One of my favourite bloggers, Michael Coveney – who should be reinstated as the Mail theatre critic in my view (but would he have them?) – thanks Madame Arcati for naming the Mail’s right-wing all-rounder Quentin Letts as the creep who has been writing horrid things about him in Private Eye.
“It seems rather a grubby way of earning a few extra quid,” Coveney writes before noting Letts' Carmen Jones interval chit-chat with the Standard editor Veronica Wadley. “Let's hope she had a jolly good laugh at Master Letts's peevish skewering of her irritable theatre critic Nicholas de Jongh in the latest Eye. De Jongh's 'crime' was to stretch his legs during the technical hiccup at the Joseph first night and inform a security guard (or possibly Bill Kenwright) that he was a "f---ing theatre critic."
He then goes onto deprecate Lett’s “graceless” and “unfunny” comments about Thelma Holt and David Liddiment. It is no secret, of course, that Letts - or "the owlish sneak" as Coveney calls him - supplements his considerable six-figure Mail fee with a steady stream of £50 tip-offs to Fleet Street gossips.
On another matter, I have not forgotten Letts’ recent brutal assault on our new PM on Sky News, insinuating that Brown was only visiting flood victims for PR reasons. This hardly accords with the unwell Mail editor-in-chief Paul Dacre’s view of the No 1 Broonite whose workaholism, water-sign sulkiness and rages are the staples of a worthy life.
For Coveney's excellent blog, click here.
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< He then goes onto deprecate Lett’s “graceless” and “unfunny” comments about Thelma Holt and David Liddiment. >
And what did Mr. Lett say about those two? I'm curious!
"water sign sulkiness" - I was born on the same day as the Broon. Surely it's more that he's a dour Scot!
Actually, wasn't it me - in comments - who revealed that it was Letts writing in Eye, not you?
I don't know who you are but certainly someone called anonymous kindly revealed this information which was subsequently credited to Arcati by Coveney because I guess you wisely chose Arcati as your publishing platform. Arcati sounds so much more interesting than anonymous, though both are of a sort, I guess.
Do you have other juicy nuggets? Or perhaps you might submit to one of my infamous email interviews.
I was the same anonymous... Hello. I do have bits and pieces from time to time and will pass on, of course. Love the site. But for now, no interview. x
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