They fuck you up, your sons and daughters. This was the lesson learned by PR legend Lynne Franks when she opened her Mail on Sunday to discover her grown up son lambasting her as “too selfish to raise children”. To be fair to Josh Howie, his description of the archetypal eighties career woman, “on the…
Another year, another bout of IACGMOH, addictive mind candy satisfying our latent lust for the guilty pleasures of a reality TV series. Please drop the faux intellectual bollocks that it’s corrosive, we all take a sadistic pleasure in watching it! Before I judge Lynne Franks’ first few days in the comfort of the Australian bush,…
A call from one of my fave scribblers informs me that the list of celebrities to brave the jungle and appear on “I’m a Celebrity: Get Me Out of Here!” have been just released. I have known for some time that both Malcolm Maclaren and Lynne Franks had taken the ITV schilling and decided to…
Inside Story: Who’s absolutely fabulous in PR? They’re the people you rely on to make your name or your new product shine in the media spotlight, but who would they pick out as the cream of their crop? MARK BORKOWSKI: BORKOWSKI PR CLIENTS INCLUDE: SELFRIDGES; TISCALI; VODAFONE; PEUGEOT; VIRGIN MEGASTORES “Unfortunately, there are no great…
Good chat with Lynne Franks yesterday on what used to be GLR but is now called BBC London. At one point the producer nipped in to tick Lynne off for using ‘bloody’, which I found quaint. Apparently ‘crap’ is fine on the BBC, but ‘bloody’ starts the phones ringing. They were glad I wasn’t Gordon…