jokes. ‘At the moment, we’re eight adults, two cats and three dogs.’ Plus Granny in a house at the end of the garden. She’s referring to the living arrangements at Casa Le Bon, where Yasmin and her husband of nearly 30 years, Duran Duran’s Simon, live with their three daughters, plus various friends, relatives, boyfriends, dogs and cats. Yasmin and her daughters in 2002 (Picture: Getty)
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