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New face Isabella may not be to everyone's taste

The gorgeous aristocrat Isabella Anstruther-Gough-Calthorpe shunned modelling jobs to tread the boards in a small role in the West End's Dirty Dancing.

Now it seems the 24-year-old blonde - current squeeze of Sir Richard Branson's son Sam, 21 - has had a change of heart.

"She's been signed up as the new face of cult label Ananya," reveals my fashionista spy.

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Isabella Anstruther-Gough-Calthorpe, 24, is treading the boards in a small role in the West End's Dirty Dancing

Isabella Anstruther-Gough-Calthorpe, 24, is treading the boards in a small role in the West End's Dirty Dancing

"The boutique is a favourite of Isabella's and, when the designer Anu Mirchandani offered her the job, Bella was thrilled." Ananya, with its flagship store in London's Notting Hill, is a favourite of Madonna, Kate Moss, Keira Knightley and Sienna Miller.

But with Isabella, as its face, it might not have a fan in Prince William's on-off girlfriend Kate Middleton.

William has been rumoured to have a crush on Isabella, the daughter of banking heiress Lady Mary Gaye Curzon, whose father was the 6th Earl Howe.

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Isabella with boyfriend Sam Branson

Isabella with boyfriend Sam Branson

But Isabella has always claimed that she and the Prince are just acquaintances.

Isabella's next project sees her filming alongside Kirsten Dunst and Margo Stilley in How To Lose Friends And Alienate People.

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