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Sienna's School Days, thesun.co.uk, unknown 2003
MOVIE hunk Jude Law is the latest fella to have fallen for stunning model and actress Sienna Miller.
Yesterday’s Bizarre showed him lovingly sucking ice cream from her fingers in New York.
But old school pals revealed yesterday that she has always been a wow with the boys.
Here we reveal the pictures of Sienna when she was a teenage rebel at her posh English boarding school.
The 21-year-old beauty is filming the remake of the classic Sixties movie Alfie, starring Jude.
And the leading man, 30, is said to be besotted with his co-star.
According to Sienna’s former pals at exclusive Heathfield School, in Ascot, Berks — motto The Merit of One is the Honour of All — Sienna had a similar effect on the lads back then too.
Bank worker Charlotte Cooper, 20, of Southampton, recalls social events with posh boys’ public schools Eton and Wellington.
She said: “There were always stories coming back about Sienna getting off with the boys.
“She was a bit of a goer. Sienna was a bit tarty. She was young but she was definitely always putting herself out there.”
Sienna herself has admitted bingeing on vodka and having a teenage snog with a school gardener she dubbed the “green-fingered god.”
She said: “I remember hitching up my horrid, long tweed skirt and sneaking off to Ascot to buy quarts of vodka. We’d drink it and then I snogged the gardener. He was quite good looking.”
Charlotte recalls: “Sienna was very, very lively. The kind of girl who would get herself into trouble and then get away with it.
“She was always smoking. She was forever wandering off into the woods with a group of girls and they’d come back smelling funny!
“And yes, with Sienna alcohol does spring to mind!
“It’s a really snobby school. It’s an all girls’ boarding school, the kind of place where women go to learn to be secretaries and wives.”
Charlotte also remembers Sienna — whose nickname was “squit” because of her tiny size-six frame — as being loud, funny and sociable and having friends in all years.
She said: “She was in most of the sporting teams, in the lacrosse first team and a member of the choir.”
Sienna also shone at drama, with leading roles in school productions of Annie and Oliver.
Several weeks ago Sienna split with model Dave Neville. They had been dating for two years. He moved out of her two-bedroom flat in Notting Hill, West London.
Levi’s model Dave, 27, who bears a striking resemblance to Jude, told The Sun of his heartache, saying at the time: “It is very difficult. Things are all right with Sienna. We are still friends. But I just need time to get over it.”
Sienna’s former stepmum, Kelly Hoppen, an interior designer, said of the actress’s latest fling: “Sienna is head over heels. She has fallen completely in love with this huge actor. He’s completely wonderful with Sienna and I am really happy.
“He is a fantastic and incredibly private man and would never talk about her in public, which is absolutely right.”
The couple are in Manhattan to finish Alfie after earlier filming in London.
Hoppen said: “It’s a very good move. The attention she’s been receiving has been unprecedented.”
Sienna plays Jude’s dream girl, Nikki, in the Alfie remake.
In London they accompanied each other to various showbiz events and nights out in celebrity haunts the Groucho Club and the Met Bar plus top restaurant Zilli Fish. And they strolled in the park with Jude’s son by Sadie Frost, Rafferty.
Sienna has spoken of the relationship with Jude.
Although she denies romance, she said: “It’s very flattering for me as an actress, at 21, to be doing a film with someone like him. He’s great.
“It’s been a very exciting few weeks, but it’s difficult to know what to say.
“You do fall a little bit in love with everyone you’re working with on some artistic level. I’m convinced of it.”
Jude and Sadie, who have three children, Rafferty, eight, Iris, three, and Rudy, one, were granted a quickie divorce last month.
Sienna, described by casting agents as “traffic-stoppingly beautiful,” is also starring in Matthew Vaughn’s upcoming film, Layer Cake.
She was born in New York in 1981 but the family moved back to London when she was two.
Her father is American investment banker Ed Miller. Mum Jo is a blonde former Tatler cover girl and yoga teacher who was David Bowie’s secretary in the Seventies. Sienna has an elder sister, Savannah.
The girls’ parents, who lived a “hippie” lifestyle, separated when Sienna was five after Ed ran off with Jo’s former best friend. A year later he was living with Kelly.
While Ed and Kelly, who are now divorced, were married, Sienna was holidaying with their A-list star pals including Elton John.
Despite being such a rebel, Sienna managed to achieve high grades in three A-levels. She then travelled the world for six months. She went on to study method acting in New York.
But Sienna’s big break was making a huge impact in modelling after being spotted by the owner of agency Select Models in the U.S.
She never looked back, modelling for Vogue, Pepsi, Prada and posing naked on horseback for the 2003 Pirelli calendar.
She made her TV debut last year in the BBC’s mini-soap Bedtime.
She then signed a seven-year contract with US entertainment giant Paramount to appear in Keen Eddie, a series about a New York detective seconded to Scotland Yard.
She also recently finished working on the movie Joy-Rider alongside ex-EastEnder Paul Nicholls.
Sienna says it was mum Jo, who lives in Fulham, West London, who always encouraged her acting.
She also remembers prancing around the house to opera music — perfect preparation for Alfie.
While ex-boyfriend Dave is nursing his broken heart, Sienna is, literally, being whirled off her feet by her new man.
She and Jude are having dancing lessons together. She says: “He’s such a great dancer. He hasn’t stepped on my toes once.”
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