Last week, Oliver and I popped over to boutique hotel Ham Yard Hotel for a festive afternoon tea with none other than X Factor winner Louisa Johnson who impressed us with her talent, integrity, beauty and determination.
Partnering with Matalan raising money for vital charity Alder Hey Hospital, Louisa met with a small group of us for tea and cakes before performing a personal concert for Megan, a young girl who’d won the recent Get Spotted Matalan competition impressing Louisa with her bendy gymnastic skills. What a treat for her! And us!
Living room goals at Hamyard Hotel…
It resembled a Mad Hatter’s Tea Party (in a good way)!
With the most delightful festive afternoon tea with dainty mince pies, chocolate roulade and macarons.
For those not familiar, Alder Hey and retailer Matalan have collaborated one again on a Christmas campaign – with this one seeing the nation ‘getting spotted’ by showing their hidden talents all over social media, and buying this year’s spotty PJs!
All profits went to the hospital’s research centre and last three years the retailer has raised over £1.7million in proceeds for the charity. You may remember year 1’s alphabet scarves endorsed by everyone from Helen Mirren to Justin Bieber and the campaign continues to grow each year with the lovely Louisa Johnson, their face most recently.
It was wonderful to hear about Louisa’s new album and how proud of it she is. She shared how she feels she’s changed a lot since doing the show, that she’s grown and evolved and the album reflects this. Louisa is down-to-earth, hard working and humble despite huge talents and the world as a oyster. She was so sweet and interested in Oliver and whilst he’s a little young to fully appreciate Louisa, he understood that the afternoon tea was rather special.
It was also lovely to meet Ellie Child from My BABA who was also there to interview Louisa.
What a sweet day, thanks Matalan!
Photos by Aron Klein.
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Vicki, such a nice place and I am sure you had a wonderful time with Louisa.
How amazing. I do love Louisa Johnston. What a wonderful young lady and role model she is. Sounds like a great time x
She’s a sweetie x
Such a great campaign to be part of. Isabelle adores Louisa Johnson! Need to show her this post xxx
Aw Louisa is wonderful and her Mum messaged me on Instagram recently to say she’s followed me for ages and was really happy I met her daughter: so sweet x
This is lovely, what a great campaign to be part of. I always think it’s so positive when people like Louisa champion such great causes – what a fab role model. Oh and the afternoon tea looks delish! #BrillBlogPosts
She’s amazing Natalie and it’s a vital charity, thank you for your comment x
I would be absolutely star-struck at a tea like this. How fun! I love to see that the proceeds of Alder Hey + Matalan’s Christmas campaign go to a research hospital: these days, funding for medical research is so hard to come by—yet we take the benefits of this important research for granted each and every day.
What an amazing couple of days you had! Amazing action packed vlog! x #brillblogposts
Gosh, you are both such beauties! And, what a lovely campaign to be a part of.
Ham Yard is one of those special hotels isn’t it?
Bee xxx
Adore it Bee, so chic and Louisa is such a wonderful young lady xx