Meg Mathews

The artist liaison manager for Creation Records, Meg Mathews, is busily trying to drum up interest in aromatherapy massages from the woman who does Mck Hucknall.Everyone is too distracted by Tottenham vs Aston Villa on the Widescreen TV.Mathews is also the love of Noel's life, and the woman for whom he wrote Wonderwall.

"You can't go up to someone and say, 'Hi, I'm Wonderwall,"' says Meg.

In preparation for my exotic holiday I've dyed my hair platinum blonde again," wrote Meg Mathews in an edition of her Sunday Times 'Yeah!' column.
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Noel and Meg publicly announced their split in July 2000 and Noel has previously said that he foresaw it coming before that, so in the article below we take a look at Noels ex-wife and mother of Noels daughter Anais.Noel state in an interview in an UK newspaper interview in June 2001 that: "I just walked straight past Meg when I saw her in court.
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After I had split up with Meg, some people said: 'How did you end up with that lot?Everybody hates them in London.' Well, I don't particularly like them, but I don't hate anyone."

First, a bit of history.Meg Mathews was born on the Channel Island of Guernsey off the north west coast of France in 1967 and brought up in South Africa.After attending a British boarding school she gave up on a foundation course in "boring old Norwich" and made her way to the more fashionable environs of Kensington Market.
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Claims to have introduced Noel to Meg.

" I took her over to Amsterdam with this girl called Kadamba Simmonds, that model who was murdered last year - she went out with Liam, Naseem, people like that.We all stopped in the room together, and that's where she met Noel.After I left Creation, I had an office above Meg's in Baker Street.She has paid her dues to get there.She used to work with Carl Flavour, who looked after Ronin and 23 Skidoo - they had a DJ, remix and production agency called Flavour Management.Who was the little dread guy they had ... DJ fucking Cheddar Cheese or something?So anyway, rightly or wrongly, she was in the right place at the right time, and she grafted.Another thing I know - because I was fucking there - is that Oasis wouldn't have had the input into medialand if Meg hadn't opened the door to it.When they first met, she was a very switched-on, connected, fashionable person, and Noel was a bit of a cloth-cap, 'down from the North' bloke.She dressed him.She took this working-class, terrace semi-casual into a high fashion thing, and that complemented a lot of the growth of Oasis.
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"It's dead easy to knock Meg now - because she looks a twat when you read that column.
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Meg was her PA in the early '90s.Currently contemplating relaunching her solo career.

"Before I met her she was a receptionist at a health club in Ladbroke Grove.Meg wanted to get into the music industry and a lot of people from Warners (Betty's record company) would go to this gym and Meg managed to befriend them.At the time I was travelling a lot and I needed some help and my A&R man suggested Meg.
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Meg styles herself.I went to the launch of Marco Pierre White's Titanic restaurant and it was filled with loads of great rock'n'roll people.It was fantastic, and she was wearing an amazing lavender jacket and a floor-length A-line tweed lavender skirt, both by Chanel.She looked incredible.No one else could have carried that off."
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Editor of Esquire magazine, who put Meg - perched atop a Jaguar XJS - in their 'Best of British' 1999 calendar (she was March)

"With the calendar we tried to go for the type of women that our readers would go for, and it was far more interesting to get people like Meg involved rather than unknown 17-year-old girls in bikinis.
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Meg told me that she'd bought the dress she was wearing in Miss Selfridge and she had this beautiful diamond cross that Noel had given her.
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But how do you put Meg Mathews in that category?
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"Meg's a fucking cool woman, man, she's a pillar of strength.
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Agency society photographer who's photographed Meg on a number of occasions

"She's normally up for a picture and does play up to the camera.You get some people who shy away from the camera and make sure you don't get a shot, but Meg will pose up with her friends and have a laugh.I'd say that it's always worth taking a picture of her because that picture will always sell.I think at the moment she's probably at her highest profile.The last time I saw her it was at a party at Brown's, the after-party of Tara Palmer-Tomkinson's birthday party at Tramps.I'd say that if there's a good party on there's a 50/50 chance that Meg Mathews will be there."
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"Basically Fran and Meg said to us, 'Just give us a table and we'll fill it with stars.
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"The impression I get of their set-up is that Meg is hardly in the office and it's actually Fran that does most of the running around.
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I've met Meg a few times in the Met Bar and there was one night when there was a weird confrontation between her and Noel.I was talking to Paul from The Lighthouse Family and Meg comes running over going to him, Aw fucking hell, I love your music, you're fucking amazing, you're one of my favourite bands,' blah blab blab.
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"The thing that I really liked about Meg was that when she was working at Creation [as Artist Liaison; or party planner] she always managed to sort everyone out with tickets no matter how difficult the job.She organised the Knebworth hospitality area for Oasis and you can imagine what a mindfuck that would have been.But she'd return people's calls no matter who they were.I do think that she gets bad press.I can see what problems people seem to have with her but in my experience she's always been a lovely person.I know that she goes shopping a lot and spends a load of money but she's only doing what most people would do if they had her lifestyle.The last time I saw them was probably a couple of Fridays ago just before they were going off to Thailand.I popped round Supernova Heights and Meg had flu so she was curled up on the sofa.Mind you, I'm sure a good trip to the FarEast would have sorted that one out."