Peaches Geldof has announced her plans to retire when she turns eighteen in March. ‘I think I have to acknowledge when I’ve done everything,’ she admitted to a packed press conference in New York. ‘I’ve got to that point in my life when I want to take it easy. I’m looking forward to devoting my retirement to writing novels, producing and directing my own films, starting up a few companies, and solving the problems caused by world debt and poverty.’

In a busy career that has spanned journalism, fashion, television, music, and art, Peaches has been long regarded as one of the most gifted youths of her generation. Her retirement caps a lifetime marked by her quite precocious talents. ‘Only Peaches could out-retire everybody else,’ said social editor to The Daily Mail, Basil Burbatridge. ‘That’s the kind of girl she is… Just when you think she can’t surprise you again, out she comes with another simply stunning idea. In her thinking, she’s head and shoulders above the rest of humankind.’

Peaches is the daughter of charity campaigner and pop vocalist, Sir ‘I Don’t Like Mondays’ Bob. Much to many commentators’ disappointment, Sir Bob has yet to announcing his own retirement and plans to tour the UK next year with his new band, ‘I Don’t Like Mondays’. An album of the same name will be released at the same time, with many pundits predicting that the single, ‘I Don’t Like Mondays’, will be a bit hit for the singer. When asked to comment on his daughter’s imminent retirement, Sir Bob quipped: ‘Actually, I don’t really mind Mondays…’

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