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Price of fame

TV execs need to think about what would happen if a contestant were to suffer serious psychiatric damage, die or to commit suicide. When will the torture ever end? It’s a question we should all be asking ourselves now that I’m a Celebrity is back on the telly. And I’m not talking about the bushtucker…

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Simon vs Simon

From The Independent 24th November 2006 They were the showbiz giants who created ‘Pop Idol’. Now they’re going to war in the High Court. What went wrong? Ed Caesar reports on the battle of the £100m egos Fuller saw Cowell’s potential to be Mr Nasty in Pop Idol, which he was developing, and the high-waisted…

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NINE LINES ON THE RUMOURED WEDDING OF TOM CRUISE AND KATIE HOLMES

Can shotgun wedding socialites auction off their photo rights to the chequebook with the best head for heights? And though all is to be silent at the baby’s birth will shutters not snap for all they’re worth to get a glimpse of Katie’s decreasing girth? And will Tom (silently) cavort and prance like a crippled…

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God, Iraq and the power of the President's PR

From The Observer Mark Borkowski on the worrying rise and rise of Karen Hughes, George W Bush’s ‘Ambassador for Public Diplomacy’ and the woman behind the White House throne Profound unpopularity, as tyrants, bullies and senior spin doctors know to their advantage, can be a powerful weapon in warfare. In any army the hardest things…