From M&S pants to fancy skincare: the celebrity shopping recommendations you loved the most
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Key context: <p>Whether it’s expensive regrets or brilliant bargains, we celebrate the stars’ shopping secrets – and the products that tempted you</p><p>• <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/info/2024/oct/10/sign-up-for-the-filter-newsletter-our-free-weekly-buying-advice"><strong>Don’t get the Filter delivered to your inbox? Sign up here</strong></a></p><p>Like snooping in someone else’s supermarket trolley, discovering other people’s shopping habits satisfies a certain nosiness. And never more so than when it comes to celebrities – there’s nothing more human than knowing <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/thefilter/2026/may/05/how-i-shop-with-kim-cattrall">Kim Cattrall</a> loves fish and chips, or that <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/thefilter/2026/mar/24/how-i-shop-with-henry-holland">Henry Holland</a> is a Skims guy.</p><p>And as celebrities often have the inside track <strong>– </strong>or perhaps we just think they do – on everything from coffee machines to skincare, their recommendations in our biweekly <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/thefilter/series/how-i-shop">How I Shop</a> column have inspired more than a few of your own retail habits. In some cases, however, such as <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/thefilter/2026/jun/16/how-i-shop-with-david-gandy">David Gandy</a>’s £2,500 <a href="https://go.skimresources.com/?id=114047X1572903&xs=1&url=https://www.sam-turner.co.uk/products/cobra-fortis-25fte-cordless-fine-turf-cylinder-mower&sref=https://www.theguardian.com/thefilter/2026/aug/07/newsletter-reader-how-i-shop-favourites">Cobra Fortis lawn mower</a>, the price was a little too out of reach.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/thefilter/2026/aug/07/reader-how-i-shop-favourites">Continue reading...</a> This development from The Guardian highlights ongoing changes in the sector.
Whether it’s expensive regrets or brilliant bargains, we celebrate the stars’ shopping secrets – and the products that tempted you• Don’t get the Filter delivered to your inbox? Sign up hereLike snooping in someone else’s supermarket trolley, discovering other people’s shopping habits satisfies a certain nosiness. And never more so than when it comes to celebrities – there’s nothing more human than knowing Kim Cattrall loves fish and chips, or that Henry Holland is a Skims guy.And as celebrities often have the inside track – or perhaps we just think they do – on everything from coffee machines to skincare, their recommendations in our biweekly How I Shop column have inspired more than a few of your own retail habits. In some cases, however, such as David Gandy’s £2,500 Cobra Fortis lawn mower, the price was a little too out of reach. Continue reading...
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