BRITISH showbiz is renowned for its hard-living hellraisers. The wild antics of Peter O’Toole, Oliver Reed and Keith Moon became the stuff of legend as they drank bars dry, smashed up hotel rooms and left trails of destruction in their wake. These celebrity bad boys lived fast and died young, and they certainly knew how to party while they were here.
But now there’s a new name to add to that rollcall of showbiz nutjobs – Professor John Curtice. For, in a new biography by best-selling Nottingham writer Lobthorpe Swayfield, the seemingly mild-mannered BBC election night analyst is revealed as a wild hedonist who lives to party 24 hours a day!
“It’s true,” says Swayfield, who has also written tell-all biographies about other election presenters including Peter Snow, David Butler…
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Viz (Digital) - 1 Issue, February 2024