As Jeremy Clarkson's ex-wife Alex Hall attempts to construct a logical explanation for why she's putting on paper her intimate dealings with a man whose right to privacy she "respected", we examine the morals of kiss and tell girls.
This much-chastised breed of (usually) attractive women are often criticised for selling off their incriminating text messages, and for daring to look sexy while they do it.
The men whose names are dragged into this public sphere by allegations of romance and betrayal often remain our public heroes, while we turn on the temptresses like a pack of righteous wolves.
You could be mistaken for thinking all kiss-and-tells are constructed by predatory fame-hungry women, all part of their pursuit for cold hard cash and their time in the spotlight.
The reality is often different.
Sometimes kissing-n-telling may be an all-too-human reaction to a nasty situation. Some women (and men) take their revenge when scorned by cutting up their lover's shirts. Others, who have the power to expose someone who is ordinarily seen as holier than though, take a different type of revenge - it's effortless, destructive and financially beneficial - it's easy to see how it lures so many women into its web.
From the first women branded 'kiss and tellers', such as Christine Keeler who, in the sixties, managed to bring a whole government into disarray, to 22-year-old Sara Leal, who recently alleged Ashton Kutcher had wooed her into bed on his wedding anniversary, they've all had different reasons for spilling what were once intimate secrets.
Hall claims that she was having an affair with her ex-husband Clarkson up until last year, and now that his strangling super injunction over her right to speak has been lifted, she's publishing a tell-all book.
In her words, she explained: "I've got a lot to say. I wanted to write my story. Jeremy was my ex-husband, that's had an impact on my life. Just because I'm not famous doesn't mean I haven't had an interesting life."
Should Hall be criticised for writing a book about her lover just because he's famous? Or is this one kiss-and-tell you approve of? Let us know below...
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