Community-service boss offers Campbell shoe advice

Supermodel Naomi Campbell’s new boss has warned her to ditch her trademark stiletto heels when she turns up for cleaning duty in New York next week.

Sanitation Department deputy chief Albert Durrell advised the catwalk star to don jeans and trainers for her five-day community service punishment at the warehouse building on Manhattan’s Lower East Side.

She has been allowed to mop floors behind closed doors to avoid the media scrum that surrounded Boy George when he swept the streets in the summer.

She will still have to walk inside in full view of the cameras.

There Campbell, who was sentenced to community service for hurling a mobile phone, which hit her housekeeper on the head, will be issued with an orange reflector vest and a pair of work gloves.

“Hopefully, she’ll know not to come in high heels or anything like that,” Mr Durrell told The New York Daily News.

“Sneakers and blue jeans are a good idea.

“Wearing Manolos is not.”

Campbell will have to surrender her BlackBerry and mobile while she is working.

“This is not a club. It’s a sanitation facility,” Mr Durrell said. “We’re here to work.”

Mr Durrell also recommended that Campbell, 36, wear a baseball cap or bandanna to protect her hair.

The British beauty has pledged to auction off the boots and jeans she wears to raise money for Nelson Mandela’s children’s charity.

Last year, Campbell pleaded guilty to a misdemeanour charge of reckless assault for the attack on maid Anna Scolavino, who needed four stitches.

She was also ordered to attend anger management classes.