Cintra Wilson book A Massive Swelling
A Massive Swelling: Celebrity Reexamined as a Grotesque Crippling Disease and Other Cultural Revelations (2000), p. 227
“Greasy, miserable, British and pathetic”
On the sacking of Angus Deayton from Have I Got News For You <br class="br">On the BBC Website http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/tv_and_radio/2953181.stm <br class="br">2000s
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