Kimberley Quinn and SIMON HOGGART??? The NOTW has really lost it this time....

[JanH]

story (allegedly)

Aloha, please let poor old John slip peacefully into his twilight years unmolested even by the thought of predatory Kimberly...

Alma was a one, wasn't she? But Kimberley's got a bit of work to do to match her - a musical genius, an artistic genius, an architectural genius, a literary great - SH and DB don't come anywhere close!

I feel a bit better about my list now!

Hoggart made even more of an idiot of himself by denying it at first...and then he started saying how lovely Dimberly is, and now they wrote nice things about each other in their columns....how LOVELY that must be for his wife, eh?

Simon Hoggart's Round Robin

Here we are at the end of another year, and what a year it's been. First my bit of skirt goes and gets herself hitched, then she tells me our extra marital 'lunch' sessions will have to become less frequent as she's taken up with a senior cabinet minister with a tight schedule. I was so pissed off I nearly told the wife. Oh, well, must go - our eldest has had 'O Come All Ye Faithful' tattoo'ed on his back and I need to find a laser removal kit before Friday.

i know i'm being a stupid cow...but i hate when people get condemned for their sex lives. it's their business. I know there are children involved, but they are their children and people don't seem to get so excised (sp? meaning?) by other stuff that i think it in a different ball park in terms of immorality (smacking children for example). I know i'll get flamed for this, and i also appreciate that this is a light hearted thread and i'm being all holier than thou, which i am assuredly not...but i really really couldn't give a toss whether politicians or anyone else shags around. it's not what i choose to do (anymore ) but neither is it anything to do with me imo. thought it was a terrible thing that the monica lewinsky thing brought clinton down. btw, i hate david blunkett.

I don't think politicians should get sacked just for having an affair either. But I feel sorry when marriages get wrecked and spouses and children get humiliated so publicly. The all-married, all-shagging Spectator crowd are behaving like horny students despite being in their 40s, 50s or 60s and it's a bit pathetic.

But whose children are they?
It's heading out of tragedy (except for the kids and betrayed partners) and into the realms of farce IMO - I mean, who will man no3 be??

Jeremy Paxman? John Humphrys?

sobernoel, thanks, still doing the lights on the tree.................but pmsl

she has no shame and is obviously just a slag who doesnt care about catching VD or HIV

I'm exhausted just reading about it! How did she find the energy?
Yuck yuck yuck.
DB good at naming her lovers while keeping his own frolics under wraps ? he seems to have been putting himself about a bit too (although not all at the same time as far as I know).

LOL @ sobernoel! pmsl!

Yes, sobernoel - very funny

And agree this explains why the nanny's visa was so urgent...with all that shagging, who has time for childcare?

And I doubt it was Blunkett who leaked this story - I bet it was common knowledge at the Sextator and someone wanted the money...

I still feel quite faint at the very thought of it all. Am obviously not sufficiently quality journalist material

Publishing is clearly not a terribly demanding job, though. Maybe if she'd known about Mumsnet she wouldn't have time for so many lovers....

Oh, you've just got MUCH better taste, MI!

In all the Sextator scandals the women are reasonably gorgeous and the men look like bags of washing. Why IS this?

I told my publisher what one of the papers said about Quinn's job and apparently umlimited spare time at the weekend: 'publishers are just there to sell the advertising'. Do you think she'll bring it up at my appraisal?

Publishers are tarts by nature though....all that flirting with advertisers...could get to be second nature..
(I say this hoping no publisher I have ever known reads this and knows who I am!)

so is this sort of going on one of the perks of the job in the journalistic world then? or is kimberley just inordinately energetic?

Don't ask me, I don't work in an office.

Thank heavens.

hardly a perk, more a punishment, I'd have thought! None of the magazines I've ever worked on have been like this - clearly they haven't been Tory enough .