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EDEN CONFIDENTIAL: Ellie Goulding is pictured with former Tory minister Zac Goldsmith at Cop28 shindig months after she was said to have ended their 'friendship' so she could focus on her marriage

EDEN CONFIDENTIAL: She and Zac were, though, happy to be pictured in close proximity in a group photograph while enjoying COP28, the UN Climate Change jamboree held last month.

She and Zac were, though, happy to be pictured in close proximity in a group photograph while enjoying COP28, the UN Climate Change jamboree held last month in Dubai, which attracted a record-breaking number of private jets – even allowing for those which were temporarily frozen on the runway at Munich airport. A spokesman for the Eton-educated peer declines to comment on any detail of his relationship with Ellie, whose status as a royal favourite was underscored just over a year ago, when she jetted across the Atlantic to sing Still Falling For You for the Earthshot Prize, hosted by the Prince and Princess of Wales in Boston. Aware that the pair were repeatedly spotted together in London last year – first at a cafe in Covent Garden, where they were snapped chatting, completely at ease in each other's company, then at The Wolseley restaurant in Piccadilly, and finally at LouLou's, the nightclub at 5 Hertford Street, owned by Zac's half-brother Robin Birley – he tells me: 'They meet at environmental events, such as Cop28 in Dubai, but just as friends.'

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