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Professor Armand Leroi, pictured with Jerry Hall, is revelling in his newfound celebrity status since he started dating Mick Jagger’s ex. Leroi gave a lecture at the Royal Institute last night to launch The Lagoon: How Aristotle Invented Science — rather glitzier than a regular book launch. But while Hall was in the audience, it seems sexing-up snails is beyond her.
“I first began my interest in Aristotle at the age of 11 when I started collecting shells,” Leroi said, “and I realised I was just like him. It was from this love of shells that I decided I wanted to be a snail scientist, which never happened.”
Despite a riveting topic the talk was far from a sell-out. That was despite Hall filling 20 seats with friends, and with tickets costing £12 a pop she would have spent £240. That’s a lot to shell out for escargot.