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Coldplay ... cold heart

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The Sun

Coldplay ... cold heart

Wed, Sep 3, 2003
By THOMAS WHITAKER
Showbiz Reporter

STROPPY Coldplay star Will Champion threatened to sue a neighbour and branded her a criminal — after she mistakenly took his taxi.

School teacher Jacqueline Hall jumped into the cab when it pulled up outside her home — thinking it was one she had ordered to take her to a dinner date.

But halfway through the journey the cabbie told her the taxi was really for her neighbour, Coldplay drummer Will.

Once she reached her destination 31-year-old Jacqueline paid the fare and sent the cab back to pick up Will, 25.

She then wrote a letter to the star and his girlfriend Mariana apologising for her mistake.

Jacqueline was stunned when two days later she got a letter from his solicitors accusing her of “deception and “a criminal act”.

The letter, from showbiz lawyers Russells, said if she wanted the firm to take no further action she must PROVE that she had ordered a cab as she claimed.

And it warned: “Should it occur again our clients will have absolutely no hesitation in informing the police.”

The letter accused her of being “a nuisance” for posting her apology through Will’s door in Kennington, South London.

Aussie Jacqueline said last night: “The reaction was unbelievable. It made my blood boil.

“After I received the letter I was so sick with worry I didn’t sleep for three days.

“They threatened to sue me and called me a criminal just because I had accidentally got into a wrong cab.

As a teacher my reputation is very important. I could not believe I was being sued for a genuine mistake.”

Jacqueline fired off an angry letter to Russells saying: “The language you used towards me, (deception, theft, criminal) is an attack on my moral character and perhaps grounds for slander.

“I ordered a black cab and it was late. The taxi driver involved in this incident stopped outside my house. It was his actions that caused this mix-up.”

The lawyers then wrote back saying they were willing to accept her version of events.

A spokesman for Coldplay, famed for hit albums like Rush Of Blood To The Head, said the band did not wish to comment. Coldplay singer Chris Martin is dating actress Gwyneth Paltrow.

(posted 7513 days ago)

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