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Messianic Trees · **Joined:** Fri Mar 18, 2011 10:50 pm **Posts:** 2834

MacGuffin wrote:

Ah so Georgina Littlejohn is back as @missgeorgieann

Thanks Migrant Worker for this - I am going to look into it

Hmmm, I can't imagine the Tweets below going down too well with her bosses:

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LOL-ing at the lady next to me who is having a bitch fest about Kate Middleton. And makes some very fair points.

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The man at the neighbouring desk is yawning so loudly and with so much groaning that I feel like I'm in a George Romero movie.

Tom_UK · **Joined:** Tue Oct 27, 2009 3:14 pm **Posts:** 3168

This leering piece of crap could just as easily go in 'Tits!' or 'Curves Watch' (or Nuts, or Zoo), but as it's obviously been planted in the media by The Flamingo Hotel's PR team, it fits here too:

Her cup runneth over: Holly Madison's cleavage spills out of skin tight dress at Vegas party

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/ar ... party.html

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"Holly Madison is known for her killer curves and she certainly doesn't shy away from putting them on full display."

Hard to believe this is in the website of a mainstream newspaper rather than one of Desmond's finest top shelf mags.

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"The former Playboy Playmate, 32, showed off her ample cleavage yesterday as she arrived for a party at GO Pool inside the Flamingo Hotel in Las Vegas."

Bam! There's the PR.

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"But the top of the dress was so tight that it could barely contain Holly's chest."

I won't post the pictures, but they are nothing like as 'revealing' as the seedy tone of the text suggests. It's just a woman wearing a dress really.

PaulOnBooks · **Joined:** Wed Mar 09, 2011 2:10 am **Posts:** 416

Is anyone else concerned at the number of mentions of the Mail in the Daily Geri Helliwell appears in one of the bikinis she's designed for Next here's a reprise of yeterdays' pics to fill out the article?

SoulBoy · **Joined:** Fri Oct 08, 2010 1:42 pm **Posts:** 1624

With just 170 days to go until Christmas, Waitrose unveils its festive range

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article ... z1RPsKwQBz

Not sure why they are bothering, the PC brigade have banned it again.

bluebellnutter · **Posted:** Thu Jul 07, 2011 12:10 pm

Bloody hell. The PC Brigade have been caught napping again. We really must up our game next year if we want to ban christmas properly, it's getting earlier and earlier.

SoulBoy · **Joined:** Fri Oct 08, 2010 1:42 pm **Posts:** 1624

Slimmers' dream? The diet dessert that contains fewer calories than an apple - and it could help you to LOSE weight

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/artic ... z1RSbVRITr

Mail *heart* Tesco. Also quotes a Tesco spokesman, someone from Bio-Synergy and a "nutritionist" for the smashing sciency bit

AOB · **Posted:** Fri Jul 15, 2011 1:12 pm

Introducing Naked Glamour: Lara Stone models new range of underwear for Calvin Klein

Plus it's an excuse for this family paper who were outraged over the X-Factor for featuring scantily clad women to show yet more pics of a female in her undies.

AOB · **Posted:** Wed Jul 20, 2011 11:05 am

The Fanning sisters' guide to style: Teen stars Dakota and Elle on school uniforms and borrowing each others' clothes

This time it's Vogue who've given the Mail a few quid for a plug.

Arnold · **Posted:** Fri Jul 22, 2011 9:21 am

The Bard of Poundland: Middle-class shoppers snap up cut-price Shakespeare at budget store

ezinra · **Posted:** Fri Jul 22, 2011 3:11 pm

A nice spot on the Mail's 'science' article about toast.

Fflaps · **Posted:** Fri Jul 22, 2011 7:18 pm

Beware 'Planet of the Apes' experiments that could create sci-fi nightmare

A plug for the new Planet of the Apes film thinly disguised as a science article ffs.

Winegums · **Joined:** Fri Jan 15, 2010 11:04 pm **Posts:** 710

Fflaps wrote:

Beware 'Planet of the Apes' experiments that could create sci-fi nightmare

A plug for the new Planet of the Apes film thinly disguised as a science article ffs.

Seemingly the guy who did that piece isn't the science writer, but the alotment blog writer?

His blog header/banner thing is this ten minutes in photoshop endeavor:

With the hand rake presumably meaning to put you in mind of this:

but instead makes me think of this:

The actual science writing isn't much cop either. The most recent science writer's blog entry is a meandering ramble about the history of UFO conspiracies, punctuated with what he remembers seeing on TV at the time, rather than anything reasonably concrete.

ezinra · **Posted:** Sat Jul 23, 2011 2:39 pm

Bel Mooney's advice column trumpets the value of creative writing:

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Creating a memoir — either as a private person or as a professional writer — can be very cathartic.

Lo and behold:

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This has been my experience in the year since my own memoir was published. It’s just out in paperback with a slight tweak to the title — A Small Dog Saved My Life.

Mooney also finds space to:

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recommend a really useful, inspiring book called Your Life, Your Story, by Cherry Gilchrist.

While in another section of the column, she suggests reading:

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Love Begins At Forty by Cherry Gilchrist and Lara Owen

Coincidentally, Bel Mooney's children's book The green man (1997) and Cherry Gilchrist's numerous children's books, eg A calendar of festivals (2005), are all published by Barefoot Books with illustrations by Helen Cann. What a small world!

Silkyman · **Joined:** Thu Mar 24, 2011 9:31 am **Posts:** 760

Not commenting on this thread, because if journos weren't lazy enough to really want my copy, this PR consultant would be out of a job...

McSnark · **Posted:** Wed Jul 27, 2011 3:43 pm

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-2019082/The-Saturdays-star-Mollie-King-fills-Nissan-Figaro-petrol-station-towering-heels.html

In which we get an advert for Nissan, an advert for Shell, and an advert for some shit girl group whom we wouldn't miss when they're consumed in the fires of hell. All we need now is a "Mollie, who can be called the greatest beard a male model could ask for, was spotted in a hideous dress by X designer, available for £quintillion at Debenhams". Idiots.

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