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

[JanH]

story (allegedly)

I've never even heard of anything like this. It MUST be something in the water....

That's a relief, Aloha, I was wondering if I'd just had a very sheltered career...

so come on then edam, who else was DB shagging?

Some civil servant in his office... v. boring

maybe we could embelish it

I'd forgotten Rod Liddle was also bonking someone at the Speccie ? who on earth was actually putting the magazine together while everyone else was 'busy'?

She was a secretary - I think I saw this story in the Grauniad last week.

She was also about 20 yrs younger than him. And he was taking viagra, presumably because he couldn't keep up.

it was VIAGRA in the water!

She must have had Boris - or was he just too young...........

Too young and too Tory, I suspect.
She likes 'em old and left-wing/working class. Anyway, Boris was, ahem, 'busy' himself, wasn't he, with the lovely Petronella.
Honestly, I've worked in quite a few magazine offices and even a sniff of office romance had us all in a frenzy, but it was never like this.
Motherinferior, you may pretend to feel left out, but let's face it, Blunkett, Hoggart, Quinn, and I'll bet, mystery man no.4, aren't exactly love's young dream are they?

Mystery Man no 4?!
This is getting like that notorious 60s divorce case - you know, the one with the Duchess and the pic of the 'headless man'?

hang on, there really is a mystery man number 4?!

Apparently so....! The papers are alluding to yet another man she was having an affair with. Please, please don't let it be John Humphreys. Does anyone know a list of contributors to the Spectator, ideally over 50 and vaguely left-wing?

Is there a man number 4? Good lord! You are all making me laugh, great round robin sobernoel and lol Aloha at 'with all that shagging, who has time for childcare?' ha ha.

I still think nobody has time for a Mumsnet habit and an affair.

The contributors page only has Boris on it!

Maybe one of the Barclay brothers? They're in charge now...

Is SH's reference having sexual relationship with her an attempt to make it into a Clinton/Lewinskyesque relationship? especially the emphatic way he insists the children could not be his?! Oh it really is too horrible, I'm getting pictures in my mind and it isn't pretty! I'm off to join Sophie and not think about this any more.

btw, is Alicia Monckton (ran off with Rod Liddle) related to Rosa Monckton (Dominic Lawson's wife)? Or indeed to John Monckton (cousin of Rosa, financier murdered recently in Chelsea)?

This thread is taking over my life...

Man No 4?!

In the words of Bob Dylan

"Come all without, come all within
You'll not see nothing like the Mighty Quinn"

Hoggart was one of the 'without's by the sound of it [smut icon]

my spy at the speccy says it was common knowledge that kimberly and hoggart were chummy but no one seems to have scented sex (ewwww)

You think you've got a problem? I've been googling 'spectator columnist' - only person I can definitely rule out (Oh, God, I hope so!) is Matthew Parris...
Peter Oborne has five kids, so he's a possible, obviously. Stephen Glover?

from my deep throat: man no4 is said to have been involved in Kim landing the job in the first place, ie high-up speccy/teleg group admin.