There are rumours about any number of celebs being call girls. Lohan and Hilton being the obvious ones.

The Chelsea striker Patrick Bamford (on loan at Middlesbrough) has a serious touch of the Tom Daley's about him

Fulham's Ryan Tunnicliffe has been charged by the FA for calling him "a sausage boy"

The theory about Ashley Cole rather collapses when you consider the circumstances of their split and divorce, with Ashley getting a load of shit for his behaviour. If that was all part of 'the plan', well, it was a bloody awful plan and Cole should have sacked his press people.

. . . which takes none of us any further. That's the trouble with the net, it goes around in circles. In a similar vein, if I posted a spoof story about the French taking out the first stake on a cheese mine on the Moon, you could bet your bottom dollar it would be picked up and re-cycled to the point that not many days later it would be 'fact'. Something like that happened a few years ago when I sent up a friend, the medical correspondent on the evening paper we both worked for by composing (in different type to the one we used etc) a spoof story that years he had studied medicine, but failed his finals, not been able to get over it and so had taken to turning up at the local hospital in a white coat.

My spoof story (headline 'Nurse suspicious of man in white coat') was about him appearing in court accused of impersonating a doctor etc. Typeset it (on bromide for those who know what I'm talking about), photocopied it, then pinned what looked like a photocopy of a news cutting. Great laughs all round (everyone on our paper knew it was spoof).

Then, over a year later, I was sitting drinking with some reporters from the sister morning paper when one of them repeated the story as 'fact'. I had to tell her it was made up - by me - and she was very beside herself, having told loads of other people. Bizarrely, her worry was not for the guy's reputation, but for her reputation as a gossip getting things wrong. But that's hacks for you, self-centred as f*ck.

What sex was the presenter?

And what about bloody G Norton!

Also would be kind of pointless putting it in this thread if it was a male presenter...

The 'circumstances' being him portrayed as someone who cheated on her with several women, usually ones who claimed he texted or bedded them? The same stories are now being run about Ronaldo. 'He cheated on his girlfriend with me...' http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/spo...tion-star.html

Of course he did...
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/foo...St-Tropez.html

Paul McCartney died in 1966 and was replaced by a Canadian policeman called Billy Shears because the UK Government was worried about the effect the loss of the Beatles foreign currency earnings would have on the trade deficit. (Strangely enough It is actually true that the Beatles were a vital contributor to net foreign earnings, which was even more important under the Bretton Woods system.).

It must be true - just go and look at the deliciously bonkers forums out there with literally thousands of posts full of incontrovertible evidence.

The notion that Ashley Cole would never have agreed to be portrayed as a cheat is silly. I don't think he's gay (quite possibly bi though, or at the very least someone who has dabbled with other men), but the easiest way to make gay rumours vanish is by portraying someone as a serial lover rat with the opposite sex

Yup. It's patently ludicrous for anyone to suggest that after the Ca$hley and Cheryl fiasco, Ca$hley didn't come away looking exactly like he wanted to: a lying, cheating horndog who, rather than stay at home and play subservient 'hubby' (or closeted bi/gay man), got a reputation as a skirt chasing moron. Which coincidentally is just the type of man many of the fans and tabloid rags want to cheer on on their terraces quite often. In between quaffing down pork pies, chips, beer and ketchup.

It was a masterstroke of PR. None of the alleged cheating even needed to have happened.


Oh, Ryan the drink driver lad?

Ryan Tunnicliffe looks like a criminal crossed with a potato that's had two rubber handles stuck to each side of its head. On the Google intro to his Wiki page his parents are currently listed as: 'Mick Tunnicliffe' so it looks like Mick cloned or crossed himself to produce Ryan so the heavy inbreeding comes as no surprise.

Funnily, I was chucking away some magazines recently from years ago and there was one with an interview with her during GA (pre the cheating stories) and she was being asked about the gay rumours about him - so clearly marriage didn't make those rumours go away and it was a well known magazine.

The thing I've always found interesting is that he has largely stayed out of the public-eye since their divorce. There's the occasional story about Cole being pictured with a girl, but it's rare.

LOL. Don't hold back.

I certainly won't, my friend! Especially not when the bully, who is clearly headed for the Wayne Rooney Follicle Reconstruction Clinic in a few years time, has the gall to target 'sausage boys' rather than, for example, oh I dunno, off the top of me (potato) head...dangerous drink-drivers who kill people on the roads.

Irena Shayak was on the front cover of the Times on Saturday. Apparently she is a close friend of Sepp Blatter!

Why would Ashley want to look like that tho? From what I gathered he was really affected by the negative media attention. Out of him and Cheryl, he was much more private. He could just as easily quietly pick a girl and have her beard to squash rumours. In any case I thought the rumours only started up when he was linked to that nonsense story. He was with Cheryl long before that.

The story about her being Bradley Cooper's girlfriend is a load of horse manure.

If you're under contract to Max Clifford or whoever, you don't have much say in how you're portrayed

If they want to portray you as a womaniser, that's the way it goes

Pretty much. Clifford himself is in jail though, so it's probably not him lol.

For what it's worth, I was listening to Five Live about a year ago, a the time I think of Cole's last England appearance, and to a man they were saying what a good lad he was, how private he was, how badly he was hurt by the stick about joining Chelsea, and generally saying he is a good egg who didn't deserve the stick the 'fans' were handing out.

My point is that this wasn't a celebs' schmooze in - these were football journalists and former and current players. I dunno, but I believed them.

Apparently his daughter took on his clients, under a new name. It was posted on here a couple of months ago.

It's pretty easy to fake anything really, if you have the werewithal.

Over to you, Max, these just the ones he's willing to talk about:

"I lie on behalf of a cross-dressing MP, a prominent businessman who is having an affair with a man, and a gay footballer. Always the aim is to keep their identity out of the press.
"I'm proud I've been able to do it. There's only been one footballer who was revealed to be gay, and he hanged himself. I know the ruin that will befall these people if news gets out. Here, the truth is destructive - I lie because there is no choice."

Popbitch was onto Max's methods yonks ago.

popbitch.com/home/2010/02/12/has-ashley-cole-been-learning-from-max-clifford/

Lewis Hamiliton on TFI Friday gay or metrosexual?

LH strikes me as "very careful"and would not want any relationship with someone just after his money.

I could believe he's gay, but he's never massively pinged to me.