http://www.dailystar.co.uk/goss/view/45314/Ronnie-s-girl-hurt-in-club-brawl/ RONNIE'S GIRL HURT IN CLUB BRAWL
26th July 2008
By Amy Watts and Charli Morgan
WITH his rock star posturing, skinny jeans and ludicrous mop of Super Noodle hair, it’s fair to say that Johnny Borrell cuts a rather unlikely hero figure.
But that is just what the Razorlight frontman, 28, was to Ronnie Wood’s “art buddy” Ekaterina Ivanov, when trouble broke out at London’s fab Punk club.
Katia, 20, who ran away to Ireland with the married Rolling Stone, was extremely grateful for the intervention – after being kicked until she bled. Our source explained: “Katia arrived with a group of friends and seemed in high spirits, but wasn’t entirely welcome.
“It was a bit like the parting of the Red Sea when she came in. Quite a few people shot her filthy looks and started to mutter under their breath.
“Ronnie’s daughter Leah is well liked among London’s arty crowd and a lot of people thought Ekaterina had a nerve rocking up.”
But then events took an even more bizarre twist when the emaciated elbows of a group of fashionably-clad haircuts on sticks suddenly surrounded the Russian.
“Someone shouted something about her not caring a jot about Ronnie’s family,” our observer duly noted. “And then a bit of a scrap seemed to break out. It was packed so it really turned into a bit of a tussle.
“Johnny didn’t hesitate, though. He dived straight in there and pulled Ekaterina out of the mêlée. But by then she’d already been kicked in the leg and was bleeding.”
Borrell, of course, is a close friend of boozy old Ron, 61, so he had a vested interest in saving Katia from the gayest scrap ever.
He even managed to break up the catfight while still clutching a copy of John Fante’s cult classic, Ask The Dust.
We’d suggest he doesn’t attempt the same trick in a more butch boozer.