Charley Coutts: celebrity interviewer
From Nick Cage to De Niro
Amanda Scrimgeour: Glamour hound
Some people are born to rake over the coals of ancient scandals
Fenella Jeavons: Sponsorship Facilitator
Milking the Philistines — someone’s got to do it
Professor Barry Mole: Scholarly Obsessive
Some things should stay buried
The Rev Colin Godley: Media vicar
A man for all airwaves
Dr Gabriella Onan: Sex Historian
The straight-faced and straight-laced archaeologist of smut
A most unreliable culture warrior
Not reactionary, just drawn that way
Mike Lear: Lubricious lensman
If Mike is in any way conspicuous, it is by virtue of his sheer inconspicuousness
Frankie Ho: Controversialist
Frankie Ho runs into trouble in the literary world
Hermione Simper
Although Hermione rarely names names or dishes dirt with quite the enthusiasm that her mother did, then she too has her tales to tell
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