"I never expected anything as nasty and horrible as this. I thought I would spend the night sleeping with a bunch of spooky waxworks but it is not like that at all - the place is alive.

"The actors who play these serial killer characters are terrifying. They do not get out of character for a second, believe me. The public are in for some truly sensational scenes."

The "killers" who spent the night with Tara were called Hatchet Harry, The Man In The Mask and Cage Man. Tara also took on an extra challenge in which she had to spend three minutes blindfolded and wearing a straitjacket while being tormented by her scary companions.

A Tussaud’s spokeswoman said: "During the night she also had to endure surprises and shocks. She did not really get any sleep because of the constant tormenting from the killers, but she did survive."

The Chamber Live at the central London attraction is opening to the public from today.


Tara’s Blind Date - 04/12/02
Notting Hill girl Tara Palmer-Tomkinson is going to be on Celebrity Blind Date - but doesn’t the IT girl have her own dating agency web-site? How many blind dates does a girl need?

Perhaps it’s the lure of Alex Sibley from Big Brother as a potential dating partner that had brought our Tara into Cilla’s clutches. Let’s hope Tara gets to pull more than a cracker on this Christmas edition!

Louis Walsh signs - Tara?! - 13/11/02
Can it be true? Famed Pop Rivals judge Louis Walsh has signed Tara Palmer-Tomkinson saying that she has ’a voice better than Kylie’.

She has been the nations most watchable It Girl, going publicly through drug addictions, failed romances and more recently having to cope with Yuri Gellar on I’m A Celebrity - Get Me Out Of Here! Now she is set to take the musical world by storm by singing to us. Still, if Louis Walsh (manager of Rowan Keating and Westlife) believes in her - anything is possible!

Tara is set to record a version of Nancy Sinatra’s ’These Boots Are Made For Walking’. So we will have to wait and see whether they will lead her to credibility or the nearest bargain bucket.

Tara PT Launches Her Own Website 28/04/01
Original "It" girl Tara Palmer-Tomkinson has literally revealed all on her own recently launched website.

With spending sprees that could almost rival Elton John, Tara admits on her site that she has spent £9000 in just 30 minutes on designer clothes and revealed that even her knickers used to cost her £250 a time.

In her Confession Corner - part of www.tarapt.com - the self-confessed compulsive spender says that she is now more likely to be spotted in Topshop rather than an exclusive Gucci boutique.

The svelte 29-year-old has section called Tara’s Private Photobooth and web users will be able to see the sexy brunette in various poses including a picture of her lying on a bed in just a pair of white tarapt.com knickers.

Tara, who used to have her own column in the Sunday Times, will be compiling her own weekly gossip column with a rundown on where she’s been, who she’s met, what they are up to and who with.

And the professional socialite who will be 30 in December, revealed that she will be entering the hotel business as an adviser for the new plush Sydney Hotel in Chelsea, due to open in a few months.

The site also has an agony aunt style "Dear, Tara" page with advice on dating and how to snare the right man. Tara, who is an accomplished pianist, also talks about her childhood and reveals that as a teenager she only had two ambitions - to ride in the Grand National and appear on the Muppet Show.