Belle De Jour revealed to be

[onebatmother]

...a respected specialist in developmental neurotoxicology and cancer epidemiology in a hospital research group in Bristol.

thought you were going to say... a mumsnetter.

look closely at that photo.
I wouldn't be in the slaitest bit surpraised.

i like the way she's planning to tell her parents this weekend... let's hope they don't read the grauniad, eh...

nobody's parents read the graun

whass the cawk thread?

fucking hell, she can kiss goodbye to her career. she's insane.

i rather suspect she's not that fussed about her science career...

she's a terrible, terrible writer, though. i had to read her book for a work thing (don't ask) and it was hideous.

she is insane. that is seriously self-sabotaging - she fessed up bcs 'anonymity is boring - I don't even get to go to my own booklaunches'. I think she kind of defines 'risk-taking behaviours' no?

I feel a bit odd bcs I was convinced taht it was written by a male Spectator columnist or similar.

Actually, someone like Rod Hull Liddle.

me too. you're absolutely right about teh risk taking behaviour, of course.

Massively attention-seeking too, all of it. Expresses (imo) predictably damaged and self-loathing psyche concordant with her initial choice 1. to be a prostitute 2. to write about it

yyy. another brainy blonde fuck-up. neeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeext.

oh you are baaad [girn]
Nighto.

sorry that was to aitch
but you're absol. right dittany about meeja. too good to be true. She's on the timesonline site, all gussied up.

oh jeeesus. lol. so daddy's The Missionary and she just wants to be saved, does she? lol.

what fer real? He actually helps prostitutes or 'helps' is euphemism?

bloody hell.

lol re student loans.

Well it is a good kick in the nuts to all those (mostly male) journos who insisted that Belle Du Jour couldn't be a real woman/sex worker because the blog had too many long words in it.

the book didn't have any long words in it, sgb, did they cut them out?

oh but it was vair 'literary' Aitch

unfortunately my copy has long gone to the charity shop (how mortifying to hand that over) or i could easily disprove that.

I just read "preparing for the viva" as "preparing for the vulva"

Agree re. student loans...

CAWK is CRap Academics with Kids (who haven't done enough research)

I am a MainStay

Blimey.

But I think she'd have had to be selling sex to the VC to lose her job. Very difficult to be sacked, even these days... And since she's not a frontline medic or anything, is there an ethical conflict? I dunno.