"There are, obviously, cases where some stories go for huge
> sums of money "
Don't they tell you the difference between the present and past tenses in tabloid journalism.
Okay, so your main argument appears that kiss and tell just doesn't happen "any more because newspapers are terrified after the closure of NOTW and ongoing Leveson inquiry. SOme of your statements
"Every single newspaper is terrified of the Leveson report so we are being good until its contents are released."
"I said that newspapers are terrified of the Leveson Inquiry - how many kiss'n'tells have been published since Cameron ordered the inquiry?"
So here ya go from the Press Gazette
http://www.pressgazette.co.uk/node/49917
I draw your attention to the followng paragraphs from this article dated 28th August 2012.
"Celebrities, sports stars and other high-profile public figures are now increasingly at risk of being exposed in tabloid kiss and tells after last week's Sun victory against ex-England manager Steve McClaren, according to some of the UK's leading media lawyers."
"Caroline Kean, partner and head of litigation for the law firm Wiggins, said that after a spate of so-called super-injunctions in early 2011, the last year had 'been good from the point of view of the press".
"Does the McClaren judgment mean the return of the ?Kiss and Tell'?. In my view 'Kiss and Tell' has never really left, it is just been packaged differently."
And here's the link to the story in the SUn
http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/ne ... ns-ex.html
Apparently Saima Ansari has history in shagging Ericsson. What a girl!
I am sure all forumites believe yours story that in return for the front page splash, pictures of Saima with or without McClaren and her thoughts on the affair, got Saima the princely sum of about ?25 and a kebab.
Me, I am not convinced.
This is my last post on the subject before you start posting "You havent shown me the invoice" "WHen I said now, you have to show me that it happened in the last week and not light years away in August"
For this topic, goodbye!!!