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Nick Grimshaw is GRIMEY: The Infamous Stripper Party (Harry's 19th Birthday)

I've been digging into this party since March and it's now June and I still feel like I'm missing so much, but this is everything I could find and all of the conclusions I've been able to draw. Sorry this post took so damn long, I literally kept uncovering more details and it just kept spiralling like a russian nesting doll of conflicting info.

Because of tumblr's image limit, I've posted my extensive photo findings from this party onto a sideblog @1d-hq, and linked those posts throughout. Strap in, Nick haters and Harry lovers alike. And yes, I made a whole sideblog for this post.

Table of Contents;

Source Breakdowns

Timeline

Contradictions

Guestlist

Unidentified

Details on Guests

The Stripper

DMs with Luis Govela

Niall

Unknowns/Questions

Final Notes

Source Breakdowns

This is so conflicting it's not even funny, but I did my best. To make this easier on myself, here's every article/source in chronological posted order, with what it claimed about the party. Major publication articles I didn't include just said the same shit earlier ones had said, so I cut them to cut repetitiveness.

For article timestamps, based on either common sense (ie: the hour is more reasonable in British time than my time) or context clues (ie: one article had the "3am" tag) I determined if they were already set to British time or not. I genuinely couldn't find a foolproof method to deduce this, though, so I could be wrong on a few of these (I even tried setting my laptop to British time).

I also screenshotted and posted all of the articles on my sideblog, so you can read them without giving clicks to the publications if that's something you'd like to avoid.

DailyMail #1 posted February 1st at 9:32am (post version)

About the day prior to Harry's birthday, Thursday January 31st 2013.

Early in the evening Harry (18), Louis (21), and 5SOS played football.

Harry (18) then went to La Bodega Negra with Nick Grimshaw (28) and James Corden (34) for food.

Harry (18) then went to Groucho Club, still with Nick (28) and James (34), where Caroline Flack (33) was also partying. (Allegedly Cara Delevingne was also there).

Harry (18) left Groucho at some point (unknown if with or without Nick and James) and went to Base Nightclub. He left Base at 3:20am, ending the night.

DailyMail #2 posted February 2nd at 9:16am (post version)

About Harry's birthday, Friday February 1st 2013.

Guest list claimed to be 39 people.

Stripper info: Claimed she cost £100, was dressed as a cop, stripped down to underwear for 10 minutes, forced Harry to bury his face in her chest, and she slapped Harry (19) with her truncheon (police stick).

Claimed location was initially the Alibi Club in Dalston, London, before moving to a "friend's" nearby house party at 3:00am, going home at 4:30am. Implied Harry (19) went to dinner with (at least) Theo Hutchcraft (26) before going to Alibi.

Claimed none of Harry's bandmates were present. Claimed Harry didn't invite them.

Metro posted February 2nd at 11:20am (post version)

Claimed location was that Harry (19) and his "cronies" went for dinner before heading to the Alibi, then later the "friend's" house, ending the night at 4:30am.

Claimed Niall (20) was present.

Deleted Sun Article #1 posted February 2nd at 1:51pm (post version)

Stripper info: Claimed she gave Harry (19) a lap dance, that she was dressed as a cop.

Claimed location was that Harry (19), Niall (20), and Nick (28) started at Rita's Bar & Grill, before heading to Alibi until 4:30am, no mention of the friend's house party.

Claimed Niall (20) was present, quoting, "Niall told a fan in a message on Twitter that he was "so shocked" and he had "never seen him so scared before."

Deleted Sun Article #2 posted February 2nd at 2:14pm (post version)

Stripper info: Her presence and the lap dance are mentioned. It's implied that the stripper portion and cake portion of the party happened at Rita's.

Claimed location was Rita's Bar & Grill for dinner and cake, then the Alibi club for the party. Claimed Harry (19) left Alibi at 4:30am, again no mention of the friend's house party.

Claimed Niall (20) was present.

Deleted Sun Article #3 posted February 3rd at 12:25am (post version)

This is a Sun exclusive where they claim to have interviewed Harry (19) at 1D's tour rehearsals the morning of Feb. 2nd. There are multiple alleged direct quotes, but I'm always skeptical of written interviews.

Stripper info: Mentioned the lap dance again, added that she forgot her truncheon (police stick) so she brought nunchucks instead. Claimed she put him under "arrest." Claimed a guest at the party recognized the stripper as someone he'd gone to college with.

Claimed the stripper set happened at the Alibi, which clashes with the prior article claiming the cake occurred at Rita's, and both insinuating the cake and stripper parts were one in the same. Claimed Harry left at 3:00am for the friend's house party, ending the night at 4:30am.

Mirror posted February 3rd at 3:00am (post version)

Guest list is claimed to be 70 people.

Stripper info: Mentioned the £100 cost of the stripper again, the lap dance of course, claims her performance was only 3 minutes. Claimed Nick hired the stripper because he "didn't know what else" to buy Harry.

Claimed location is initially an unnamed location until midnight, then the Alibi, before Harry leaves at 3:00am with "Eve Lee" for a friend's house party.

Claimed Niall was present, and that he flirted with the stripper. Mentions his tweet the following morning. "A friend" direct quote, “The irony of it was that apparently it was Niall who got close to the stripper, Harry wasn’t remotely interested.” Claimed Harry invited the rest of the band but only Niall showed.

“Zayn is keeping his head down at the moment, he thought better of going to a party where there was a going to be a stripper.”

This article claimed 1D had tour rehearsals at 9:00am the next morning on the 2nd.

DailyNews posted February 4th at 11:01am (post version)

Stripper info: Much of the same, but this one claims her first name is Millie, citing the Sun as having stated that originally. Claims 'Millie' owns a fashion photography business in London.

Timeline

From everything above and the images linked later, this is the most accurate timeline I've been able to put together.

January 31st 2013

Harry, Louis, and 5SOS played football.

Harry went to dinner at La Bodega Negra with Nick Grimshaw and James Corden.

Harry went to Groucho with Nick and James, where Caroline Flack also was.

Harry went to Base Nightclub (unknown if still with Nick and James) until 3:20am.

February 1st 2013

Harry and the 40-70 guests started the night at Rita's Bar & Grill for dinner, where the striptease and cake cutting happened. They left at midnight.

Harry and the 40-70 guests went to Alibi club until 3:00am.

Harry and a "small group of friends" moved to a "friend's house party" before calling it a night at 4:30am.

February 2nd 2013

One Direction tour rehearsals started at 9:00am.

At some point, The Sun interviewed Harry for their exclusive.

Proving Locations

Contradictions

The Sun contradicted itself by saying Harry stayed at the Alibi until 4:30am in their first 2 articles, but then in their 3rd saying he went to the house party at 3:00am until 4:30am.

The guest list was said to be 39 by the DailyMail, 70 by the Mirror.

The quote saying Zayn chose not to attend Harry's birthday because of the stripper is impossible. Zayn couldn't have possibly known about the stripper, considering Nick didn't even tell Harry ahead of time since it was meant to be a surprise. How would Zayn have known in advance?

Earlier articles claimed the stripper had a truncheon (police stick) but later ones claimed she'd forgotten it and had nunchucks instead.

The stripper's set was claimed to be 10 minutes long by the DailyMail, but 3 minutes by the Mirror.

The first Feb. 2nd DailyMail article claimed none of Harry's bandmates were present, but then Metro claimed Niall was there and other publications adopted that narrative aswell. Could chalk it up to shitty research, but DailyMail is the most reputable out of all of these (in my experience), so I don't know.

Guestlist

The names and ages (at the time) of everyone I think was at this party anytime from Rita's to the Alibi to the house party. I did my best to account for birthdays, but I'm bad at math so please let me know if any of these are off.

Big thanks to @voxina for helping me identify some of these people from the photos.

Harry Styles (19)

Nick Grimshaw (28)

Gemma Styles (23)

Niall Horan (20)

Theo Hutchcraft (26)

Miquita Oliver (28)

Pixie Geldof (22)

Luis Ortega Govela (25)

Eve Lee (Age Unknown)

Aimee Phillips (31)

Marco Gastel (27)

Danielle & Nicole Kahlani (30)

Preston Mahon (~60s)

George & Jake Barnett (25)

Sophie Sleigh-Johnson (25)

McKenzi Sager (28)

Unidentified:

Notable people I really wish were identified:

The non-1D bodyguard

These photographers

Link to ALL of the photos (question marks denote who is unidentified if anyone would like to take a crack at it)

Details on Guests:

Nick organized this party, and presumably invited everyone since the guest list is mainly comprised of his friends, lower-tier celebs, and groupies. Although it's fair to assume Harry had at least some invite power, with Gemma being there.

Speaking of Gemma, she isn't mentioned in any of the articles I found. Despite being Harry's literal sister, she isn't brought up once. I found out she was there because there's a selfie with Harry at Rita's Bar & Grill. She isn't seen in any other photos from the rest of the night, so I think it's safe to assume she left before they hit Alibi club.

Theo Hutchcraft is a name I see around a lot. He seems to be musically involved in Harry's solo career, if I'm not mistaken? I don't know much about his involvement with 1D in the band days, but I know this isn't the first time I've seen him at an event with 1D.

Miquita Oliver, Pixie Geldof, Luis Govela, and Aimee Phillips are all friends of Nick's. Everyone bar Luis I've seen at other Nick-centric hangouts where Harry was involved, but that's a timeline post for another day.

Eve Lee is identified in one of the articles, but I can't find anything about her online. I reckon she's a groupie? Or if she was a celebrity, she hasn't stood the test of time for her own name on google search results. I don't even know how old she is, which is always fun.

Marco Gastel is an interesting one. He's a Modest! Management employee, and was at the time, too. From a quick google search, I found photos of him with members of 1D and other Modest employees from back in the band days. He could certainly be the 'manager' Harry is alleged quoting 'ran to turn off CCTV,' but since I don't have enough specifics, I can't say for sure. Finding this guy's age was a hot mess, I had to reverse-engineer it off his LinkedIn based on when he started school as a kid, so it may be off by a year up or down.

Danielle and Nicole Kahlani are twins, they do hairstyling and makeup artistry respectively, and I believe they're linked with Lou Teasdale as well as being in Nick's friend group.

Preston Mahon was a 1D bodyguard, so his presence makes perfect sense. His birthday isn't listed online, but my amazing friend @summer-lovin-09 found a post from his ex wife who said in 2016 that he was in his 50s. Since it's been a decade, that puts him in his 60s.

George and Jake Barnett are also twins. George is Pixie Geldof's husband, although in 2013 they weren't yet married. Jake I can't 100% confirm was present, since the photo he's meant to be in doesn't fully show his face, so it could just be George again, who knows. George and Jake are in a band called 'These New Puritans.'

Sophie Sleigh-Johnson is also a bit hard to identify, but I feel confident about her face matching the photo. I don't know jack shit about her, but google says she's an author, so that's something.

McKenzi Sager is some sort of fitness guy, again I must thank @summer-lovin-09 for tracking him down just from a photo. I don't know much about him, but I linked his Instagram.

The Stripper

This is a compilation of all the info I could find on specifically the stripper. I found this article quite literally at the last minute in my research- I spent MONTHS trying to identify this woman.

Her name is Camilla Robson, which is where "Millie" came from. It's her nickname.

She's 30 years old.

Nick hired her, she's one of his friends, she is a pole dance photographer normally, and she did the job as a "favour to a friend."

Nick paid her the £100 to do the striptease.

According to Camilla's mother, she greatly regrets taking the job.

She's fucking loaded and definitely didn't need the money from the strip gig.

She was asked for a comment and declined, hiding her face.

This article was posted on February 4th 2013, only days after the party.

DailyMail source

All Camilla Photos

Can I be so real? This reeks of blackmail. She didn't need the money, but she took the job anyway despite not usually doing that sort of thing, and she immediately regretted it only days later. Also the whole phrasing of "favour for a friend" implies she owed her "friend" (Nick) something, and this was how she paid that debt.

All in all, it's concerning that she took the job at all given how young Harry was, and even more concerning overall that she regretted it so heavily right after. What happened here?

DMs with Luis Ortega Govela

Back in March, I dmed this guy. This was long before I'd considered making a post about this date, so I didn't go in with much of a plan, but it's still notable to mention the dms.

When I was hunting down photos of this party, I found one that was posted by Instagram user luisortegag, aka Luis Govela. It was this photo;

From inspecting the date element, I can see it was posted on Feb. 2nd, 2013 at 3:16am which I believe is British time since the actual post shows as being posted on the 1st for me, in American time, 5 hours back.

This means it was taken either right before Harry left the Alibi (unlikely because what club has what looks to be a bed lying around?), or shortly after he arrived at the "friend's house party." Personally, I suspect the friend was Luis, but that's pure speculation on my end. My main reasoning is that the friend is not named, despite the house party being mentioned by multiple articles, and Luis is one of the more niche people involved in this party, for being a friend of Nick's.

This photo raises so many questions for me. Why did Luis take it? Why did he post it? Where is Harry at this point- Alibi or the house party? Why is the photo so close to him? Since this was taken at 3am with him clearly unconscious, why did Harry allegedly keep partying until 4:30am?

Well, I tried to dm him in search of more info. I didn't expect anything to come of it, since none of my other attempts to dm people have ever gotten a reply. But this one did. (Oh, and these dms are from my anonymous burner, I don't have a main instagram at the moment)

Fair warning, because of my lack of a plan, I came on quite accusatory for no reason lmao. No wonder he blocked my ass.

He replied to my first message, then stopped replying after I mentioned Nick. He kept reading my messages for weeks, though- sometimes a few hours later, sometimes the second I sent them, which means he must have been regularly checking the chat if not leaving it open on one of his devices. He finally blocked me after that last message (which is why his name says "Instagram User" in some screenshots that were taken after he blocked me).

I don't know what to make of these dms, it's just weird. His behavior- replying once, then reading my messages but refusing to say anything more, before finally blocking me after WEEKS makes me wonder even more why he took and posted that photo of Harry. It's just such a strange bought of confusion, everything surrounding this man.

Niall

Okay, I have a crazy theory, but stick with me here. I don't think Niall was actually at the party. Papped outside the venue? Yes. In attendance for the festivities? No. This is by-far the most speculative part of this entire post, but allow me to break down my reasonings:

I have dozens of photos collected of this party, including many non-professional candids taken by guests. None of the photos from inside the venue actually feature Niall except one that I'll get into. The only other photos featuring him are pap photos outside one of the venues, and photos in a car.

Niall wasn't anywhere to be seen for the cake part, which you'd think Harry's bandmate-who's-like-a-brother would be there for. He also wasn't around for the striptease, despite articles claiming he was there, making comments, flirting with the stripper, even. Nowhere to be seen.

Niall wasn't mentioned in the first article to come out early on the 2nd. It came out 8 minutes before Niall tweeted about having had a "right laugh" at the party, which I think was the first 'confirmation' of his attendance. That first article actually claimed none of 1D had been present at Harry's party, saying he hadn't invited them.

Niall's tweet came out at 9:40am, and what started at 9:00am that morning? Tour rehearsals. Was he told to tweet that? And then, when the Sun came by later for their exclusive interview, were they fed the narrative that Niall was there? Was Metro fed the same narrative, and then other publications followed suit?

There's the supposed tweet at a fan where he said he was "so shocked" and had "never seen [Harry] so scared before" about the stripper that simply does not exist.

I did find a photo that looked to be of Harry and Niall together at the party, in the correct outfits and everything, but... it's a manip. A manip I could find no original source for, mind you. I have no idea who made it, or how old it is. It was on Pinterest with no credits.

Here's the manip vs. the original photos:

(Oh, and quiet credit to my friend who wishes to remain anonymous for figuring out that this was a manip and hunting down the original photos back in ~March or ~April)

I wanna focus on the original Niall photo (far right), for a second. This is the only photo I have of Niall actually inside a venue, which I'm pretty sure from the backdrop is from Rita's Bar & Grill. Things I noticed about this pic;

The woman he's with isn't in any other photos from across this party. None of them. Does this lean towards my working theory that Niall was photographed partying on a different night entirely with the plan in mind to say he was at Harry's party?

Why would the only photo of Niall with anyone from the party be with some random woman, and not Harry, or any of the prominent guests like Nick, Miquita, Pixie, ect? You're telling me he didn't take any selfies all night except with this random woman?

All Niall Photos

I also want to discuss the pap pics outside/in the car. I will admit, he was photographed with the same bodyguard (Preston Mahon) Harry was seen with that night. Niall was actually on the right street in the pap pics, too. I matched the brick on the buildings and the style of the sidewalk to the street Alibi was on.

Things I noticed about the pap pics outside the venue;

In the background of the pics with Niall, I didn't see any of the existing party guests from the copious photos with Harry. Photos with Harry outside almost always had someone recognizable in the background, but the same can't be said for Niall. Except, of course, for the one bodyguard.

Niall is papped getting into a silver car, which at first glance looks like the same silver car Harry is papped near in several photos. Except, the wheels aren't the same. So they definitely are different cars. Not much on it's own, but within wider context I think it's notable.

With the pics of Niall inside the car, again I see nobody recognizable from the copious Harry photos. We saw dozens of people walking the street, and dozens of people inside the venues, and yet none of them were caught in any of the Niall photos? They were all just missing? Or were the Niall pics taken on a different night?

Even one pic of Niall in the car shows part of a man with a poor hairline and a blue sleeve, who is once again not anyone from the party that got snapped with Harry. I thought maybe he was that dodgy photographer in the blue fit, but nope, the photographer's got a fringe.

And lastly, there's this photo of Niall and another random woman outside of some sort of hedge. For the life of me I can't figure out where outside the photo was taken, but I do have a damning theory that the woman is the same woman as in the Harry selfie that was used in the manip.

Notice her hairline? Nose shape? Smile? If you try to look past the eye makeup being different and see her eye shape, its the same aswell. I know it's hard to see because her hair is tied up in the first one, but doesn't the texture look similar?

This would prove that Niall's pics were taken on a different day to Harry's birthday. But it could be a reach, I'll admit that.

Unknowns/Questions I Still Have

Whether or not Niall ever tweeted at a fan talking about how scared Harry was of the stripper. I lean towards it being bullshit, but who knows. I've been surprised before. I scoured Niall's twitter from Feb. 1st-5th 2013, but no such tweet exists.

Why the Sun deleted their 3 articles on this party.

Why the DailyNews cited the Sun as naming the stripper as Millie when it was the DailyMail that named her.

I need to address it or I'll scream- what the hell did Nick mean when he said he hired a stripper for Harry because he "didn't know what else" to get him? That's an insane decision. Yeah, I'm really struggling to buy a gift for my teenage friend's birthday, oh, I know! I'll hire a 30 year old stripper and not tell him!

How the hell Zayn allegedly knew about the stripper ahead of time but Harry didn't. I reckon Zayn had no idea and that article was lying out of it's ass, but again, I've been surprised before.

Final Notes

Those are my thoughts, but I'd love to hear yours. I like to encourage discussion in the notes of my posts, because I am just one person who likes to research and yap; I don't know everything and the fact that I wasn't in the fandom in 2013 means I could have missed things with my retroactive research on this party.

If anyone can identify the people I couldn't, please let me know so I can edit this post. If you feel uncomfortable reblogging/commenting, you can always send an ask or dm. If you send me asks off anon (to include photos for example) and you ask me not to post your name, I won't.

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