"Have you read Fifty Shades of Grey?" my friend Aileen was leaning in, her voice lowered conspiratorially.

Her eyeballs moved in their sockets extreme left and right; a strand of hair was in her cappuccino. I wondered if we were being followed.

"No," I breathed.

"Get it. It's basically porn....

When I last met Seal he asked for my phone number as we concluded the interview. He never called, but given he met Heidi Klum shortly afterwards, I can hardly blame him. For languid-limbed supermodel has more of a ring to it than 5'3" redhead.

Now their marriage is over,...

There I was passing a shelf of specially-ordered Burns Night haggises at Waitrose in Canary Wharf when I overheard a woman speaking to her friend.

"Any Scottish people I've known have always been really arrogant and loud," she said in an East End London accent.

"Yeah. Big drinkers too," her...

There was a time when I saw Jodie Marsh more often than my family or friends. I was a showbiz reporter on The Sun and she, at the height of her fame, would go to the opening of a zip so long as there was a C-list penis or flashing...