Sex and the Scribe

The Express | 7 Jun 1997

Women inspire him but he can’t find love. He lives by spinning words yet hides behind them… Can anyone understand JP Donleavy?

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Graduate of the school of hard knocks

The Express | 7 Jun 1997

Bel Mooney rose from humble beginnings to become a top author, surviving a succession of traumas along the way.

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I wouldn’t mind one of my daughters deciding she’d become a prostitute

The Express | 5 Jun 1997

His ‘livelihood’ cost him years in prison but it brought him millions, fame and some strange family values. Meet Howard Marks.

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I really believe in marriage. I see my three divorces as a sign of failure

The Express | 28 May 1997

After 40 years of life with little children, dynamic thespian Sir Peter Hall counts his blessings.

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Thriller ace is targeting Blair as his new villain

The Express | 28 May 1997

Millionaire author Frederick Forsyth has been self-professedly publicity shy all his life. But this year, aged 59, Forsyth has become a very public and political animal. Few issues escape his attention as he fires off letters to newspapers, pens controversial articles and joins demonstrations.

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How an expelled, overeating teenager became one of the biggest noises in television

The Express | 28 May 1997

People used to poke fun at Linda Agran. Then she turned the tables…

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Joseph and his amazing fans

The Express | 25 Apr 1997

Christina Davidson, 44, and Jean Selby, 52, have seen the musical of Joseph And The Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat 74 times and 64 times respectively. They went both to the matinee and evening performance one day last week, as they do so often.

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A bully? Well, ‘Piranha Teeth’ did hit a few drug dealers

The Express | 25 Apr 1997

The chairman, a rubicund man with a gale-force voice and peeling nose, shakes my hand and runs off. A minute later he sprints past again. “It’s to do with tourism”, he’s bellowing to the minion scuttling behind him. He’s Sir Jocelyn Stevens, chairman of English Heritage, reputedly a monster and one whose nicknames are Piranha Teeth and Terminator 3.

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Law and disorder of the Bath

The Express | 25 Apr 1997

The Marquis of Bath is 65 next month, but the peer with a penchant for polygamy still dreams of siring children on the wrong side of the blanket.

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No regrets for heiress who blazed a trail of scandal

The Express | 25 Apr 1997

As a teen rebel, Tessa Kennedy fled to Cuba. Since then there have been wild years, marriages and bizarre liaisons.

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Lord Bath: Law and disorder of the Bath

The Express | 19 Apr 1997

The air is close with the smell of sweaty old feet and unwashed plates. He has stained bedsheets, pillows with red hearts, lopsided posters of Monet and Manet, screaming pink, yellow and red paint work and a cupboard full of blouses with flounces, frills, embroidery and twirls. It could be a bohemian student squat. But his doorbell on the Fifties block states simply “Bath”.

This is the home of the 7th Marquess of Bath, Alexander Thynn, 64, dubbed the Loins of Longleat in reference to his multifarious romantic interests and the safari lions at his £150 million, 10,000 acre Elizabethan stately home in Wiltshire.

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She’s 35, has five children and last year earned £1 million. Is Nicola Horlick Britain’s real Superwoman?

The Express | 27 Jan 1997

Nicola Horlick, 35, is the millionaire fund manager who was dramatically suspended fro her high-flying job last week. Dubbed Superwoman, she is one of the most successful women in the City, who last year is believed to have earned in excess of £1million, including her bonus.

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