Toby Young
Headline:
'I plunged into the cesspool of celebrity as an act of rebellion'
Synopsis:
Someone is shooting at Toby Young. Every minute there is an almighty "thwack" at the window of his shed-office. "It's all right," he says, jumping visibly. "It's just conkers from the horse chestnut tree."
The thing is, quite a few people would like to shoot Young. He has been threatened with lawsuits by Liz Hurley, Robert Maxwell and Tina Brown.
When Julie Burchill was asked to provide a quote for the jacket of his first volume of autobiography, 2001's How To Lose Friends & Alienate People, she replied: "I'll rot in hell before I give that little bastard a quote for his book." He ran it on the front cover.
- Publish date:
- 26 September 2008
- Author:
- Liz Hoggard
- Source:
- Evening Standard
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