feb 27, 2011 - THE TELEGRAPH An audience with Vanessa Paradis INTERVIEW

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Outside the Koko club on a midweek February evening London buses trundle north up Camden High Street, while rain turns the grey litter soggy.

But inside there are flutes of champagne and animated Gallic conversation, as a largely expatriate audience awaits the arrival on stage of the singer Vanessa Paradis.

To the French she is a national icon in her own right - child star turned chic chanteuse; Chanel model; award-winning actress - but to the English-speaking world, she tends to be more famous as Mrs Johnny Depp.

Not that Vanessa Paradis is married; she is the mother of Depp's two children (11-year-old Lily Rose and Jack, who is eight), and her wedding finger bears a large diamond ring that he gave her, but in an American television interview at the end of last year he observed, with some grace, that a marriage certificate might detract from his partner's identity. 'I'd be so scared of ruining her last name. She's got such a good last name - Paradis. It doesn't get better than that.'

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