Angelina Cabo

@angelinacabo

About

Shane (GBFF andHollywood publicist to a bunch of people you’ve never heard of) says that themost important thing when talking about yourself is never to be boring. Hesuggested that I tell you that I was inspired to write Purely Decorative inorder to relieve the unrelenting tedium of nomadic desert life after I waskidnapped by Toureg tribesman during a hen party weekend in Marrakech. I snappedback that I wasn’t about to let someone else’s vacation fantasies pervert myrelationship with my readers.

I was also tempted tosay that he might be better at his job if he told the truth more often - but inthe first place, that’s nonsense, nobody wants to hear the truth about anythinghere. And in the second place, he has a pool.

Call me shallow (mylast boyfriend said if he paddled in me he doubted he’d get his feet wet, but,like, whatever) - but poolside with a cocktail in one hand and a Macbook Air inthe other is my favourite way to work. If I could eat chips and type with mynose, life would be perfect.

But my seedy studioin Venice doesn’t have pool. Unless you count the canal out front, which I didonce (only once) after my neighbour’s Mojito Mojo party last year. The water’sonly a foot deep, who knew? I went headfirst into the mud at the bottom andcame up looking like… actually, looking like I’d just spent five hundreddollars on a mud wrap at Bliss Spa (I wish). My skin glowed for days after, butthat could have been the embarrassment.

Shane, on the otherhand, lives in a mansion in Beverley Hills and hardly ever uses his poolbecause his psychic has convinced him that swimming is bad for fire signs. I’m Sagittarius, which is fine, apparently, as long as I don’t get mybow string wet. And that, right there, is why I love LA.

This was supposed tobe all about me, but it seems to be more about Shane. Still, we’re known by thecompany we keep. Don’t judge either of us too harshly.

All you really needto know about me is that my teeth are whiter and my smile is happier since Imoved from London to Los Angeles three years ago.