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If you met Rupert Campbell=Black - you WOULD punch him on the nose and call him a wanker

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MamaGrr · 02/02/2007 12:29

...so why did I quiver over him as a teen, reading JC?

WHY?

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MrsJohnCusack · 04/02/2007 20:39

Tony Baddingham

and his mistress was Cameron Cook, who Patrick ended up with.

WWWCampbellBlack · 04/02/2007 20:38

Sinister! THANK YOU!

WWWCampbellBlack · 04/02/2007 20:38

Some awful pun on the bar name, can't remember.

tribpot · 04/02/2007 20:38

The Bar Sinister, classic name!

tribpot · 04/02/2007 20:37

No, it was Corinium, Corinium Television. Bas sounded yum. Tony's wife left him for Dame Enid Spink, fact fans.

WWWCampbellBlack · 04/02/2007 20:37

Bas is the brother isn't he and owns the dark and sexy wine bar where everyone meets for illicit affairs

Oh it all makes me long for the Cotswolds!

MamaCampbellBlack · 04/02/2007 20:36

Corinthium?

Tony was awwwful

Bas always sounded fit though

WWWCampbellBlack · 04/02/2007 20:36

Oh yes, Taggie is Declan and Maud's daughter isn't she?

MamaCampbellBlack · 04/02/2007 20:36

bless Taggie, she was very sweet.

Helen is a pita

WWWCampbellBlack · 04/02/2007 20:35

Tony in Rivals is slippery dapper but warped md of something or other isn't he? Corinium?

tribpot · 04/02/2007 20:35

yes - read Rivals recently and it was gripping stuff! Cameron lived with RCB but in the end he could not resist the allure of Taggie (sister to Patrick).

WWWCampbellBlack · 04/02/2007 20:34

Oh NOW I remember him, now you mention Cameron! ("the smell of Fracas, the sharp sexy scent she wore"!!) And of course it was Yeats not Keats, Maud Gonne, not mists and mellow fruitfulness etc

God, I love Jilly Cooper. Although I thought the ending of Wicked was really unnecessary and shocking and out of character.

MamaCampbellBlack · 04/02/2007 20:34

i MUST dig out my old books and re-live it all

THis thread brings it all back

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MamaGrr · 04/02/2007 20:32

ooh yes and Cameron was in love with RCB

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tribpot · 04/02/2007 20:15

MrsJC, we also share a common love for Mr John Cusack we are soul sisters indeed.

Declan's passion was Yeats, not Keats (honestly ladies, let's refresh our poetic memories). And Patrick was his scrumptious 21-year old son (I was younger when I read the book!) who ended up with Cameron Cook, the wildly glamorous director of programmes at Corinium telly. Honestly, I do think in the recent books Jilly has failed to produce a similarly fabulous cast of characters.

LucyJones · 04/02/2007 20:09

Patrick ends up with the mistress of Tony somone in Rivals.

WWWCampbellBlack · 04/02/2007 20:07

Oh, odd, I don't remember Patrick O'Hara at all! But did quite like the sound of Declan, who was erudite, clever, sexy AND kind.

MrsJohnCusack · 04/02/2007 20:06

luke in polo v.sexy too. Rather too good for Perdita I think...

LucyJones · 04/02/2007 20:04

Patrick was Declan's son...
I wouldn't want RCB in his early days, but definitely once he fell in love with Taggie - much more attractive then

MrsJohnCusack · 04/02/2007 20:04

Patrick was the son

MrsJohnCusack · 04/02/2007 20:03

must totally agree with Tribpot on the more attractive Clarkson simile - that's it exactly

WWWCampbellBlack · 04/02/2007 20:03

Wasn't it Declan O'Hara? Who loved Keats and wore flourescent socks to stop his family pinching them.

WWWCampbellBlack · 04/02/2007 20:02

OK, so he wasn't a polo player, true, but he runs a yard and he was a showjumper then. I stand corrected. I don't think he's REMOTELY like Clarkson (yuk!yuk!) and I don't think you'd be laughing, I think you'd be (or I would be, anyway!) swooning and falling into bed with him very fast because he's so handsome and flirtatious (yeah right, that I'd be his type, in my dreams ) and charistmatic.

tribpot · 04/02/2007 20:01

Patrick O'Hara for me

LucyJones · 04/02/2007 20:00

I would rather have Luke in Polo